WriterAlejandro Miguel

Institutions such as Citadel Securities are eyeing event contracts to hedge elections, macro and geopolitical risk directly, often with far less capital than traditional hedges.

Odds of Clarity Act legislation passing this year jumped around 15% following a new White House report that puts a major dent in banks’ arguments against allowing stablecoin yield.

Bitwise filed with the SEC to launch 2028 US election ETFs under its new PredictionShares brand, joining Roundhill and GraniteShares in the race to bring political outcome contracts to NYSE Arca.

Polymarket and Kaito AI launched attention markets that resolve on Kaito's sentiment scores, raising questions about who controls the data and market integrity.

Kalshi is making a strong case for prediction markets as real-world hedging tools to lay off corporate risk in the sports industry.

CLARITY Act passage hinges on crypto companies and central banks aligning on stablecoin rewards and interest, and they have until the end of February.

The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced the crypto market structure bill, but odds of passage in 2026 are hovering around 53%.

Five years after the GameStop trading halt that tarnished Robinhood’s reputation, the trading app is pushing for tokenization and real-time market settlement.

Gondor is betting it can build the missing financial layer for on-chain prediction markets—starting with lending against Polymarket positions.

A Polymarket user known as AlphaRaccoon made a large profit overnight in a disputed market, and the CFTC and New York prosecutors later charged Michele Spagnuolo.

With tokenized event contracts now live on Solana, Kalshi is stepping directly into territory dominated by Polymarket and other decentralized platforms.

Attackers exploited a permissions bug in Balancer V2's vault to drain funds across Ethereum and several other networks, security firms including PeckShield found.

The Federal Reserve cut rates by a quarter point in a split vote and said it will end quantitative tightening, while Powell said a December cut is not guaranteed.

Trump Media announced Truth Predict, prediction markets inside Truth Social on elections, rates and sports, powered by Crypto.com's US derivatives exchange.

IBM and wallet provider Dfns launched Digital Asset Haven, a platform for banks, governments and corporations to handle custody, settlement and compliance across many blockchains.

JPMorgan plans to let institutional clients pledge Bitcoin and Ether as loan collateral, held by third-party custodians, extending its earlier acceptance of crypto ETFs.

Restaking protocol Kelp launched Gain, vaults that deploy rsETH and other staking tokens across Layer 2 networks for yield and airdrop points, issuing depositors agETH.

Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn argues that Harris working with Brian Deese and Bharat Ramamurti, two Biden officials he calls anti-crypto, signals continued tough policy.

BitGo's plan to move WBTC custody into a joint venture involving Justin Sun has MakerDAO weighing WBTC's removal as collateral and lifted interest in tBTC.

SushiSwap's pseudonymous creator pulled his share of SUSHI/ETH liquidity in September 2020 and converted it to ETH, angering a community that called it a rug pull.