Chairman Mike Selig told a FINRA audience that the agency has signed a data-sharing deal with MLB and is now talking to every pro league about insider trading on prediction markets. The NFL, historically resistant, is finally at the table.
Solana-based tokens claiming exposure to Anthropic and OpenAI dropped 40% after both companies said unauthorized share transfers carry no value. PreStocks held $23 million against a $1.5 trillion implied valuation.
Two buyers, 20% each, through new shares. Hours earlier Hana Bank paid $670 million for Upbit's parent. Every major Korean exchange now has a suitor.
Payward grew revenue 3% year-over-year while Bitcoin fell 22% and industry spot volume dropped 38%. Futures DARTs jumped 51%. But adjusted EBITDA collapsed from $168 million to $18 million because the company spent the quarter buying everything it could find.
The largest IPO in history just disclosed the fourth-largest corporate Bitcoin position. SpaceX is targeting a $2 trillion valuation, a June Nasdaq debut under ticker SPCX, and up to $75 billion in capital raised. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are running the books.
India's Ministry of Electronics ordered ISPs to block Polymarket. The site is already unreachable for Indian users. Local media reports say Kalshi is next. The government classifies all prediction markets as illegal online gambling.
Trump Media transferred 2,650 BTC to Crypto.com on May 22, the second major outflow this year. The company originally bought 11,542 BTC for $1.37 billion. It is now sitting on a $455 million unrealized loss, and last week it withdrew its Bitcoin ETF application.
Trump announced a peace deal with Iran. Bitcoin spiked to $77,000, then crashed to $74,300. Spot ETFs lost $2.26 billion in two weeks. Warsh took over the Fed. Clarity Act got delayed. And Arthur Hayes bet $6.3 million that none of it matters for HYPE.
The Ethereum Foundation lost five senior contributors in May alone. Vitalik Buterin responded with a 2,000-word post saying the Foundation will get smaller, sell less ETH, and stop pretending to be the center of Ethereum. He also said nearly 90% of his net worth is still in ETH.
StablR's EURR and USDR lost their pegs on Sunday after an attacker compromised a single private key in a 1-of-3 multisig, minted 8.35 million unbacked USDR and 4.5 million EURR, and dumped them for 1,115 ETH. The stablecoin issuer holds a Malta EMI license and operates under MiCA. Regulation did not stop a key management failure.
Tokenized real-world assets have tripled in 17 months. U.S. Treasuries account for $16 billion. Ethereum carries 60% of the total value. BlackRock's BUIDL fund alone passed $2.5 billion. The question is no longer whether tokenization works. It is whether anyone outside finance will notice before it is too late to compete.
Metaplanet, a Tokyo Stock Exchange–listed investment firm, has raised approximately $255 million from global institutional investors as it accelerates its strategy to accumulate Bitcoin.
The Foundation deployed 22,517 ETH across 11 deposits on Monday, its largest single staking move yet. After years of criticism for selling ETH to fund operations, the EF is betting on staking yield instead. The timing, with ETH below $2,100, makes the move harder to ignore.
The CFTC and DOJ sued Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois on April 2, 2026 over their attempts to shut down Prediction Markets. The central question — finance or gambling? — is heading toward the Supreme Court.
Weekly volumes have crossed $1 billion on leading platforms. Asia has three of the world's five largest economies. The problem is that China, South Korea, and Japan all treat most forms of wagering as illegal by default.
While regulators blocked Polymarket in India, Indonesia, and Spain this week, Hyperliquid quietly shipped HIP-4 outcome contracts for real-world events. Users can now bet on CPI prints and Fed decisions from the same account they use for crypto perps. No external oracle. No UMA. Validators settle everything.
