Baltimore's lawsuit against Kalshi and Polymarket, with Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull named as partners, opens a new city-level front in the fight over whether sports-linked prediction markets are illegal gambling.
The SEC's Division of Investment Management told Franklin Templeton it would not recommend enforcement against its traditional funds for holding shares of the BENJI tokenized money-market fund.
A misconfigured default route at hosting provider Teraswitch took nearly 29% of staked SOL offline, coming within 20 million tokens of the threshold that would have halted finality.
The CFTC ordered Kalshi to keep its prediction markets running in New York after the state sued to bar them as illegal gambling, invoking emergency authority the agency says protects its exclusive federal jurisdiction over event contracts.
Federal regulators filed parallel SEC and CFTC civil actions against Goliath Ventures and CEO Christopher Delgado over an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme that took in at least $397 million from roughly 1,600 customers.
A breakaway Bitcoin fork built around the BIP-110 anti-spam proposal mined just two blocks before stalling, drawing only about 2.53% of network hashpower and exposing divisions among miners over how to handle non-financial transactions.
The Senate left for August recess without clearing the CLARITY Act, pushing a procedural vote to September even as bitcoin held above $65,000 and a former defense secretary framed the bill as a national-security measure.
SDNY prosecutors say Few and Far founder Taj Tarsha spent investor token money on gambling, trading losses and a DJ career rather than building the NFT marketplace he pitched.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that establishes a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchanges and permits domestic retail trading for the first time.
