Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that it had signed an “integrity protection” agreement with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as it separately inked a deal with prediction markets platform Polymarket. In a Thursday announcement, MLB said that its commissioner, Robert Manfred, signed a memorandum of understanding with CFTC Chair Michael Selig following the league’s request for “strong integrity protections in the rapidly evolving prediction market space.” In a separate deal, the league said it had reached an agreement for predictions market platform Polymarket to be its Official Prediction…
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Bitcoin finance protocol Hashi launches on Sui with BitGo, FalconX backing
The platform is designed to enable lending, borrowing and yield on native Bitcoin through onchain financial services. Source link
Listings And On-Ramps Are Ending, As Intent Protocols Make Access Native
Opinion by: Jason Dominique, co-founder and CEO of ONCHAIN® Labs For years, whenever we explain what we’re building, the reaction is familiar. There’s curiosity, some skepticism, and then the question that almost always follows: “If this is such a big problem, why hasn’t it been fixed already?” The answer is not that the industry failed to notice it, nor that the technology was too immature to address it. Access remained broken because fixing it correctly required rearchitecting how coordination, execution and settlement work together, while leaving it broken was both…
Prediction Markets Bet Bitcoin Will Drop Below $55K in 2026
Bitcoin (BTC) may go as low as $55,000 in 2026 as the market lacks bullish catalysts amid macroeconomic uncertainties. Key takeaways: BTC price has a 65%-71% chance of dropping below $55,000 before Dec. 31, according to prediction markets. Bettors don’t expect Strategy to sell its BTC holdings in 2026. Whale selling and negative ETFs flows add to Bitcoin’s sell-side pressure. Prediction markets see BTC bear market continuing The majority of traders on Polymarket and Kalshi expect Bitcoin to resume its downtrend throughout 2026, with targets as low as $40,000. Related:…
Bitcoin Dips to $69,500 But Avoids Six-Week Lows Seen on Gold
Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded from weekly lows into Thursday’s Wall Street open as inflation targeted BTC price strength. Key points: Bitcoin price action preserves its new local trading range between 2021 highs and 2025 lows. Gold leads a macro asset sell-off after the Federal Reserve continued a hawkish stance on interest-rate policy. Fed Chair Jerome Powell says that the next rate cut depended on inflation “progress.” Bitcoin struggles after hawkish Fed meeting Data from TradingView showed a drop to $69,500 on the day, with BTC/USD reaching the area of its old…
Crypto Hack Losses Driven by a Handful of Major Exploits: Immunefi
A new security report from Immunefi finds that crypto hacks continue at a steady pace while losses are becoming more concentrated in a small number of massive exploits. Analyzing 425 publicly known incidents between 2021 and 2025, the report estimates that the average hack now results in about $25 million in stolen funds. In 2024 and 2025 alone, 191 hacks led to $4.67 billion in losses, with just five incidents accounting for 62% of the total. Despite representing fewer incidents, centralized exchange breaches drove the majority of losses. Twenty exchange…
Apex and Polygon Launch ERC-3643 Chain for Tokenized Assets
Apex Group’s Tokeny and Polygon Labs are launching T-REX Ledger, a compliance-focused blockchain designed to help regulated tokenized assets move across networks without repeating investor checks and transfer restrictions. In a Thursday release shared with Cointelegraph, the project said it targets a key friction point in tokenized markets. ERC-3643 is an Ethereum-based token standard for permissioned tokens representing real-world assets that can support compliant issuance of RWAs, but identity checks, eligibility rules and transfer restrictions often remain fragmented when the same asset is distributed across multiple blockchains. T-REX Ledger is…
Crypto.com to Cut 12% of Workforce due to Enterprise AI Integration
Singapore-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com is set to cut up to 12% of its workforce due to company-wide artificial intelligence (AI) integrations, joining a growing list of companies announcing AI-linked mass layoffs, according to the exchange’s founder and CEO, Kris Marszalek. Crypto.com recently expanded its AI offering and launched the AI agent platform ai.com on Feb. 9, which it positioned as a core business. The company also said it was the first crypto platform to receive the ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for AI system management in February. “We are joining the list…
Ethereum Faces $2.5B Long Liquidation Risk If ETH Dips Below $2,100
Ether (ETH) traded lower on Thursday after a fresh knee-jerk reaction to yesterday’s US interest rate decision and a higher inflation outlook. Key takeaways: ETH dropped 7% to $2,100 on Thursday, liquidating $144 million in longs. A break below $2,000 could trigger over $2.5 billion in additional long liquidations across exchanges. The 50-day moving average around $2,100 is a key level to watch. Ether risks $2.5 billion long liquidations Data from TradingView showed 7% daily ETH price losses, with ETH/USD dropping as low as $2,140 on Thursday. ETH/USD 1-hour chart.…
Bitcoin ETFs See $164M Outflows As BTC Dips Below $71K
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ended their inflow streak amid a BTC price dip after recording $1.2 billion of inflows over seven consecutive days. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs saw $163.5 million in outflows on Wednesday, according to Farside data. The Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) led the outflows at about $104 million, followed by BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) with $34 million. Daily spot Bitcoin ETF flows since March 6, 2026. Source: Farside.co.uk Before Wednesday’s $163.5 million outflows, the ETFs were roughly $100 million shy of positive…