The U.S. and the CFTC say federal law gives the agency exclusive say over Kalshi’s event contracts and asked a judge to stop Arkansas from enforcing state law against them.
More than $1 billion in crypto positions were forced shut in 12 hours as bitcoin broke below $70,000.
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says crypto bottomed in June, argues the blue wave may not matter, and lays out the math behind Bitcoin at $1.6 million.
Paying off its $750 million in bitcoin-collateralized loans left MARA Holdings with about $350 million from its bitcoin sale, by Unchained’s calculation.
Rapha Zagury told shareholders the Q3 net income was a fair-value gain on the firm’s 43,514 BTC, as its 10-Q shows a $186.5 million nine-month loss and no binding deal for Elektron.
Binance’s reserve page now shows about 1.06 billion more USDT in its onchain wallet balance than customers’ net balances, but the proof that would let users verify their assets are fully backed isn’t out yet.
Kalshi called the split mutual and tied it to his venture firm’s investment in Polymarket, its main rival.
The Winklevoss-founded exchange’s revenue fell 19% to $40.9 million, and its trading volume, though up from the second quarter, was still down 73% from a year earlier.
Ox Bid, who leads trading at Coinbase Wallet, joins Unchained Premium to explain a 12x jump in Solana trading and what trading activity suggests about where we are in the market.
Vitalik Buterin wants ETH to be a store of value. So why does value pile up in apps like Hyperliquid and Pump.fun instead of Ethereum? Jeff Dorman lays out his fix.
As Glamsterdam’s gas changes sit on hold, Markou blamed bundled upgrades and a surge of proposals he said has grown with AI, and said app teams should test early and report what breaks.
Zach Herbert says the Universal Ethereum Signer, built by Ledger co-founder Nicolas Bacca, is the first signing app the EF has collaborated on for hardware wallet-like devices, though it has no public release yet.
Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.
The U.S. and the CFTC say federal law gives the agency exclusive say over Kalshi’s event contracts and asked a judge to stop Arkansas from enforcing state law against them.
Two Democrats and two Republicans head to the Senate for seats at the two U.S. market regulators, including the one Hester Peirce held, and two of the picks helped shape the Clarity Act.
The Justice Department also said the FBI took down servers behind “FaceStealer,” a video-call hacking scheme it ties to more than $400 million in crypto theft.
Ledger’s security team says the lookups power Clear Signing, happen in software wallet apps install rather than on the device itself, and aren’t stored.
Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun on ETH as a store of value, Bitcoin’s quantum problem, the EF’s seppuku license lawsuit, Jensen Huang’s alleged Chinese spy, Trump on World Liberty, and McHenry blaming Coinbase for CLARITY.
Haseeb is back after two weeks away. The boys break down the midterm blue tsunami and how prediction markets called it, what a 2:1 pro-crypto Congress means with Trump corruption on the agenda, the CFTC clearing single-stock perps and Cboe and Citadel suing within hours, Anthropic’s S-1 update and the data center backlash, and a think tank’s push to regulate abliterated AI models.
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