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Polymarket Sees Japan as Its Next Big Market
Polymarket is making a slow but deliberate move into one of the world’s most tightly controlled financial markets. According to Bloomberg, the prediction market platform is looking to enter the Japanese market with complete government approval by 2030 and has already appointed a representative in Japan. Mike Eidlin, who most recently served as Head of...
Fri, May 22
Three blockchain infrastructure projects shut down on the same day as Layer 2 consolidation accelerates
Three blockchain infrastructure projects closed their operations on May 21, suggesting rising concern about the sustainability of venture-backed solutions. Syndicate Labs, Everclear (formerly Connext), and ZERO Network each shut down within hours of each other. The shutdowns involve three separate industries that have had substantial venture investments within the period from 2021 to 2022. Syndicate...
Fri, May 22
Hester Peirce warns against hype over SEC’s tokenized stock exemption
Hester Peirce issued warnings about overblown expectations for the SEC’s proposed exemption, stating that it applies to actual equity securities tokenized, not just financial instruments whose value tracks stock market movements. In a May 21 post on X, Peirce said she expected the exemption to remain “limited in scope” and to facilitate trading only of...
Fri, May 22
Mark Cuban dumps most Bitcoin and says it failed as a safe haven asset
Billionaire investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban has revealed that he has sold the majority of his Bitcoin holdings. He says that the cryptocurrency has failed to perform as a reliable safe-haven asset during periods of global economic and geopolitical stress. Cuban spent years saying Bitcoin was a better version of gold and even put 60%...
Fri, May 22
Russia’s Putin summit with China president Xi Jinping was about Iran, Trump goes unmentioned
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, and the former was beaming when he told the latter: “I haven’t seen you in a day, but it’s as if three autumns have passed.” So yes, the bromance theater continues with these two boys. Yet, the real drama had nothing to do with...
Fri, May 22
SEC adds NFA to cross-agency crypto oversight push
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Futures Association on May 21, formalizing how they will coordinate examinations, share information, and monitor risks across the securities and derivatives markets. The MOU covers three areas: emerging risk management, examination program coordination, and financial market conditions monitoring. Staff...
Fri, May 22
Flare CEO says XRP set for institutional leap with confidential compute and DeFi expansion
Hugo Philion, co-founder and CEO of Flare, wants to create a system that allows institutions to trade and lend using XRP-backed assets without exposing their activity to the public. The new system, called Confidential Compute, will launch in Q3 2026. Philion spoke in an interview with crypto YouTuber Crypto Sensei on YouTube, saying Flare is...
Fri, May 22
EU consumer groups accuse Google, Meta and TikTok of letting scam ads slip through
European consumer groups have filed complaints against Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL), Meta Platforms (META), and TikTok, saying the companies are still letting financial scam ads reach users. The complaints were filed on Thursday by the European Consumer Organisation, known as BEUC, and 29 member groups from 27 countries. The case has been sent to the European...
Fri, May 22
Can the CLARITY Act Still Pass Before August Recess?
The CLARITY Act might be delayed until as late as 2030. Lawmakers have warned that if it does not pass before the August recess begins, there is an open-ended calendar on how far into the future the delays could stretch.
Fri, May 22
Charles Hoskinson says Cardano has the edge in the race to dominate Bitcoin DeFi
Charles Hoskinson thinks Cardano can make a break in the fast-growing Bitcoin DeFi (BTCFi), a booming Bitcoin-based decentralized finance space. He noted that no single blockchain has yet dominated the space, creating opportunities for networks offering secure Bitcoin bridging, enhanced privacy, and improved scalability. His comments come amid rising competition among blockchain projects seeking to...
Fri, May 22
Quantum stocks jump after the U.S. government announced a $2 billion grant plan for nine companies
Quantum stocks rallied today because the U.S. government is investing $2 billion in grants to nine companies working on quantum computing. The National Institute of Standards and Technology said it signed letters of intent with the companies. The U.S. government will also take minority stakes in each business, but those stakes will not give it...
Thu, May 21
Why did Berkshire Hathaway sell all its shares in Visa and Mastercard?
Berkshire sold every share it owned in Visa (V) and Mastercard (MA) after Greg Abel began cleaning up parts of the stock portfolio tied to former investment manager Todd Combs. The sale came out in Berkshire Hathaway’s latest quarterly filing on Friday, and investors spent Monday reading through the new buys, cuts, and full exits....
Thu, May 21
Alaska Rep Begich pushes bill to protect America’s crypto reserve from admin change
United States House Representative Nick Begich of Alaska has introduced the American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA), legislation designed to write President Donald Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into permanent statute and insulate the federal government’s Bitcoin holdings from being unwound by a future administration. ARMA seeks to do for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve what the CLARITY...
Thu, May 21
Blockchain.com files to go public on Nasdaq this year
Blockchain.com has quietly sent its IPO paperwork to the US SEC, putting the crypto brokerage on track for a possible Nasdaq debut this year. In the IPO filing, the company said it has also not decided how many shares it wants to sell or what price it may ask for them. As you likely know,...
Thu, May 21
How long can surging AI demand fuel Nvidia before infrastructure bottlenecks take over
The world’s leading AI chip manufacturer delivered first-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street forecasts, yet questions emerge about obstacles that could slow the sector’s explosive expansion. Nvidia reported strong growth, with quarterly revenue up 85% year over year to $81.6 billion. Net profit more than tripled to $58.3 billion. The company also expects sales of...
Thu, May 21
Hark hits $6B valuation as Parkway Venture Capital leads $700M with NVIDIA, AMD
Hark’s founder Brett Adcock, who also founded Figure AI, earlier today announced that the firm had completed a Parkway Venture Capital-ed Series A round that attracted $700 million at a $6 billion valuation from other tech giants, like NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), AMD Ventures, Intel Capital (NASDAQ: INTC), Qualcomm Ventures (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Salesforce Ventures (NYSE:...
Thu, May 21
Push to hike crypto taxes in Germany fails in the Bundestag
An attempt to increase the tax burden on cryptocurrency owners in Germany has not gained enough support in the country’s legislature. Most parties opposed a bill put forward by the Greens, who wanted to target the tax-free profits from long-term digital-asset investments. Greens’ crypto tax proposal halted in parliament The draft law, designed to stiffen...
Thu, May 21
Nvidia revenue jumped 85%, but the stock still fell after earnings
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) gave Wall Street a huge earnings beat, but the stock still fell right after the report. Cryptopolitan had reported that Nvidia’s revenue jumped 85%, yet shares dropped 2.3% after hours yesterday. The NVDA stock later recovered part of that loss, but it was still down around 2% today as of press time,...
Thu, May 21
Anthropic odds collapse on prediction markets following confidential OpenAI IPO leaks
Investors are speculating about when the official announcement may be made because the company behind ChatGPT appears to be preparing for a stock market debut. As early as Friday, OpenAI may discreetly submit draft filings for an IPO, as per some sources. According to reports, the corporation, which is presently valued by private investors at...
Thu, May 21
Getting started with crypto casinos – A complete guide
We have all heard of traditional online casinos and games like blackjack, poker, dice, and more. However, inefficient transactions and a lack of privacy/security are the biggest concerns among players who play games in such casinos. Crypto casinos, on the other hand, fuse traditional casinos with DeFi. The result? Fast, efficient transactions, high security, and...
Thu, May 21
