In 2024, the Trump family was getting its new crypto firm, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), off the ground and looking for advisors. WLFI cofounder and advisor to the current President,…
Read article →When Robinhood and Coinbase went public back in the first half of 2021, the companies occupied very different lanes. Today, the two founder-led firms are clashing on multiple fronts as…
Read article →A White House teleprompter operator who was put on unpaid leave after news reports he had used inside knowledge to make bets about President Donald Trump’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi is…
Read article →Prediction markets are redefining how society assesses uncertainty. In recent years, these markets have often proved uncannily accurate, and challenged more traditional metrics for assessing public sentiment such as polls.…
Read article →Prediction markets are deepening their foothold in Major League Baseball. On Thursday, Novig, an up-and-coming trading platform, announced a multi-year deal with the New York Mets to become the team’s…
Read article →The CLARITY Act is the most important piece of financial market legislation Congress has considered in years. At its core, it does something remarkably simple: it establishes clear rules for…
Read article →Patents, in the popular imagination, conjure up images of geniuses, scientific marvels, and inevitably, the word “innovation.” And so it was this week when Circle announced it had purchased nearly…
Read article →A security hack has once again rocked crypto. Since Thursday, Bitcoin owners who store their crypto with Coldcard, which offers a form of hyper-secure storage known as a hard wallet,…
Read article →George Santos, the former lawmaker convicted of fraud, got in fresh trouble following his release from prison by making illegal bets on Kalshi. Then, hours after the Commodity Futures Trading…
Read article →Philanthropy is for the birds, literally. Recommended Video Craigslist founder Craig Newmark vowed to give away his fortune to his passions: combating disinformation, election security, cybersecurity, and… pigeons. And now…
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