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Kalshi Caps Deposits at $2,500 a Month for Traders Under 21
Prediction market platform Kalshi is enhancing its consumer protection measures for younger users amidst a rising tide of scrutiny around the event-based trading platform. The measures include putting a limit on how much money its youngest users can bring onto the platform. As reported by Bloomberg, Kalshi said on October 27 that users aged between...
Wed, Oct 28
Brian Armstrong says all assets are moving onchain as tokenized stocks surge
Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong noted on X that all asset classes are moving onchain as tokenized stocks gain momentum. He commented, “All asset classes are moving onchain. Tokenized stocks and stablecoins (which are really just tokenized fiat currency) are growing fast, with more to come.” Earlier, in late September, the executive had also...
Wed, Oct 28
Guidewire acquires Hyperexponential as AI underwriting race accelerates
Guidewire has agreed to buy London-based Hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash. The October 27 announcement marks a bigger push into AI-powered insurance pricing. It also puts Guidewire in the middle of an emerging race to install AI into commercial underwriting. The changes are evident for insurers. AI has now passed the stage of small...
Wed, Oct 28
Discord to make public server chats searchable as crypto communities weigh scam risks
Discord intends to allow the web searchability of some conversations among users of its 63,000 Discoverable Servers. This may help users looking for information that is concealed in the various messages posted in public channels. However, for various crypto communities that have been dealing with scammers, there is an underlying concern that fraudsters can also...
Wed, Oct 28
OpenAI and Anthropic AI models claim to refute computing hypothesis
OpenAI and Anthropic assert that their AI models have posed a challenge to a traditional view concerning the limits of computing. If proven true, the findings can reshape complexity theory. However, neither of the firms has succeeded in creating faster software or in cracking current encryption. A hypothesis from 1999, now under pressure Russell Impagliazzo...
Wed, Oct 28
Crypto.com launches US crypto perpetuals as offshore venues dominate trading
On October 27, 2026, Crypto.com and OG.com launched regulated crypto perpetual futures with leverage of up to 5x for eligible U.S. traders. Contracts can be accessed by retail customers via the Crypto.com App, while advanced and institutional traders can access them on the Crypto.com Exchange platform. However, successfully launching the products in the US is...
Wed, Oct 28
Disruptive closes $10B fund to back AI and defense companies with billion-dollar bets
Dallas investment firm Disruptive has raised a $10 billion flagship fund to make about 10 large bets on late-stage AI, infrastructure, defense and enterprise software companies. In its October 27, 2026 announcement, the firm said it could invest up to $1 billion in each business. While the $10 billion amount is significant, Disruptive’s planned use...
Tue, Oct 27
CFTC sues Utah to shield prediction markets from state gambling laws
On October 27, 2026, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against the state of Utah to prevent it from enforcing its gambling laws on prediction markets operating under federal jurisdiction. For prediction exchange operators, such as Kalshi, the issue is larger than Utah’s gambling laws. The question is whether these prediction...
Tue, Oct 27
Predict.fun pledges full refunds after $400K drain, days before PREDICT’s launch
Predict.fun has said that it will reimburse every affected user in the recent breach that saw approximately 400,000 USDT pulled from a small group of wallets. The breach was traced to a third-party site that hosts the platform’s developer documentation. The incident is coming just a few days after traders started betting on when the...
Tue, Oct 27
Intel to buy quantum software firm Classiq in $2.3B deal
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has announced its acquisition of Classiq, an Israeli quantum computing software startup. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027. It will be a step in the right direction for CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s goal of expanding into quantum. Will Intel buy Classiq? Intel announced its acquisition of Classiq...
Tue, Oct 27
SoFi’s crypto business grows 38% in Q3 but remains 0.3% of financial services revenue
Q3 proved to be a profitable one for SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI), as the company reported record revenue of $1.4 billion on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The figure was a 44% increase when calculated on a year-over-year basis. Also, its shares climbed by 11% in premarket trading. The revenue figures include crypto, the business relaunched...
Tue, Oct 27
Mansour pitches “index of political power” as S&P Dow Jones Indices bets on Kalshi data
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) and Kalshi have announced that they will tie official index values to new event contracts. They also plan to build benchmarks tracking politics, economics and sports, lending the prediction market Wall Street’s credibility as several states fight to shut parts of it down. Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour...
Tue, Oct 27
Polymarket refers election bets to CFTC as offshore wallets dominate
Polymarket has investigated dozens of bets tied to the U.S. midterms and referred at least two of those cases to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Despite the investigations, Polymarket’s largely unregulated offshore site still allows traders to stay anonymous and pay in crypto. Can Polymarket’s offshore site be controlled? Polymarket runs two platforms. One...
Tue, Oct 27
Zcash co-founders split over $125M grants fund as miners stand to gain
Zcash co-founders Josh Swihart and Sean Bowe are engaged in a public dispute over a Bowe-fronted proposal to cut off and reroute the 8% block reward pipeline that funds the Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) program. Bowe wants the reward slice to feed a network reserve instead. Why Bowe wants to “turn off” the ZCG stream...
Tue, Oct 27
OneKey caps customer data at 30 days after Keystone’s deletion promise fails
OneKey’s founder Yishi Wang has committed to deleting customer data within 30 days following an admission of failure from rival hardware wallet maker Keystone regarding its 180-day deletion system after a breach that exposed nearly 26,000 buyer records. Keystone’s help center noted that the final deletion of user records is handled by Shopify. That disclosure...
Tue, Oct 27
IBM, Oracle and Intel join the opt-out as 26 issuers block OKXICE tokenized stocks
IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) have become the latest large companies to opt out of the OKX-ICE plan to offer tokenized versions of their stocks on its trading venture, after informing regulators of their decision. With the latest objections, the list of firms to reject the plan...
Tue, Oct 27
Seoul chip stocks rally as Bank of Korea models a $100 billion AI export hit
South Korea’s Kospi opened at 5,638.34 on Tuesday, representing a 3.09% increase. Its first gain in four sessions. The increase was due to chipmakers like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix jumping on Anthropic’s IPO filing. The same day, the Bank of Korea told lawmakers that chip exports could drop by as much as $100 billion...
Tue, Oct 27
OpenAI’s biggest claim yet gets guarded welcome after Erdős, Navier-Stokes and a sign error
The scientists that OpenAI has appointed to verify its latest claim that one of its internal models has successfully refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis have declined to endorse the claim, pointing to past drama around the AI lab’s math announcements, which they say tend to be exaggerated. The Exponential Time Hypothesis, which the Altman-led lab...
Tue, Oct 27
With Over 95% of All Bitcoin Mined, Explorer Charts the Road to the 2028 Halving
OpenBitcoin.com puts a live countdown to the next halving next to everything a bitcoin user looks up in a day: addresses, prices in 15 currencies, fees, guides and tools. Over 95 percent of all the bitcoin that will ever exist has already been mined. Of the 21 million coin limit, about 20.1 million are out...
Tue, Oct 27
ZCash defies recent crypto market weakness, extends price growth
ZEC survived the recent crypto market sell-off, supported by a small short squeeze.
Tue, Oct 27