“Political event contracts should not be equated with gambling on games of chance like the Super Bowl. Rather, elections have significant economic implications,” Dragonfly’s Jessica Furr and Bryan Edelman, its counsel, wrote in a letter to CFTC. “These contracts were designed to serve crucial risk hedging functions, aligning with the requirements of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), and offer valuable predictive data to the public.”
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