US-based users are the biggest political bettors on Polymarket, despite the crypto-based prediction market’s efforts to restrict US citizens from using the decentralized platform, according to new research. Blockchain research firm Allium estimated in a report published on Thursday that US-based users are the single… Read More
Traditional securitization markets struggle to package individual servers or computing equipment into investable products, Anderson said. Stablecoins — with more than $300 billion circulating onchain — create a new source of capital for asset-backed lending. “We have the capital onchain to finance this industry,” he… Read More
Latest developments: VanEck recently launched the first U.S. spot BNB ETF, trading under the ticker VBNB on Nasdaq. The fund gives investors exposure to BNB through traditional brokerage accounts. VanEck Director of Digital Assets Product Kyle DaCruz said the firm focuses on blockchains with measurable… Read More
Latest developments: Calamos says its protected Bitcoin ETFs are attracting inflows even as spot Bitcoin ETFs see redemptions. Matt Kaufman, head of ETFs at Calamos, said the firm saw roughly $10 million to $15 million in inflows over the past several weeks. Kaufman said advisors… Read More
VerifiedX says its Bitcoin sidechain enables programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers, targeting growing institutional demand for native DeFi on the original blockchain system.
A U.S. Senate that’s struggled to move crypto market structure legislation moved like lightning on Thursday to ban themselves from participating in prediction markets. Acting on a simple, 14-line resolution pushed by Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, the Senate agreed unanimously to put a restriction… Read More
