Polymarket taps ex-Uber and Bird exec Travis VanderZanden to boost growth
Polymarket has hired the Bird, Uber and Lyft blitzscaling veteran Travis VanderZanden as chief growth officer.
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Goldman Sachs to gain bitcoin and ETH income ETFs in up to $2.25 billion Neos acquisition
Neos Investments offers the Bitcoin High Income ETF, Boosted Bitcoin High Income ETF and Ethereum High Income ETF.
SKALE launches Agent Pit to let builders train AI agents before taking them live on Polymarket
SKALE Labs launched Agent Pit, a Polymarket-inspired, paper-trading prediction market sandbox on its zero-gas blockchain.
BIP-110 failure shows Bitcoin would be ‘almost impossible to reproduce,’ Plan B Network director says
Plan B Network director Giacomo Zucco says BIP-110’s failure exposed the challenges of recreating Bitcoin’s early development.
Attackers keep hitting the wrong house in rural France after crypto millionaire moved: report
A French couple in the Somme who bought a former crypto millionaires’ house have been targeted in three separate home invasions.
New York City Council opens probe into prediction market platforms
The NYC Council has opened a probe into prediction market platforms over alleged "false, deceptive, or abusive marketing tactics."
Bitcoin dips under $64,000 as in-line CPI buys the Fed time, not conviction: analysts
Bitcoin fell under $64,000 after July CPI matched forecasts at 3.4%, with analysts saying the in-line print keeps the Fed patient.
Kalshi first prediction market to stream full order books via DoubleZero
The move gives institutional traders direct access to Level 1 and Level 2 data without having to reconstruct the book from APIs.
Standard Chartered-backed Anchorpoint begins HKDAP stablecoin rollout
Standard Chartered-backed Anchorpoint began an institutional rollout of its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, HKDAP, following licensing approval.
Bitcoin market in ‘hibernation’ as perp trading activity sinks to three-year low ahead of US CPI release: K33
Elevated open interest leaves the market exposed to sharper liquidation-driven moves, K33 said, as traders await Wednesday's U.S. CPI report.
Australian regulator takes down Yepbit websites as investors report blocked withdrawals
Australia's ASIC took down Yepbit websites and denied the platform's false claims that the regulator had frozen investor funds.
FlightAware drops lawsuit against Kalshi one day after filing
The flight tracker previously claimed that Kalshi improperly used its data and trademark to run prediction markets on flight cancellations.