Brazil Just Pulled the Plug on Prediction Markets in a Single Move
The Finance Ministry blocked access to all major prediction market platforms while the central bank moved to outlaw the underlying derivative contracts.
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The Finance Ministry blocked access to all major prediction market platforms while the central bank moved to outlaw the underlying derivative contracts.
The crypto conference happening Saturday at the President's own venue is reserved for the top 297 holders of his own token, with the top 29 getting direct access.
Saturday's 13-block reorg looked like a 51% attack. The Litecoin team says it was a zero-day in MWEB. Either way, three hours of chain history just got rewritten.
The platform promoted CredEarn as a safe savings product. The money was funding microloans to unbanked gamers in China. Cred went bankrupt. Users lost everything.
The deal is $4.2 billion and all-stock. The buyer processes crypto trades. The target processes $500 billion in annual shareholder payments. The bet is that those two worlds are about to merge.
13.26 million investors. 22% on gains above $1,850. January 2027. The ruling party wants to kill it. The Finance Ministry says it's happening anyway.
The Binance founder told Consensus Miami that American crypto traders get worse prices than everyone else. He floated reviving Binance.US as one fix. The other option is bolder.
The DeFi landscape has just witnessed another chilling reminder of its inherent vulnerabilities.
Sam Altman's identity project dumps tokens at $0.27 while a July unlock threatens to double the circulating supply. The gap between World's ambition and WLD's price has never been wider.
Governor Kay Ivey signed the DUNA Act on April 1, 2026, giving decentralized autonomous organizations full legal personality in Alabama. Over $24.5 billion in DAO treasury assets have operated without this protection. That is changing.
The world's first fully regulated yen stablecoin launched in October 2025. USDT remains effectively restricted. Three megabanks are building their own tokens. Japan built the most restrictive stablecoin framework in the world on purpose — and it is now producing results.
A Form 10 SEC filing from March 31 reveals the amended terms of the Ripple-Gemini credit facility. Gemini must hold at least $50 million in RLUSD, use it as collateral, and meet minimum usage thresholds. Fail to reduce borrowings by July 2, and the interest rate climbs to 10%.
The venture capitalist who shaped the Trump administration's crypto agenda hit his 130-day legal limit and moves to a broader advisory role. He leaves behind a stalled market structure bill, an unbuilt Bitcoin reserve, and a crypto industry asking who fills the gap.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirmed on April 6, 2026 that 'Regulation Crypto Assets' is at OIRA — the White House's regulatory review office — awaiting sign-off before public comment opens. The proposal creates three safe-harbor pathways, reclassifies most crypto assets as non-securities, and introduces the first structured fundraising framework for blockchain startups under U.S. federal law.
The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Complaint Center annual report — its 25th — recorded more than one million complaints and $20.8 billion in total losses. Crypto accounted for $11 billion of that figure, the single largest category. Pig butchering, AI deepfakes, Bitcoin ATM fraud targeting the elderly, and North Korean IT workers all feature in a report that documents cybercrime's industrialization at scale.