The World Cup is driving record-breaking activity on prediction markets, with popular platforms Kalshi and Polymarket reporting their highest trading volumes to date. Just days ahead of Sunday’s final, the…
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Read article →Allan Maman watches numbers the way sports fans watch scores. When the World Cup kicked off in the U.S. this summer, Kalshi’s chief marketing officer was refreshing his dashboards hourly,…
Read article →Adrian Ford didn’t leave the theater after watching The Odyssey in IMAX. Instead, the moviegoer and Reddit reviewer behind the account “4DX Reviewer” walked straight into another screening—this time in…
Read article →Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the U.S. war against Iran has cost $37.5 billion, so far, as he is facing questions and protests at a Senate hearing ahead of a $95 billion GOP budget…
Read article →In 2018, the company I helped build, Adyen, went public in Amsterdam, becoming Europe’s most valuable fintech at the time. I joined in 2007 as employee number 009. I would…
Read article →Tokenization, or the process of turning stocks and other real world assets into digital tokens, is fast bridging the worlds of crypto and mainstream finance, and now sovereign wealth funds…
Read article →MoonPay says it has made a big advance in the nascent field of using AI agents for consumer purchases. On Thursday, the payments company unveiled PayBox, a new wallet tool…
Read article →For nearly a year and a half, the crypto industry has been pressing for legislation known as the CLARITY Act, which would provide a predictable regulatory framework for digital assets.…
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