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Polymarket snaps up Brahma as competition in prediction market heats up

Prediction markets platform Polymarket on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Brahma, a financial infrastructure company that has built real-time execution and settlement systems for high-volume digital asset and fintech transactions. “[Brahma has] quickly becoming an industry leader in building and developing programmable systems spanning blockchain systems, transaction execution and payments,” Polymarket said in an emailed […]

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BTC adds to losses after Fed pause and Powell press conference

Bitcoin BTC$71,293.39 fell below $71,000 on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell flagged rising oil prices amid the Iran war as a new inflation risk. The Fed kept interest rates steady as expected, but at his post-meeting news conference, Powell acknowledged that the recent surge in energy prices was already fueling the central bank’s

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SEC Approves Nasdaq’s Decision to Allow Trading of Tokenized Securities

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday approved Nasdaq’s proposal to allow certain securities to be traded in tokenized form, an important step in integrating blockchain technology into U.S. securities markets. The Nasdaq tokenization plan is linked to a pilot project led by the Depository Trust Company (DTC), which will manage the clearing

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Fairshake’s $10 million miss in Illinois marks the first big problem in the rise of crypto politics

Losing a race is unusual for the crypto industry’s political action committee, Fairshake, which posted a dominant record in the last two congressional elections. But the Illinois primary this week suffered its biggest setback on record, and will likely end with a new member of the Senate next year, someone the PAC spent more than

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Bankrupt exchange FTX set to repay $2.2 billion to creditors this month

FTX Recovery Trust said Wednesday it will distribute about $2.2 billion to creditors on March 31 as part of its bankruptcy recovery process, with additional payments to preferred stock holders expected later this year. The payment marks the fourth distribution under FTX’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan and will go to “practical” and “non-practical” class creditors

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FDA investigates 7 illnesses caused by E. Coli as raw dairy farm denies link

Federal food safety authorities are investigating an outbreak of E. coli that sickened seven people in three states after some of them reported eating cheese made by a raw dairy farm in California, but the company denied its products caused the illnesses. Five people in California, one person in Texas and one person in Florida

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Kalshi’s co-founder is fighting Arizona’s ‘overreach’ in what one lawyer calls a federal-state turf war.

Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour called Arizona’s criminal case against the company a “total overreach,” calling the move an attack on a federally regulated exchange rather than a standard gambling enforcement action. Mansour said the charges “have nothing to do with gambling or merits” and argued that Arizona is trying to short-circuit a broader legal battle

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Investors should prepare for higher interest rates for longer after Middle East conflict upends oil market

Since the start of the Iran war, the market narrative has been simple: the oil boom, inflationary impulse and broader market volatility will be temporary and will subside once the conflict ends, allowing central banks to grease the economy and markets with easy money, as they always did after 2008. But there is a contrary

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Payward, parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has put its IPO plans on hold

Crypto exchange Kraken, which announced plans to go public four months ago, has put the plan on hold, according to two people familiar with the matter. The company is still considering an IPO, but probably not until market conditions improve, said the sources, who requested anonymity because the matter is private. A Kraken spokesperson said:

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