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CFTC Targets Prediction Market Loopholes as Manipulation Risks Mount
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission just dropped a staff advisory that should have prediction market operators paying attention. Three weeks aft...
CFTC Eyes Tokenization Revolution While SEC Embraces Onchain Markets—Here's What It Means
The crypto regulatory landscape just shifted again. Michael Selig, speaking on behalf of the CFTC, is making a bold case for tokenization as a market...
Bitcoin's Bull Market is Official—But the $90K Zone Could Shake Out Weak Hands
The on-chain evidence is stacking up. Bitcoin's technical setup has moved from promising to officially bullish, according to recent crypto analysis e...
Missing Crypto Exec Case Escalates: Ex-Cop Charged as Search Efforts Intensify at Polish Fuel Depot
The Zondacrypto investigation just shifted into higher gear. Polish authorities have charged a former police officer as part of the widening probe in...
Austrian Banking Giant Raiffeisen Taps Bitpanda to Democratize Crypto Access Across Europe
Raiffeisen, one of Europe's largest banking networks, is moving decisively into crypto. The Austrian financial institution has partnered with Bitpand...
BitMEX Shuts Down Trading After Over a Decade—But the Exit Door Stays Open
BitMEX has officially ceased all crypto trading operations, marking the end of an 11-year run for one of crypto's most controversial derivatives platf...
Zcash's NU7 Upgrade: A Potential Financial Trap for Sprout Pool Users
Zcash developers are walking a tightrope with the proposed NU7 upgrade, and the stakes couldn't be higher for users holding ZEC in the legacy Sprout s...
Bitcoin ETF Inflows Hit $1.7B as BTC Breaks Through Key Holder Profit Line
US spot Bitcoin ETFs are seeing serious capital rotation. Over just two days, these funds pulled in more than $1.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Seen as Top Contender for Trump's AI Leadership Position
The political machinery around President Donald Trump's next major appointment is heating up, with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen emerging as a le...
Apple App Store Breach: FomoPeek Malware Siphons $580K in Crypto Through iOS Sandbox Exploit
Security firm SlowMist has identified a sophisticated attack targeting crypto investors through a malicious iOS application that leveraged kernel expl...
Canada's Banking Giants Are Building a Tokenized Payment Layer—Here's What It Means
Canada's six largest banks are serious about blockchain infrastructure. They're moving beyond crypto skepticism to explore a tokenized deposit system...
BlackRock: The Crypto Market is Sleeping on AI's Real Blockchain Potential
BlackRock's latest take cuts through the noise: the crypto industry is fundamentally underestimating how AI adoption will reshape digital asset demand...
Tech Leaders Face UN Pressure: OpenAI, Anthropic Chiefs Set to Address AI Security Concerns
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are expected to brief the UN Security Council as it examines AI risks and global security. The a...
Regulatory Crackdown Intensifies as CFTC Targets High-Risk Prediction Market Derivatives
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is escalating enforcement action against prediction market contracts, signaling tighter scrutiny over what re...
Institutional Crypto Credit Gap Widens: Hashed Launches $300M Private Debt Fund
Hashed, a prominent crypto venture capital firm, is addressing a major financing void in the institutional digital asset space with a new private cred...
UN Gets AI Risk Briefing From The Very Companies Building The Tech—Here's What That Means
DeepSeek's getting a seat at the UN Security Council table this week, and they're sharing stage time with Anthropic's Dario Amodei—the guy who's spent...
CFTC Flags 'Mention Market' Prediction Contracts as Prime Targets for Price Manipulation
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission just issued a stark warning: prediction markets built around whether someone utters specific words during eve...
Decade-Old Bitcoin Worth $161M Just Woke Up After Years of Silence
Here's what caught our attention: someone just moved 1,971 BTC—worth roughly $161 million—out of wallets that have been dormant since the early Bitcoi...
Trump-Era CFTC Sets Stage for Crypto Infrastructure Overhaul
The incoming Trump administration is signaling a fundamental reshaping of financial markets, with tokenization and around-the-clock trading positioned...
Arch Lending Targets Tokenized Equities as On-Chain Collateral Strategy Expands
Arch Lending is setting its sights on tokenized stocks as the next frontier for its lending operations, according to Himanshu Sahay, a key figure at t...