1. Booming Market: Kalshi & Polymarket October 2025 trading volume on the two largest U.S. prediction-market venues jumped more than 90 % month-over-month, with sports contracts driving the spike. Polymarket is raising a new round that would value the firm at USD 12-15 B, while Kalshi was last priced at roughly USD 2 B. Both platforms now treat sports as their core growth engine. --- 2. First Mover: NHL Signs Official Data Deal The National Hockey League became the first “Big-Four” league to ...

1. Booming Market: Kalshi & Polymarket October 2025 trading volume on the two largest U.S. prediction-market venues jumped more than 90 % month-over-month, with sports contracts driving the spike. Polymarket is raising a new round that would value the firm at USD 12-15 B, while Kalshi was last priced at roughly USD 2 B. Both platforms now treat sports as their core growth engine. --- 2. First Mover: NHL Signs Official Data Deal The National Hockey League became the first “Big-Four” league to ...

Editor’s Note Prediction-market protocols are multiplying—Polymarket, Kalshi, Zeitgeist—each flashing big numbers and bigger promises. At first glance they look like perfect “future-information aggregators” where you can both bet on tomorrow and mine the wisdom of crowds. But not every market deserves your time or capital. Here is a concise, battle-tested checklist: three lenses for deciding whether a platform is truly worthwhile.1. Market Design: Structure, Mechanism and Clarity A well-desig...

Editor’s Note Prediction-market protocols are multiplying—Polymarket, Kalshi, Zeitgeist—each flashing big numbers and bigger promises. At first glance they look like perfect “future-information aggregators” where you can both bet on tomorrow and mine the wisdom of crowds. But not every market deserves your time or capital. Here is a concise, battle-tested checklist: three lenses for deciding whether a platform is truly worthwhile.1. Market Design: Structure, Mechanism and Clarity A well-desig...

The Elevator Pitch Andre Cronje’s latest laboratory is building a full-stack crypto exchange (spot, perps, options, lending, structured yield) without ever touching VC runway. Instead, the team is raising $1 bn by selling a single token – FT – that doubles as a perpetual American put option struck at the original sale price. Proceeds go into low-risk DeFi strategies (≈ 4 %). The coupons pay salaries, server bills and token buy-backs until trading-fee cash flow takes over. If price

The Elevator Pitch Andre Cronje’s latest laboratory is building a full-stack crypto exchange (spot, perps, options, lending, structured yield) without ever touching VC runway. Instead, the team is raising $1 bn by selling a single token – FT – that doubles as a perpetual American put option struck at the original sale price. Proceeds go into low-risk DeFi strategies (≈ 4 %). The coupons pay salaries, server bills and token buy-backs until trading-fee cash flow takes over. If price

TL;DR150 RMB profit → 9-month sentence.5 USDT rug-pull → 4.5-year sentence.Six recurring criminal charges, real verdicts, zero tolerance.Planet Daily has combed through recent mainland court files to show how “gray-area” crypto gigs—OTC desks, token launches, yield-farming pools—are being prosecuted. The takeaway: ignorance of the law is no defense, and small sums do not guarantee leniency. (This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.)Charge 1: Illegal ...

TL;DR150 RMB profit → 9-month sentence.5 USDT rug-pull → 4.5-year sentence.Six recurring criminal charges, real verdicts, zero tolerance.Planet Daily has combed through recent mainland court files to show how “gray-area” crypto gigs—OTC desks, token launches, yield-farming pools—are being prosecuted. The takeaway: ignorance of the law is no defense, and small sums do not guarantee leniency. (This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.)Charge 1: Illegal ...

As DeFi expands in scale and complexity, AI-driven "Agentic Finance" is becoming a key direction to lower the barrier of entry for users. This article systematically analyzes the current development and core challenges of two types of intelligent agents: Co-pilot Agents Platforms like &milo, The Hive, and Meridian assist users with investment decisions, asset rebalancing, and more through natural language processing. However, they still face issues such as execution errors, data latency, and ...

