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President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi,…
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The World Cup is driving record-breaking activity on prediction markets, with popular platforms Kalshi and Polymarket reporting their highest trading volumes to date. Just days ahead of Sunday’s final, the…
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Back in 2024, it all seemed so promising. Coinbase would use its app called Base, built around its blockchain of the same name, to build a decentralized trading and social…
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Defaults on student loans have surged across the United States, reaching record levels as borrowers struggle to keep up with payments. Recommended Video The numbers have spiked since payments came due again…
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Allan Maman watches numbers the way sports fans watch scores. When the World Cup kicked off in the U.S. this summer, Kalshi’s chief marketing officer was refreshing his dashboards hourly,…
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Adrian Ford didn’t leave the theater after watching The Odyssey in IMAX. Instead, the moviegoer and Reddit reviewer behind the account “4DX Reviewer” walked straight into another screening—this time in…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the U.S. war against Iran has cost $37.5 billion, so far, as he is facing questions and protests at a Senate hearing ahead of a $95 billion GOP budget…
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In 2018, the company I helped build, Adyen, went public in Amsterdam, becoming Europe’s most valuable fintech at the time. I joined in 2007 as employee number 009. I would…
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Tokenization, or the process of turning stocks and other real world assets into digital tokens, is fast bridging the worlds of crypto and mainstream finance, and now sovereign wealth funds…
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MoonPay says it has made a big advance in the nascent field of using AI agents for consumer purchases. On Thursday, the payments company unveiled PayBox, a new wallet tool…
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