Company: DEFI
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001387131-25-000058
Chunk: 143

Company: Tidal Commodities Trust I
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 143
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 includes “agreements, contracts and transactions commonly known as … (xx) agriculture swaps, (xxi) emissions swaps, and (xxii) commodity swaps.” The Dodd-Frank Act provides that the CFTC shall further define the term ’’swap’’ and the CFTC is given authority over swaps.

The CFTC possesses exclusive jurisdiction to regulate the activities of CPOs and CTAs with respect to “commodity interests,” such as futures, swaps and options, and has adopted regulations with respect to the activities of those persons and/or entities. Pursuant to authority in the CEA, the NFA has been formed and registered with the CFTC as a registered futures association. At the present time, the NFA is the only self-regulatory organization for commodity interest professionals, other than DCMs. The CFTC has delegated to the NFA responsibility for the registration of CPOs, CTAs and FCMs and their respective associated persons.

Under the CEA, a registered CPO, such as the Sponsor, is required to make annual filings with the CFTC and NFA describing its organization, capital structure, management and controlling persons. In addition, the CEA authorizes the CFTC to require and review books and records of, and documents prepared by, registered CPOs. Accordingly, CPOs are required to keep accurate, current and orderly records for each pool that they operate. Suspension, restriction or termination of the Sponsor’s registration as a CPO would prevent it, until that registration were to be reinstated, from managing the Fund, and might result in the termination of the Fund if a successor sponsor were not elected pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

The regulation of commodity interest transactions in the U.S. is an evolving area of law and is subject to ongoing modification by governmental and judicial action. Considerable regulatory attention has been focused on non-traditional investment pools that are publicly distributed in the U.S. There is a possibility of future regulatory changes within the U.S. altering, perhaps to a material extent, the nature of an investment in the Fund, or the ability of the Fund to continue to implement its investment strategy. The effect of any future regulatory change on the Fund is impossible to predict but could be substantial and adverse.

The Fund will use a portion of its net assets to invest in and trade in Carbon Credit Futures; accordingly the Fund is a commodity pool and the Sponsor is a CPO subject to regulation by the CFTC and the NFA under