Elections

If you thought gambling on the US election was degenerate, wait until you hear about the leverage

Plus, Urbit’s cool and controversial cultural significance

Plus, Polymarket is looking poised to hit a $1 billion market for its US election outcome

There’s still over 50 days left until the election, or as it should be known, the Superbowl for political memecoins

Plus, how the FTX collapse played out in Asian countries

Kalshi founder Tarek Mansour said Thursday marked the “the first trade on regulated election markets in nearly a century”

While candidates still have time to share crypto policy details, “we shouldn’t pin all our hopes on politics,” Chirp founder Tim Kravchunovsky says

Plus, the latest entrant into the crypto fund game

A tech industry coalition executive last week urged moderators to ask about crypto, noting that “passing bipartisan digital asset regulations is front and center this election cycle”

Trump doubles down on tax cuts, keeping business in the US during remarks at the Economic Club of New York

Most prediction market volume is being spent on the Nov. 5 US presidential election

Exodus legal chief Veronica McGregor rebuffs criticism of Kamala Harris’s lack of a crypto stance so far — though looks for a shift away from “regulation by enforcement”

Plus, unpacking the correlation (or lack thereof) between bitcoin and the US presidential election

The Harris campaign has quietly onboarded an array of former Biden administration officials

And a look at the latest flow patterns from Grayscale’s ether ETF

Through the partnership, users can access news summaries and “probability predictions,” the parties said

Bitcoin miner Hut 8 and Starknet Foundation find replacements for executives stepping down

Plus, breaking down Donald Trump’s shifting crypto stance

Analysts are looking ahead to August, a historically volatile month made more interesting this year by the US presidential election

Polymarket betters say Kamala Harris has better odds than Biden of winning against Trump

Vice President Harris has all but officially secured the Democratic nomination. Here are her top picks for a running mate and where they stand on crypto.

Polymarket’s stepping into a new era with prediction markets

GSR co-CEO Rich Rosenblum weighed in on Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he’s dropping out of the presidential race

Plus, TON has a ton of future plans, and Blur still reigns supreme