On Monday, a lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois accusing Binance of running a derivatives trading operation in the US, providing trades for various cryptocurrencies, such as BTC, ETH, LTC, USDT, and BUSD, which the lawsuit considers as commodities.
CFTC sues Binance and its CEO for offering crypto derivatives to US consumers without registering amid ongoing regulatory scrutiny of international crypto exchanges in the US.