The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has made a move to classify event contracts as swaps in its ongoing legal battle with prediction markets. This classification could support the CFTC's claim to have exclusive federal jurisdiction over event contracts offered on regulated prediction markets. The classification could have significant implications for the regulation of prediction markets, which currently operate in a gray area between sports betting and financial derivatives.
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The CFTC's push to classify event contracts as swaps comes as part of its efforts to regulate the growing prediction market industry. The commission has faced opposition from prediction markets, which argue that they are exempt from federal regulation due to the 1966 Supreme Court case of CFTC v. Hinman. The CFTC's classification of event contracts as swaps could help it gain control over these markets and establish a clearer regulatory framework.