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Donald Trump Jr. stands to make a large profit from his share in the prediction market company Kalshi, but the deal is already drawing heavy criticism over possible conflicts of interest. Trump Jr. received roughly $300,000 in Kalshi equity after he signed on as a strategic adviser on January 13, 2025. Just two months after his father returned to the White House, he had publicly praised how well Kalshi predicted the 2024 election. In a post on X, he wrote that “while biased outlets called the race a coin toss, my family and close friends used prediction market @Kalshi to…

The opportunity has drawn growing interest across Wall Street. Citi projected that tokenized securities could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030, while Boston Consulting Group and Ripple estimated the market could grow to $18.9 trillion by 2033. “We have long said that public equities are moving onchain, and there is no stronger validation of that belief than tokenizing our own public stock on day one,” CEO Carlos Domingo said in a statement. Issuer-sponsored tokenization Unlike many existing tokenized stock products, which are issued by third parties or offered outside the United States, Securitize said SECZ is an issuer-sponsored tokenization of the…

Financial commentator and long-time crypto skeptic Peter Schiff has warned that the new “$BTC Monetization Program,” which was recently announced by Strategy, could actually trigger a market death spiral. According to Schiff, the program will make the price of $BTC plunge lower, which will force the Virginia-based firm to sell even more. From a supreme buyer to an active seller According to Strategy’s official press release, the firm, which remains the leading corporate holder of $BTC by an enormous margin, liquidated portions of its massive cryptocurrency holdings. The aforementioned monetization program makes it possible for the company to sell Bitcoin…

Solana now beats Ethereum on trading volume, active users, and fee revenue. Ethereum still holds the money. Halfway through 2026, the question is no longer who is faster. It is whether the two chains are even running the same race. There was a time when the Ethereum versus Solana debate could be settled with a smirk and an outage screenshot. Solana was the chain that went down. Ethereum was the chain that mattered. Then Solana stopped going down, its trading volume flipped Ethereum’s, its ETF launched to institutional inflows while Ethereum funds bled for seventeen straight days, and the smirk…

Warsh-Led Fed Reprices Rate Expectations as Inflation Risks Move Higher Crypto markets entered a tighter liquidity environment after the Federal Reserve held rates steady while signaling a firmer stance on inflation. Wintermute, a crypto market maker and liquidity provider, said the shift created a more challenging backdrop for digital assets reliant on sustained capital inflows. Referring to the Fed’s policy shift and its implications for capital flows into digital assets, Wintermute wrote: “For an asset class that needs liquidity arriving through ETFs, stablecoins and DATs, a Fed leaning toward tightening is the opposite of what gets those funnels flowing.” Exchange-traded…

Republican lawmakers are making another push to move the CLARITY Act through the Senate as the legislative calendar tightens ahead of the August recess. Industry participants believe the next four weeks will decide whether the bill becomes law this summer or faces a long delay. The renewed push comes after political pressure increased following the debate around the Housing bill. At the same time, senators recognize there is little room left on the calendar. Once lawmakers return to Washington on July 13, they will have only 20 working days before leaving again for the August recess, leaving a narrow window…

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has begun rolling out its financial services feature, X Money, to a subset of Premium Plus subscribers. The announcement was made by Benji Taylor, head of design at X, through a promotional video showcasing the app’s core capabilities. What X Money Offers at Launch According to the video shared by Taylor, X Money currently supports three primary functions: rent payments, standard bank transfers, and peer-to-peer money transfers. The interface appears designed to streamline everyday financial transactions directly within the X ecosystem, positioning the feature as a convenience tool for its highest-tier…

In a recent tweet, ZKsync highlighted the critical need for institutions to own their on-chain infrastructure. This statement came from a discussion with @TziokasV on CNBC, emphasizing the strategic role of enterprise-ready platforms like Prividium. The conversation underscores a significant shift in how institutional players view blockchain technology and infrastructure. What Went Down The broader crypto market is currently displaying mixed signals, with varying momentum seen across major assets. ZKsync’s focus on the necessity for institutions to manage their own on-chain rails illustrates a growing awareness among enterprises about the importance of adopting robust infrastructure. This sentiment aligns with the…

Crypto analyst Ali Martinez said that signals indicating a long-term market reversal are emerging in major crypto assets, particularly Bitcoin. According to Martinez, the Tom DeMark (TD) Sequential indicator is giving a bullish signal for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana on the monthly charts. The analyst noted that trend exhaustion signals, especially those seen in higher timeframes like monthly charts, are significant. Martinez stated that in the past, multiple major crypto assets simultaneously generating monthly bullish signals indicated seller fatigue and long-term market lows. Another data point highlighted by Martinez concerned the profit and loss status of Bitcoin’s supply. According…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has transferred 79 ETH, valued at approximately $137,000, to the privacy-focused protocol Railgun. The transaction was first flagged by on-chain analytics firm Onchain Lens, which noted that the funds were moved using Railgun’s privacy-preserving features. Details of the Transaction According to publicly available blockchain data, the transfer occurred from a wallet widely associated with Buterin. The use of Railgun, a protocol designed to obfuscate transaction details on the Ethereum network, adds a layer of privacy to the movement of these funds. Railgun employs zero-knowledge proofs to allow users to transact without revealing the sender, receiver, or…