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Polymarket bets on U.S. marketing blitz to win back trust after 4-year ban: Report

The prediction market's head of U.S. operations says the business is taking steps to legitimize itself after years of legal scrutiny.

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Crypto Long & Short: With MSTR concerns assuaged, look to traditional signals around BTC

In this week's Crypto Long & Short, FalconX’s Gaspar Martin writes that BTC is reaching a market bottom and is poised for a turnaround.

Cryptocurrencies are likely to surge in the coming days. (Getty Images)

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Crypto VC Paradigm launches $1.2 billion AI fund as it broadens beyond digital assets

The firm's latest fund backs AI and robotics startups but leadership says it remains committed to crypto investing.

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Finance

Dinari, tZERO join forces on turnkey platform for tokenized U.S. equities

The move comes as firms race to build the infrastructure for blockchain-based stocks and debate how tokenized stocks should work.

Dinari co-founder and CEO Gabe Otte (Dinari)
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Adam Back's bitcoin treasury firm scraps SPAC merger, seeks new deal

BSTR and Cantor Equity Partners will not complete their merger under the original July 2025 agreement, with the shareholder meeting postponed indefinitely.

Adam Back, CEO Blockstream (second from right) speaks at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

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BNB Chain is building a new layer-1 for high-frequency trading and AI agents

The network aims to process over 100,000 transactions per second by streaming them directly, eliminating public queues to make trades faster and more secure.

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Citadel abandons multi-year crypto lawsuit to focus on bankruptcy order against an ex-employee

After winning a 6 million-pound London arbitration award, Citadel dropped its U.S. trade secrets case, saying another judgment would likely go uncollected.

Citadel Securities Chairman Ken Griffin

Markets

SpaceX's first bitcoin wallet movements in six months likely don't signal sales

Onchain trackers found the newly public company shifted a tiny amount of bitcoin between its own addresses. Nothing reached an exchange.

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Crypto and stocks tumble after Trump declares ceasefire 'over' following Iran strikes

Bitcoin fell, altcoins slid after Trump said the ceasefire with Iran is "over" as U.S. and Iran traded airstrikes.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

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Reserve Bank of India still favors crypto prohibition to curtail tax evasion: Reuters

Indian regulators maintained a hawkish stance despite the growing embrace of digital assets and technology by governments worldwide.

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Tech

Validators embrace XRP Ledger's recent upgrade. But not everyone’s on board yet

The new software leads among the network's validators, yet by node count it sits behind the older v3.1.3, and the security amendment bundled with it remains a separate, slower vote. The upgrade needs 80% of the trusted validator list to activate.

Glasses in front of monitors with code (Kevin Ku/Unsplash)
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Live markets: Bitcoin drops to $62,000 as oil and bond yields surge on collapse of Iran ceasefire

Hedge funds have turned the most bearish on the yen since 2007, boosting bets on further losses to nearly 138,000 contracts as of June 30.

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Markets

Bitcoin under pressure as Trump says Iran ceasefire is over

Major cryptocurrencies are trading in the red as renewed U.S.-Iran airstrikes push oil higher.

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BlackRock-backed Securitize slides 40% after SPAC debut despite tokenization boom

The decline fits into a pattern of recently-public digital asset companies sliding after debut, Arca's Jeff Dorman said.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo at ETHConf 2026 (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto exchange Kraken is trying to become a bank in Europe

Kraken's focus is on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure the license, according to a person familiar with the plans.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi. (CoinDesk)
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