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Kraken parent Payward is buying Magic Labs’ wallet-as-a-service business, adding infrastructure used by 60 million wallets and $10B+ in stablecoin volume as it expands beyond exchange trading. Magic Labs becomes Newton Labs, focused on policy-heavy onchain finance tools.
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Kalshi’s bid for emergency protection was denied, leaving the prediction-market platform exposed to New York enforcement while its appeal moves forward. The fight now centers on whether federal derivatives law can override state gambling rules for sports-event contracts.
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World is pushing proof of personhood beyond crypto circles, pitching World ID as a privacy-preserving way to verify real humans for enterprise tools, consumer apps, and AI agents. With partners like Zoom, DocuSign, Tinder, and more, the bet is simple: the internet’s bot problem is getting too ugly to ignore.
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Cantor Fitzgerald is reportedly weighing a public listing for AMINA Bank, a regulated crypto lender with Swiss and EU credentials, as Wall Street keeps pushing deeper into Bitcoin, tokenized markets, and crypto banking. It’s early, but the signal is clear: institutions want in, and they want the real rails, not the usual vaporware.
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Ondo Finance has scrapped its Layer 1 ambitions and rolled out Ondo Network, a hybrid execution layer that aims to deliver CEX-like speed for private onchain trading while keeping settlement public. The first live app is Ondo Perps, alongside a new regulated U.S. rail for tokenized securities.
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Solana’s next move is less about hype and more about whether real usage, reliability, and upgrades like Alpenglow can justify a lasting rebound. Speed helped SOL get noticed; proving it can stay useful may decide its price by 2026.
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Bitcoin’s 2027 outlook is split between real upside and real macro risk: a model points to $140K–$180K as the base case, $200K–$250K if ETF and institutional demand keeps building, and $50K–$80K if rates, liquidity, or regulation turn hostile.
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X Money is rolling out US payments for Premium users with up to 6% yields, instant transfers, and FDIC-backed deposit features — but despite years of crypto hype, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and stablecoins are nowhere in the launch.
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Letitia James is warning that the CLARITY Act could go too far in shielding crypto firms from state fraud enforcement, giving Washington more power at the expense of local prosecutors. Supporters call it overdue market clarity; critics say it could hand scammers a federal loophole.
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Kaspa’s smart-contract launch is a real technical step, but the market’s shrug says macro still owns altcoins. With liquidity tight and risk appetite weak, even solid progress can get buried — though the chart still looks decent if buyers show up.
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