Researchers found that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets create incentives to manipulate spot prices around contract settlement, proposing longer settlement windows as a potential fix.
Stanford study says 5-minute Bitcoin prediction markets enable settlement manipulation
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has secured a major regulatory win after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved a fourfold increase in the ETF’s options position limit from 250,000 to 1 million contracts. According to a notice published by the…
BlackRock scores major SEC win as IBIT options cap quadruples
Bitcoin has slipped below $65,000 after Iran rejected renewed prospects for peace talks with the United States, adding fresh pressure to risk assets as military operations continue. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said there are currently no plans for negotiations with the…
Iran rejects Trump’s peace push as Bitcoin slips below $65K
Price has moved above the 50-day moving average for the first time during the latest recovery attempt, although the available technical and onchain data does not yet confirm that a durable bottom is in place. Glassnode data shows that long-term holder losses have started easing and buyers absorbed supply around the June lows. Bitcoin now faces a more demanding test between $66,000
Bitcoin’s Bottom Is Still Building, Glassnode Says
Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority approved the London-headquartered fintech company for broker-dealer, management and investment, and exchange services in the UAE.
Revolut receives in-principle approval from UAE authorities for crypto services
Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald have agreed to build a regulated pathway for public companies to conduct initial public offerings and follow-on stock sales using blockchain-based infrastructure. Public Offerings Move Onchain The agreement extends tokenization beyond secondary-market trading by applying it to capital formation, where companies sell new shares to investors to raise
Securitize-Cantor Tokenized IPO Framework Could Change How Public Companies Issue Stock
Aave has expanded its V4 lending protocol beyond Ethereum for the first time by deploying it on Avalanche to support tokenized real-world asset lending and institutional credit markets. According to an announcement from Aave, the deployment brings the protocol’s latest…
Aave pushes beyond Ethereum with Avalanche RWA lending expansion
SpaceX stock has steadied above its IPO price after Needham raised its price target to $250 despite growing warnings that an AI stock bubble could threaten financial markets. According to Needham, the investment bank lifted its target on SpaceX shares…
Needham defies AI crash fears with bold SpaceX $250 target
Blackrock reported record second-quarter results on Wednesday, with revenue climbing 31% year over year to $7.1 billion as the firm’s chairman and chief executive officer, Larry Fink, detailed new steps toward tokenizing money market funds and expanding the company’s digital asset business. The New York-based asset manager posted adjusted earnings per share of $13.91, up […]
Blackrock Becomes World’s First $15 Trillion Asset Manager, Unleashes Tokenization Blitz
Democrats grilled intel nominee Jay Clayton in a tense confirmation hearing, spotlighting scrutiny of the nomination process. (Read More)
Polymarket prices Starmer at 98.75% to be next leader out before 2027
XRP Ledger has entered the final two-week activation countdown for its fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment after validator support exceeded the network’s required 80% approval threshold. According to XRP Ledger governance data, the bundled maintenance amendment currently has 85.71% validator support, with 30…
XRP Ledger enters final countdown for key fixCleanup3_2_0 upgrade
CUDA 13.3 introduces carryless multiplication on NVIDIA GPUs, boosting cryptographic performance by up to 18x on Ampere and newer hardware. (Read More)
NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Brings Hardware-Accelerated Cryptography
President Donald Trump’s pick for US Attorney General faced criticism from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on his approach to crypto enforcement and the pardon of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.
US Senator blasts AG pick for ‘dismantling’ crypto unit, Trump’s CZ pardon
Bitcoin has climbed above $65,000 after softer-than-expected U.S. producer inflation reduced expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike later this month. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, June’s Producer Price Index (PPI) added fresh momentum to…