Cardano (ADA USD) is trading near $0.16, clinging to multi-year lows with a 24-hour crash of around -4.4%, compounding on a brutal 7-day decline of nearly -26%. The numbers tell a story most ADA holders don’t want to read, and there’s a detail buried in the on-chain data that makes the chart look even uglier
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed its first prediction markets regulation on Wednesday, pitching an approach to how it can make widespread evaluations of whether contracts trip the federal standard for what’s off-limits. The agency that regulates U.S. derivatives has been a defender of prediction markets such as those run by Kalshi, Polymarket and
Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has publicly claimed that the Department of Justice threatened President Donald Trump in the final hours of Trump’s first term in January 2021, warning it would “go after” him if he commuted the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Bitcoin-powered Silk Road marketplace. After the reported threat, Trump withdrew
Apia, Samoa, June 10, 2026 – Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, today launched the 2026 Ultimate Championship, a global trading event featuring a total prize pool of $7 million. Inspired by the excitement surrounding the 2026 football season, the initiative combines trading, prediction markets, and community participation into a month-long competition designed to engage users
Bitcoin’s latest move higher was triggered by one key catalyst: the temporary Middle East ceasefire. The easing of geopolitical risk and pressure on energy markets quickly improved sentiment, pushing BTC out of weeks of indecision within the $64,000–$72,000 range into a more accelerated move higher toward the top of the range. As highlighted in the
In SEC crypto news, we’re taking a look at May 19, 2025, when Coinbase became the first crypto-native company ever admitted to the S&P 500, the same index that tracks trillions of dollars in passive investment and sits inside millions of American retirement accounts. COIN stock had already surged roughly 24% on the day of
A package of several crypto tax bills may not be ready yet for prime time, as a U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing revealed potentially significant questions from lawmakers that suggested the panel hasn’t achieved a bipartisan embrace of the bills that would tailor a clearer tax code for digital asset gains. The latest
A new feature documentary is making the case that Bitcoin belongs in the boardrooms of professional basketball — and it has the access to back it up. Bitcoin Season, directed by Mike Nicoll, follows Swan Bitcoin, a Bitcoin wealth services company, on its mission to establish Bitcoin-only partnerships inside the professional basketball industry. The film
Tokenised fixed-income products are gaining popularity as investors look for more legible sources of on-chain yield. Bitfinex Securities products ALTERNATIVE and USTBL are two prime examples of how fixed-income structures familiar from the world of traditional finance are increasingly being rebuilt on Bitcoin-native rails. Crypto has a yield legibility problem. Rates on some of the
XRP Ripple Ledger 3.2.0 is targeting a June 15 release, bringing two headline changes: the core server software is renamed from rippled to XRPLD, and the upgrade promises 30–40% lower memory usage across network nodes. XRPL Operations announced the update on June 4, describing it as a transition that will require infrastructure operators to update
