The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission recently announced enforcement actions against DeFi and filed lawsuits against ZeroEx, Opyn, and Deridex.

Deridex and Opyn are accused of the following crimes

-Not registered as Swap Execution Facility (SEF) or Designated Contract Market (DCM)

-Not registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM)

-Failure to include a customer identification program as part of the Bank Secrecy Act compliance program as required by FCM.

ZeroEx, Opyn and Deridex were also accused of illegally offering leveraged and margined retail commodity trading in digital assets.

Opyn was fined $250,000, ZeroEx was fined $200,000, and Deridex was fined $100,000.

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