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Elizabeth Warren vows scrutiny of prediction markets, Trump family crypto ventures as Senate Banking chair
伊丽莎白·沃伦任参议院银行委员会主席，誓言审查预测市场和特朗普家族加密项目
Elizabeth Warren's Senate Banking gavel gives prediction-market platforms and Trump family crypto ventures a new overseer, but her scrutiny may stall legislation before it reaches a vote.
Judgment
Elizabeth Warren, as incoming Senate Banking chair, must choose whether to spend the panel’s early months on document-preservation demands and public hearings targeting prediction markets and Trump-family crypto ventures, sacrificing time and leverage to move crypto legislation to a vote.
Basis
A Warren banking committee aide said she will focus on affordability, AI, prediction markets, a looming potential financial crisis and accountability, and warned that “Big Tech CEOs, Administration officials, Trump family crypto businesses, Wall Street executives, and giant corporations should preserve their documents and prepare to answer tough questions.” Committee chairs drive the agenda, so her January gavel lets her set hearing and document demands for banks, the Fed and crypto. She has already sent letters seeking an investigation into Trump’s memecoin and an ethics probe of World Liberty Financial, and pressed Kalshi and Polymarket on election bets and insider trading; the aide cited a soldier charged over Polymarket bets before Maduro’s capture and a former White House teleprompter who agreed to pay more than $172,000 to settle Kalshi charges.
Unclear The source does not say whether Warren will issue formal subpoenas, schedule a crypto markup, or whether Kalshi, Polymarket, or Trump-family ventures have responded to her letters.
Next Check whether the Senate Banking Committee under Warren sends document-preservation letters or notices a hearing on prediction markets before the January gavel, and whether any crypto market-structure markup is scheduled.