The National Hockey League (NHL) has reached licensing agreements with prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket, making it the primary major US skilled sports league to allow using its emblems by prediction markets, or “licensed betting markets.” As The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 22, the multiyear offers grant each platforms rights to use…
A Spain trademark registration for the Bitcoin logo is prompting removing of merchandise on Amazon and Etsy, creating quick friction for sellers as platforms implement in opposition to listings worldwide on the energy of a single nationwide submitting. Per the WIPO Global Brand Database entry referenced by affected sellers, the document tied online to ES5020240…
Ethereum is selecting up pace once more, not in value charts the place it’s presently struggling, however in the silent equipment beneath it. Two parallel breakthroughs, one on the protocol layer and the different in cryptography, are redefining how briskly and the way mild the world’s most-used blockchain can run. Together, they sketch a future…
Bhutan is rebuilding the core of its digital id framework on Ethereum. The initiative, confirmed by Ethereum Foundation’s Aya Miyaguchi, is a part of the Himalayan kingdom’s wider experiment with rising applied sciences. It alerts that blockchain, as soon as confined to buying and selling and tokens, is now being examined as public infrastructure. According…
Bitcoin Core, the dominant software powering roughly 80% of all BTC nodes, has rolled out its long-awaited v30.0 replace. The replace, published on Oct. 11, brings non-obligatory encrypted node connections, efficiency and price optimizations, and a number of other bug fixes. Yet the change to OP_RETURN, Bitcoin’s built-in “knowledge graffiti wall,” has triggered the loudest…
The relentless massacre in crypto markets this week has delivered not solely monetary devastation but in addition private tragedy. On October 11, 2025, distinguished Ukrainian crypto trader and educator Konstantin Galich, broadly referred to as Kostya Kudo, was found dead inside his Lamborghini in Kyiv’s Obolonskyi district. Galich, aged 32, was found with a gunshot…
Norwegian officers launched an investigation on Oct. 10 right into a suspected leak of confidential data after on-line wagers on this yr’s Nobel Peace Prize winner surged simply hours earlier than the official announcement. Authorities mentioned the spike in betting exercise on Polymarket appeared to point out insider data of the Nobel Committee’s resolution. Venezuelan opposition…
CryptoSlate turns eight as we speak, and as Editor-in-Chief, I couldn’t be prouder of what we have achieved and the place we’re going next. Our first story in 2017 requested which nations have been most open to crypto, and since then, thousands and thousands of readers have come to us for clear reporting, precious knowledge,…
S&P Global introduced plans to launch the S&P Digital Markets 50 Index, a benchmark that mixes 15 cryptocurrencies with 35 publicly traded crypto-linked equities, providing a single gauge of the broader digital-asset economic system. According to the Oct. 7 announcement, S&P Dow Jones Indices developed the index in collaboration with Dinari, which is able to…
Billionaire hedge fund supervisor Paul Tudor Jones reaffirmed his rising desire for Bitcoin over gold as a hedge towards inflation, whereas additionally signaling optimism about additional market beneficial properties. Jones, founder and chief funding officer of Tudor Investment Corporation, which oversees roughly $40 billion in belongings, made the remarks throughout an look on CNBC’s Squawk Box…