Odaily Planet Daily News The official website of Opyn, a decentralized options platform, shows that the platform has restricted use by users in the United States.
Yesterday’s news, the US CFTC announced recent enforcement actions in the DeFi field and filed charges against three companies: Opyn, Inc., ZeroEx, Inc. and Deridex, Inc.
Specifically, Deridex and Opyn are accused of failing to register as a swap execution facility (SEF) or a designated contract market (DCM), failing to register as a futures commission dealer (FCM), and failing to adopt customer identification as required by the FCM Program as part of Bank Secrecy Act compliance procedures; ZeroEx, Opyn and Deridex were also accused of illegally offering leveraged and margin retail commodity trading in digital assets.
The CFTC requires Opyn, ZeroEx and Deridex to pay civil penalties of US$250,000, US$200,000 and US$100,000 respectively and cease violations.
Under the settlement, the three companies agreed to pay civil penalties to avoid further legal action.