Brian Quarmby

The bill proposes to prohibit government officials from using insider information to bet on prediction market contracts, with fines up to double the amount of profits.

The Treasury Department announced plans to add US President Donald Trump’s signature to US currency, reportedly starting with the $100 bill in June. 

The bill adds to a wave of recent legislative and state-level actions targeting prediction markets as scrutiny over sports betting, war contracts and alleged insider trading builds.

The stablecoin bill introduced in Delaware aims to create a licensing framework for stablecoin issuers as part of the state's first major banking code update since 1981.

The Meta co-founder is reportedly working on a personal AI agent to bypass management layers as Meta pushes employees to adopt agentic tools. 

US authorities say they have charged and arrested Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw for allegedly funnelling $2.5 billion in AI servers to China through shell companies.

Evernorth is moving closer to a public listing after filing a Form S-4 with the SEC, the final major regulatory hurdle of its SPAC merger plan.

The SEC has proposed narrowing Rule 15c2-11 to equity securities only, and is now seeking comment on whether it should apply to certain crypto assets, among other questions. 

Australia’s securities regulator said two-thirds of Gen Z are using social media to make decisions about their financial future, leading to “riskier” financial decisions. 

The fresh capital from Kraken’s parent company, ARK Invest, and Bitmine has backed Eightco’s new bets on OpenAI and MrBeast.

Clear Street and Marex Group are planning to offer prediction markets to clients, with Kalshi’s CEO tipping it to become a “core pillar of the financial ecosystem.”

Tron joined the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation to help develop open infrastructure for AI agents alongside members including Circle and JPMorgan.

Sharplink says it will continue to acquire Ether despite a brutal crypto market sell-off last year that led to a $616.2 million paper loss on its ETH holdings. 

Finance and insurance job listings declined towards the end of 2025, with The Kobeissi Letter arguing the sector should “brace” for job cuts. 

The company behind the clothing brand Original Penguin has accused Pudgy Penguins’ clothing merchandise of infringing on its trademarks.

The Federal Reserve and US banking regulators have clarified that tokenized securities are subject to the same capital treatment as traditional assets.

The stablecoin issuer led a $50 million funding round for Eight Sleep as the companies explore AI-driven health monitoring and sleep optimization.

Jan van Eck suggested that analysts have been overcomplicating recent Bitcoin price action, arguing that the four-year cycle has been the main driver holding prices down.

Security auditor OpenZepplin found that EVMbench’s dataset contains training data leaks and at least four invalid high-severity vulnerability classifications.

Magic Eden is shifting resources from NFTs to its casino platform Dicey, after a closed beta saw $15 million wagered by around 200 users in two months.

Police seized the Bitcoin in 2021 but stored it in a third-party wallet, which was later accessed by unauthorized parties, with the loss remaining undiscovered for four years.

A new Chainalysis report suggests ransomware attackers are “working harder for diminishing returns” as regulatory pressure and refusals to pay have hurt ransom proceeds. 

Stripe executives Patrick and John Collison expect blockchain network demands to increase significantly as adoption and use of AI agents grow in the future. 

Anthropic alleges Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax made 24,000 accounts and 16 million Claude exchanges to scrape its AI bot for training. 

The US Federal Reserve is seeking feedback over the next 60 days on a proposal that could address concerns about crypto-related debanking. 

Court documents indicate that JPMorgan de-banked Trump, with debanking one of the main reasons the Trump family turned to crypto. 

Bitcoin-treasury firm Strategy has accumulated 717,131 Bitcoin since August 2020, and has made 99 Bitcoin purchases to date. 

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari says crypto is “utterly useless” compared to AI, and that pro-stablecoin arguments are “a buzzword salad.”

The Aptos Foundation will propose a 2.1 billion token hard cap, short-term staking reward reductions, and a 10x gas fee increase. 

The Prediction Markets Working Group, launched by The Digital Chamber, will champion the sector’s values while advocating for the CFTC to maintain primary oversight.