The rebalance gives Hyperliquid an immediate 0.95% seat in the world's largest crypto index fund, validating its $1.34T H1 trading volume and 165% YTD run.
The joint letter is a coordination moment for the onchain-infrastructure thesis: regulated venues already want to plug into Hyperliquid-style rails, and they're asking the CFTC to bless the model…
The CFTC's current framework assumes intermediaries that onchain protocols do not have, so applying broker and exchange rules to them is a category error that risks freezing US DeFi derivatives in…
A single address opened a leveraged long equivalent to roughly 1,700 contracts of an index-tracking perpetual, with another $19M in resting bids still on the book.
The wrapper promises accumulation, but its own SEC filing warns it may have to sell HYPE into the stress moments, with monthly core-contributor unlocks roughly 44% of the facility's full buying power.
The Binance founder's contrast draws a regulatory fault line between centralized exchange accountability and the no-KYC smart-contract model newer perps venues are running on.
Latin America's largest exchange now lets local traders hedge and trade volatility in BRL- and USD-denominated contracts that reference Nasdaq crypto indexes, with no on-platform token custody.
Variational, GRVT, and Ostium absorbed most of the $144.6M raised across the watchlist, a concentration that hints at where the next perp-DEX TGE bids will land.
The wallet placed one position and vanished with the payout, reviving questions about whether prediction-market whales are actually retail or just well-capitalised insiders running anonymous books.
The push pairs influencer deals, MLB and CNN/CNBC partnerships, and a CFTC-supervised sports app, betting that mainstream visibility can offset a 2020 settlement and a 2024 CEO home raid.
The second consecutive quarterly decline leaves volume at half the Q4 2025 peak, with Hyperliquid still anchoring the sector at $620B despite the slowdown.
The new policy lands on August 1, 2026, and adds real-money prediction markets to a prohibited-products list that also tightens privacy and data-collection rules for every Chrome extension developer.
Political prediction markets hit $5.7B in Q2 2026, with Polymarket near-totally dominant, yet still well short of the $7.4B election-driven peak from late 2024.
SDNY Judge Torres ruled the CEA does not preempt state gambling law over Kalshi's sports-event contracts, putting the fight with regulators in the world's financial capital squarely in the loss…
Zero-confirmation credits collapse the deposit window from up to an hour to milliseconds, lowering the friction cost every prediction-market trader has paid since Polymarket launched.
The largest US-accessible prediction market is plugging directly into the BTC rail, turning sat-settled wagers from a niche curiosity into a real on-ramp for the dominant crypto treasury asset.
Lightning funding cuts the on-ramp to a seconds-long flow for prediction-market traders, sidestepping bank rails, KYC, and the multi-day transfer windows.
Tokenized shares of Apple, Tesla, and commodities like oil and gold are now usable as margin on a 24/7 perp venue, a structural step for real-world assets meeting on-chain derivatives.
The raise values a still-young onchain rights-and-royalties stack at nine figures, with the round led by crypto-native funds that have backed infrastructure plays through prior cycles.
The fall from 58% to 54% comes with capital concentrating in a narrow set of tokens that route fees, burns, or institutional hooks back to holders, not in a blanket altseason.
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