Prediction Markets: Aggressive Derivatives Platforms Now?
Prediction Markets Are Starting to Look Like Derivatives Shops, and Crypto Purists Won't Love It Prediction markets are sliding toward derivatives trading. World made that hard to miss. The Chainlink-powered market left Solana for Robinhood Chain after just seven days, which is not a sma ...
Analyst: 99.9% Altcoins Garbage, Bitcoin Price Forecast
Analyst: 99.9% of altcoins are garbage; Bitcoin bottom nears Q4 Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen says "99.9 percent of altcoins are garbage" and expects Bitcoin's real market bottom around late September or early October. Cowen is not dressing it up, which is partly why the ...
Meta’s CDO: Agentic Commerce is the “Next Tier of Business”
Meta's agentic commerce push: stablecoins, WhatsApp, and digital payments Meta Chief Data Officer Joelle Schultz says agentic commerce is the company's "next tier of business," and Meta's plan depends heavily on stablecoins and WhatsApp. My take: that is the sentence to ...
Coinone to Delist Humanity (H) After Security Incident
Coinone Delists Humanity (H) After Hack: A Warning for Exchange Security Coinone will delist Humanity (H) on August 10, 2026, after a security incident involving a project-managed wallet left users with losses. Coinone says Humanity still has not fixed the issues behind ...
Wallet in Telegram Brings SK Hynix Onchain via xStocks
Wallet in Telegram brings SK Hynix onchain: a real test for tokenized equities Wallet in Telegram is adding SK Hynix's Nasdaq debut through xStocks, giving eligible users tokenized exposure to one of 2026's biggest AI chip listings. The announcement came on July 10, 2026. My take: this i ...
Why Fintechs Can Now Integrate Fixed-Rate Stablecoin Yields
Aave's Stablecoin Yield Push Could Put DeFi Inside Fintech Apps Aave recently retweeted a post from @0xKolten saying fintech apps can now plug fixed rate stablecoin yields into their own products. My take: the retweet itself is not the event. The important bit is the route it hints at: D ...
Empery Digital Trims Bitcoin Holdings by $87M: Why?
Empery Digital Sells $87M in Bitcoin as Treasury Plan Runs Into Real Bills Empery Digital, a Nasdaq-listed company, has sold 1,400 $BTC since May 7, bringing in $87.1 million in gross proceeds for debt payments and everyday business costs. I'll be honest: thi ...
Whale Hacked: First Altcoin Block Owner Loses Untouched Assets
Solana genesis whale hack: $14.2M loss puts cold storage under pressure A whale linked to Solana's earliest token allocation was hacked for about 180,900 $SOL, worth roughly $14.2 million. These were not coins parked on a sketchy exchange with a half-broken login page. They were old, dor ...
Bitcoin Rises Despite U.S.-Iran Tensions: What’s Next?
Bitcoin Rises Despite U.S.-Iran Tensions. What Comes Next for BTC, XRP, and Other Altcoins? Bitcoin rose 9.2% this past week, reaching $64,500 even as U.S.-Iran tensions worsened. Plenty of traders would have expected the opposite. I would have, too, at least on the first headline. A yea ...
HPC & Phantom Push CFTC: Clear Line for On-Chain Rules
HPC and Phantom push CFTC on developer rules The Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) and Phantom, a self custodial wallet provider, are pushing the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to separate blockchain infrastructure developers from financial service providers in its upcomi ...