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The Nasdaq wants to compete with Polymarket and Kalshi. The stock exchange has filed a proposed rule change with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list and trade “Outcome-Related Options” (OROs). If approved, OROs would entitle buyers to receive a fixed amount based on whether the settlement price of the underlying contract is at, above, or below a predetermined strike price at expiration, according to the Nasdaq filing. The Nasdaq isn’t the only exchange going to bat against prediction markets: A Wall Street Journal report last month indicated the derivatives exchange Cboe Global Markets has been in talks…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently commented on ongoing tensions between the crypto industry and traditional banking groups following public comments surrounding stablecoin yield negotiations at the White House. His response came after a series of posts on X involving journalist Eleanor Terrett and White House adviser David Sacks, ultimately resulting in Garlinghouse sending a message to banks, urging them to act in good faith. Stablecoin Yield Talks Spark Online Debate The latest chapter in the crypto-vs-banks saga unfolded on social media platform X, where journalist Eleanor Terrett…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy buys 3,015 BTC for $204M, extending its streak to 10 weeks as Bitcoin holds above $65K amid U.S.-Iran tensions.Michael Saylor Buys 3,015 BTC as War Fears Shake Markets, as Strategy added more Bitcoin while global tensions weighed on risk assets. The purchase came as Bitcoin held above $65,000 despite renewed volatility tied to the U.S.-Iran conflict.Strategy Adds 3,015 BTC in Latest Weekly PurchaseMichael Saylor’s Strategy acquired 3,015 Bitcoin between February 23 and March 1. The company disclosed the purchase in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It spent $204.1 million at an average price…
After dipping over the weekend as the U.S. began strikes against Iran, bitcoin BTC$68,904.41 shot higher on Monday, at one point nearing $70,000 before pulling back to the current $69,000.While any rally in bitcoin is welcome by the bulls, today’s move comes after a relentless months-long slide that has halved the price and weighed on sentiment. One analyst suggests Monday’s quick gains carry the hallmarks of a positioning squeeze, with traders who had bet on further downside forced to unwind those trades as prices rose.“This is clearly a flushing of shorts due to the confluence of the Iranian attacks causing…
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee thinks March will be an “up month” for the stock market despite the geopolitical instability unleashed by the US and Israel’s airstrikes against Iran. In a new interview with CNBC, Lee predicts that the worst of the war-related sell-off will happen this week. “Nobody likes to see headlines and images of explosions and war, and so we know risk premium jumps – that’s why the VIX jumps. But it’s not really going to change the fundamentals of the US, so in the past, markets kind of sell off into the buildup, and then they tend to do…
Cardano Rosetta Java v2.1.0 is live with full Conway-era governance support, SPO Voting, DRep Delegation, and CIP-129 across all endpoints.The Cardano Foundation shipped something developers have been waiting on. Cardano Rosetta Java v2.1.0 is live, and it brings full Conway-era governance support to both construction and data endpoints. As Cardano_CF announced on X, the update covers SPO Voting, DRep Vote Delegation, CIP-129, and more.That’s not a small thing. Governance operations are now visible inside the API. Developers no longer need workarounds.Must Read: From Legacy Rails to Blockchain: Why Big Banks Are Betting on TokenizationWhat Changed Inside the APIAccording to the…
The crypto bear market has dragged down most major digital assets this year, but HYPE has moved in the opposite direction. Year to date, the token is up 23.9%, matching gold’s gain over the same period. The S&P 500 is slightly negative, while bitcoin has fallen 23.7% and ether more than 33%.The divergence is notable not only because HYPE is crypto-native, but because it has decoupled from the broader digital asset market. Its performance increasingly reflects the value of the platform behind it rather than the market’s direction.HyperLiquid, the decentralized derivatives exchange that underpins HYPE, is built to monetize activity…
Leveraged Bitcoin and crypto traders are getting wrecked to start the week, as investors weigh the impact of the US and Israel’s strikes on Iran. Bitcoin surged from a 24-hour low of $65,280 to as high as $69,850, triggering a total of $432 million in liquidations, according to CoinGlass. The majority of the liquidations hit traders going short, coming in at $253 million. The pseudonymous crypto trader DonAlt says the fact that BTC’s price is not dropping despite the events in Iran is a potential sign of strength. “Bad news, decent response. Interesting spot, think you can make a good…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto heads into the week of March 2 with five clear catalysts on deck: a worsening US-Iran conflict under President Donald Trump, a privacy-focused Bitcoin wrapper from Starknet, Polygon’s March 4 agentic-payments gas upgrade, Avalanche’s new incentive round, and Friday’s US jobs report. Crypto Watchlist For This Week Bitcoin is still the biggest macro watch this week, but the setup has already changed. The initial war shock over the weekend pushed BTC down toward $63,000, yet that move did not hold. The token rebounded as high as…
Octra Network deploys on-chain FHE machine learning with governance and zero-knowledge verification, letting anyone run private ML inference directly on-chain.Octra Network has pushed something that most blockchain developers said was years away. A fully homomorphic encryption machine learning contract is now live on devnet. No trusted execution environments. No coprocessors.According to @lambda0xE on X, the team deployed a complex FHE-supported contract directly within the on-chain state. As lambda0xE posted on X, the contract handles model weights, inference, governance, and treasury functions all in one place. Operations are described as “incredibly cheap.”Must Read: From Legacy Rails to Blockchain: Why Big Banks…