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CFTC Chair: Prediction Markets Are “The Next Crypto” as Washington Signals a New Era for Digital Finance
Prediction markets may be approaching the kind of expansion that turned cryptocurrency from a narrow experiment into a global financial industry. That is the view of Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig, who argues that event-based markets are evolving beyond their original us
Japan’s Financial Rails Move On-Chain as SBI and Solana Forge a New Market Alliance
Japan’s blockchain strategy is entering a more ambitious phase. SBI Holdings, one of the country’s most influential financial groups, has formed a strategic alliance with the Solana Foundation to develop an on-chain financial market originating in Japan. Rather than launching another isolated crypto
Why Wall Street Is Choosing Solana: The Institutional Case Is Growing Stronger
Solana’s institutional story has changed dramatically. Not long ago, the network was mostly discussed through the lens of crypto-native trading, NFT culture, meme coins, and technical debates over throughput and reliability. Today, the conversation is becoming much more serious. Banks, asset manager
Swift’s Blockchain Ledger Pushes Banks Into the Era of 24/7 Digital Money
The global banking system just took another step toward blockchain-powered payments, and this time the signal is coming from the heart of traditional finance. Swift has confirmed that 17 major banks are preparing to pilot live cross-border transactions using tokenised deposits on its new blockchain-
Hyundai Puts Avalanche to the Test as Stablecoins Move Closer to Corporate Finance
For years, blockchain advocates have argued that stablecoins would eventually become part of everyday corporate finance rather than remain confined to cryptocurrency exchanges and decentralized finance. That vision has now taken another meaningful step forward. Hyundai Card has successfully complete
EU Parliament Opens the Door to DeFi, Staking and NFTs Under MiCA
Europe’s crypto rulebook may be about to get a second act. After years of building MiCA into the world’s most comprehensive crypto framework, lawmakers are now looking at what the regulation left outside: decentralized finance, staking, crypto lending and NFTs. The European Parliament has adopted it
Bitcoin and Ethereum Are Leaving Exchanges. Now the Bounce Has Teeth.
The crypto market rarely turns on a single signal, but some signals matter more than others. Right now, one of the most important is hiding in plain sight: Bitcoin and Ethereum are not piling onto exchanges. They are leaving them. At the same time, both assets have bounced sharply from recent lows,
Hoskinson Says Ethereum Is Borrowing Cardano’s Biggest Innovation Without Giving Credit
The long-running rivalry between Cardano and Ethereum has flared up once again, this time over one of blockchain’s most fundamental design choices. Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano and one of Ethereum’s original co-founders, has accused the Ethereum ecosystem of attempting to adopt
Bitcoin’s Spam War Reignites as Dashjr Backs BIP-110
Bitcoin’s oldest philosophical fight is back, and this time it is not about block size. It is about what Bitcoin is allowed to be. A payment network? A settlement layer? A monetary base? Or a permanent storage system for tokens, images, inscriptions, metadata, and experiments that happen to fit insi