Our Polymarket review explains how its prediction markets work, what using the site looks like, current DeFiLlama figures, the risks, and what is and is not confirmed about a Polymarket token.
According to unconfirmed reports circulating across crypto social channels, Binance suffered a security breach that prompted an immediate response from the exchange and its stablecoin counterparties.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice have filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Utah, asserting that the Commodity Exchange Act preempts conflicting state law.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed suit against the state of Utah, arguing that Utah's move to crack down on Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market platform, directly threatens the agency's authority over markets it already oversees under federal law.
According to reporting by CryptoSlate , Coinbase is dropping GYEN years after the token's price crash sparked investor lawsuits against the exchange. The October 26 date represents the hard deadline after which customers will no longer be able to send or receive GYEN on the platform.
Both companies have separately approached the CFTC , the federal regulator that oversees derivatives and commodity futures in the United States, to obtain authorization to operate prediction market products. A filing with the CFTC is the required first step before any platform can legally offer such contracts to U.
Crypto exchanges are moving aggressively into prediction markets, with Blockchain. com filing for dual regulatory licenses and Binance.
A wallet reported to be linked to the Drift Protocol exploit, a theft described as exceeding $270 million, has begun moving ETH to Tornado Cash after roughly two months of apparent inactivity, drawing renewed attention to one of the larger reported DeFi security incidents on record.
The $1. 84 million weekly outflow is the first negative print for the XRP ETF category after 13 consecutive weeks of net inflows.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by CME Group challenging the agency's approval of a crypto-related matter, according to an update published Monday.
Binary options are outcome-based contracts: at expiry, the holder receives a fixed payout if the specified condition is met, or nothing if it is not. The Cboe proposal, as described in the headline, links these contracts to disclosed business metrics from Coinbase and MARA rather than to a spot price or index.
The SEC has approved binary options contracts that reference Coinbase operating metrics rather than spot cryptocurrency prices, a structural departure from the derivatives products regulators have previously reviewed in the digital assets space.
HotcoinGlobal says it is expanding beyond crypto with a new suite of USDT-settled products linked to global stocks and exchange-traded funds, a move that would let existing crypto users gain exposure to traditional-market instruments without leaving a stablecoin-denominated account.
Bitcoin held near the $82,000 level after Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh delivered remarks that contained no signals of an imminent rate hike, offering crypto markets a brief reprieve from the macro pressure that had recently pushed the asset lower.
A federal judge has denied a joint effort by crypto exchange Gemini and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to scrap a $5 million settlement reached during the Biden administration, according to the CFTC v. Gemini Trust Company docket .
Institutional investors are being asked to treat crypto as a strategic question rather than a peripheral trade. The LONGITUDE headline attributes that warning to CoinGecko CEO Bobby, putting the focus on how professional allocators evaluate digital assets, custody and market access.
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig has signaled that leveraged crypto trading should be restricted to federally regulated exchanges, a position that, if it hardens into policy, would fundamentally redraw the competitive map for crypto derivatives platforms operating in the United States.
Firelight (@Firelightfi) has announced the launch of DeFi insurance coverage tied to an XRP use case, adding a risk-management layer to a network that has historically leaned on payments and liquidity rails rather than protection products.