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Polymarket targets $20 billion valuation as competition heats up in prediction market sector
The blockchain-based prediction markets platform is reportedly returning to investors months after a $15 billion funding round.
Counting down the days: State of Crypto
The Senate is going on its summer break in a week, leaving next to no time left to sort out its remaining priorities in August. And obviously, the fate of Clarity is one of those priorities.
Everyone has the perps convergence backwards
Crypto is said to be growing up to look like Wall Street. The evidence in its biggest market points the other way, argues Bitget CEO Gracy Chen.
The good and the bad of perps, according to crypto traders
Both retail and institutional traders worry about the funding rate.
RWA perps will outpace tokenization
Tokenization was crypto's first big export to TradFi. Perps are next, says Martin Lee, markets insight lead at DWF labs.
JPMorgan says fading Clarity Act odds weigh on crypto outlook
The bank said deteriorating prospects for U.S. market structure legislation remove a key catalyst for digital assets, even as tokenization and institutional adoption advance.
Institutional crypto trading hits a record 72% as Wall Street calms crypto's wild swings
A new report from market maker Wintermute found that institutions now dominate crypto trading, driving lower volatility, selective altcoin flows and growth in tokenized assets.
Ethereum enters its second decade after a year of upheaval at the foundation
Few periods in Ethereum's 11-year history have brought as much change, from leadership shakeups at the Ethereum Foundation to institutional adoption, as the past year has.
Everything is becoming a perp
The perpetual — the 24/7, leveraged contract that crypto invented and then perfected — is no longer just a way to trade crypto, says Katana Network’s Matthew Fisher. It’s becoming the way to trade everything.
Bitcoin and ether markets are ruled by perps. SpaceX showed how far their influence can go
Perpetual futures drive much of the price discovery for bitcoin and ether. When traders pointed the same machinery at a private company, they priced the biggest IPO in history more accurately than Wall Street, and then watched the stock walk away from them.
