SBI Holdings acquires Bitbank for USD 288.6 million, becoming Japan’s largest crypto exchange operator by assets under management.
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The Ethereum Foundation budget falls 40 percent: the foundation cuts 54 positions and reorganizes as a lean endowment across five clusters.
Cboe prediction markets launch with binary options on the S&P 500 under SEC oversight, positioning Cboe against rivals Kalshi and Polymarket.
Meta is building the prediction market app Arena under Zuckerberg as an attack on Polymarket and Kalshi, initially without real money.
Trump orders US federal agencies to complete their post-quantum migration by 2031. What the deadlines mean for Bitcoin & Co.
Input Output Group launches the Cardano show BLOCK//45 on YouTube as the treasury budget falls and several funding proposals fail.
Polymarket bets exposed: WSJ reveals paid influencers, staged wins on cloned dummy sites and deliberate targeting of barred US users.
A Japanese pension fund commits 1% of its assets to crypto from fiscal 2026, framing the move as a hedge against currency risk.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Kalshi IPO: the largest US-regulated prediction-market exchange holds early bank talks, with annualized revenue now above USD 2 billion.
Strategy’s STRC preferred stock closes 11% under par at USD 89, its lowest level since the July 2025 IPO. What lies behind the sell-off.
US gaming associations want to ban sports prediction markets in the crypto bill Clarity Act. The CFTC is steering against this with its proposed rule.
Ripple enters Africa: the firm takes a stake in Flutterwave’s Series E and embeds the RLUSD stablecoin across 34 African countries.”
The SPCX perp on Hyperliquid generated USD 1.4 billion in volume on SpaceX IPO day and became the largest HIP-3 market ever recorded.
Bybit, Binance and Bitget cancel tokenized SpaceX shares after an xStocks delivery failure. Over USD 1 billion in orders went unfilled.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
The EU Parliament’s ECON committee has approved the legal framework for the digital euro and ordered trilogue negotiations to begin.
The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade is the biggest hard fork since the Merge: ePBS and parallel processing boost network throughput.
