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TradFi & Fintech
Polymarket Plugs Into OneFootball's 645M-Fan Network Two Weeks Before the World Cup
The exclusive deal puts prediction markets in front of OneFootball's 200 million monthly active users — and a wider 645-million-fan ecosystem — as Polymarket's 2026 soccer-distribution stack reaches saturation ahead of the June kickoff.

Markets
Wintermute Starts Quoting Prediction Markets as Event-Contract Volume Tops $60B in 2026
The $3.5 trillion-a-year crypto market maker said it is streaming two-sided quotes across event contracts on leading venues, including Polymarket and Kalshi, as monthly turnover passes $20 billion.

DeFi
Circle Freeze on Zama's Confidential USDC Locks $12.6M of User Funds in DeFi 'Crossfire'
A court-ordered restraining order pushed Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC wrapper on Ethereum. The privacy protocol is not a defendant but every depositor in the pooled contract is locked out alongside the targeted funds.

Markets
CME Group Launches 24/7 Crypto Futures and Options Trading
CME Group announced it has expanded its crypto derivatives offering to around-the-clock trading, allowing traders to access Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and options whenever they choose.

Blockchains
Arbitrum Foundation Seeks $45M Funding as Delegates Question Spending Above DAO Revenue
The Foundation wants $16M in stablecoins, 1,740 ETH and 230M ARB for another year of operations. As a first vote opens, delegates and analysts say the request outpaces what the network earns and lacks performance milestones.

Blockchains
Sui Restarts After Back-to-Back Mainnet Halts Tied to Software Bug
The Layer 1 blockchain blamed two stoppages in as many days on its 1.72 upgrade and said validators have now deployed a permanent fix. SUI slid about 15% in the past seven days.

Regulation & Politics
CFTC Approves First US-Regulated Bitcoin Perpetual Futures
The agency approved Kalshi's BTCPERP contract, the first bitcoin perpetual on a registered U.S. exchange, and in a separate action cleared Coinbase to route customers to its offshore Deribit affiliate. Together the moves open an onshore path for a product long pushed abroad and raise the competitive stakes for dominant venues such as Hyperliquid.

DeFi
ICE Chief Sprecher Calls Hyperliquid 'Bigger Than Nasdaq' as HYPE Run Draws TradFi Notice
The founder of the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange praised the small decentralized exchange and its SpaceX pre-IPO market, even as ICE presses regulators over how to police perpetual futures.

Blockchains
Base Launches Azul Upgrade, Takes Step Toward Stage 2 Decentralization
The Coinbase-incubated layer-2 network activated multiproofs on mainnet, combining TEE and ZK proof systems to move closer to full decentralization while cutting empty blocks by 99%.

Blockchains
Tempo L1 Hits 3.9M Transactions in Two Months
The payments-focused blockchain Tempo has settled 3.9M transactions across 177K addresses since mainnet launch in March, with stablecoin supply exceeding $25M and full Dune Analytics integration live.





