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Kalshi Hires Former Meta Executive Dani Lever as Prediction Markets Draw More Scrutiny Kalshi has hired former Meta executive Dani Lever as its Head of Communications. On paper, that is a standard corporate hire. The timing is the interesting part. Kalshi is trying to grow in regulated ...

Canton Network Tops Fee Generator Rankings as Institutions Drive Q1 2026 Activity Canton Network, a Layer-1 blockchain, generated the most fees in Q1 2026, taking in $193 million of the $457 million tracked by Messari. That comes to 42%. ...

Anthropic's AI warning: autonomous agents could speed up crypto adoption Anthropic says AI may be close to improving itself with less human help. Autonomous agents could build parts of their own systems, test them, then revise the result. Sounds theatrical. It is not hard to see the mar ...

Chainalysis Reveals $100M Peptide Market Built on Crypto: A Stablecoin Adoption Signal Chainalysis says crypto payments now back a peptide market worth about $100 million a year. Sales rose 159% quarter over quarter to $32 million in Q1 2026. Not tiny. I'll be honest: the biohacking ang ...

Analyst Pushes Back on Claims That Japan Could Trigger a Massive XRP Rally Japan's monetary policy is back in the XRP conversation, and the story has a neat little shape to it. Too neat, in my view. Some XRP bulls think an unwind of the yen carry trade could send money into the token and ...

Comptroller Says Only Democrats Are Pressuring Him Over Crypto Trust Charter Applications US Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould said Democratic lawmakers are the ones pressuring him over crypto trust charter applications. Gould made the claim Thursday during a Ho ...

Bitcoin's Pullback Tests Institutional Adoption Story as Pompliano Stays Bullish Bitcoin's latest drop is poking at one of the cleaner bull arguments: big institutional buyers should steady the market and, over time, drag prices higher. I'll be honest: the tape does not make that case lo ...

Aptos powers new stablecoin corridor for Middle East-Africa payments Aptos will be used for a new stablecoin payment corridor between the Middle East and Africa. The pitch is pretty direct: move money faster, charge less, and avoid some of the friction that still makes international pay ...

Ethereum L2s face a reckoning: general-purpose chains struggle, niche apps thrive Ethereum layer 2s are under pressure. Zero Network's recent shutdown made the point hard to miss: some Ethereum layer 2s are doing fine, but many general-purpose cha ...

Travala launches AI travel booking protocol on Base for gas-free hotel payments Travala, a crypto travel booking platform, has launched a protocol on Base that lets AI agents search for hotels, book rooms, and pay for stays. My take: the AI label is not the interesting bit. Everyone has ...