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会导致其交易损失，这是因为 Todd 知道其将从 Digitex“treasury”所持有的大量

DGTX 的更高价格中获利。

8. CFTC Charges Digital Asset Derivatives Platform and Miami Resident with

Facilitating Unlawful Futures Transactions, Failing to Register, and Attempted

Manipulation of Native Token (2022/10/03)

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it filed a

complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against

Florida resident Adam Todd and four companies he controlled – Digitex LLC,

Digitex Limited, Digitex Software Limited, and Blockster Holdings Limited

Corporation. The complaint alleges that Todd and his companies operated a digital

asset exchange under the trade name “Digitex Futures.” Todd and Digitex Futures are

charged with illegally offering futures transactions on a platform other than a
designated contract market and also with attempting to manipulate the price of the

Digitex Futures native token.

In its continuing litigation, the CFTC seeks full restitution, disgorgement of

ill-gotten gains, civil monetary penalties, permanent trading and registration bans, and

a permanent injunction against further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act

(CEA), as charged.

“The CFTC’s action against Adam Todd and Digitex Futures underscores the

primacy of the CEA’s core registration provisions that are designed to ensure the

structural integrity of our nation’s derivatives markets.” said Acting Director of

Enforcement Gretchen Lowe. “Further, the CFTC will vigorously investigate

potential manipulative trading activity to ensure confidence in markets remains

strong.”

Case Background

The complaint alleges that from approximately May 2020 through May 2022,

Todd and Digitex Futures operated a digital asset derivatives exchange from an office

in Florida. The Digitex Futures exchange allegedly sought participation from U.S.

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