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Cboe Global Markets entered the prediction markets space Tuesday with the launch of Cboe Predicts, a new product suite that uses binary option contracts on the Mini-S&P 500 Index (XSP) to let retail traders take yes-or-no positions on where the index will close, all within the same regulated

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small internal team to develop a standalone prediction markets app internally called Arena, placing the social media giant in direct competition with Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Arena is being developed as a standalone app,

Five Senate Democrats called Tuesday for immediate congressional hearings into a reported $500 million investment by UAE-linked officials in World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by President Trump and his family, arguing that a pattern of U.S. policy decisions benefiting the Gulf s

The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 employees and announced a roughly 40% budget reduction Tuesday, executing arguably one of the most sweeping structural overhauls in the organization’s history against a backdrop of sustained senior leadership turnover and mounting competitive pressure on Ethereum

Jaredfromsubway.eth, one of Ethereum’s most notorious maximal extractable value (MEV) bots, has lost more than $7.5 million after an attacker turned the bot’s own trading logic against it, according to security firm Blockaid.
The bot is built for sandwich attacks, a type of MEV in which an

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor hinted at another Bitcoin purchase on Sunday, posting the company’s holdings tracker with the caption “Looks better with more dots.” The chart he shared plots Strategy’s accumulation as orange dots against Bitcoin’s price, alongside the company’s average pu

Charles Schwab is collaborating with Cboe Global Markets on a new options contract that would let customers stake yes-or-no positions on how the S&P 500 performs, the brokerage’s first step into prediction markets, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The feature is expected to reach Schwab c

A new and contentious Ethereum proposal would create a protocol-level funding mechanism paid for by validators, and it has already drawn sharp reactions from the community. Authored by Clément Lesaege, founder and CTO of Kleros, the “Validator Redirected Revenue” proposal would let validators

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission issued a joint request for public comment on Thursday on updating and clarifying how they define key derivatives products, landing on the same legal question now being litigated in CME‘s lawsuit against the CFTC.
The re

Morgan Stanley filed amended registration statements for spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded funds on Thursday, signaling progress on both applications and setting fees that would be the lowest in either market.
The bank submitted second-amended S-1 statements to the SEC for the two funds,

Hsiao-Wei Wang has stepped down as co-executive director and board member of the Ethereum Foundation, effective Thursday, adding to a string of high-profile exits that have unsettled the organization over the past several months.
Her departure follows the earlier resignations, including fellow co-e

Strategy has paused the at-the-market program through which it issues STRC preferred shares, after the security sank well below the $100 level it was engineered to hold, switching off the capital-raising mechanism at the center of Michael Saylor‘s bitcoin strategy.
The pause is the consequential

ClawBank and Shodai said two incorporated AI agents negotiated, signed and executed a Ricardian contract, a single agreement meant to work as both legal prose and machine-executable code. The deal, announced Thursday, is an early test of whether autonomous agents can act as commercial

CME Group intends to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over its approval of perpetual futures earlier this month, CEO Terrence Duffy told CNBC on Wednesday, putting the largest US derivatives exchange in direct conflict with its own regulator.
Duffy argued the CFTC‘s approval of Kalshi‘s

Major cryptocurrencies edged lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady but released hawkish economic projections in Kevin Warsh‘s first meeting as chair.
Bitcoin traded around $64,150, down roughly 2.2% over the past 24 hours, while ether fell 3.6% and XRP and Solana e

Moody’s Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana, allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm’s assessments directly into blockchain-based assets.
The move, announced Wednesday in partnership with Solana-focused tokenization specialist

Strategy‘s perpetual preferred stock, STRC, has fallen to around $89, roughly 11% below its $100 par value and among the lowest levels since the security began trading in July 2025.
STRC is engineered to trade near par. Strategy adjusts the instrument’s dividend rate each month to steer the share p

Ethereum developers have entered the final stretch of work on Glamsterdam, the network’s next major upgrade, as teams begin testing a version of the fork that bundles all of its planned protocol changes.
Developers are currently running developer networks, or “devnets,” early environments used to t

BlackRock began offering a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund that limits gains in exchange for double-digit payouts on Tuesday, bringing a yield-focused product to the largest corner of the crypto ETF market.
The iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, trading on Nasdaq under the ticker BITA, is designed to