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Robinhood stock hit a new high Tuesday following a report that the trading platform is looking at expanding its prediction market product outside of the U.S. The company’s stock was recently trading for close to $140 a share after hitting a high earlier Tuesday morning New York time above $142. Nasdaq-listed HOOD is up 275% year-to-date, according to Yahoo Finance data. HOOD previously boomed on Monday after Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev said on X that customers had traded over 4 billion event contracts on the company’s prediction markets platform.  Robinhood Prediction Markets just crossed 4 billion event contracts…

Fed officials continue to emphasize the need for cautious monetary policy. Fed Vice Chairman Philip Jefferson said today that the economy is facing two challenging challenges simultaneously: a weakening labor market and above-target inflation. Jefferson stated that the current outlook is characterized by high uncertainty, but that this uncertainty will diminish as the White House’s economic policies become clearer. “As these policies are gradually implemented,” Jefferson said, “we will have more time to assess their impact on the economy. I expect overall uncertainty to diminish.” He also commented on the interest rate path, stating that decisions will be made in…

The US Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on cryptocurrency taxation, a day after the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued interim guidance easing corporate crypto tax rules. The Treasury and IRS on Tuesday issued interim guidance aimed at easing compliance under the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT), including for companies operating in the digital assets sector. Signed into law under former President Joe Biden as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, CAMT imposes a 15% minimum tax on the financial statement income of large corporations. The two pieces of the latest interim guidance,…

Centralized exchanges are shifting from trading venues to regulated finance platforms. IPO fundraising, app innovation, and stricter oversight reveal a structural change in how institutions and consumers access markets. At the same time, perpetual DEXs surged past $2.6 trillion in trades in 2025, showing how decentralized rivals are gaining traction with custody-free leverage and speed. This transition matters because it determines whether CEXs become systemic finance hubs—subject to bank-like standards and investor capital flows—or risk losing ground to decentralized rivals. IPO Momentum Signals a Shift in Exchange Models Latest Update Kraken secured $500 million to speed its IPO and strengthen…

Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. In this week’s roundup, we’ve got the latest on CME, Walmart’s crypto play (for real this time), and Robinhood flying high: All-time highs for HOOD Stock and crypto trading app Robinhood saw a new all-time high this week on reports that it’ll extend its prediction market offerings outside of the United States. Reports surfaced this week that the company has been speaking with the U.K.’s Financial Conduct authority about expanding there, but the company didn’t immediately respond to confirm or deny the news. There…

The UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) has shared its Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) consultation paper. This comes as the UAE recently joined the CARF framework. In September 2025, Cryptopolitan reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Finance signed a Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) and joined the global Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF). The UAE framework is scheduled to roll out in 2027, and then the UAE is expected to start sharing data with international tax authorities in 2028. CARF provides an international standard for the automatic exchange of crypto-asset-related information between tax authorities and is part…

21Shares has launched a new exchange-traded product (ETP) tracking Jupiter (JUP), the central liquidity hub of the Solana blockchain, on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The listing, under ticker AJUP, provides institutional investors in Europe with regulated exposure to a protocol that facilitates more than 90% of trade aggregation across Solana’s decentralized exchanges. The ETP carries a 2.5% fee and is available in both US dollars and euros. Jupiter has grown into a key infrastructure layer within Solana’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, routing trades across more than 20 decentralized exchanges and recording over $1 trillion in lifetime volume. Jupiter has expanded…

I’ve been in the DeFi trenches since the early days, and I’ve seen it all. The explosive growth, the dizzying innovation, and, of course, the growing pains. One of the most persistent headaches has been liquidity fragmentation. I remember trying to explain to a friend why his wrapped USDC on one chain wasn’t the same as the native USDC on another. His eyes just glazed over. And honestly, I can’t blame him. We’ve created this incredible multi-chain universe, but moving value between these chains can feel like navigating a labyrinth of different wrapped assets and bridges. It’s a problem that…

Tether, the company behind the USDT stablecoin USDT$1.0006, is working with crypto miner financing firm Antalpha to raise at least $200 million for a new digital asset treasury for tokenized gold, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The planned vehicle would stockpile XAUT$3,753.81, a blockchain-based token backed by physical gold bars under custody in a Swiss vault. XAUT is the largest tokenized gold offering on the market with nearly $1.5 billion market capitalization. Antalpha is known as a key lender of Chinese crypto mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain, and offers supply chain and margin loans. The report follows…

The U.S government was at risk of a shutdown on October 1, 2025 after the congress failed to reach a budget deal. The 12:01 a.m. EDT (4:01 a.m. UTC, 9:31 a.m. IST) deadline went by without any agreement between the republican and democratic leaders. Shuts are caused by the expiration of appropriations and necessitate the agencies that are not essential in the federal government to put the workers on furlough. NBC News (Sept. 30, 2025) states that the services such as national parks, housing loans and support to veterans become paralyzed during the shutdowns. Low Effect of Stock Market in…