Wintermute Said 30% in April. The CLARITY Market Just Hit 31%.
Regulators blew the GENIUS Act deadline and CLARITY odds fell to a record 31%. Both halves of crypto's Washington trade slipped in one week.
Regulators blew the GENIUS Act deadline and CLARITY odds fell to a record 31%. Both halves of crypto's Washington trade slipped in one week.
ICE, owner of the NYSE, and crypto exchange OKX launched a 50-50 venture, led by Andrew Cuomo, to give 120 million users access to ICE futures and tokenized NYSE stocks. Wall Street is now building the rails itself.
Kalshi's annualized revenue crossed $2 billion, triple its November mark, and it is in early talks with banks about an IPO. The catch: the regulated status driving the bull case is the same one under attack in court.
In one week, CME sued the CFTC over perps, Oman made its national Bitcoin mining pool mandatory, and China advanced a SWIFT rival. Three layers, one pattern: states and incumbents claiming crypto's rails.
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.
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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.
Attorney General Letitia James wants triple damages, customer restitution, and a ban on under-21 wagering. Coinbase stock fell 6% as the lawsuit landed.
Polymarket hired Chainalysis on April 30 to build an onchain anomaly detection system, days after a U.S. Green Beret pleaded not guilty to a $400,000 insider bet. A new ACDC report shows military markets win at four times the normal longshot rate.
The CFTC handed Gemini a clearinghouse license on April 30. The stock popped 6%. The more interesting question is why crypto firms have started paying $550 million each just to own one of these things.
After four months of stalemate, the Tillis-Alsobrooks compromise text dropped Thursday night. The Senate has until May 21 to do something with it, or the bill goes back on the shelf until 2030.
HIP-4 went live on mainnet with zero fees to open and a 1 million HYPE staking requirement for builders. Polymarket charges up to 2% on winners. That gap is the entire pitch.
The venture capital giant filed an 18-page letter telling federal regulators to hold the line. On the other side: a coalition of attorneys general from nearly every state in the country.
The sector dropped 66% from March's record. But the real story is who grabbed the crown while everyone was looking the other way.
Payward just paid $600 million for a Hong Kong payments company that makes money moving stablecoins across borders. The firm was already profitable on $60 million in total funding.
The New York Times published an investigation on Sunday that lands like a grenade in the middle of the prediction market debate. The core finding: career…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has become one of the most consequential regulators in crypto, with jurisdiction over derivatives, event contracts, and a growing share of the digital-asset market that Congress may formally hand it. This tag tracks enforcement actions, the fight over prediction-market and event-contract oversight with Kalshi and Polymarket, the federal-state preemption battles against gambling regulators, the push to onshore decentralized markets like Hyperliquid, and the market-structure bills that would expand CFTC authority over spot crypto. Coinliva covers the cases, the commissioner decisions, and the turf war between the CFTC and the SEC that will shape which agency ultimately governs the industry.