CFTC Chairman Michael Selig is trying to drag prediction markets and crypto out of the legal grey zone by scrapping a de facto ban and replacing it with a derivatives‑style rulebook the agency, not the states, will control. Summary Selig withdrew the 2024 event‑contracts ban proposal and a 2025 staff advisory, ordering a new rulebook
Hey Ethereum! Here’s the latest update from the ethereum.org team: Style guide & Design upgrade Ethereum.org is getting an upgrade! In January we released a style guide (figma doc) for public comment and feedback, and we’re currently in the process of rolling it out live on the site. We also published a set of design
Elon Musk confirmed this week that X Money is entering “early public access” in April, marking the first concrete step toward his vision of a financial “everything app.” But while beta testers are already executing transactions and William Shatner is promoting the interface, one massive expected feature is glaringly absent: Dogecoin (DOGE). The price of
Bitfinex is about to get a massive chunk of its past back as a U.S. court orders more than 94,000 seized bitcoin returned, turning a 2016 hack into a live test of crypto property rights. Summary The restitution order covers 94,643 BTC plus forked coins seized from Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, part of
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review. Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means breaking up the storage and computation
About $27 million was liquidated on the decentralized lending platform Aave over the last 24 hours, in what some market participants say may have been caused by a temporary pricing issue involving the token wstETH. Blockchain data flagged by risk-management firm Chaos Labs shows a spike in liquidations in the past 24 hours. Some observers
Sonic price forms bullish RSI divergence near the value area low. Holding $0.03 support could trigger a corrective rally toward $0.04 resistance. Summary Bullish Signal: RSI divergence forming near the value area low. Key Support: Price must hold $0.03 and the 0.618 Fibonacci level. Upside Target: Potential rally toward $0.04 high-timeframe resistance. Sonic (S) is currently trading at a critical technical
Friends, Out of respect for those within our own community and around us currently facing the ongoing global health crisis, our team has decided to temporarily hold scheduled Devcon announcements, first teased in our last post. In the meantime we wanted to share something else that we’ve been working on, which was intended for release
Bitcoin reaching $1 million per coin often sounds unrealistic to investors, but multi-billion dollar asset manager chief investment officer (CIO) Matt Hougan says the skepticism usually stems from a basic misunderstanding about how the asset should be valued. In a memo released Tuesday, the CIO of Bitwise Asset Management argued that many analysts rely on
The U.S. Senate is finally treating stablecoins as extensions of the dollar system itself, using the GENIUS Act to pull digital dollars inside the regulatory perimeter. Summary The GENIUS Act passed the Senate 68–30, requiring payment stablecoins to be fully backed by cash and short‑term Treasuries with frequent, public reserve disclosures. Built on the Lummis–Gillibrand
