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The raise pairs a TradFi heavyweight with a crypto-native lead, and lands at the exact moment institutional capital needs clean onchain data to deploy.
The survey lands as Congress weighs the Predicting Our Predictions Act and Kalshi/Polymarket battle state-by-state over which platforms stay live.
Kalshi's first billion-dollar open interest print arrived the same week Polymarket's World Cup-driven volume tripled, a signal that event-contract retail demand is now flowing through both regulated…
The raise, led by Kraken's parent, lands as prediction markets are being repriced on the back of Kalshi's $22B valuation and a flood of sports-betting liquidity into the segment.
A $3,500 target by 2030 puts the bank in the bullish corner of DeFi, but the real driver is a $2.7T thesis that tokenized RWAs and stablecoins rewire credit markets.
Project Pangea is the rare institutional pilot that names a real cross-border use case. The question is whether LINK captures any of the flow it helps clear.
Spot volumes softened to a nine-month low in May while RWA perpetual futures printed a fresh all-time high, a split that says more about where the bid is rotating than the index's muted daily move.
The deal moves institutional mortgage paper onto a public chain with a privacy-preserving verification model, the structural piece TradFi underwriters need before loan-level tokenization scales.
Geoff Kendrick's call implies roughly 50x from current levels and rests on tokenized assets active in DeFi growing 37-fold by decade-end, with Aave capturing the lending side of that flow.
CryptoRank's monthly tracker now shows DeFi TVL below the $70B line for the first time since 2023, with 121 hacks and $942M in losses accelerating the year-long unwind across every major chain except…
The same day Treasury named nine individuals and 26 entities tied to a $10B Southeast Asia scam network, a DeFi coalition went public pledging to set enforceable operational standards before…
Put-call skew on Deribit widened to 10.9 vol points in favor of puts and OI-adjusted CVD turned negative across most top-25 tokens, the cleanest read yet that short sellers are driving price action…
The legacy exchange is reusing a decade-old playbook because prediction markets just proved retail will trade outcomes, not just prices.
Roughly 25% of all Bitcoin network fees are now coming from Runes-related transactions, a structural shift in block-space demand that arrived while BTC trades near $62K, roughly half its October peak.
Every month of 2026 has bled DeFi TVL, with $70B now anchoring the sector and TRON and Hyperliquid the only top-10 chains to add value this year.
The same address sold 3,065 ETH at a $380K loss two weeks ago and has been loading HYPE ever since, with holdings now worth $30.93M.
The Mini-S&P 500 contracts are the first products under the new suite, live now on Interactive Brokers and rolling out to Charles Schwab in the coming months.
When Layer 2 fees fall below the cost of executing on the L1 itself, the original scaling thesis stops paying out, and dozens of rollups are left searching for a reason to exist.
The Binance founder's back-to-back posts are a rare live read on a venue that has refused identity checks: the praise is real, the legal warning is louder.
The OCC-cleared contracts land as prediction markets keep pulling capital from sportsbooks and crypto books, with Interactive Brokers live at launch and Schwab on deck.
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