Crypto
A $50M Lesson: Aave Swap Loss Raises Questions Around DeFi Guardrails, UX
A $50M USDT trade for AAVE executed through Aave and CoW Swap returned just 324 AAVE worth about $36K — not due to a hack, but 99% price impact. The incident raises new questions about...
Valerie Cross
March 13, 2026
Regulation & Policy
CFTC Launches Prediction Market Rulemaking, Issues Guidance Sports Contracts
The CFTC opened a 45-day comment period on prediction market regulation and reinforced exchanges’ role in policing event...
Mike Breen
March 12, 2026
Regulation & Policy
Congress Introduces Wave of Bills Targeting Prediction Markets
Five proposals introduced in Congress this year, including three in the past week, target everything from insider trading to sports contracts and “death bets.” We break down each bill...
Mike Breen
March 12, 2026
Crypto
Mastercard Crypto Partner Push Undercuts Banks’ Case Against Stablecoin Yield
Mastercard signs 85 crypto companies to its payments network as banks lobby Congress to ban stablecoin yield and activity-based crypto rewards in the CLARITY Act, despite Mastercard already...
Valerie Cross
March 11, 2026
Industry
AI Agents Can Trade Markets While You Sleep — But Who Is Responsible When They Go Rogue?
Autonomous AI agents can trade, message, and act online while users sleep. But who is responsible when things go wrong? Experts weigh in after an Edge & Node investigation found AI agents...
Iliana Mavrou
March 11, 2026
Industry
Prediction Markets Could Top $1T in Annual Volume Says New Report
New report from NEXT.io cites 400% growth in transaction volume from 2024 to 2025. Experts project weekly trading to reach $25 billion, driven by increased diversification in category mix...
Mike Breen
March 10, 2026
Industry
Polymarket US Turns to Palantir, TWG AI for Sports Markets Integrity Monitoring
Polymarket confirms partnership aimed at detecting suspicious trading activity as it continues to roll out its regulated U.S. prediction market...
Mike Breen
March 10, 2026
Industry
Cboe To Offer ‘Payout Zone’ Third Option on Prediction Markets
Cboe announced plans to introduce an innovative structure that could open access to non-binary prediction markets to traders across retail brokerages....
Jason Brow
March 9, 2026
Data
Prediction Markets Hit $5.9B as Kalshi and Polymarket Set Combined Weekly Record
Kalshi ($2.86B) and Polymarket ($2.50B) had their best combined week on record as Polymarket surpassed $1B in sports for the first time. Tracking also now available for Polymarket US and...
Valerie Cross
March 9, 2026
Industry
Underdog Acquires Aristotle Exchange To Bring Prediction Markets In-House
Deal gives the fantasy sports operator control of a CFTC-regulated exchange to bring prediction markets in-house after offering Crypto.com markets as an FCM....
Mike Breen
March 9, 2026
Industry
Smarkets Latest Sports Betting Exchange to Seek CFTC Approval for Prediction Markets
U.K.-based Smarkets has applied to become a federally regulated prediction market exchange in the...
Mike Breen
March 6, 2026
Crypto
What Tokenized Asset Clarity Means for Future of Prediction Markets
New U.S. guidance on tokenized securities adds to a growing regulatory push toward blockchain finance, with potential ripple effects for prediction...
Valerie Cross
March 5, 2026