Prediction Market Traders Brace for Surprise Fed Rate Hike
Prediction market traders have pushed the odds of a July Fed rate hike to 27% on both Polymarket and Myriad, rising double digits in the last 24 hours.
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Prediction market traders have pushed the odds of a July Fed rate hike to 27% on both Polymarket and Myriad, rising double digits in the last 24 hours.
Money is moving on a September bet for OpenAI’s next major model on both Polymarket and Myriad prediction markets.
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The regulator says the exchange and two former directors left a $47 million theft out of its filings in 2021.
BitMart’s closure, citing the market environment and “future strategic direction,” comes days after crypto perps exchange BitMEX shut down.
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The AI Kill Switch Act would let Homeland Security order frontier AI throttled or shut down, with fines up to $20 million a day for defying it.
For the first time, real-world assets—stocks, commodities, and market indices—outpaced crypto on the world's biggest decentralized derivatives exchange.
Anthropic's new everyday model undercuts its own frontier product on cost and beats it almost everywhere that counts.
Samsung showed a wallet mockup holding Circle's USDC at Galaxy Unpacked. But details are scarce.
BlackRock's IBIT led the exit as Bitcoin briefly dipped under $65,000 and stocks fell on renewed US-Iran hostilities—though the week still closed in the green.
The firm says its "digital credit" shift needs new yardsticks that strip out debt and preferred claims to show what common shareholders own.
Twenty-five companies signed a letter defending open-weight models days after a Chinese AI helped Hugging Face survive a hack triggered by OpenAI's own systems.
The Singapore-based pool never recovered from freezing withdrawals in 2022. Now it's auctioning off its last Texas mining sites to pay back 11,700 users still holding IOUs.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune signals the crypto market-structure bill likely won't clear the chamber before the August recess, as Democrats reject the GOP's ethics language and analysts slash the odds of passage.
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A Shanghai-based insurance-tech company trading below $1 wants to build a bitcoin treasury by taking BTC directly as payment for new shares.
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The deleted post touted a bogus "Vladhood" token as the mascot of Robinhood Chain—the latest fraud to exploit a network currently dominated by memes.
The first tokenized livestock deal on Brazil's stock exchange offers dairy farmers a lifeline as the sector's credit crisis deepens.
Nine of the biggest institutional names in Bitcoin formed a consortium to fund the developers working to keep the network secure—including from future quantum computers.