As DeFi expands in scale and complexity, AI-driven "Agentic Finance" is becoming a key direction to lower the barrier of entry for users. This article systematically analyzes the current development and core challenges of two types of intelligent agents: Co-pilot Agents Platforms like &milo, The Hive, and Meridian assist users with investment decisions, asset rebalancing, and more through natural language processing. However, they still face issues such as execution errors, data latency, and ...

The Problem: Blockchains Are Slow Calculators Think of a blockchain as a shared ledger where every node re-checks every line. That works for simple transfers, but ask it to crunch big data, AI inference, or multi-year trading histories and it chokes—slow and ruinously expensive. Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs were supposed to be the pocket calculator: outsource the heavy math, get a tiny receipt that anyone can verify. The catch? Until now, building that calculator required a PhD in cryptography....

The Problem: Blockchains Are Slow Calculators Think of a blockchain as a shared ledger where every node re-checks every line. That works for simple transfers, but ask it to crunch big data, AI inference, or multi-year trading histories and it chokes—slow and ruinously expensive. Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs were supposed to be the pocket calculator: outsource the heavy math, get a tiny receipt that anyone can verify. The catch? Until now, building that calculator required a PhD in cryptography....

A Bull Market That Doesn’t Look Like One Every Bitcoin bull run has its own signature: a fresh narrative, a new cast of characters, and—until now—an army of retail traders chanting “number go up.” This time, the soundtrack is silence. No Uber driver, no second cousin, no kindergarten teacher is asking if it’s “too late to buy Bitcoin.” Analysts insist an alt-season is coming, yet no one is even DM-ing me about Fartcoin, Dogecoin, or Ripple. (I still keep a rehearsed answer for XRP just in cas...

A Bull Market That Doesn’t Look Like One Every Bitcoin bull run has its own signature: a fresh narrative, a new cast of characters, and—until now—an army of retail traders chanting “number go up.” This time, the soundtrack is silence. No Uber driver, no second cousin, no kindergarten teacher is asking if it’s “too late to buy Bitcoin.” Analysts insist an alt-season is coming, yet no one is even DM-ing me about Fartcoin, Dogecoin, or Ripple. (I still keep a rehearsed answer for XRP just in cas...

I. The Empty Chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue On 4 Sept 2025 the White House tech round-table looked like a Founders Fund off-site:Figma CEO—Thiel FellowScale AI—cap-table’d by FFDavid “Crypto-Czar” Sacks—PayPal Mafia consigliereZuckerberg—Thiel’s seed-check turned Meta-empirePalantir—prime contractor for Trump’s “Gold Dome” AI shieldThe only missing face was the don himself: Peter Thiel. Absence is power; the org-chart now answers to an empty chair.II. 15 Years of Dark-Money Chess While the...

I. The Empty Chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue On 4 Sept 2025 the White House tech round-table looked like a Founders Fund off-site:Figma CEO—Thiel FellowScale AI—cap-table’d by FFDavid “Crypto-Czar” Sacks—PayPal Mafia consigliereZuckerberg—Thiel’s seed-check turned Meta-empirePalantir—prime contractor for Trump’s “Gold Dome” AI shieldThe only missing face was the don himself: Peter Thiel. Absence is power; the org-chart now answers to an empty chair.II. 15 Years of Dark-Money Chess While the...

The lines between digital banking and cryptocurrency are blurring, as fintech companies increasingly leverage fast-growing crypto assets to attract US customers.Crypto's Banking Ambitions Under Trump's Pro-Digital Asset Stance Cryptocurrency firms are racing to enter traditional US banking, capitalizing on a friendlier regulatory environment under President Donald Trump to deepen ties with the financial system. Payment network Ripple, stablecoin issuer Circle, and custody provider BitGo have ...

The lines between digital banking and cryptocurrency are blurring, as fintech companies increasingly leverage fast-growing crypto assets to attract US customers.Crypto's Banking Ambitions Under Trump's Pro-Digital Asset Stance Cryptocurrency firms are racing to enter traditional US banking, capitalizing on a friendlier regulatory environment under President Donald Trump to deepen ties with the financial system. Payment network Ripple, stablecoin issuer Circle, and custody provider BitGo have ...