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Polymarket US’s 15-minute Bitcoin markets did $91.8M in their first full week, while total Bitcoin volume jumped from just $625K before launch to $101.2M. Volume and trade count both rose about 11.6x, while average trade size barely changed.

Days after the CLARITY Act failed a Senate cloture vote, the SEC issued an exemption letting qualifying venues trade tokenized stocks on-chain without registering.

Changpeng Zhao predicted IPOs will move on-chain, but experts say the shift is already underway and that real on-chain issuance, not wrapped products, will carry it.

The SEC proposed modernizing decades-old transfer-agent rules so a blockchain can serve as the official record of securities ownership, a step experts see for tokenized assets.

CFTC Chair Michael Selig says the agency will write its own crypto market rules if the CLARITY Act stalls, but legal experts warn such rules would be less durable than law.

MEXC and Blockworks research finds stock futures trading surging in Asia as crypto traders use exchanges to reach gold and equities. MEXC CEO Vugar Usi explains why.

Morph's Wesley Rios, a veteran of Citi, JPMorgan and Mastercard, explains why banks keep building their own blockchain networks when interoperability remains unsolved.

The Securities and Exchange Commission shared that it will soon publish new rules for investment contracts containing crypto assets, including exemptions from registration requirements.

BitMEX, which pioneered crypto perpetual swaps, will shut down in September as perps hit record volume. Experts say compliance costs are squeezing mid-tier exchanges.

Bitcoin has lost much of its value this year as spot ETFs post record outflows and Strategy authorizes selling part of its holdings, which analysts call a test of conviction.

Ethics provisions, including Trump's own crypto holdings, may be the Clarity Act's biggest obstacle to sixty Senate votes, and industry leaders are split on the bill.

Commodity trading veteran John Lothian tells DeFi Rate the CFTC misclassified crypto perpetual futures, as CME argues in its lawsuit, and that the fix must come from Congress.

Witnesses from Fidelity, Coinbase, Coin Center and NYU told House Ways and Means that crypto tax rules need fixing, but members split over seven Republican bills.

Cycles raised $6.4 million to build privacy-preserving clearing infrastructure for crypto markets, built on the case that stablecoins alone can’t solve the industry’s liquidity problem.

The CFTC’s approval of Bitcoin perps on Kalshi opens US traders to crypto’s dominant instrument. Former agency counsel Peter Sanchez Guarda says the legal theory behind it has never been tested.

After the CFTC approved the first US-listed perpetual futures, Hyperliquid-linked assets rallied as NYSE's parent met with the exchange and a Grayscale ETF neared launch.

The CFTC approved Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual futures, the first perps on a US-regulated exchange, and Kalshi opened a waitlist.

The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Clarity Act in a bipartisan vote, sending the bill that would define how crypto assets are regulated to the full Senate.

Polymarket and Kalshi are adding perpetual-style mechanics that make event contracts trade more like crypto derivatives, though experts say the two remain distinct.

Prediction markets repriced US-Iran escalation before mainstream coverage did, and in crypto their odds are starting to influence positioning and prices themselves.