Financial headlines continue to warn of macro risks, yet bitcoin’s BTC$75,328.36 volatility metric seems to think it’s all noise. The cryptocurrency’s annualized 30-day implied volatility index, BVIV, continues to slide, hitting 38%, its lowest reading since October 2025, according to data source Volmex. When implied volatility falls, it signals that traders expect calmer price action…
Polymarket is set to lobby for authorization of prediction markets in Japan, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday. The decentralized prediction market platform has appointed a representative in the country and is aiming for government approval by 2030, Bloomberg report said, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named. Mike…
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has highlighted a suspected security breach involving Polymarket, the world’s largest decentralized prediction market platform. Over $520,000 was reportedly drained from two smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain, according to on-chain data shared by ZachXBT. The affected addresses are 0x871D7c0f9E19001fC01E04e6cdFa7fA20f929082 and 0x91430CaD2d3975766499717fA0D66A78D814E5c5, with funds allegedly sent to attacker address 0x8F98075db5d6C620e8D420A8c516E2F2059d9B91. Polymarket developers…
Crypto majors bitcoin BTC$75,443.95 and ether (ETH) head into the weekend having been confined to a tight trading range over the past four days, with BTC being trapped between $76,100 and $78,000. The lack of volatility has led to little pockets of the altcoin market benefitting from the speculative nature of crypto investors. The AI…
Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange, and OKX announced Friday that they are joining forces to roll out perpetual oil futures. In a joint statement, the firms’ said ICE’s futures prices for Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) will bolster the new perpetual contracts on OKX. The new perpetual…
Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies and co-founder of Fundstrat, does not expect the coming wave of mega IPOs to derail markets even if they could eclipse the entire dot-com boom in scale. Lee recently discussed the potential effect of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI listing which could unleash trillions of dollars in new equity…
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), the parent company of Truth Social, has transferred another 2,650 bitcoin BTC$75,344.62 to Crypto.com in a move that is likely to intensify scrutiny of the company’s struggling cryptocurrency strategy. At current market prices, the transfer is worth roughly $205 million, with bitcoin trading at approximately $77,341 per token. Blockchain…
IREN (IREN) co-founder Daniel Roberts outlined an ambitious vision for the company as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform in a lengthy X post on Friday, arguing that the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence is no longer chips, but physical infrastructure. “AI demand grows exponentially. Infrastructure doesn’t,” Roberts wrote, pointing to growing constraints around power,…
The U.S. House Oversight Committee plans a probe into the largest prediction market platforms over suspicions that government employees could be exploiting classified information for personal gain. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is seeding the internal records from the CEOs of Polymarket and Kalshi to determine if…
Tanya Denisova, chief operating officer of Robinhood Crypto, is leaving the firm, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Denisova had been employed by the popular trading platform for over five years, according to her LinkedIn profile. Neither Robinhood nor Denisova responded to requests for comments. The departure comes amid Robinhood missing its…
