French Gambling Authority Directs ISPs to Block Polymarket
France has escalated its enforcement tactics, ordering telecom networks to block domestic access to Polymarket entirely.
France has escalated its enforcement tactics, ordering telecom networks to block domestic access to Polymarket entirely.
Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, marking the exchange’s first institutional funding round and accelerating its expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.
DTCC has moved tokenization into a production environment, allowing selected stocks, ETFs, and U.S. Treasurys to be represented on blockchain while retaining full investor rights.
Coinbase says AI now helps produce between 95% and 100% of its code, with most engineers operating multiple agents as the exchange restructures around AI-native teams.
Strategy CEO Phong Le says the company plans to remain the largest corporate Bitcoin buyer, supported by a $3 billion cash reserve and a balance sheet built for severe market declines.
Morgan Stanley has updated its SEC filings for Ethereum and Solana ETFs, assigning the tickers MSSE and MSOL and setting management fees at 0.14%.
Binance.US is rebuilding after a two-year regulatory slowdown, targeting a return to 20% of the U.S. crypto exchange market through ultra-low fees, deeper liquidity, and an expanded product lineup.
Japan’s dominant security token platform, Progmat, migrated roughly $2.7 billion in tokenized assets to a dedicated Avalanche Layer-1 network. The move brings the country’s largest institutional tokenization platform onto public blockchain infrastructure.
American Bitcoin shares have fallen more than 95% from their record high, wiping over $600 million from the value of Eric Trump’s stake as the miner continues expanding its Bitcoin treasury.
Global macro structures are shifting as Japan fights unprecedented currency depreciation. A former central banker warns that aggressive monetary tightening could soon push Japan’s benchmark interest rate past the 2% threshold.
India’s internal battle over cryptocurrency has intensified. While retail adoption climbs, the central bank is doubling down on isolating digital assets from the domestic financial system to prevent structural contagion and rampant tax compliance loopholes.
Kenya is actively bolstering its financial oversight capabilities. To safely police its rapidly growing digital asset sector, the nation’s markets regulator is onboarding advanced transaction surveillance software to track peer-to-peer flows.
A district judge denied prediction exchange Kalshi’s request for a preliminary injunction, clearing the way for local regulators to enforce state-level gambling laws on sports contracts.
The nation’s primary media and communications review body has formally targeted Polymarket, initiating a legal review into whether the popular Web3 prediction marketplace violates strict domestic anti-gambling laws.
Adjusted stablecoin transaction volumes soared to a historic $1.79 trillion in June, surpassing previous bull market records and confirming that dollar-pegged tokens have decoupled from pure asset speculation.