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A derivatives license would let Polymarket's U.S. arm offer leveraged bets on events for the first time since a 2022 CFTC settlement, putting it on a regulatory footing with Kalshi.
The judge who set the XRP precedent is now drawing a line on prediction-market expansion, signalling that state gambling statutes still apply where federal CFTC oversight stops.
The complaint targets a federal inmate accused of siphoning forfeited digital assets through exchanges and mixing services, layering a theft case on top of an existing sentence.
A market-structure bill that splits regulator jurisdiction over digital assets could land in the House as soon as next week, pulling regulatory clarity back to the front of the crypto agenda.
The plaintiffs ask courts to declare long-dormant Bitcoin abandoned, but the wallets that actually transacted while the case was pending expose the limits of an 'inactivity equals abandonment' theory…
The amendment targets political parties and candidates, framing crypto donations as unfit for the UK funding system rather than just unregulated.
A 6% tax on net fee revenue resolves the state's standoff with federal derivatives oversight, but leaves other states still contesting where prediction-market jurisdiction actually sits.
The breakout on a late-session volume spike matters more than the 2% gain: a hold above $1.10 keeps the structure intact, while a slip back under $1.0880 turns it into another failed range break.
Bitcoin's correlation with JPY cuts both ways: when the yen jumps on hawkish BOJ speculation or intervention fears, BTC/JPY underperforms BTC/USD even as dollar-denominated BTC keeps climbing.
Washington is still pursuing a diplomatic resolution after the strikes, keeping a fragile de-escalation track alive just as risk-on flows had been pricing in a longer tail of tension.
A second regulated US prediction-market venue chasing margin trading means the legal pathway Kalshi opened in March is no longer a one-off: niche event-derivative books are lining up behind it.
The departure ends one of the most-watched tenures in US crypto legal, with Grewal shifting to an advisory role through month-end as Coinbase's regulatory docket keeps growing.
The split lands as a pointed critique from the exchange that just left the bloc: MiCA may be driving users further from regulated venues, not closer to them.
If the CFTC greenlights Polymarket's rulebook amendment, prediction-market traders could open leveraged positions for the first time inside a regulated US venue, a structural shift for the segment.
The Goldman ban covers contracts tied to the bank itself, elections, markets, macro data, and geopolitics, framing prediction markets as a frontline conduct issue for Wall Street compliance teams.
The bond had cleared Moody's with a Ba2 rating and would have been the first state-backed debt tied to a public miner; the rejection does not change New Hampshire's broader crypto posture.
The leadership change lands as Coinbase pushes deeper into derivatives, tokenisation, and an increasingly fragmented US regulatory map.
The second senior departure in weeks lands while Grayscale's IPO remains on hold and GBTC's AUM has shrunk to a third of its pre-conversion peak, a tough backdrop for a transition.
The exit closes the chapter Coinbase's legal team wrote fighting the SEC under Gary Gensler; the timing tells the market the company believes its biggest regulatory battles are behind it.
The vote is the first concrete state-level rejection of municipal Bitcoin-collateralized debt and lands weeks after several states warmed to the same instrument.
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