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Kalshi and Polymarket already cleared a category worth $130B+ in annual volume; Meta's edge is 3.56 billion daily users, yet its Reality Labs burn and Libra collapse mean the same scale that makes…
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Kalshi and Polymarket already cleared a category worth $130B+ in annual volume; Meta's edge is 3.56 billion daily users, yet its Reality Labs burn and Libra collapse mean the same scale that makes…
The jump from $22B to a reported $40B in a single funding cycle reflects prediction markets' shift from niche crypto rails to a sports-betting volume machine that has nearly 4x'd year-over-year.
Brian Armstrong used a POLITICO slot to argue crypto has gone bipartisan in Washington, framing digital assets as the answer to fees, delays, and unequal access.
The same week EthLabs launched with 50+ ecosystem backers, the EF cut deeply, and the loudest voices calling it bullish came from a Solana co-founder and Ethereum's own co-founders.
A successful Q3 close would push Kalshi's valuation lead over crypto-native Polymarket to roughly 2.7x, while CEO Tarek Mansour floats an IPO no earlier than 2027.
The split is structural, not a lull: Solana's Leader schedule can't guarantee cancellations ahead of fills, so market makers widen perps while spot spreads tighten to near-CEX levels.
The model leans on Alpenglow throughput gains, $1B+ in spot SOL ETF inflows, and Western Union's stablecoin integration, but a $60–$70 retrace stays on the table if DeFi TVL and memecoin fees don't…
A House Financial Services hearing put the Fed's new direct-access proposal on the hot seat, with lawmakers warning that giving crypto firms a line to the central bank carries systemic and…
A 35% annual drawdown puts Bitcoin on track for one of its worst calendar-year performances since 2018, with the move reflecting broad deleveraging rather than any single catalyst.
Crowdsourced prediction markets are pricing a sub-$55K Bitcoin print as a near-base-case outcome, a level roughly 40% below current spot and one that would unwind the post-ETF rally thesis.
The May $1.5B convertible buyback drained the reserve backing STRC dividends, forcing MSTR share sales to rebuild liquidity. CryptoQuant says coverage collapsed from seven years to 14 months.
The memecoin launchpad is dangling a top-of-market package as it faces live lawsuits and a widening US regulatory net around livestreams and token rewards.
A stealth API layer sits between fintechs and DeFi protocols, letting wallets and asset managers offer yield products without building their own onchain plumbing.
Hayes frames a future AI-driven crash as the trigger that forces central banks to restart liquidity printing, which he argues would reset Bitcoin's path toward $1M.
Glassnode's Week On-Chain reads the breakdown as a spot-led flush with leverage now catching up: persistent GBTC redemptions, a -$205M/day loss-realization trend, and a dense supply wall between…
The break below the long-held $60K floor reframes the tape from consolidation into capitulation, with leveraged longs and thin weekend liquidity amplifying the move.
Nvidia alone tops crypto's total market cap by more than 2x, underscoring how concentrated equity value still sits in a handful of AI-era names.
The withdrawal lands nine days before MiCA's hard deadline, and the regulators who tracked the bid list the same reasons every other jurisdiction will be reading for: prior legal entanglements and…
Record ETF outflows, a negative Coinbase Premium, and a US-session return near -15% over the past month have replaced the institutional bid that powered earlier rallies.
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.