Major prediction market platform Kalshi has seen its US web traffic explode over the past year, underscoring the platform’s rapid growth while regulators and courts scrutinize its expanding event-contract business.Kalshi recorded 15.4 million visits from the United States in July,…

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (SFC) introduced a three-phase roadmap to develop infrastructure for tokenized securities issuance, for assets including stocks, bonds and funds.Starting Feb. 4, 2027, tokenized securities will be legally recognized as digitized forms of securities after an…

Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Entertainment Holdings, criticized Robinhood’s tokenized stock offerings that provide economic exposure to AMC shares, stating the company has no affiliation and that it will have a securities counsel investigate the matter.Robinhood’s stock tokens are…

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) notched their biggest inflows in nearly eight months as BTC reclaimed $80,000.Bitcoin ETFs recorded $730.9 million in net inflows on Thursday, the largest daily haul since Jan. 14, when the funds attracted $843.6 million,…

El Salvador used no public resources to accumulate Bitcoin after the first review of its International Monetary Fund (IMF) financing program in June 2025, according to the lender. In a Thursday statement, the IMF said documents supplied by Salvadoran authorities verified…

The United States and United Kingdom have formed a joint law enforcement alliance targeting scam centers involved in crypto and cyber-enabled investment fraud. On Thursday, the US Department of Justice announced that the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia,…

THAILANDThai businessmen sue Tether for freezing $42M in $61M pig butchering caseTwo Thai businessmen have sued stablecoin issuer Tether in a New York district court, claiming it illegally froze $42.4 million in Tether USDt (USDT) in October, as part of…

Michigan’s attorney general announced that a state court had ordered a preliminary injunction against Kalshi, blocking the prediction markets platform for residents amid what officials called “sports betting […] masquerading as an investment opportunity.”In a Wednesday notice, Attorney General Dana…

Bitcoin (BTC) rallied 5% during US trading hours, reaching $81,000. Key points: Bitcoin rallies above $81,000 in US trading, having risen more than 5% over the past 24 hours.USD/JPY drops to 155.4 amid suspected Bank of Japan (BOJ) intervention, dragging the US…

Kraken parent Payward has partnered with SoFi in a deal that will bring SoFiUSD to Kraken and connect the crypto platform to SoFi’s 24/7 dollar settlement network.Under the partnership, SoFi will use Kraken Prime as an additional source of digital…

Update (Sept. 3, 1:30 PM UTC): This article was updated to clarify details of the acquisition.Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, extending its reach into the software and tools developers use to build artificial intelligence.The chipmaker…

Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) and BlackRock-backed tokenization platform Securitize signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance tokenization and digital asset infrastructure across the United Arab Emirates and Dubai.The MoU will establish a collaborative framework to support regulated…

When a client named Rusty contacted crypto recovery specialist Chris Brooks in 2021, he said he and two others had won 5,000 Bitcoin in a court case, worth around $53 million at the time.They immediately set up a Zoom call…

Student loan real-world asset (RWA) protocol Pencil Finance completed a $1 million onchain student loan cycle, offering financing to thousands of students in Southeast Asia who were underserved by traditional lenders.Pencil said it completed its first fully onchain student loan…

Prediction market operator Kalshi will reportedly seek regulatory approval for a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil perpetual futures contract that never expires.The contract could be filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as soon as next week, a…