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The National Football League (NFL) has reportedly sent letters to Kalshi, Polymarket and other prediction market platforms in an effort to block the companies from offering trades on football events that can be easily manipulated or determined in advance. According to a Monday ESPN report, the letters to the prediction market companies said that the NFL objected to certain types of event contracts offered on the platforms, including those that could be easily manipulated by a single person — including an announcer’s words, player signings, coach firings and bets related to injuries on the field. League executive vice president Jeff…

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In a significant move within the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, entities linked to the collapsed FTX exchange and its sister trading firm Alameda Research transferred a substantial cache of $ZRO tokens to the prominent crypto market maker Wintermute. This transaction, valued at approximately $8.17 million, represents a critical step in the complex process of liquidating assets to repay creditors. The transfer, reported by blockchain analytics firm EmberCN, underscores the active management of the vast digital asset portfolio controlled by the FTX estate. Furthermore, the involved wallet continues to hold a massive position, controlling roughly 10% of $ZRO’s entire circulating supply. This…

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KiloEX, a DEX platform that specializes in perpetual futures trading, today announced a strategic partnership with Arbitrum, a Layer-2 network designed to improve speed and decrease transaction costs for DApps (decentralized applications) running on the Ethereum blockchain. The collaboration enabled KiloEX to combine its perpetual DEX platform with Arbitrum’s L2 network, an integration that means that the Layer-2 technology provides KiloEX with more rapid processing executions and cost-effective transactions while ensuring a seamless and secure trading experience. KiloEX is a DEX (decentralized exchange) platform that offers a wide range of perpetual futures trading services to investors, traders, and crypto users.…

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Linea has said that it is moving to a new proving architecture built around RISC-V, marking a major shift in how the Ethereum layer-2 project plans to scale, verify, and evolve its technology stack. For years, Linea’s cryptography team took what it describes as the hard road: directly arithmetizing the Ethereum Virtual Machine, or EVM, by manually translating each opcode into mathematical constraints that a prover could validate. That approach helped the project reach mainnet and produced a specification of more than 1,000 pages that has become a reference point for the broader ecosystem. It also gave the team a…

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The geopolitical tensions are pressuring economies worldwide. The Philippine peso sank to 60.8 per dollar on Monday. The currency extended a March slide that has erased over 5% of its value. Bloomberg reported that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said its currency market intervention remains limited “to tempering large swings that could affect inflation rather than defending any specific level.” The Philippines is one of Asia’s most exposed economies to the supply disruption. It imports approximately 98% of its oil from the Gulf. Last week, BeInCrypto reported that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed Executive Order 110, declaring a state…

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More than 40 Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives sent a letter to a federal regulator and to ethics officials to ask them to warn government officials that insider trading in derivatives is illegal and that bets they make on prediction markets firms like Polymarket and Kalshi qualify under that category. The ranking Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee (Senator Elizabeth Warren) and Senate Agriculture Committee (Cory Booker) joined dozens of their colleagues in asking Chairman Mike Selig, chief of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the leaders of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics to “circulate…

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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is preparing to enter the prediction market. According to recent news, Binance Wallet has announced the launch of its prediction market service. With this move, Binance is testing an in-app prediction market feature and joining the growing list of cryptocurrency exchanges venturing into this new sector. Binance Wallet announced in an official statement that it will be sourcing features from third-party providers and has partnered with Predict.fun, a protocol running on the $BNB Smart Chain, to integrate prediction markets into Binance Wallet. Accordingly, a prediction market will be launched with Predict.fun acting as the…

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Self‑sovereign artificial intelligence agents are reshaping digital autonomy by giving individuals full control over their identity, data, and decision‑making through decentralized identity and blockchain. Natural Language Transactions and Self-Custody The emergence of self-sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) agents represents a major shift in digital autonomy. Instead of depending on centralized cloud platforms, individuals fully own and control agents that manage their decision logic and personal data. Using decentralized identity (DID) and private data stores, these agents keep users’ information and policies private. By combining AI with blockchain, they can independently execute financial operations, manage sensitive records, and interact with global networks…

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In a landmark decision reported by Cubadebate on April 10, 2025, the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) has for the first time authorized 10 specific companies to use cryptocurrency for settling international payments. This pivotal move signals a strategic shift in Cuba’s approach to global finance and domestic economic challenges. Consequently, it marks a significant evolution from the country’s earlier exploratory stance on digital assets. Cuba’s Central Bank Authorizes Cryptocurrency Payments The Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) has granted formal licenses to 10 state-owned and mixed-enterprise firms. These licenses permit the use of virtual assets for international trade settlements. This…

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