Strategy’s Bitcoin-heavy stock has lost its premium and now trades below the value of its BTC holdings, signaling a major shift in the treasury-company playbook. Meanwhile, institutions, prediction markets, and stablecoins keep showing crypto’s real demand isn’t going away.
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The Senate’s CLARITY Act is getting hit from all sides: Trump-linked ethics concerns, law enforcement resistance to DeFi carveouts, and a fast-growing fight over whether prediction markets are financial contracts or just regulated gambling in a nicer suit.
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The CLARITY Act is running into Senate pushback over crypto market rules, anti-trafficking safeguards, and prediction markets. Supporters say it could bring regulatory certainty and attract institutions, while critics warn it may weaken oversight or create new loopholes.
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Polymarket is drawing WSJ scrutiny just as prediction markets hit $1.48B in open interest, signaling real growth and real regulatory heat. Useful forecasting tool or fancy gambling? In crypto, it’s often both—and that’s exactly why people are watching.
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Polymarket’s geopolitics market has topped $5 billion in volume, showing real demand for crypto prediction markets — but also raising fresh insider trading and manipulation fears. Big money, real signal, and the same old human greed.
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Kentucky is suing Kalshi and Polymarket, calling their sports-linked prediction markets illegal sportsbooks, not financial products. The case spotlights a growing state-vs-federal battle over who regulates event contracts and whether “innovation” is just betting in a nicer suit.
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CFTC Chairman Selig taps two new senior officials as agency expands amid prediction market fights The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is adding senior firepower just as prediction markets become one of the nastier regulatory battlegrounds in U.S. finance. Two new senior officials added at the CFTC Prediction markets face growing regulatory scrutiny Crypto and DeFi […]
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Donald Trump’s push for a major crypto market bill is colliding with ethics concerns, regulatory capture fears, and a pile of family-linked crypto ventures that keep making the whole thing smell like a payday for insiders. CLARITY Act is stalled by ethics, DeFi, and stablecoin fights Trump-linked crypto ventures are reportedly generating billions CFTC oversight […]
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U.S. crypto regulation is picking up speed as Congress and federal agencies move on tax rules, prediction markets, and digital asset policy, as covered in Crypto Regulation Heats Up as Congress and Agencies Advance Key Policies. The upside is that Washington is finally paying attention. The downside is that it’s still Washington, so clarity and […]
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The CFTC is moving to put clearer rules around prediction markets, especially the kind tied to sports, gaming, and other politically sensitive event contracts. That could give crypto prediction markets a sturdier legal footing — or put a heavier boot on their neck, depending on how the final rules land. CFTC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking […]
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