Everyone covering the prediction market legal war has been watching states. The more dangerous case is being argued in the Ninth Circuit by three California tribes under a different statute entirely, and at oral argument this month a judge told…

USAT went from $22 million to $140.8 million in a single month, the fastest growth of any regulated dollar token this year. In the same window, its offshore parent shed roughly six billion. One of those numbers is a rounding…

Solana price fell about 5% from its July 27 high near $77 to $73 on July 28 as a break below short-term support triggered long liquidations. Solana price drops back toward $73 According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) price…

In eighteen months, the prediction market industry has assembled the surveillance apparatus that took stock exchanges decades: named detection engines, encrypted prohibited-person lists, league partnerships, forensic academics, and employment disclosure for high-risk traders. Here is the architecture, who is building…

In 2023 a group of developers forked the XRP Ledger because its validators would not adopt smart contracts. Three years later the parent chain is shipping its own programmability layer, and the drafted specification names the fork’s technology as an…

XRP price fell about 5% to $1.05 on July 28 as a broader risk-off move and forced long liquidations pushed the token below a closely watched technical floor. XRP price breaks below a double-top neckline According to data from crypto.news,…

Ethereum price fell 5% from $1,973 to $1,873 on July 28 after another rejection below $2,000 triggered forced selling and pushed ETH into a key technical support zone. Ethereum price falls below $1,900 after $2,000 rejection According to data from…

IMF has called for closer oversight of Brazil’s stablecoin market as cross-border crypto flows outpace traditional capital movements. According to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest Financial System Stability Assessment, Brazil’s crypto asset market has expanded rapidly since 2017, with…

Lido has introduced a major upgrade to its Ethereum staking infrastructure that supports higher validator balances and projects a one-third reduction in validator count through its new Curated Module v2. According to a Monday update from Lido, the latest version…

Argentina’s banking-backed groups have moved closer to launching peso stablecoins for businesses, introducing digital peso projects designed for programmable payments while the country’s banking sector remains barred from offering crypto services directly. According to a report by Iproup, two financial…

South Korean police have searched the home of former Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok and city offices as part of an investigation into allegations that cryptocurrency assets were omitted from his local election financial disclosure. According to South Korea’s Yonhap News…

Paradigm has led a $470 million funding round for nuclear startup Antares Nuclear, extending its capital into military-focused small modular reactors as the crypto venture firm continues investing across frontier technologies. According to TechCrunch, the Series C financing includes $370…

OKX has returned to South Korea’s Google Play Store after a four-day suspension, while Bybit’s app remains unavailable in the country. According to a July 28 report by Digital Asset, the OKX: Trade Bitcoin & Crypto app once again appears…

Pennsylvania lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill that has proposed insider-trading rules for prediction markets while preventing sportsbooks and other gambling companies from supplying liquidity or acting as market makers for those platforms. The proposal, House Bill 2711, was introduced…

The National Football League has urged the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to tighten its proposed prediction market rules, arguing that stronger safeguards are needed to protect game integrity and consumers. According to The Closing Line, which obtained a July…

A venue clearing more than $200 billion a month, holding roughly 70% of on-chain perpetuals volume, is secured by 27 validators. Its foundation ran every one of them at launch. Both the critics and the defenders are working from stale…

While the market watched the token and the trade press counted the acquisitions, Ripple became the second-largest corporate political donor in America. The crypto industry now supplies more than a third of all corporate election money, its flagship super PAC…

Pump.fun’s PUMP token extended its recovery on July 27, rising above $0.002 after the platform’s BOOST rollout and a sharp increase in trading activity strengthened buying pressure. PUMP price reclaims $0.002 after BOOST launch According to data from crypto.news, Pump.fun…

For a year Robinhood was Kalshi’s largest distributor. Then it bought a CFTC-licensed exchange off the shelf, put Susquehanna behind the order book, and began routing its own flow to itself. The World Cup was the proving ground, the migration…

Tether holds 97,141 bitcoin, enough to rank second among corporate holders if it were listed anywhere. It is not. There is no share, so there is no multiple, no premium, no discount, and no market referee on the largest private…