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Crypto perps’ US future to be defined by what regulators decide to call them

The agencies’ request turns product definitions into a public contest over perps, event contracts, and alternative compliance. The post Crypto perps’ US future to be defined by what regulators decide to call them appeared first on CryptoSlate. Read Full Story…
Infrastructure

Three World Cup betting crypto wallets have cashed out more than $24 Million

Three cryptocurrency wallets collectively generated $24.25 million in profit from World Cup prediction markets before routing their proceeds to the same Binance deposit address, raising questions about whether…
Markets

Are perps swaps? A quick look at that CME suit: State of Crypto

CME Group sued the CFTC on Thursday, alleging that the agency was wrong in how it approved Kalshi’s first U.S. perpetual futures product. Read Full…
Payments

Africa’s crypto crackdown is really a remittance revolution

Africa has never been friendly to crypto. Despite incredible adoption numbers on the continent, African governments have met almost every crypto discussion with bans or…
Markets

Why the options boom is changing what investors actually buy

Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 by mid-June after a punishing start to the month, but the figure drawing the most attention across trading desks is the…
AI

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game

Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligence in the trade. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co…
AI

AI 'Amplification Spiral' May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests

New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce delusions. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Industry News

Bitcoin ETFs shed record $6.4B in 30 days amid crypto winter chill

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds saw their biggest 30-day net outflow since launching in 2024, coming as Bitcoin fell 17% over the past month. Read…
Markets

Ethereum's biggest 'sandwich' bot drained of $7.5 million in ironic exploit

Blockaid said an attacker tricked Jaredfromsubway.eth into approving fake trading routes, then used those approvals to drain WETH, USDC and USDT. Read Full Story at…