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Regulations Jean-Luc Maracon · July 18, 2026 · 4 min read Malta wants to be first. First EU country with a standalone regulatory framework for prediction markets — not shoehorned under gambling law, not squeezed into financial services rules, but something built specifically for this sector. Prime Minister Robert Abela went public with plans to give the Malta Gaming Authority licensing powers over prediction markets. Economy Minister Silvio Schembri confirmed the government is actively drafting the proposal. If it clears the legislative process, Malta becomes the only EU member state with a purpose-built prediction market regime. Sound familiar? It should.…

Digital assets have become one of the most prominent technological trends for businesses in every industry. The continuously expanding digital asset market has also called for reliable measures to maintain transparency and ensuring effective risk management. The utility of top digital asset auditor tools can open the doors to effective digital asset compliance and help digital asset businesses earn the trust of their customers. Analysts have pointed out that the RWA market will grow up to almost $19 trillion by 2033 (Source).   The number of users in the digital assets market is likely to reach around 994 million in 2026…

Few things are more frustrating than watching a winning day turn into a losing one because of a single emotional decision. One bad trade can quickly spiral into several more as traders desperately try to recover what they just lost. This destructive cycle is known as revenge trading, and it has emptied more trading accounts than almost any chart pattern or market event.The market doesn’t know you just lost money. It doesn’t care that your stop loss was hit or that a news headline caused a sudden reversal. Yet many traders subconsciously believe the next trade has to make everything…

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San Francisco, CA, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Completes Third Open-Market Purchase as Contributor Network and Assets Continue to Grow Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced the completion of a third strategic purchase of Numeraire (NMR), acquiring an additional $1.2 million of the token from the open market. The purchase brings Numerai’s total NMR buybacks to $3.2 million within one year. The buyback reflects Numerai’s continued investment in the staking system that aligns thousands of independent data scientists toward improving the firm’s Stake-Weighted Meta Model, the machine learning model that powers Numerai’s…

London, United Kingdom, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover. The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties. As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional audiences, securing industry-leading protection against slashing risk for ether.fi users is critical. Over the last year, ether.fi has been systematically strengthening their stack across infrastructure, risk management, operational security and real-time defense systems.  Since ether.fi operates one of the largest validator sets on Ethereum, slashing is a…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed five Ondo tokenized stock trading pairs on its spot market in collaboration with Ondo Finance. The five companies span a supply chain that runs from semiconductor and precision component manufacturing to industrial cooling and power infrastructure supporting AI data centers, allowing users to trade these U.S. stocks using USDT on MEXC around the clock, with instant settlement and no traditional brokerage account required. The trading pairs include tokenized shares of STMicroelectronics N.V. (STMON/USDT), Fabrinet (FNON/USDT), Trane Technologies (TTON/USDT), Amphenol (APHON/USDT) and Quanta Services (PWRON/USDT).…

Dubai, UAE, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today released its Q1 2026 BTC spot execution analysis, showing that its Rapid Price Improvement (RPI) mechanism consistently delivered lower trading slippage than comparable execution measurements across major cryptocurrency exchanges. As digital asset markets continue to mature, execution quality has emerged as an increasingly important measure of market performance alongside trading fees and quoted liquidity. Bybit’s latest analysis demonstrates that improvements in market structure can materially reduce trading costs for both retail and institutional participants. Across simulated BTC/USDT spot trades ranging from US$10,000 to US$1…

Willemstad, Curaçao, July 17th, 2026, PlayNewswire Cryptocurrency has become one of the fastest-growing categories within prediction markets, as traders and investors increasingly look beyond price charts to speculate on major industry milestones. Reflecting this trend, international betting brand 1win has expanded its Markets product with a series of new cryptocurrency prediction markets covering some of the sector’s most closely watched digital assets. The new crypto-themed forecasts on 1win Markets allow users to speculate on topics, including “Crypto-related forecasts are becoming a natural extension of prediction markets, giving users another way to engage with some of the biggest narratives in the…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 16th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today released its May–June bimonthly security report, reinforcing its role as a trusted global gateway where security and trust always come first. The audit indicates that MEXC’s Futures Insurance Fund surpassed a landmark threshold of 750 million USDT as of June 29, marking a substantial 34% expansion over the preceding reporting period. Concurrently, reserve verification data confirm that the coverage ratios for BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC all remained safely above 100%, with Bitcoin delivering a reserve ratio of 269.35%. During May–June, crypto security incidents remained…