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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission threw itself in between Michigan courts and prediction market firm Kalshi on Tuesday, issuing an order to disallow the company from meeting a local court demand that it cancel previous customer transactions.The CFTC move amplifies its legal fight with state governments and courts over what its chairman argues is its unbreakable and exclusive regulatory authority over trading at Kalshi, which it regulates as a designated contract market (DCM).”The commission will not allow states or state courts to bully registered entities into violating the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations,” said CFTC Chairman Mike Selig…

Higher rates hurt bitcoin and risk assets as when the Fed raises rates, cash and Treasury bonds start paying a decent, guaranteed return, so investors have less reason to hold something that pays no yield and swings 5% in a session. On the other hand, cooler inflation means the Fed has less reason to raise, so that pull weakens and money flows back the other way.Elsewhere, brent crude advanced 1% to above $85 a barrel, a third consecutive day of gains, after President Trump threatened further strikes on Iran and the U.S. resumed its blockade of Iranian shipping through the…

Coinbase, among others, filled that gap in May 2025. Under x402, a server that wants payment answers a request with a 402 and a price. The client signs a stablecoin transfer, usually USDC, resends the request with the payment attached, and gets the data. The exchange takes seconds and needs no account, no card, and no prior relationship between the two sides.That is why the AI industry cares. An autonomous agent cannot open a bank account, pass a credit check or sign a SaaS contract, but can sign a transaction. Google has wired x402 into its own agent payments protocol,…

BitMine Immersion Technologies posted revenue of $46.5 million in the three months ended May 31, a 22x jump from a year earlier, even as a $9.1 billion nine-month net loss dominated its latest filing. The loss stems almost entirely from a non-cash markdown on the company’s Ethereum (ETH) holdings. Underneath it, BitMine’s staking business scaled from almost nothing into the firm’s dominant revenue source. Staking Drives BitMine’s Revenue According to BitMine’s filing, revenue from staking and validation reached $45.7 million, about 98% of the total. A year earlier, that line was zero. The rest came from small self-mining and consulting…

Blockchain.com Taps Polymarket To Embed Prediction Markets In App – Chainwire HomeNewsroomBlockchain.com Taps Polymarket To Embed Prediction Markets In App We use cookies to make Chainwire’s website a better experience. Cookies help us provide a more personalized experience and relevant advertising for you, and web analytics for us. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. The technical storage or access is necessary…

British Virgin Islands, Road Town, July 14, 2026  — TxFlow L1, the Layer 1 blockchain powering a multi-application onchain financial ecosystem built around its TIP Liquidity Standards, today announced its second Channel: Probly, the first prediction-market application built on TxFlow Improvement Protocol 3 (TIP3). Following TxFlow DEX—the blockchain’s first application and a central limit order book (CLOB) decentralized exchange for perpetual trading, Probly expands the TxFlow L1 ecosystem into real-time prediction markets. At launch, the platform offers 172 live markets covering more than 7,000 events, including continuously rolling markets with durations as short as five minutes, backed by fully onchain…

Founded by the team behind the Ethereum Foundation’s Institutional Privacy Task Force, EthSystems is building privacy and compliance technology for Ethereum Key backers include Bitmine, Sharplink and Joe Lubin NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EthSystems, an engineering and research company (the “Company”), today announced its public launch with anchor funding from Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR), Sharplink, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBET), Joe Lubin and other ecosystem supporters. The Company is building privacy technology that lets banks, asset managers and other regulated institutions execute financial transactions on Ethereum at scale, without exposing sensitive information like trade details or client…

Victoria, Seychelles, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, releases its observations on equity-related futures trading activity around Micron’s (MU) earnings report. Micron posted quarterly revenue of approximately $41.4 billion, significantly exceeding market expectations. Following the earnings release, capital concentrated into AI memory and storage, with notable increases in trading activity across related instruments. Micron was the most-traded stock and equity index futures instrument on MEXC, with trading volume up approximately 142% from the previous day. SanDisk, SK hynix, and DRAM ETF also recorded volume increases of approximately 83%, 28%, and 35%, respectively. Together, these…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 14th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today released its Ecosystem & Growth Report for the second quarter of 2026. In Q1, users mostly bought gold and other hedges against macro risk. In Q2, their attention turned to AI projects and US stocks, and MEXC spent the quarter building products for exactly that demand. Users can now back a company before its IPO, trade stock futures on it, hold tokenized shares, and buy real US stocks and ETFs, all inside one MEXC account. Every piece of that path launched or grew during the…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 13th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the addition of five Ondo tokenized stock and ETF trading pairs to its spot market, the latest expansion of its ongoing collaboration with Ondo Finance. The new pairs cover the semiconductor, energy and AI infrastructure sectors, expanding the range of tokenized U.S. equities available to users and allowing them to trade these assets using USDT. The trading pairs include tokenized stocks and ETFs tracking Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X ETF (SOXLON/USDT), Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X ETF (SOXSON/USDT), Halliburton (HALON/USDT) and Core Scientific (CORZON/USDT), all…