The CFTC's two other moves this week are both about who sees market data, and when
Victoria Shinder1 min readAlongside its lawsuit against Utah, the CFTC announced two smaller measures in the same days. Neither is about crypto directly, but both change what market participants and outside bodies can see.
The first (https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9316-26): Chairman Michael S. Selig said the Commitments of Traders report will move from weekly to twice-weekly publication by the end of 2026. Monday's data will be published on Wednesday and Wednesday's on Friday, both at 3:30 p.m. Eastern, cutting the report's latency from three days to two. The CFTC's Division of Data is automating the process; the agency framed it as a response to its recent request for comment and to feedback from the agricultural community.
The second (https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9314-26): the CFTC and the National Basketball Association signed a memorandum of understanding to share information on integrity matters and on keeping prediction markets fair and transparent. Selig said the NBA joins Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League, and named insider trading and fraud as the abuses in view.
What it means
The COT report is one of the few public windows into who holds futures positions, including CME bitcoin and ether futures, so a fresher and more frequent release matters beyond farm markets — positioning data two days old instead of three. The league agreements run the other way: they give the regulator a channel to the people who know when a game outcome might be compromised. Taken with the Utah suit, the pattern is an agency building the case that prediction markets can be supervised federally, with data flowing in both directions.