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Connecticut sues Kalshi over unlicensed sports event contracts

Connecticut has sued Kalshi and asked a court to block the prediction market platform from offering sports event contracts that

RLUSD crosses $2 billion as XRPL supply nears $1B

Ripple’s RLUSD crossed $2 billion in market value, with nearly $1 billion issued on XRP Ledger under New York oversight.

Bitcoin’s bull case grows as U.S. debt tops $40T

BlackRock’s Robbie Mitchnick says the $40 trillion U.S. debt burden strengthens Bitcoin’s case as an alternative store of value.

Mastercard sponsors XRP Ledger hackathon in New York

Mastercard will sponsor a 36-hour XRP Ledger hackathon in New York focused on protocol development, agentic finance and lending.

Kevin Warsh delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote Friday and the theme is financial innovation

The symposium theme is “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy.” Warsh divested a dozen blockchain positions before taking office.

The GENIUS Act missed its statutory deadline and regulators are writing the rules anyway

Congress gave agencies one year to write stablecoin rules. They missed it by four months and counting. The OCC expects

The Clarity Act just lost its window and regulation is arriving by rulemaking instead of legislation

Polymarket odds collapsed from 82 percent to 16 percent. The Senate returns September 14 with 14 working days and three

Digital euro promises cash-like privacy, ECB says

The ECB says it cannot link digital euro users to payments, but privacy groups want stronger technical safeguards before EU

XRP ETF trading volume hit an all time high and $1.57 billion in cumulative flows tells a different story than the price

Seven spot funds now hold nearly a billion tokens. Daily volume broke $125 million on August 20, then $200 million

Kalshi raises $1.12 billion after securing $22 billion valuation

Kalshi has raised about $1.12 billion through an equity offering since April, with a new U.S. securities filing showing roughly

BlackRock cuts IBIT bitcoin swap minimum to $1M

BlackRock reportedly cut its Bitcoin-to-IBIT swap minimum from $25 million to $1 million as demand for in-kind conversions grows.

XRP price falls 5% as leverage hits seven-month high

XRP fell to $1.44 as Binance leverage reached a seven-month high, leaving its 44% weekly rally exposed to leveraged liquidations.

Kraken hit by 12,000 HTX-linked dust transfers

Kraken restored accounts restricted after nearly 12,000 HTX-linked microtransfers triggered sanctions reviews, while HTX denied involvement.

BankChain targets 2027 U.S. blockchain launch

BankChain Alliance brings together 39 state banking groups to build a U.S. blockchain network for tokenized deposits and payments by

Kinetiq unveils Elysium L2 with HYPE gas

Kinetiq unveiled Elysium, a Hyperliquid L2 using HYPE for gas and allocating 50% of sequencer fees to KNTQ buybacks and

Thailand advances spot Bitcoin and Ether ETF rules with 80% exposure floor

Thailand has moved its planned spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded fund framework into the draft regulation stage, setting an 80%

USDC powers 99.3% of x402 AI agent payments

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire identifies AI agents and cross-border settlement as major USDC opportunities after x402 usage reached 99.3%.

Visa taps Nium for stablecoin settlement pilot under Singapore BLOOM

Visa has joined Singapore’s BLOOM initiative and selected Nium for a pilot testing seven-day settlement with regulated U.S. dollar and

Coldcard hackers leave 87% of stolen Bitcoin unmoved after $114M theft

More than 87% of the Bitcoin attributed to the Coldcard hack has remained unmoved, leaving 1,561 BTC under attacker control

The SEC just proposed actual crypto rules: Regulation Crypto Assets explained

A 402 page proposal, two fundraising exemptions, and a safe harbor that could remove the investment contract label from qualifying