Pennsylvania Bill Could Shut Sportsbooks Out of Prediction-Market Making

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A bipartisan Pennsylvania bill would impose insider-trading rules and consumer protections on prediction markets while blocking gambling companies from supplying their liquidity. The restriction could disrupt market-making strategies pursued by Draftkings, Flutter and other sportsbook groups expanding into federally regulated event contracts. A liquidity restriction aimed at gambling companies A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania lawmakers … Read more

Less Than 2 Weeks Left — Bitcoin’s BIP-110 Clock Starts Ticking as Miner Support Creeps Higher Before Showdown

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Bitcoin’s mandatory signaling window for the proposed BIP-110 soft fork opens in less than two weeks, and the story has changed more than the headline number suggests. Miner support remains modest at roughly 2.64%, but several weeks ago, signaling struggled to stay above 1%. Since then, it has climbed gradually as the deadline has come … Read more

Liquid Staking Giant Lido Moves 8 Million ETH Onto New Validators to Ease Ethereum Network Load

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Lido has activated the largest upgrade to its Core Protocol since Lido V2, and it starts by moving more than 8 million ETH onto Ethereum’s newer validator design, the company explained on Monday, in a note shared with Bitcoin.com News. That stake, worth roughly $16.5 billion, is about a fifth of all ETH currently staked. … Read more

Bitcoin Traders Face $75M in Liquidations After Three Failed Attempts to Clear $65,600

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Bitcoin experienced sharp volatility on Monday, repeatedly failing to break past $65,500 resistance despite cooling Middle East tensions, leaving its price flat and wiping out $75 million in leveraged trades. Rejections at $65,500 Resistance Drag Prices Lower Bitcoin showed its volatility again on Monday, experiencing two sharp price swings even as tensions in the Middle … Read more

Citadel Securities-Backed Crypto.com Brings XYO and XL1 Into Regulated Custody

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Crypto.com Custody will provide institutional-grade custody and liquidity services for XYO and XL1, the company announced Monday, marking XL1’s first listing on a major exchange since its token sale. The deal gives eligible institutions and high-net-worth clients a regulated path to store, manage, and swap both tokens without moving assets onto an exchange first. A … Read more

FIFA Declared World Cup Clean Before Watchdog Logged 7 Integrity Notices

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FIFA said its integrity task force found no suspicious betting or evidence of match manipulation across the 2026 World Cup. A monitoring network that sits on that same task force disclosed a day later that it issued seven integrity notices, placed 15 matches under enhanced scrutiny and monitored prediction markets continuously for the first time. … Read more

Bitmine Marches Toward 5% of Ethereum Supply After Fresh ETH Buy and Share Purge

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Bitmine Immersion Technologies added 9,946 ETH and retired 6.1 million shares last week, tightening its grip on ethereum’s supply while signaling that management sees value in both the asset and its own stock. As of 7 p.m. EDT on July 26, Bitmine disclosed it held 5,787,414 ETH worth about $11.27 billion at a Coinbase price … Read more

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