A federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 28 that Kalshi had not shown Nevada’s regulation of its sports-event contracts was likely preempted by federal commodities law. Summary Ninth Circuit judges held Kalshi unlikely to block Nevada regulation of sports-event contracts through preemption. The ruling did not invalidate CFTC rulemaking or resolve any future Administrative Procedure
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Ripple has hired London Metal Exchange treasury executive Joseph Thompson for its trading and markets team, according to an Aug. 28 report. Summary Ripple appointed Joseph Thompson to the trading and markets team, focusing on tokenization strategy and delivery. Thompson leaves LME on August 31 after nearly ten years working at the metals exchange. He
Ripple has named Academy Award winner and Water.org co-founder Matt Damon as a keynote speaker for Swell 2026, scheduled for Oct. 27–29 at The Shed in New York City. Summary Matt Damon will deliver a keynote at Ripple Swell 2026, scheduled October 27–29 in Manhattan. Ripple will combine Swell and XRPL Apex for the first
Capital B, the Euronext Growth-listed company that bills itself as Europe’s first bitcoin treasury company, has raised €21 million ($24 million) in a private placement backed by Blockstream’s Adam Back and asset manager TOBAM — money it says could buy 270 more bitcoin and push its stack to roughly 3,415 BTC. The company said Friday
Bitcoin’s advance from approximately $63,500 to above $80,000 received substantial support from spot buying rather than new leveraged positions, QCP Capital said on Aug. 28. Summary Bitcoin rose from $63,500 as spot ETFs drew $2.8 billion across eight consecutive sessions overall. Futures open interest fell from 646,000 BTC to 588,000 BTC while Bitcoin prices moved
Cryptex’s SEC filing assigns XRP a 4.88% weighting in its proposed digital asset ETF. Ripple could retain more monthly XRP releases if demand for liquidity increases. The CLARITY Act remains pending, making any future XRP supply changes uncertain. A new SEC filing suggests Ripple could retain more XRP from its monthly escrow releases if the
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Bitcoin returned to $80,000 after its strongest rally in more than three years, although traders struggled to push the price through $82,000. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh later pressured risk assets with a warning that interest rates could rise, while Bitwise’s Solana staking ETF became the first
In Bitcoin news today, a group of cryptography researchers has published a draft specification for SHRINCS, a post-quantum signature scheme for Bitcoin transaction authorization. The draft, authored by conduition, Ethan Heilman, Mikhail Kudinov, Oleksandr Kurbatov, Jonas Nick, and a contributor known as remix7531, describes a hash-based design that combines a compact stateful signing path with
Bitcoin traded near $77,500 on Aug. 29 after US spot Bitcoin ETFs snapped a nine-session inflow streak, while weakening capital flows and short-term technical signals kept the $76,500–$77,000 support zone in focus. Summary US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $201.9 million in net outflows on Aug. 28. Bitcoin fell 2.9% in 24 hours but continued to
