Meta is building the prediction market app Arena under Zuckerberg as an attack on Polymarket and Kalshi, initially without real money.
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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.
SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures price the stock about 29% above the $135 IPO reference, implying a $2.2 trillion valuation.
Citigroup launches tokenized shares of private companies on the FINMA-licensed SDX platform, initially only for non-US investors.
Ripple launches a toolkit for agentic payments on the XRPL with the x402 protocol, XRP and RLUSD.
Unit bias leads crypto investors to favor low-priced coins. Why unit price is misleading and why market capitalization matters.
The Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report puts illicit activity below 1% of on-chain volume, countering the myth of Bitcoin as a criminal currency.
