World Cup bettors are losing millions on Polymarket’s “safe” favorites
Spain controlled the ball for nearly 75% of the match and took 27 shots at Cape Verde's goal on June...
DeFi
Solstice CMO on SLX and Sustainable DeFi Yield
Crypto yield has always carried a credibility problem. The same market that learned to demand proof after incentive-heavy protocols unwound...
Congress moves to rebuild crypto crime task force after DOJ dismantled its dedicated crypto team
Congress wants a task force for cryptocurrency theft months after the Justice Department disbanded NCET.The proposal, introduced by Reps. Lance...
HYPE ETFs quietly pulled $161M in one month as Wall Street buys crypto’s on-chain exchange bet
One month after THYP launched on Nasdaq, the three US-traded spot HYPE ETFs have pulled in $161 million in net...
SpaceX’s IPO exposes the first crack in tokenized stocks
SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share on June 11, raised $75 billion in the largest public offering in...
SEC targets 20-year-old rule standing between Wall Street and blockchain trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving to dismantle a stock-trading rule that has governed Wall Street for two...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO fever sparks $1 billion crypto bet before Nasdaq debut
Crypto traders have turned Elon Musk’s expected SpaceX listing into a round-the-clock proxy market, pushing more than $1 billion through...
UK mutual funds may soon be allowed to hold crypto ETNs, but only with a 10% leash
The UK Financial Conduct Authority is weighing a rule that would let UCITS schemes and most non-UCITS retail schemes hold...
Circle wants wrapped Bitcoin to look bank grade before institutions trust it as collateral
Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, but the larger play is to make wrapped Bitcoin look like collateral infrastructure institutions...
FTX token (FTT) spikes 50% as Sam Bankman-Fried seeks presidential pardon
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of the bankrupt FTX exchange, is serving a quarter-century in federal prison for orchestrating...
DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from...
AI’s $800 billion spending boom is becoming Bitcoin’s Fed problem
For the better part of two years, Wall Street has treated AI as the most bullish trade on the board,...
