Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Policy

Congress hits Polymarket and Kalshi with a massive insider trading probe

Rep. James Comer is demanding internal records from the prediction market CEOs, warning that government employees could be using classified information to make “huge profits”.

congress. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Tom Lee says trillions in tech IPO supply won't crash the S&P 500

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee argues that trillions in new IPO supply from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could ultimately be absorbed by underallocated investors.

Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine and cofounder of Fundstrat, speaking at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin left behind in the geopolitical melee

Your day-ahead look for May 22, 2026

Geopolitics (Vilius Kukanauskas/Pixabay)

Markets

Ark Invest buys $12.5 million of Bullish stock in four days

Ark frequently uses broader digital asset downturns, which tend to pull crypto equities lower, as an entry point into cryptocurrency companies.

Crypto platform Bullish goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. (CoinDesk/Nik De)

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Markets

Crypto majors stuck in tight range as altcoin rotation picks up steam

Bitcoin holds between $76,000 and $78,000 while AI tokens and HYPE surge; derivatives signal calm conditions with volatility selling dominating options markets.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

ZachXBT flags $520K Polymarket exploit on Polygon, team says funds are safe

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has highlighted a suspected security breach involving Polymarket, the world’s largest decentralized prediction market platform.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Markets

Near Protocol to automate its own growth and its token is skyrocketing

Near Protocol will introduce dynamic resharding in June, allowing the blockchain to automatically add shards as demand grows without human intervention.

SpaceX rocket launching into space (SpaceX/Unsplash)

Policy

Polymarket aims for prediction market approval in Japan by 2030

Mike Eidlin, head of Japan at cryptocurrency exchange Jupiter, is leading Polymarket's efforts, according to reports.

Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of Polymarket (CoinDesk/Jesse Hamilton)

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Finance

Blockchain.com files with SEC for U.S. IPO

The crypto financial services firm submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC as it explores a public listing amid renewed momentum in digital asset markets.

Blockchain.com founder and CEO Peter Smith (Blockchain.com, modified by CoinDesk)