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A Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that prediction markets' sports-related events contracts are not swaps, and therefore aren't subject to federal regulatory oversight.

The trade group will be run again by its original CEO, Kristin Smith, when Summer Mersinger leaves at the end of a long congressional tussle.

The stablecoin issuer blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDT and USDC. Most of the stolen funds sit in ether, which can't be frozen.

Regulatory clarity is not simply a legal or political issue, argues former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. It is an economic one.

While Tether's stated ceiling places its maximum exposure under $64 million, the incident underscores lingering counterparty risks in fiat gateway networks.

STRC has remained below $100 since May, despite a 12% dividend rate and roughly $1 billion in preferred share buybacks.

Bond volatility is at its highest since March, while the bitcoin VIX, BVIV and Wall Street's VIX remain near its yearly low.

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 25, 2026

Quant jumped 39% over 24 hours and 93 of 100 CoinDesk 100 constituents rose, with the altcoin season index at its highest in more than three months.

At one point in July, ETFs were down $5.8 billion in net outflows for the year. Now, that’s turned into $800 million in net inflows.

The cross-chain lending protocol accused LayerZero and its co-founder Brian Pellegrino of failing to disclose weaknesses in their protocol, which led to the $292 million hack.

Separate reports from Axios and CBS suggest some positive movement in U.S.-Iran negotiations.

Bitget lost $351.6 million after attackers compromised a wallet backend, spoofed transaction data, Chen said on X.

The state wants to block Polymarket from operating without a gambling license and recover allegedly illegal gains.

The Fed proposed rules on putting last year's GENIUS Act into place with regulations, including those governing stablecoin yield programs.

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen announced the hack shortly after independent researchers flagged unusual wallet movements.

While Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has been much less vocal about the crypto industry than her opponent Donald Trump, things are picking up steam as the election...

While fears of a recession have scaled back in recent days, experts are split as to where the U.S. economy might be going. In parallel, the debate around whether bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are...

Bitcoin has been around since 2009. Since then, the cryptocurrency market has exploded in popularity amongst investors looking for alternative asset classes. But it's also seen its share of ups and...

Fears about a potential recession are bubbling up once again following a weak jobs report, triggering many experts to argue that the Federal Reserve has waited too long to cut interest rates. Against...