The prediction market is introducing price-based contracts tied to stocks and commodities, using Pyth data feeds as the “resolution source” to automatically settle outcomes. Polymarket has added markets tied to equities, commodities and exchange-traded funds, using price data from blockchain oracle provider Pyth Network as the resolution source to determine outcomes for daily contracts. The...Continue Reading

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission claims it “first officially recognized” event contracts in 1992 and that Congress has granted it sole authority over the market. The Trump administration is suing Illinois, Connecticut, Arizona, and their gaming regulators over the federal government’s right to regulate prediction markets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the US...Continue Reading

An executive said the social media platform could lock accounts mentioning crypto for the first time and require verification after a scammer faked reports of a tortoise’s death. Social media platform X is considering implementing new rules for first-time user posts about crypto in an effort to crack down on scammers using phishing attacks to...Continue Reading

Fresh lows below $1,736 could be in store for Ether price if bulls fail to hold the altcoin’s price above an important ascending trendline. Ether (ETH) price may be at risk of a correction to new year-to-date lows, especially if the bulls fail to secure daily candle closes above the $2,150 to $2,400 range. Ether’s...Continue Reading

The new platform enables companies to hold funds, move money and settle transactions in fiat or crypto within a single regulated system. Digital banking platform SoFi Technologies has launched Big Business Banking, a platform that allows companies to manage fiat and crypto transactions within a single regulated system. According to Thursday’s announcement, the offering enables...Continue Reading

Soluna expanded into artificial intelligence in 2024 to shore up declining revenues from its crypto mining business, mirroring an industry-wide shift toward AI workloads. Soluna Holdings, a publicly traded Bitcoin (BTC) mining and AI infrastructure company focused on renewable energy, announced on Thursday that it closed a $53 million deal to acquire a wind farm...Continue Reading

Chief legal officer Paul Grewal announced the approval on Thursday, thanking OCC head Jonathan Gould, who took office less than a year ago. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has approved cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase’s application for a national bank trust charter after six months of consideration. In a Thursday X post,...Continue Reading

DeFi prioritizes gas efficiency over market resilience. Simplified financial logic fails under volatility due to computational constraints. Opinion by: João Garcia, DevReal lead at Cartesi.Decentralized finance presents itself as a transparent alternative to Wall Street. Yet, what it has largely reconstructed is a simplified version of finance, engineered less around market resilience than around the...Continue Reading

About 44% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply trades underwater at $66,000 with weak spot demand weighing on market sentiment. Bitcoin (BTC) traded at $66,450 on Thursday, a 47% drawdown from its all-time high of $126,000 reached in October 2025. As a result, many BTC holders are sitting on significant unrealized losses, underscoring the risks still facing...Continue Reading

Trader Murad Mahmudov may lose another $1.56 million if its top bet, SPX6900, drops another 20% in the coming weeks. Murad Mahmudov, a crypto trader also known as the “Memecoin messiah,” has lost nearly $60 million across his bets in the past nine months. Still, he expects a bullish reversal. Key takeaways: Mahmudov thinks SPX6900,...Continue Reading