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Kalshi is ending its volume incentive program nearly a year early and replacing its broad volume-based approach with targeted deposit and trading rewards. The change comes amid scrutiny of crypto-market trading patterns and reported talks to raise $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation.
America.gov’s new AI chatbot reportedly answers Minecraft questions with a roughly 1,800-word rewrite of the game’s End Poem. The response appears to be a deliberate Easter egg, while the government platform is designed to organize information from about 29,000 websites.
The CFTC has sent two rules to the White House that would reshape how prediction-market event contracts are treated under federal law. One would classify them as swaps, potentially strengthening federal authority over platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket.
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Bitget says its $309 million Protection Fund absorbed the financial impact of a security breach that caused $388 million in user losses. Access to Bitcoin, Ether and USDt has returned, while withdrawals for all tokens are expected to resume Friday as investigators track stolen assets.
A UK court ordered former National Crime Agency officer Paul Chowles to repay £1,810,678.93 after he stole 50 Bitcoin seized in a Silk Road 2.0 investigation. The coins were worth about £60,000 in 2017, but 30 were later recovered after blockchain tracing.
The $387.5 million Bitget hack has intensified debate over whether THORChain could face legal claims for processing stolen funds. A crypto lawyer says decentralization may protect the protocol, but any demonstrated control could weaken that defense.
Petrobras is testing Cardano in two research projects covering sustainable aviation fuel and partly renewable Diesel R. The initiatives aim to prevent double counting of emissions benefits and create traceable fuel records, but no rollout timetable or covered volumes have been disclosed.
Europe’s MiCA review is weighing how to preserve a unified crypto market while controlling compliance costs. Cointelegraph highlights proportional regulation, licensing overlaps and stablecoin reserve rules as key issues for the European Commission’s assessment.
SlowMist says the earliest activity tied to Bitget’s roughly $388 million theft began with an Aug. 31 zero-day exploit in a third-party security product. Investigators also found access to another security platform and a customized tool used to generate fraudulent withdrawals.
HANetf has listed bitcoin ETCs hedged against sterling and euro movements, giving European investors access to bitcoin while reducing the effect of dollar exchange-rate changes. GBTC trades in London, while EBTC is listed on Xetra and Euronext Paris, with HSBC providing the hedges.
Crypto.com’s ai.com personal AI agent remains in development nearly eight months after a $15 million Super Bowl advertisement triggered a rush of visitors and crashed the website. Rival platforms have since introduced narrower AI tools for trading and portfolio management.
Robinhood is adding AI trading agents, weekend access for selected U.S. stocks and ETFs, and crypto perpetual futures with leverage of up to 10 times as it targets more active traders and brings crypto-style market access into its brokerage platform.
Anthropic reported a nearly $42 billion 2025 loss, including a large non-cash charge, while planning hundreds of billions in infrastructure spending. Its backers are seeking a valuation above $2 trillion for an IPO expected after the November U.S. midterm elections.
Coinbase has received CFTC approval for its clearinghouse, giving it exchange, futures broker and clearing licenses under one corporate platform. The company says the structure will support USDC-collateralized, round-the-clock derivatives, while planned single-stock perpetuals remain with existing clearing partners.
Chainlink’s CCIP 2.0 lets issuers require extra verifier approvals before cross-chain tokens are released or minted. Because tokens may already be locked or burned on the source chain, an unavailable verifier can leave delivery pending, with no general automatic refund route specified.
NEAR Intents says it blocked about $503,000 linked to Bitget’s $388 million hack after more than $50 million in attempted transfers reached its swap service. The action has renewed questions about permissionless crypto infrastructure and how intercepted funds can be recovered.
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