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Kalshi Bulks Up Washington Firepower as Legal Battles Mount
Prediction markets platform Kalshi just brought serious political heavyweight Stephanie Cutter into its corner as a policy adviser—a strategic move th...
Circle Under Fire: $420M in Missed Freeze Opportunities Raises Questions About USDC's Role in Crypto Security
Onchain detective ZachXBT is calling out Circle for what he characterizes as systematic failures to act on illicit USDC flows, alleging the stablecoin...
Trump's New AG Has Bitcoin Holdings, Yet Crypto Prosecution Remains a Puzzle
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche presents a contradiction that crypto investors need to understand: he's personally held bitcoin, yet his prosecut...
Binance's Iron Grip on Crypto Derivatives Tightens as Hyperliquid Storms Top 10
Binance maintained its stranglehold on crypto derivatives trading in Q1 2026, processing roughly $4. 9 trillion in volume—about 35% of activity among ...
Web3 Communication Platform Dmail Shutters Operations, Joins Growing Wave of Project Closures
Decentralized email platform Dmail Network is pulling the plug on May 15 after five years of operations, becoming the latest casualty in a brutal reck...
Europe's Crypto Power Play: Why the Fight Over ESMA Supervision Goes Way Deeper Than Malta
The real crypto battle in Europe isn't about regulation anymore—it's about who controls it. The European Commission is pushing to hand direct supervi...
Polymarket Scores Big With LaLiga Prediction Markets in North America
Polymarket has locked in a multi-year partnership with LaLiga, Europe's premier soccer league, establishing official prediction markets across the US ...
Major Korean Brokerage Pushes into Crypto Exchange Market as Regulatory Pressure Mounts
South Korean brokerage **Korea Investment & Securities (KIS)** is actively exploring a potential stake acquisition in **Coinone**, one of the nation's...
IMF Warns: Tokenization Boosts Efficiency But Poses Systemic Risks to Global Finance
The International Monetary Fund released a stark assessment of blockchain tokenization: yes, it streamlines finance and opens doors in emerging market...
Stablecoins Dethrone ACH as America's Payment Giant
Stablecoin transaction volume just hit a watershed moment—surpassing the infrastructure that's been moving US payments for decades. ## The Flip Hear...
Polymarket Breaks Into Traditional Markets: Pyth Powers Stock and Commodity Trading
Polymarket is making a serious push into traditional finance by launching price-based contracts tied to equities, commodities, and ETFs—using Pyth Net...
Federal Government Takes on States in High-Stakes Prediction Market Turf War
The Trump administration is escalating its battle with state regulators over who controls the booming prediction market crypto space. The Commodity F...
Trump's Legal Offensive: Justice Department and CFTC Sue States to Unlock Prediction Markets
The Trump administration is taking aggressive action to reshape the prediction market landscape. The Justice Department and Commodity Futures Trading...
SoFi's Big Business Banking Signals Institutional Crypto's Mainstream Turning Point
Digital banking platform SoFi Technologies just dropped Big Business Banking—a platform that consolidates fiat and crypto operations within a single r...
Coinbase Scores OCC's Blessing—Yet Still Isn't Becoming a Bank
Coinbase just became the latest crypto heavyweight to win conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the federal b...
Coinbase Clears Major Regulatory Hurdle With OCC Trust Charter Approval
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted Coinbase conditional approval for a national bank trust charter, marking a watershe...
CFTC Wraps First Individual FTX Case: Former Engineer Pays $3.7M Without Admitting Wrongdoing
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has settled its case against a former FTX engineer for $3. 7 million, marking the regulator's first in...
French Exchange Lise Pushes Tokenized IPO Model With Defense Supplier ST Group
French blockchain-based stock exchange Lightning Stock Exchange (Lise) is moving forward with what it's positioning as the first fully onchain IPO, br...
Canada's Proposed Crypto Donation Ban Exposes Election Transparency Gap
Regulators are moving to close a loophole that could allow foreign interference in Canadian elections. A new bill would prohibit political parties an...
Coinbase's Legal Chief Says Stablecoin Clarity Deal is Almost Done—Banks' Flight Risk Claims Don't Hold Up
Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer is signaling that lawmakers are zeroing in on a deal around stablecoin yield provisions in the long-debated Clarity Act...