Blockchain.com has applied to become both a designated contract market and a futures commission merchant under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, seeking a regulated route into U.S. prediction contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives.
The DCM registration would allow an approved entity to list futures, options or event contracts. The FCM registration would permit it to solicit or accept customer orders and related collateral. Decrypt reported the applications after reviewing the company’s plans.
Blockchain.com already provides access outside the United States through partners including Polymarket and Hyperliquid. The applications would move the company from referral or integration relationships toward operating regulated U.S. market infrastructure under its own registrations.
The filings do not authorize trading. The CFTC can request changes, impose conditions or reject an application, and any event contracts would remain subject to the agency’s product-level rules. Blockchain.com joins a crowded group seeking entry as U.S. prediction markets draw exchanges, brokerages and crypto platforms into the same regulatory contest.
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The dual application is more ambitious than adding a prediction-market tab through a partner. Approval would give Blockchain.com control over both venue and customer-intermediation functions, but it would also place capital, surveillance, segregation and compliance obligations directly on the company. The next meaningful milestone is CFTC registration, not the filing itself.
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Decrypt: Blockchain.com files for U.S. prediction-market and crypto derivatives licenses
