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Bitcoin is trapped in a tight range, with short-term technicals leaning cautious to bearish as BTC sits below key moving averages. A break of support or resistance could spark a sharp move, but until then, the market looks compressed, tense, and undecided.
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Bitcoin whales added 19,696 BTC in eight days, but BTC still can’t clear $65,500 with conviction. Retail buying is fading, momentum is mixed, and the chart looks constructive — not broken, not bullish enough to call it a win yet.
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Apple is being sued over a fake Sparrow Wallet app in its App Store that allegedly helped drain more than $1.8 million in Bitcoin from three users. The case puts Apple’s “safe and trusted” pitch under the microscope — and shows how one bad download can turn into a very expensive lesson.
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A federal judge has paused Minnesota’s first-in-the-nation prediction market ban before its August 1 start date, giving Kalshi and Polymarket a temporary win as regulators and the industry fight over whether these markets are gambling or federally regulated contracts.
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IREN’s shift from Bitcoin mining to AI cloud infrastructure is forcing investors to rethink the stock’s value. With $2.8 billion in contracts and a huge buildout ahead, the upside is real — but so is the execution risk around power, GPUs, and timing.
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked Minnesota’s prediction market ban from hitting CFTC-registered platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, but only while the case plays out and only where federal law may already apply. The fight over whether these markets are regulated finance or dressed-up gambling is far from over.
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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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