Kentucky sued Kalshi and Polymarket as illegal sportsbooks on June 17, the same day a Michigan judge ruled sports prediction markets aren't under the CFTC, denting the industry's federal shield.
The Fed is near-certain to hold on Wednesday, so crypto's real test is the dot plot and Kevin Warsh's first meeting as chair. Bitcoin's bounce off $59K hangs on the tone.
Crypto built a $557M shadow market for SpaceX before its Nasdaq debut, pricing it above the IPO. Then the tokenized shares fell apart on Binance, Bybit and Bitget.
A 3-year-high CPI sent gold tumbling while Bitcoin held near $61,400. Under the price noise, Tether wired wallets into robots and Japan's banks planned a stablecoin.
Crypto's Monday rebound evaporated Tuesday after Iran downed a US helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz and the US struck back. Bitcoin slid toward $60,700 as risk assets sold off.
Goldman Sachs kept nearly all its Bitcoin ETF but sold its entire Solana and XRP stakes and cut Ethereum 70%. Wall Street is drawing a line between BTC and the rest.
Bitcoin fell under $63K as record ETF outflows, Strategy's first BTC sale in years, a Mt. Gox transfer and geopolitics pulled crypto below $2.5 trillion.
ZachXBT alleges insiders controlling 90% of supply engineered a short squeeze that caused $44 million in liquidations. RAVE has dropped over 50% from its $27 peak.
The $11 billion prediction market operator walks into crypto perpetuals through a CFTC door that Coinbase and Robinhood still cannot open. Polymarket beat it to market by six days.
DefiLlama data shows $17 billion stolen across 518 incidents in a decade, and more than half of the losses came from stolen keys or phished humans. The…
North Korea's TraderTraitor subgroup hit Drift on April 1 and KelpDAO on April 18. One attack used a fake quant firm. The other poisoned bridge infrastructure. Different tactics, same wallet.
A Bitcoin developer wants to fork the chain in August, copy Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet history onto a new network, and hand 500,000 of those coins to people who pay for them now. Jameson Lopp called it outrage marketing. Sztorc says it's a matter of life or death for Bitcoin.
On April 29, Vitalik Buterin offloaded 40 million ASTEROID OG tokens that had been sent to his wallet without permission. The token went up 120% after the sale. The pattern that used to crash memecoins is now powering them.
A new Bitget Wallet and Polymarket report shows monthly prediction market volume hit $25.7 billion in March, up from $1.9 billion a year earlier. Retail users drove over 80% of the activity, and the average user is now active four times more often than they were three months ago.
ZachXBT flagged six attacker wallets funded through Tornado Cash. A minting flaw in KelpDAO's rsETH token left Aave V3 holding bad debt, sending the AAVE token down 10-13%.
Dropped lawsuits, new ETFs, a token taxonomy, and a joint framework with the CFTC. Paul Atkins delivered almost everything the crypto industry asked for. But prediction markets just landed on his desk as an unresolved jurisdictional fight.
