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…

FTSE Russell, a London-based provider of global stock market indices, has added MTN Nigeria, Dangote Cement, First HoldCo, and seven other Nigerian public companies among the qualified equities for its Frontier Index Series, effective from 21 September. Others include Guaranty…

President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the planned launch of the African Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA), saying Africa needs financial institutions that better understand the continent’s economies and risks. The African Union has announced that the agency will officially launch on…

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…

FTSE Russell, a London-based provider of global stock market indices, has added MTN Nigeria, Dangote Cement, First HoldCo, and seven other Nigerian public companies among the qualified equities for its Frontier Index Series, effective from 21 September. Others include Guaranty…

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…

Ngozi Monica Okonkwo & Co, the external auditors of Cutix Plc, have resigned their appointment after about six years of auditing the company’s accounts. The manufacturer, Cutix disclosed this in a regulatory filing signed by Chinwendu Nwokporo, the Company Secretary,…

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…