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The most popular bitcoin call option has slipped by $10,000
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Prediction markets defy crypto downturn with record Q2 volume: CoinGecko
Prediction markets reached a record $113.8 billion in notional volume in Q2 as spot CEX trading, derivatives volume and stablecoin market cap declined.
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Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults
Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has launched an institutional vault curation business on decentralized lending protocol Morpho, expanding its push into onchain finance with a product designed to help clients earn yield on idle st…
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Gambling on random Pokémon cards: Onchain gagcha hits record high as crypto sinks
Users spent a record $324 million on onchain gacha in June, even as Bitcoin hit a 21-month low. The thrill of scoring a top Pokemon card from a random pack is becoming big business
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FATF urges faster crypto AML enforcement as stablecoin crime increases
The global task force said criminal networks are using stablecoins and developing proprietary tokens to evade asset freezes as countries struggle to enforce crypto AML rules.
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US Senate unanimously adopts resolution opposing clemency for SBF
The Senate approved a resolution opposing clemency for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried as prediction markets put the odds of a Trump pardon by July 31 below 1%.
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Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue
Vlad.fun suspended its platform after discovering a “serious internal integrity issue” involving members of its team, without disclosing the nature of the alleged misconduct.
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Live updates: ZachXBT calls hardware wallets complete garbage; BTC steady after Korea rate hike
Futures tied to Wall Street’s tech-heavy index, the Nasdaq, fell by 0.6% Thursday alongside a near 1% decline in bitcoin’s price.
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U.S. Senate unanimously opposes clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
The Senate agreed Wednesday that Sam Bankman-Fried should never receive clemency, passing a resolution that states the FTX founder should "under no circumstances" get a pardon or commutation.
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US Senate Unanimously Opposes Sam Bankman-Fried Pardon
The U.S. Senate has unanimously declared that Sam Bankman-Fried should never win clemency, passing a resolution on Wednesday that says the convicted FTX founder should "under no circumstances" receive a pardon or commut…
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Ether outruns bitcoin as ETF money returns, almost all of from BlackRock's fund
Ether is the only large-cap crypto asset doing much of anything this week, and the softer U.S. inflation print that lifted the market on Tuesday does not explain it.
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Trump to meet with senators over CLARITY Act on Thursday: Politico
US President Donald Trump is set to meet with several senators on Thursday as negotiators race to get the CLARITY Act across the line before the Senate’s August recess.
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A bitcoin wallet dormant since the 2017 peak just moved $383 million
A bitcoin address that had not spent a coin in eight years moved 5,908 BTC worth about $383 million on Thursday, data shows.
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Base’s social bet left it trailing in prediction markets and perps: Pollak
Base creator Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leadership of the Base App after admitting he was “definitively wrong” to bet on social experiences driving crypto adoption.
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OpenAI Uses AI Red Team to Strengthen GPT-5.6 Against Prompt Injection Attacks
OpenAI has introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI system designed to find security vulnerabilities in its language models.
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Coinbase's Jesse Pollak steps back from Base app leadership after admitting his crypto social strategy failed
Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak said he is stepping back from leading the Base app after acknowledging that his bet on an onchain social economy failed to drive crypto adoption as he had expected.
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Stanford study says 5-minute Bitcoin prediction markets enable settlement manipulation
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.
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Why Analysts Aren’t Worried About Coinbase’s 30% Drop
Coinbase (COIN) and Circle (CRCL) each rose roughly 3–4% on Wednesday after William Blair—a Chicago-based investment bank founded in 1935 that most equity investors know from tech and growth coverage—released a note sla…
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Another DeFi Exploit: Perp DEX Ostium Loses $18 Million in Oracle Attack
Ostium lost roughly $18 million on Wednesday after attackers compromised an oracle signer key and manipulated the decentralized perpetuals exchange's price feed to generate fake trading profits, according to blockchain …
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BlackRock, Goldman, and JP Morgan Will Give Tokenized Stocks a Try
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the clearinghouse that processes U.S. securities transactions, on Wednesday launched a pilot to test tokenized stocks and U.S. Treasuries with nearly 40 financial institution…
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Base Creator Jesse Pollak Steps Back From App Leadership After Admitting Social Bet 'Was Wrong'
Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leading the Base App, handing responsibility for the product back to Coinbase while shifting his full attention to growing Base as a blockchain for global finance.
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US Treasury Freezes $131 Million in Iran-Linked Crypto Wallets
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned multiple cryptocurrency wallets tied to Iran's Central Bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Tuesday, with stablecoin issuer Tether freezing ov…
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US Senator blasts AG pick for ‘dismantling’ crypto unit, Trump’s CZ pardon
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.
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What Is BIP-110 and Why Is It Dividing the Bitcoin Community?
A proposal to change Bitcoin's consensus rules has divided developers, miners, companies, and users over how the network should evolve and who gets to decide.