George Santos stated he would attend the 2026 State of the Union. He was additionally betting on Kalshi that he would skip it. Regulators have now fined him $35,000. He made $17,570 on that guess. He saved the cash for about 5 months. Now he has to present all of it again. He Bet Against…
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has filed civil penalty proceedings in opposition to Telegram within the Federal Court, alleging the platform failed to detect and take away pro-terror materials, together with movies of terrorist executions and mass shootings. The regulator opened the case after a year-long investigation. Telegram may face penalties of up to 54.6 million Australian…
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two companies accused of supporting an IRGC-backed scheme that allegedly extorted industrial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz by requiring them to buy maritime insurance coverage. Wednesday’s designations hit the Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company and HormuzSafe Marine Services Authority, often known as Hormuz Safe….
Ripple has change into one in every of the largest company political donors in the United States this election cycle, whereas the market construction invoice backed by the crypto business stays earlier than the Senate forward of the August recess. Public Citizen estimates Ripple has contributed about $48 million throughout the 2026 election cycle, inserting…
A federal decide blocked Minnesota’s prediction market ban on Monday, handing Kalshi, Polymarket US, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) a preliminary injunction days earlier than the legislation’s August 1 efficient date. US District Judge Katherine Menendez discovered the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) probably preempts the statute. Her order bars enforcement in opposition to…
New York Attorney General Letitia James says a crypto invoice in the Senate would depart rip-off victims with nowhere to show. Coinbase needs that very same invoice handed inside days. James despatched her case to a Senate investigations panel on Monday. She needs more durable crypto oversight, not much less of it. Why Is New…
China’s crypto rails have already moved $2.37 trillion. The US Senate has not even voted on its crypto guidelines. Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase, says the subsequent monetary system is being constructed proper now. Rails are the plumbing that strikes cash between banks and nations. Shirzad says China is investing extra on this…
El Salvador’s two major opposition events named their candidates for the February 2027 presidential election. The transfer units up a problem to President Nayib Bukele’s third-term bid and the Bitcoin (BTC) technique constructed round him. The Nationalist Republican Alliance, ARENA, picked former lawmaker Maytee Iraheta. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, tapped doctor…
Technology, synthetic intelligence, and prediction market corporations spent document sums lobbying Washington in the primary half of 2026. New federal disclosures filed this month present the size of the push. Anthropic almost tripled its federal lobbying, outpacing rival OpenAI by greater than $1 million. Anthropic Outspends OpenAI on Federal Lobbying The Financial Times reported that…
Some analysts say Bitcoin (BTC) might attain $200,000 if the CLARITY Act turns into regulation. That is a really large if. Seven roadblocks now stand between the invoice and a Senate vote. The CLARITY Act would determine which US company polices crypto. It has sat on the Senate’s to-do checklist since June 1 with no…