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.
Macro events that move crypto — central bank rate decisions, inflation prints, banking stress, and global risk shifts.
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 May 6 WHO confirmation of a Hantavirus cluster aboard MV Hondius has traders dusting off the March 2020 playbook.
Day 3 brings Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff to the World Liberty Financial stage, Tom Lee's keynote, and a Senate Banking markup timeline that Patrick Witt pegged as achievable within four weeks.
Thirteen of twenty constituents still trade higher, with ICP (+9.7%) and DOT (+1.7%) leading — a broad-market session where laggards, not leaders, set the index tone.
Federal investigators at the DOJ and CFTC are examining a series of oil trades flagged as suspiciously timed ahead of…
A safe-haven bid in crude is pulling capital away from risk assets at the exact moment BTC is retesting a convergence breakout, leaving crypto in stall mode while geopolitics sets the macro tape.
The Department of Justice is investigating $2.6 billion in oil trades that were placed shortly before President Trump…
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.
The pullback isn't expected to be deep, but a break below the channel bottom near $71K would put the $60K–$69K support band back on the table — and the path out is seller exhaustion.
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.
The treasury milestone — 8x in 18 months — reframes Ethereum as settlement layer for real-world assets, while price action tightens between $2,200 support and a $3,000 resistance cluster.
A clean break above the 200-day near $83,300 would mark the start of a new bull leg; past false breakouts in 2022 ended in 50%+ drawdowns, and RSI is already in overbought territory.
Horsley's Consensus 2026 call lands with $300B+ in stablecoins, $15B under Bitwise management and a BlackRock-adjacent narrative rewriting how institutional capital prices digital assets.
The 'never sell' mantra is bending as the BTC Gain metric collides with a $12.7B quarterly loss and Wall Street's deficit forecasts — the company's cash needs now dictate the trade.
Speaking at Consensus Miami 2026, the BitMEX co-founder framed the pending Crypto Clarity Act as noise compared to central-bank liquidity — the same thesis he has carried since 2018.
The 22% rate — 20% income tax plus 2% local — triggers after KRW 2.5M in gains, and the National Tax Service is already aligning Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax on enforcement detail.
Blockstream's CEO framed Bitcoin's simpler architecture as a structural moat after another year of exploits — and pointed to sovereigns, pensions, and BlackRock model portfolios as the next adoption…
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…