Patrick Witt told Consensus Miami the executive branch can take a 'big step forward' without waiting for Congress. But the last time Treasury was asked about buying BTC, the answer was no.
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…
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.
SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton has pushed back against Roman Storm's attempt to use a 2026 Supreme Court copyright ruling as a defense against the two charges a jury deadlocked on last year. The case is a live contradiction: the same DOJ that issued a memo ending 'regulation by prosecution' on crypto platforms is now pursuing a retrial that could send a developer to prison for 40 years for writing open-source code.
The deal gives Payward all three CFTC licenses needed to run a full-stack U.S. crypto derivatives platform. It follows Deutsche Börse's $200 million stake in Kraken earlier this week.
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.
Seven House Democrats sent CFTC Chair Michael Selig a letter demanding answers on suspicious trades tied to U.S. military actions in Iran and Venezuela. The same trades that made anonymous users hundreds of thousands of dollars in minutes.
Friday gave the prediction market fight its sharpest day yet. Letitia James signed a bipartisan amicus brief in the morning. Hours later, the CFTC named her in a federal lawsuit. New York is now the fourth state the agency has sued in three weeks.
Hours after Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on April 7, 2026, newly created anonymous wallets had already made hundreds of thousands of dollars on prediction markets — and blockchain analysts were already asking who knew first.
Senators Warren, Schiff, and Blumenthal have sent a formal document request to Fight Fight Fight LLC — the TRUMP token co-issuer — over a planned April 25 Mar-a-Lago gala where top token holders receive exclusive access to the President.
On-chain analysis links two accounts with a perfect pardon-betting record to the same deposit wallet. A Columbia Law professor who advises the DOJ on insider trading says the probability of these trades occurring by chance is "virtually zero."
Banks have middlemen. DeFi has code. Over $130 billion is locked in smart contracts that lend, trade, and generate yield — without a single bank account, credit check, or business hour.
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.
