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CFTC Chair Michael Selig has said that the agency has authority over prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket and warned it will defend that jurisdiction in court if challenged. The US state of Utah is set to block prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, escalating a growing dispute between state regulators and federal authorities over how the industry should be regulated. On Wednesday, Utah’s HB243 (Gambling Revisions) bill was sent to the governor’s desk after passing the Utah House on Feb. 10 and clearing the Senate on Feb. 27. The bill defines “proposition betting” as gambling. Proposition bets are wagers on individual events within a game, such as how a specific athlete performs or whether a team reaches a certain statistic, rather than the final outcome of the game itself. The goal of the legislation is to prevent companies from offering sports-related prediction or prop betting in Utah, including through platforms that label themselves as prediction markets rather than sportsboo...

South Korea's move to suspend Bithumb over AML failures turns a local compliance case into a market-structure story. Enforcement against the country's second-largest exchange threatens to reroute retail flows, deepen venue concentration, and degrade one of crypto's most-watched regional pricing signals: the kimchi premium. Compliance case hits market plumbing The Korea Financial Intelligence Unit sent […] The post Why Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets crypto exchange appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Meanwhile, the two top gainers from the largest 100 alts today are HYPE and SKY.

[PRESS RELEASE – Victoria, Seychelles, March 12th, 2026] BYDFi announced the integration of its perpetual futures market data into TradingView, enabling traders to access real-time pricing and crypto market signals directly within TradingView charts. The integration supports more efficient workflows by bringing BYDFi derivatives data into a familiar charting environment used by traders worldwide for […]

Ethereum Scarcity Index Hits 0.67 on Binance Near $2,050 The post Ethereum Scarcity Index Turns Positive as ETH USD Pushed Back Above $2,000 appeared first on Cryptonews.

[PRESS RELEASE – Zurich/Johannesburg, Switzerland/South Africa, March 12th, 2026] Wyden, the global leader in institutional digital asset trading technology, today announced the integration of VALR, the largest crypto exchange in Africa by trade volume, into its market-wide network of liquidity connectors. The partnership marks a significant milestone in Wyden’s strategic growth in South Africa. Through […]

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, March 11th, 2026] FinCEN-registered platform enables seamless connection between Web3 wallets and compliant USD accounts, providing global users with instant access to fiat financial services. EvoCash has officially launched its Web3 financial services platform, offering a Web3 wallet-to-USD account bridge that connects cryptocurrency wallets directly to compliant USD accounts. Registered […]

The spot Ripple (XRP) ETFs have seen several consecutive days of outflows.

Bonk.fun Website Hijacked, Draining User Funds The post Bonk Fun Website Hijacked: Live Exploit Is Draining User Funds appeared first on Cryptonews.

PI has become one of the trendiest tokens today on CoinGecko, but its price has not benefited from the big announcement.

For the first time in over a month, Tether mints $1 billion USDT on the Tron network.

Metaplanet is launching two subsidiaries and backing Japan's first licensed yen stablecoin as it bets on the country's digital asset infrastructure.

The agencies have moved to coordinate oversight, in a bid to end years of regulatory overlap on the treatment of crypto.

XRP futures traders appear to be pulling back as open interest dropped, funding rates weakened, and exchange transaction activity fell significantly.

Browser warnings flagged the site for suspected phishing after attackers pushed a fake TOS message designed to trick users.

The SEC and CFTC said they would adopt a “minimum effective dose” regulatory strategy to foster innovation while maintaining market integrity and keep the US competitive globally. Two of the US’s most influential financial regulators have agreed to better coordinate oversight of the financial markets, seeking to put an end to decades of “regulatory turf wars” between them. According to the memorandum of understanding written on Wednesday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it has become a “pivotal time” to regulate in harmony as new technologies, such as crypto, make it more challenging to monitor the markets: “New trading models, digital infrastructure, and onchain, automated systems increasingly blur traditional jurisdictional lines,” they said, particularly as market participants operate across platforms and asset classes. Read more

Nearly $1 billion in synthetic oil futures were traded on Wednesday amid reactions to geopolitical tensions and fears of future price spikes.

Ethereum Price Prediction: Wall Street Is Choosing Ethereum — Is ETH Becoming the Backbone of Finance? The post Ethereum Price Prediction: Wall Street Is Choosing Ethereum — Is ETH Becoming the Backbone of Finance? appeared first on Cryptonews.

The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.

Solana’s price has looked strangely calm lately. Zoom in on the last 30 days, and SOL is only down about 1.4%.But zoom out, and the story changes.Solana is still down more than 30% year to date, and every bounce since January has quietly rolled over into lower highs. Now a deeper signal is starting to […] The post Solana Price Prediction: Selling Pressure Surges 800% — Is SOL Heading for a Brutal Drop to $65? appeared first on Cryptonews.