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An appeals court ruled Monday that New Jersey could not temporarily ban prediction market provider Kalshi, giving the platform a much-needed win against an onslaught of state enforcement actions. A Third Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled in a 2-1 vote that the state could not bring an enforcement action against Kalshi because the company’s products are subject to the federal Commodity Exchange Act, rather than New Jersey state gambling laws. “Kalshi began offering sports-related event contracts on its DCM exchange,” the majority ruling said. “Kalshi self-certified compliance with the applicable laws and regulations, so those event contracts were presumptively…

Manadia, a data settlement and AI coordination infrastructure designed to enable verifiable executions across blockchain networks, today announced a strategic integration with PVPFun, an AI-driven entertainment infrastructure platform that allows people to build and monetize decentralized applications without coding requirements. Using this partnership, PVPFun integrated its Web3 creation platform with Manadia’s provable, low-trust settlement infrastructure to enable more secure and reliable development applications and gaming experiences for users. PVPFun is an AI-powered Web3 infrastructure that allows people to transform ideas into functioning DApps (decentralized applications), games, and tools without sophisticated coding requirements. Users simply place their inputs (ideas) into PVPFUN’s…

Linea’s native yield experiment is increasingly being framed not just as a product feature, but as a balance sheet problem. On April 6, 2026, Steakhouse Financial published a detailed analysis of Linea’s Native Yield design, arguing that the system turns a simple bridge into an active financial structure that must constantly manage the tension between instant redemptions and slower-moving staked $ETH. The report says the core challenge is no longer whether $ETH can earn yield, but whether Linea can keep withdrawals at par while part of the asset base is locked in Ethereum’s staking and exit machinery. That framing matters…

Stripe’s newly launched Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) could mark a turning point for micropayments — a long-promised but underutilized use case in crypto and beyond — as AI agents reshape how transactions are made. That’s the key takeaway from newly published analysis by Forrester senior analyst Meng Liu, who argues that MPP may succeed where decades of earlier efforts failed. Introduced earlier this month, MPP enables AI agents to execute transactions automatically, removing the need for human approval at each step. It is described as an open protocol for coordinating payments between AI agents and services. Liu frames this as…

US Senate Banking Committee member Bill Hagerty said Monday that he expects a potential path for a digital asset market structure in the coming weeks after months of delays in Congress. Speaking at the Digital Assets and Emerging Tech Policy Summit at Vanderbilt University, he said his fellow Republican lawmakers planned to move the bill through the banking panel starting next week. “We will be in a position, I hope, to bring all of this together very soon,” said Hagerty, referring to work on the bill in the Senate. “On the banking committee side, I think we’re very close, and…

Anthropic has announced a partnership with Google and Broadcom for “multiple gigawatts” of next-generation TPU compute capacity expected to come online starting in 2027, a commitment the company called its most significant to date as revenue growth accelerated to a $30 billion annual run rate from $9 billion at the end of 2025. The scale of AI compute demand is now competing directly with bitcoin mining for the same scarce resources — grid connections, land permits, cooling infrastructure, and cheap electricity. A Cambridge tracker estimates bitcoin mining draws roughly 13 to 25 gigawatts of continuous power globally depending on hardware…

Bitchat, a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app developed by Block CEO Jack Dorsey, has been removed from Apple’s App Store in China for allegedly violating its internet service regulations. In an X post on Sunday, Dorsey shared a screenshot from Apple’s app review team informing him that Bitchat had been removed from the App Store in February and that the TestFlight beta version would no longer be available in China at the request of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). “Bitchat pulled from the China App Store,” he said. Bitchat has seen its popularity rise during protests in Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal,…

With tensions escalating between the US and Iran, global markets are experiencing one of their most volatile days in recent years. Bitcoin’s sharp fluctuations and gold’s historic losses have raised questions among experts about whether the concept of a “safe haven” has changed. Scott Melker stated that the markets were shaken by President Trump’s contradictory statements. He said that when Trump announced the start of peace talks with Iran, the S&P index gained $2 trillion in minutes, but when Iran denied the claim, the market experienced a total volatility of $3 trillion in just 56 minutes. Bloomberg analyst Mike McGlone…

Paul Atkins, Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), delivered important messages regarding crypto asset regulation. Speaking at the “Digital Assets and Emerging Technologies Summit” held at Vanderbilt University, Atkins announced that new regulatory steps for token funding and the DeFi space will be on the agenda soon. Atkins stated that they are working on a new regulatory framework that will specifically cover fundraising processes via tokens. Accordingly, the new regulation, called “Reg Crypto,” will be prepared under the Securities Act of 1933 (’33 Act), one of the fundamental securities laws in the US, and will be opened…

Move over, legacy crypto. Circle’s Layer-1 blockchain Arc, built for stablecoin finance and institutional use, will debut with quantum-resistant features designed to survive a future in which traditional blockchains could crumble under quantum attacks. “At mainnet, Arc will introduce a post-quantum signature scheme, giving users a practical design path to create quantum-resistant wallets,” Arc said in an update Thursday. The update didn’t mention the timeline for the mainnet launch. It means that Arc is baking in quantum resistance from day one, unlike legacy chains, which may be waiting to add this feature later as a patch. So, when users create…