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Division of Enforcement Performance Highlights
The Division of Enforcement (DOE) FY 2022 performance is reflected in the
enforcement actions it filed and the litigation and cooperative enforcement successes
it achieved.
The CFTC’s 82 enforcement actions included the following, among others:
Digital Asset-Related Actions
In Fiscal Year 2022, the Commission brought 18 actions involving conduct
related to digital assets, representing more than 20% of all actions filed during FY
2022. Through those actions, the Commission charged manipulation of the Digitex
Futures native token; charged a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO);
addressed failures to register or seek designation as a designated contract market
(DCM), swap execution facility (SEF) or futures commission merchant (FCM); and
took on fraud, including a $1.7 billion fraudulent scheme.
The CFTC charged defendants, who operated a digital asset
exchange under the trade name “Digitex Futures,” with illegally offering
futures transactions on a platform other than a DCM and also with attempting
to manipulate the price of the Digitex Futures native token and failing to
implement a Customer Identification and Anti-Money Laundering program.
The CFTC charged defendants with commodity pool fraud, among
other violations, arising from defendants’ acceptance of at least 29,421
Bitcoin—with a value of over $1,733,838,372—from approximately 23,000
non-ECPs from the United States.
The CFTC charged a DCM with, directly and through others,
making false or misleading statements of material facts, or omitting to state
material facts, to the CFTC during an evaluation of the potential
self-certification of a bitcoin futures contract. The proposed bitcoin futures
contract was to be settled by reference to the spot bitcoin price on the
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