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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has made its position clear: prediction market contracts are financial derivatives, not gambling, and insider trading laws apply accordingly.

Foreign exchange startup OpenFX has raised $94 million in fresh funding to expand its stablecoin-powered cross-border payments platform, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

A group of over 40 U.S. lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, is demanding that federal regulators take immediate action to address the problem of insider trading on prediction markets.

Jack Dorsey's long-standing vision of embedding Bitcoin into daily commerce just took a major step forward. His company, Square, has automatically enabled Bitcoin payments for millions of U.

Prediction markets kept moving this week. Trading continues, positions are opened and closed, and the machinery keeps running. On the surface, it still looks like business as usual, but it doesn't.

ARK Invest and prediction market platform Kalshi have announced a collaboration to test how prediction markets can be used within institutional research workflows.

eToro has begun rolling out a feature that allows users to connect their own AI agents to live trading accounts. The company said the new function lets developers automate trades directly through e ...

Russia has delayed enforcement of a new advertising ban on Telegram and YouTube following backlash from lawmakers and the online business community.

Robinhood has announced a new $1.5 billion stock repurchase plan, coming as crypto and tech markets face pressure from wider geopolitical and economic uncertainty.

The most active segment of prediction markets -- sports-related contracts -- is coming under coordinated pressure from lawmakers, state regulators and gaming groups, putting a key source of trading v ...