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The source also said SEC staff have become increasingly focused on the agency’s legal authority to issue such broad relief, including whether it has completed sufficient economic analysis and followed the procedural steps required to justify an exemption. Industry insiders have been instructed that this effort may need to wait for the outcome of the Clarity Act. Resistance came from traditional financial institutions as well. SIFMA, the Wall Street trade group whose members include major broker-dealers and investment banks, has emerged as one of the main groups halting the SEC’s initiative, according to an industry source familiar with the discussions.…

Worldwide search interest in prediction markets has returned to roughly where it sat before the 2026 World Cup, and the two venues that take almost all the category’s trading volume are moving apart as it does. Both peaks in Google’s data land on tournament dates. The decline since is a return to the pre-tournament baseline. What has changed underneath is the split between the leaders: Kalshi’s monthly volume is pacing roughly 15% below its July record, while Polymarket’s has halved since June. Polymarket still leads on social mindshare. On Google Trends’ worldwide weekly series for the search term “prediction market,”…

Kaito AI’s new Kaito Pulse browser extension has drawn scrutiny after a source-code review claimed the software can fingerprint devices, track detailed activity on X, and access account data from several third-party platforms during user-initiated verification. According to well-known analyst Ultra, who reviewed Kaito Pulse’s source code, found multiple forms of data collection, with the most extensive logging tied to how people use X. so i was looking at the source code of kaito pulse and found some interesting things:– it fingerprints your device. it hashes how your gpu renders an invisible image, your gpu model, and how your hardware…

A Bitcoin strategic reserve is a government-held stockpile of Bitcoin treated as a national asset alongside gold, oil, and foreign currency reserves. The United States signed an executive order creating one in March 2025, and at least a dozen other countries are now exploring the same idea. Every country holds reserves. The composition of those reserves has changed slowly over centuries, from silver to gold, from gold to dollars, from dollars to a basket of currencies and sovereign debt. The question that the Bitcoin strategic reserve forces into the open is whether digital scarcity belongs in that basket, and whether…

Two anonymous cryptocurrency whale wallets have opened significant short positions against Ethereum ($ETH) on the decentralized perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid, according to blockchain tracking firm Lookonchain. The combined positions total roughly $98 million, representing a notable bearish bet on the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Details of the Large Short Positions Lookonchain reported that the two wallets, identified by the prefixes 0x6de and 0xc63, hold short positions totaling 50,838 $ETH. The 0x6de wallet is short approximately 25,750 $ETH with 10x leverage, while the 0xc63 wallet holds a short of about 25,080 $ETH with 20x leverage. Their respective liquidation prices are…

The Solana ecosystem is no stranger to debating it’s the best home to create the future of internet capital markets. Perpetual futures and tokenized stocks have been Solana’s latest battleground, and for good reason. The current landscape is staggeringly profitable, but underneath the gaudy revenues driven by trading fees there’s an even more important adoption trend worth crossing swords over. The single most bullish trend of 2026 for crypto has been traders turning to onchain derivatives platforms during the conflict with Iran. During this period onchain platforms became the venue where gold and crude oil were being repriced in real…

Evernorth CEO Asheesh Birla says the $XRP Ledger is evolving into a platform where tokenized real-world assets can be actively used, not simply stored. The value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on the $XRP Ledger has climbed 388% from $900 million at the start of the year to $4.4 billion, according to data from RWA.xyz. But for Evernorth CEO Asheesh Birla, there should be more beyond just the general concept of tokenization. Birla claims that the next phase of tokenization is not about placing traditional assets on a blockchain. Instead, the real opportunity lies in making those assets productive while…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reviewing prediction market “mention markets” over concerns that contracts tied to specific spoken words may be unusually easy to manipulate, NPR reported late Aug. 13, citing two people with direct knowledge of the inquiry. Kalshi has responded by removing sports mention markets “until further notice,” according to the report. The inquiry has not been publicly confirmed by the CFTC. Both the regulator and Kalshi declined to comment to NPR, and the CFTC had not published an enforcement action or announcement describing the review as of publication. NEW: The CFTC has launched a probe into…

Bybit has given some Brazilian business users until Aug. 21 to complete additional verification. Accounts that miss a requested update will first face access restrictions, then, from Sept. 21, could have remaining positions on restricted products forcibly liquidated at market prices and unsupported fiat balances converted to $USDT. The deadline applies only to business users who received a request to supplement existing Business Verification information, according to Bybit’s notice. Bybit began sending those requests in-app and by email from Aug. 1. Recipients must follow the deadline in their individual notification and finish no later than Aug. 21 unless the company…

Centrifuge has added Symbiotic’s liquidity network across three tokenized funds that represent about $1.6 billion in assets under management, giving eligible holders another route to exchange their positions for $USDC. The integration covers Janus Henderson’s JAAA, an AAA-rated collateralized loan obligation strategy, JTRSY, a short-duration US Treasury strategy and New York Life Investment Management’s HYB, a US high-yield corporate bond strategy. Symbiotic’s Liquid Lane uses an onchain request-for-quote (RFQ) marketplace where market makers can tap liquidity from vaults to fill redemption requests. Market makers can then redeem the acquired fund tokens through the issuer or sell them through another RFQ…