Seventeen Democratic senators are urging the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to include a rider in the FY2027 spending bill that would prohibit the CFTC from using any federal funds to sue states over prediction-market regulation, escalating a multi-front jurisdictional battle spanning nine states and tribal gaming authorities.

Prediction markets are entering a new phase — and the biggest market makers in the world are taking notice. Alex Momot, Co-founder of Peanut Trade, joins Camila Russo to break down the mechanics, the opportunity, and the risks behind this fast-moving space.

Distributed tokenized real-world asset value slipped about 1.4% over the past month to roughly $31.5 billion, the first monthly decline of its institutional-led run, even as the number of holders climbed 14%, led by tokenized stocks, according to data from rwa.xyz.

Base stalled block production for a second time in less than 24 hours on Friday morning, describing the incident as showing 'similar symptoms' to Thursday's roughly two-hour outage, with the event arriving less than three hours before the B20 Activation Registry was anticipated to go live.

Canton Network, the privacy-enabled institutional blockchain built by Digital Asset, generated $60.2 million in fees over the trailing 30 days, outpacing Tron's $27.6 million and Ethereum's $11.3 million by a wide margin, according to DefiLlama data.

Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis sent a letter to CFTC Chair Michael Selig Thursday asking whether the agency is investigating Polymarket's paid influencer scheme, putting the regulator in a bind over a platform it licenses but whose staged trades ran on an offshore site beyond its direct reach.

Securitize, the tokenization platform behind BlackRock's BUIDL fund, is set to begin trading on the NYSE on July 2 under the ticker SECZ after a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II that raised over $400 million, including an oversubscribed $225M PIPE.

StablecoinX Inc. (Nasdaq: USDE) began trading Friday after closing its SPAC merger with TLGY Acquisition Corp., becoming the first publicly listed company holding approximately 3.03 billion ENA tokens and building infrastructure for the Ethena ecosystem.

Ondo Finance has enabled around-the-clock minting and redemption for tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Ethereum and BNB Chain, removing the weekday-only constraint that had tied position creation and cancellation to US market hours.

President Trump canceled the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a statutory ban on a Federal Reserve-issued CBDC through 2030, demanding Congress first pass the SAVE America Act voter-ID legislation. The housing bill passed both chambers with veto-proof margins and may become law automatically.