CiDi Games beta on Pi reached 81K users in 160+ countries, with 1.2M sessions and 3.19M Pi staked in one week. CiDi Games reached more than 81,000 users across over 160 countries within one week of its beta launch on Pi. The app launched on May 14 through the Pi...
Solana Co-Founder Proposes New Crypto Network Bootstrap Model
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko outlines a new model for bootstrapping crypto networks using futarchy governance and fair contributor rewards. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, known online as @toly, has put forward a new framework for launching crypto networks. He shared his proposal on X, asking the community for feedback. The model targets...
Why Zero-Knowledge Payments Are Becoming Essential for Crypto Growth
Public blockchain transparency is blocking enterprise adoption by exposing sensitive business payment data to competitors. ZK payments enable selective disclosure, letting businesses prove transactions without revealing full financial histories onchain. AI agents running high-frequency payments will require ZK infrastructure to prevent behavioral patterns from being publicly traced. Zero-knowledge payments are...
Coinbase Base Records Rising AI Agent Commerce With $43M+ in Activity
AI agents on Coinbase’s Base network are now paying for services via x402, logging $43M+ in transactions and reshaping crypto commerce. AI agents are no longer just browsing the internet. They are paying for it. Coinbase’s Base network is emerging as the home of what insiders now call the “agentic...
Wintermute Jumps into Booming $60 Billion Prediction Market Industry
Wintermute joins prediction markets as a liquidity provider, boosting trading depth in a $60 billion sector driven by real-world event contracts. Wintermute has entered the fast-growing prediction market industry as a liquidity provider. The company has now extended its two-sided quoting services to the top prediction market sites. Furthermore, the...
CFTC Approves First Regulated Bitcoin Perpetuals on Kalshi
The CFTC approved Kalshi’s BTCPERP contract, marking the first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures on a U.S. exchange. Here’s what it means. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved the BTCPERP contract submitted by KalshiEX, LLC. This marks the first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures contract on a U.S. exchange. Kalshi...
Bitcoin Sees $4 Billion ETF Exodus, But History Suggests a Twist
Bitcoin ETF outflows top $4B since May 7. Santiment data shows past exodus periods often preceded price recoveries. Here’s what analysts say. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have now recorded over $4 billion in total outflows since May 7. The scale of the sell-off has interested market analysts and on-chain data firms....
JPMorgan Chief Challenges Crypto-Friendly CLARITY ACT
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon criticizes the CLARITY Act, opposing stablecoin rules and warning about regulatory gaps in crypto banking policies. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has strongly criticized the current version of the CLARITY Act. The proposed bill provides crypto companies with advantages that traditional banks do not have,” he said....
Crypto.com and SailGP Launch New Crypto Prediction Markets Partnership
Crypto.com and the U.S. SailGP Team signed a multi-year deal naming OG as Official Prediction Market Partner. OG Prediction Markets runs on a CFTC-regulated platform, giving it a compliance edge over unregulated competitors globally. The partnership launches as several jurisdictions tighten rules around prediction markets, testing regulated crypto products in...
Sui Network Faces Major Outage Again: SUI Price Drops
Sui mainnet stalled two days in a row due to a bug in v1.72. SUI price drops 3.21% as bearish signals dominate technical indicators. The Sui Network has had a rough week. The blockchain suffered back-to-back mainnet stalls on two consecutive days. Wu Blockchain reported the disruption, noting that the...