The crypto exchange is mounting a challenge to platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, offering ”gasless” trades as it seeks a share of the $20 billion prediction market. Binance Wallet has integrated prediction market features into its app, saying it will cover all trading and settlement transaction fees for users as it make a play for...Continue Reading

Operation Atlantic, a joint US, UK and Canadian operation, froze more than $12 million tied to crypto approval phishing and identified over 20,000 victims. Authorities in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada have frozen millions of dollars tied to crypto scams in a joint enforcement operation called Operation Atlantic. The operation, focused on phishing...Continue Reading

Bitcoin avoids major volatility after the first of the week’s two key US inflation reports, while a trader sees a “new upwards leg” coming for BTC price action. Bitcoin (BTC) circled $71,000 at Thursday’s Wall Street open after US inflation data conformed to expectations. Key points: Bitcoin waits for new catalysts as US PCE inflation...Continue Reading

North Korea’s crypto playbook now spans fake developers, conference contacts and major DeFi exploits reaching deep across the industry. This month’s $285 million exploit on Drift, a decentralized exchange (DEX), was the largest crypto hack in over a year, when exchange Bybit lost $1.4 billion. North Korean state-backed hackers were named as prime suspects in...Continue Reading

Hyperliquid data showed a 145 million Fartcoin position unwound across wallets, with the platform redistributing about $849,000 in gains to opposing traders. A trader lost about $3 million after building a large leveraged Fartcoin position on Hyperliquid that unraveled in thin liquidity, triggering the platform’s auto-deleveraging (ADL) mechanism. Hyperliquid data flagged by Lookonchain shows that...Continue Reading

The US Justice Department and commodities regulator asked a federal court to block Arizona’s action against Kalshi, arguing federally regulated event contracts fall under CFTC jurisdiction. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) asked a federal court to block Arizona from enforcing state gambling law against Kalshi’s event contracts,...Continue Reading

Anger is growing over prediction market bets on the Iran war that critics say exploit human misery for financial gain.Continue Reading

BitMEX said commodity perpetual swaps volume jumped from $38.1 million to $25 billion in Q1 as traders flocked to 24/7 gold, silver and oil exposure. BitMEX said in a Thursday report that commodity perpetual swaps were the fastest-growing segment of TradFi perps in the first quarter of 2026, with weekly volume rising 65,463% from $38.1...Continue Reading

Bitcoin Depot said a hacker stole 50.9 BTC, worth about $3.7 million, after gaining access to internal systems linked to corporate wallets. Crypto ATM operator Bitcoin Depot revealed that it lost about 50.9 Bitcoin, worth roughly $3.7 million, after a hacker gained access to some of its internal systems. The breach happened on March 23...Continue Reading

Crypto exchanges are racing to capture the market share of TradFi trading venues, but tokenized commodities adoption remains limited by pricing and liquidity concerns. Cryptocurrency exchanges are taking a growing market share from traditional finance (TradFi) trading venues through tokenized commodities products, but the mainstream adoption of tokenized precious metals remains limited by pricing and...Continue Reading