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Major League Baseball (MLB) has reached an exclusive partnership with decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket, with a contract value of up to $300 million, marking a divergence in prediction market regulation. MLB's agreement with Polymarket and the CFTC highlights differing jurisdictional positions between federal and state authorities over prediction markets. If states prevail in litigation, the contract could be terminated to reduce legal liability, which also reflects prediction markets' gradual convergence toward mainstream finance.

Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. has raised over $1 billion in a new financing round led by Coatue Management, achieving a valuation of $22 billion—roughly double its $11 billion valuation from December 2025.

Bitcoin has recently been affected by supply shocks and geopolitical pressures, with prices declining from their highs to approximately $69,500. Large volumes of bitcoin entering exchanges have triggered market panic. Major sellers include dormant wallets resuming activity and early investors taking profits. Technically, bitcoin has broken below the $72,000 support level, with $64,000 becoming a critical support level. A breach of this level could expose the asset to further downside risk.

The Pump.fun platform on Solana has become the largest DEX by 24-hour trading volume, reaching $1.77 billion, surpassing Uniswap and PancakeSwap. Revenue remains strong, with over 1.92 billion dollars in total revenue driven by memecoin trading and significant token buybacks, yet the price stabilizes at $0.0018, indicating investor caution.

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The recent Bitcoin price rebound has reignited optimism, but not everyone is convinced the market has turned around. While price has shown signs of a breakout, a crypto analyst notes that BTC’s

Keyrock, a prominent digital asset liquidity platform, has partnered with Agora, a stablecoin infrastructure entity. As a part of this collaboration, Keyrock is expanding liquidity provision for Agora’s native $AUSD stablecoin. As Keyrock mentioned in its official social media announcement, the

Bitcoin retraced about 7% after briefly touching the $76,000 mark earlier in the week, as a confluence of macro headlines trimmed risk appetite. A jump in oil prices tied to Middle East tensions and a hotter-than-expected producer price index added headwinds for risk assets, including equities.

Bitcoin (BTC) dipped under $69,000 on Thursday, sliding back into its six-week range after briefly touching highs above $76,000. The retreat comes as futures selling accelerates and demand from U.S.-based investors shows signs of stalling, though analysts argue the market could still mount a

BTQ Technologies has accelerated BIP 360 from a mere proposal to the testnet stage to advance Bitcoin’s quantum resiliency. The threat of quantum computing to Bitcoin’s (BTC) cryptography has become all too real. Cybersecurity experts and cryptographers hotly debate its arrival. Still, one thing’s

The Aave team partners with Sherlock across the V4 upgrade through three distinct phases: a multi-phase collaborative audit conducted alongside Blackthorn, a $365,000 audit contest, and an ongoing bug bounty program covering live code after launch. For one of the most significant architectural

Dogecoin has been doing something interesting. It is holding onto a key level that could be setting the stage for the next big move. After the kind of rallies that turned ordinary memecoin traders into millionaires in previous cycles, DOGE has spent the last several months just consolidating

A decentralized AI experiment once confined to crypto circles just earned a public nod from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, signaling that distributed model training may be inching closer to the mainstream. Open Source AI Momentum Builds With Nvidia CEO Endorsement Chamath Palihapitiya spotlighted

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin is strongly moving in the opposite direction to Gold as the Correlation metric for the two has dropped to its lowest since November 2022. Bitcoin-Gold Correlation

Pi Network is holding its ground even while the crypto market feels shaky. They just rolled out Protocol 20, which sets the stage for smart contracts and future apps. The Pi Coin price might not look exciting right now, but the tech behind it is getting stronger. Even with the market down, Pi

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee kept the federal funds target range unchanged at 3.5% to 3.75, signaling a wait-and-see stance as policymakers weigh the evolving macro backdrop and the geopolitical shock stemming from the Middle East. The decision preserves a restrictive stance while the

Regulators are signaling a shift in digital-asset oversight as the SEC outlines an interpretive framework for applying securities laws to crypto. SEC Chair Paul Atkins, in prepared remarks at the Practising Law Institute, said the agency intends to move away from a broad enforcement-first stance

SBI Holdings’ digital asset arm launched a USDC lending product for retail customers, backed by Circle’s regulated infrastructure and Japan’s formal stablecoin approval framework. What the GENIUS Act is restricting in America, Japan is already executing compliantly at a consumer scale.  Japan

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana is now in the spotlight once again as the leading altcoin gains more regulatory standing following its latest classification in the United States legal framework. In a world hampered by