Kalshi raises $1B at $22B valuation as trading volume triples
Institutional trading volume jumped 800% in six months to $178B annualized — the funding is the easy story; the Wall Street shift toward event contracts is the harder one.
Funding rounds, seed and Series raises, project token sales, grants, and bankruptcy events.
Institutional trading volume jumped 800% in six months to $178B annualized — the funding is the easy story; the Wall Street shift toward event contracts is the harder one.
Three rounds in seven months, with valuations roughly doubling each time — a growth pace that puts Kalshi in the same conversation as Polymarket and the broader prediction-market sector rushing to…
The price tag is eye-catching, but the harder signal is the institutional build-out — block trading, risk products, broker rails — and an 800% surge in institutional volume over six months.
The handoff marks Bitwise's official entry into tokenized funds, with USCC's smart contracts and token address preserved — and Superstate pivoting to pure onchain infrastructure via FundOS.
Payward is now past $2.6B across three headline deals this cycle — and this one hands it a stablecoin payments foothold in Asia, the region co-CEO Arjun Sethi calls its fastest-growing outside Europe.
It's Bitwise's first tokenized fund and Superstate's exit from running its own vehicles — a clean handoff that consolidates the $30B RWA rail around infrastructure-only plays.
The headline number flatters the unit: a brokerage-style principal model inflates gross revenue, and the GENIUS Act forces SoFiUSD into a separately regulated entity before the stablecoin can scale.
Commodity perps are a strategic beachhead for Coinbase Derivatives, signalling intent to apply the perp engine beyond crypto while the US books quietly work toward 24/7 trading.
$10B issued in under a year, and the framing at Consensus Miami points to 1% of a $300T global credit market — double today's Bitcoin market cap if it lands.
Sethi pegged the institutional shift at 5–10 years, not 5 months — and pointed to fintechs in Mexico, Brazil, Africa, and Southeast Asia as the actual demand today, not US broker-dealers.
A new batch of confirmed token generation events is taking shape for 2026, with six projects now publicly committed to…
The market grew 60% in a year and 168 new assets launched — yet 77.6% of them remain wrappers around traditional rails, and stablecoins account for 91.6% of the value.
The headline net loss is impairment-driven, but the operating story is the deliberate pivot away from self-mining toward AI-adjacent colocation — and the market is pricing the transition, not the…
A $347M quarterly loss meets 2,385 BTC sold and a $3.3B bond raise — the Bitcoin-mining-to-AI-host playbook is no longer a side bet, it is the balance sheet, and the BTC treasury is funding the…
The headline is the contradiction: ABTC's all-in cost to mine a Bitcoin is roughly $68K against spot near $81K, leaving a margin that evaporates the next time energy costs tick up.
A 403,289-token deposit from an address loosely linked to Matrixport has only sold 100,000 $HYPE so far — the remaining inventory is the part of the trade to watch.
The pitch is a familiar one — trade a virtual account, keep up to 90% of the profits — but CFT is leaning hard on daily proof-of-reserves and a 715-pair Bybit-backed book to stand out in a crowded…
The cross-asset picture is the story: crypto cooled while equities hit fresh highs and oil eased, leaving $520M in 24-hour liquidations split almost evenly between longs and shorts.
The Trump-linked miner is now mining at less than half the public-peer average — and is still accumulating BTC while rivals sell to fund HPC pivots.
A fresh ENS-tagged wallet matched the buy to a known X handle within hours, and the mark-to-market gain is already nearly 5x the deploy.