On Mar. 24, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) launched its Innovation Task Force, tasked with developing frameworks for crypto assets, blockchain technologies, AI systems, and prediction markets.Alongside everything else Washington has done in the past three months, it reads as the moment when a provisional, enforcement-heavy posture toward crypto began to harden into something more permanent.The asset class became too financially embedded, too politically contentious, and too jurisdictionally tangled for the federal government to keep handling on a case-by-case basis.A timeline that argues for itselfThe pace...