Crypto-native prediction markets spent years positioning themselves as a smarter, more useful alternative to gambling — a way to trade on information rather than spin a roulette wheel. But once sports became their dominant use case, the same products that… Read More »How Sports Turned Crypto Prediction Markets Mainstream — And Why Regulators Might Shut Them Down
In less than four months, crypto has gone from being treated as a recurring enforcement headache in Washington to a market that federal regulators are structurally reorganizing around. A rapid sequence of formal committees, memorandums of understanding, interpretive releases, and… Read More »Inside Washington’s Quiet Power Shift on Crypto Regulation
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued its clearest guidance yet on how it categorizes crypto assets — and in the process, it has sharply reduced the likelihood that many mainstream networks and software providers will be pushed… Read More »SEC’s Revamped Crypto Rules Ease KYC Burden for Bitcoin, XRP, and Solana
Within days of acknowledging that crypto mixers can have lawful uses, Washington also moved to retry one of the most high-profile mixer-related criminal cases in the US. For investors and builders, the juxtaposition around Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has… Read More »Tornado Cash Retrial Push Exposes Washington’s Confusing Stance on Crypto Mixers
The U.S. Treasury has, for the first time, explicitly acknowledged that lawful users of digital assets may turn to crypto mixers to protect their financial privacy on public blockchains. The language, contained in a March 2026 report to Congress, does… Read More »US Treasury Opens Door to Regulated Crypto Mixers for Financial Privacy
Perpetual futures sit at the center of crypto’s derivatives engine, and in early 2026 regulators on both sides of the Atlantic moved decisively to define how, where, and at what leverage those products can be traded. The result is a… Read More »Crypto Leverage Diverges: U.S. Traders Chase 10x While Europe Reclassifies Perpetuals
Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new criminal trial, arguing that FTX was not a black-hole of missing money but a solvent business caught in a liquidity crunch. His latest motion hinges on a striking claim: that as of FTX’s… Read More »Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bid for a New Trial: Why a Claimed FTX ‘Surplus’ May Not Change the Verdict
Prediction markets have spent years arguing they are information tools and financial instruments, not gambling apps with better UX. Tennessee just forced that argument into court. In early January, the state’s sports betting watchdog told Kalshi, Polymarket, and Crypto.com to… Read More »Tennessee Targets Kalshi and Polymarket: When Do Prediction Markets Become Illegal Sports Betting?
Over a single 72-hour window, Bitcoin is being forced through one of the densest clusters of macro and policy catalysts the market has seen in years. Inflation data, a potentially pivotal Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, and a high-stakes Senate… Read More »Bitcoin Faces a 72-Hour Macro Gauntlet That Could Set Up Its Next Long-Term Bull Run
Japan is moving to bring crypto fully inside its securities-market framework, and that shift could structurally favor one asset above the rest: XRP. With a proposed flat 20% tax on eligible crypto income and a sweeping reclassification of 105 major… Read More »How Japan’s 20% Crypto Tax Shift Could Cement XRP’s Lead in Capital Inflows
In 2025, crypto regulation moved away from courtroom drama and big-picture philosophy and toward the infrastructure questions that decide whether markets are usable, scalable, and safe. Instead of asking whether crypto should be regulated, policymakers increasingly focused on how it… Read More »The 2025 Crypto Rulebook: Which New Regulations Actually Protect Your Wallet?