Fresh capital from top Wall Street and Silicon Valley firms signals increasing confidence in regulated event trading and retail prediction markets. Prediction marketplace Kalshi has reached a $22 billion valuation after closing a $1 billion Series F funding round, underscoring growing venture capital appetite for prediction markets amid surging retail adoption. The new valuation doubles Kalshi’s worth from just five months ago. The funding round was led by Coatue Management, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley and Ark Invest. The raise comes as investors increasingly view prediction markets as one of the fastest-growing segments of digital finance. Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto unit, a16z crypto, recently raised $2.2 billion for its latest fund and identified prediction markets as a major investment theme. Read more
На следующей неделе в Криворожском районе будут проводить плановые ремонты, из-за чего временно отключат электроэнергию.Об этом сообщает «Первый Криворожский» Подробнее
The Bitcoin advocate spoke up after Michael Saylor signaled that the company might sell some BTC, a major departure from the Strategy founder's previous rhetoric. Michael Saylor's comment this week that Strategy might sell portions of its Bitcoin holdings, is a decision that gives the BTC treasury company Strategy, optionality, according to BTC advocate Samson Mow. “Never selling limits optionality. Public markets are war. In war, you need all available tools at your disposal,” Mow said after company co-founder Saylor's comment during Strategy’s first-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. That the company might sell some BTC in the future, Mow added: Strategy is the largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company, according to BitcoinTreasuries, and holds 818,334 BTC at the time of this writing, and any potential sales could weigh on spot BTC market prices, according to some crypto market analysts. Read more
The second edition of the Breathe Pakistan International Climate Change Conference, organised by DawnMedia, concluded in Islamabad on Thursday after two days of deliberations on climate resilience, adaptation, energy transition, water security, urban planning, agriculture, climate finance and equitable policymaking. According to a press release by Breathe Pakistan, the conference brought together policymakers, parliamentarians, international organisations, climate experts, corporate leaders, academics, development partners and civil society representatives to assess Pakistan’s climate vulnerabilities and the reforms needed to strengthen resilience. It stated that across both days, speakers emphasised that climate change was no longer solely an environmental concern, but a broader economic and development challenge requiring coordinated implementation, regional cooperation and long-term planning. On the first day, federal ministers, government officials, business leaders, and agriculture and water experts were...