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Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has warned that prediction markets are in danger of becoming “cursed” and “corposlop” due to an over-reliance on retail gambling. Buterin suggested an alternative path for prediction markets where they could become hedging instruments allowing users to offset the cost of their personal expenses, a use case Buterin suggests could remove the need for fiat currencies entirely. Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has expressed concern around the direction prediction markets are taking, suggesting they’re heading down a path towards becoming “corposlop” as they increasingly rely on “people with dumb opinions who bet on totally wrong things,” to…

Tokenized US Treasuries are close to $11 billion, but the chain war is shifting from issuance to distribution and utility. Where yield tokens actually sit, how often they move, and whether they plug into stablecoin settlement and collateral workflows are what matters.Last week, XRP Ledger (XRPL) got two signals that it’s trying to matter in that “venue” fight.First, Aviva Investors said it’s partnering with Ripple to tokenize traditional fund structures on the XRP Ledger, framing tokenization as moving from experiments to “large-scale production” over the next decade.Second, OpenEden’s TBILL token supply is skewed toward XRPL: more of the supply resides…

Two democratic senators have asked the Treasury to determine whether a UAE-backed investment in a Trump-linked crypto firm requires national security scrutiny. The reported 49% stake was acquired shortly before Trump’s second inauguration and involved substantial payments to entities linked to his family and Steve Witkoff. Lawmakers raised concerns about potential foreign access to user data and cited intelligence warnings regarding G42’s alleged China ties. Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim have urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to assess whether a US$500 million (AU$705 million) investment by a United Arab Emirates-linked entity in World Liberty Financial should face a…

Crypto analytics platform Santiment has identified a “capitulation” signal in the memecoin sector, suggesting that extreme social media pessimism and the “end of the meme era” narrative historically precede a market rebound. The total memecoin market value fell 34.04% over 30 days to US$31.02 billion, coinciding with Bitcoin reaching its lowest price since October 2024. Most top-100 memecoins show muted movement, though outliers like Pippin surged 243.17%, leading to debates on whether the next market cycle will be narrower and more selective. Santiment says memecoins may be closer to a rebound than traders think, arguing that the current mood around…

Bitcoin is hovering near the US$60,000 psychological level, where approximately US$1.24 billion in “put” options are clustered, creating a potential trigger for market volatility. Analysts warn that dropping below this zone could force lenders to automatically sell collateral from Bitcoin-backed loans, potentially causing a “deleveraging” wave toward the US$40,000 range. Following a 47% decline from its October peak, Standard Chartered has slashed its year-end 2026 forecast to US$100,000, citing the risk of a further slide to US$50,000 before a potential recovery. Bitcoin’s (BTC) options market and loan structures are concentrating attention on the US$60K (AU$91K) level.  A recent report by…

A Miami federal court entered a multimillion-dollar default judgment after the defendant failed to participate in proceedings. The court allocated damages across emotional harm, reputational impact and punitive findings tied to online statements. Attempts to overturn the ruling were denied despite claims of incarceration and mental health challenges. Kevin O’Leary has secured a US$2.8 million (AU$3.95 million) default judgment against crypto content creator Ben Armstrong in a defamation action heard in federal court in Miami. The ruling was issued by the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida and followed Armstrong’s failure to appear or file a defence.…

Cboe wants to bring back all-or-nothing options, a contract that pays a fixed amount if a condition is met and pays zero if it isn’t.While that might sound like a small product refresh, the timing makes it hard to ignore. Prediction markets have trained a new retail reflex: turn a belief into a number that reads like odds, then buy or sell that number.Cboe’s proposal to the SEC is an attempt to package that same instinct inside US exchange rules, clearing, and brokerage distribution.However, it’s important to note that Cboe isn’t trying to replicate Polymarket feature-for-feature. The company is actually…

Bitcoin’s February drop to about $60,000 was the kind of single-day panic people will remember as a bottom.But the more accurate reading of this washout is harder and more useful: this cycle quit in stages, and the sellers rotated.A Feb. 10 report from Checkonchain framed the move as a capitulation event that arrived fast, on heavy volume, with losses large enough to reset psychology.It also argues that the market had already capitulated once before, in November 2025, and that the identity of the sellers was different in each act.So if we really want to understand where the weak points were,…

Crypto winter has a branding problem.The phrase makes it sound like the chain goes quiet, wallets stop moving, and the whole machine turns cold. However, the cleanest proof of retail pulling back rarely lives on-chain.The people who vanish first aren’t the power users bridging stables into DeFi or the long-term holders shuffling coins between cold storage addresses. They’re the casual participants who show up when risk feels fun, open a broker app, tap market buy, and then disappear without leaving a neat on-chain footprint.That’s why the most usable retail barometer sits in an often overlooked place: the earnings lines of…

Bitcoin derivative traders are increasingly positioning for further downside rather than a clean bounce as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in a tight range below $70,000.According to CryptoSlate’s data, BTC price bottomed at $65,092 during the last 24 hours but has since recovered to $66,947 as of press time. This continues a weeklong tight trading that has failed to yield any momentum for the bellwether crypto.That fragility is showing up most clearly in derivatives, where traders are increasingly leaning into short positions designed to profit from further weakness rather than a clean rebound.This setup creates a familiar tension in…