Popular betting on what an individual might say or do, known as “mention markets,” pose some special dangers in the eyes of the U.S. regulator overseeing prediction market firms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, according to an advisory issued on Tuesday that may narrow the window on event contracts that would easily clear the agency’s
The Bitcoin bulls are back — if ETF flows are to be believed. U.S. bitcoin exchange-traded funds received $999 million in new investment on Monday, according to Farside Investors data. That’s the most in one day since October 6, when the funds received over $1.2 billion and the price of the leading cryptocurrency hit a
A technical breakdown of Solana daily, four-hour, and one-hour charts, mapping liquidity pools and order blocks to the levels that decide what SOL does next. A Rally Nobody Saw Coming Solana spent most of August grinding sideways between $72 and $80. The kind of range that puts most traders to sleep, honestly. Then September hit
Following the latest Cardano news, the Foundation has published a native facilitator for the x402 protocol, the emerging standard that repurposes the old HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code to let software pay for services in real time. The implementation, documented on GitHub as an x402 v2 facilitator written in Java, lets a resource server
Once the idea is cleared by the Office of Management and Budget at the White House, the agency can formally propose it and take comment from the industry and public. Meanwhile, Lindman cited the agency’s staff statement in December that was meant as an interim approach to steer broker-dealers on how they should handle crypto
Strive was one of the best performing stocks in the Russell 2000 over the past month, and Chief Risk Officer Jeff Walton says the company is on pace to double its Bitcoin holdings roughly every 12 weeks. In this conversation with Grace Remington and Sean Hagan, Walton explains how Strive manages its liquidity position while
SecondFi warns affected users against claiming NIGHT through compromised wallets. Midnight currently requires NIGHT allocations to use their original wallet addresses. The June breach affected 374 wallets and resulted in 16.1 million ADA stolen. SecondFi has warned affected users against claiming upcoming NIGHT allocations through compromised wallets. The restriction could expose newly claimed tokens to
The Pi crypto Network says it has resolved two long-standing bottlenecks affecting more than 914,000 Pioneers stuck in its KYC (know-your-customer identity verification) and Mainnet migration pipeline, according to an official blog post the Pi Core Team published last Friday (September 18). Of that total, more than 417,000 accounts previously flagged for possible duplication can
Bitcoin is rising, and spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) listed in the U.S. are pulling in money at a pace that rivals the period when the cryptocurrency traded at record highs. On Monday, the ETFs registered a net inflow of $998.95 million, the largest since Oct. 6, 2025, according to data from SoSoValue. That was the
Bitcoin just closed a weekly candle above its 50-week simple moving average for the first time this cycle, and Sean Hagan puts roughly 80% confidence on this being a genuine regime change. In this Chart of the Day, he and Grace Remington break down why this indicator has historically marked the line between bull and
