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A trader placed a $3.17 million bet that Bitcoin (BTC) will hit $95,000 by October 30. The strategy carries significant risk: a rally past $100,000 could wipe out the entire payout.
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Data reveals a highly concentrated trading pattern on Kalshi, with a single $5,499 trade size representing over half of sampled ether-perpetual volume. Bitcoin perpetuals also show a strong bias towards $2,500 and $5,000 trade sizes.
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Payward-backed Reap is expanding beyond USD stablecoins to facilitate 24/7 cross-border foreign exchange settlement, with plans to integrate Mexican peso and other local currency tokens.
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Strive, a high-performing Russell 2000 stock, is acquiring Bitcoin at a rate of doubling holdings approximately every 12 weeks. Chief Risk Officer Jeff Walton explained the firm's liquidity management and funding mechanisms in a recent interview.
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Strategy's market cap surged $31.6 billion, or 80%, over three months, while its Class A shares rose about 54% during the same period, the company said.
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A recent $10 million fraud scheme on Polymarket’s U.S. platform exposed serious compliance lapses, prompting a crackdown by payment processor Checkout.com and raising questions about the startup’s growth-first strategy.
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NYLIM and Centrifuge tokenize a US high-yield corporate bond fund on Avalanche with USDC settlement, opening institutional access to onchain credit markets.
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A New York Times investigation alleges DraftKings used machine learning to target likely losers while pausing efforts to flag problem gamblers. The company rejects the account.
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Binance has expanded access to its tokenized equity suite, allowing all eligible retail and institutional users to use tokenized stocks as collateral for futures and margin trading.
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