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Prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket have grown rapidly in recent years, with billions of dollars’ worth of event contracts now traded annually. Along with that rapid growth have come questions about how these markets should be regulated and taxed.

It was a quiet crypto trading session in a quiet summer, but the charts are painting different pictures for Bitcoin, the market leader, and Zcash, one of the hottest altcoins of the last year.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have locked in nearly $2.4 trillion in AI spending commitments, and the ripple effects are landing squarely in the crypto mining sector.

Traders spent most of July with a pretty good explanation for why Bitcoin wouldn’t move. A dense cluster of options contracts had the price boxed in, they argued, because the dealers who sold those contracts were buying every dip and selling every rally to keep their own books balanced. Clear the contracts away, and Bitcoin…

Mubadala Capital, the asset management arm of Abu Dhabi’s $385 billion sovereign wealth fund, has teamed up with Coinbase and Abu Dhabi-based FinTech firm Kaio to put one of its private market investment funds on the blockchain.

EDX Markets, a digital asset technology firm that operates an institutional‑only trading venue paired with a central clearinghouse, has closed a $76 million Series C funding round led by Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings. The capital will be used to expand EDX’s trading, clearing and settlement capabilities, accelerate product development and scale its global operations…

Krakenis rebuilding its app around agentic trading, a move the crypto exchange believes could redefine competition among digital asset platforms.