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Bitcoin ETF Investors Head for the Exits After Record Binance Hack
The first real test of how ETF investors would react to the largest crypto hack in history came back red. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $643.2 million on Friday, according to Decrypt’s ETF tracker, their biggest single-day outflow of October. It was the funds’ first full session since attackers began draining roughly $6.4 billion from Binance at 4:05 p.m. ET Thursday, after U.S. markets had closed. Thursday’s $17.2 million in inflows predated the theft. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click t...
Oct 28, 2026
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Fed Rate Decision: What Markets and Bitcoin Traders Can Expect
The Federal Reserve announces its interest rate decision at 2 p.m. ET today, and traders are almost certain it will change nothing. CME FedWatch, a tool that converts bets on interest rate futures into probabilities, puts the odds of a hold above 90%, while prediction markets price it a few points higher. Myriad: Where does Bitcoin go next? Click to make your prediction. The decision reaches well beyond Wall Street, because the federal funds rate, which is what banks charge each other for overni...
Oct 27, 2026
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China's Stock Market Has Lost $2.4 Trillion as Investors Doubt Its AI Boom Will Ever Pay Off
Stocks on China's mainland have lost about $2.4 trillion in market value, the total worth of all their shares, since May, as investors lose faith that Beijing's AI boom will ever turn a profit. That is more than South Korea's entire economy produces in a year. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. AI companies now make up 42% of the market value of Chinese shares listed on the mainland and in Hong Kong, and 57% of trading, according to Goldman Sachs. S...
Oct 27, 2026
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Intel, Oracle, IBM Join Objections to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Venue, Bringing Total to 26
The tech sector’s resistance to tokenized stocks keeps building. Intel, Oracle, IBM, and quantum computing firm IonQ are the latest companies to object to having their shares traded on OKXICE TSV, according to an updated public notice from the venue dated Monday. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. The planned platform, a 50-50 joint venture between NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange and OKX’s U.S. holding company, now lists 26 objecting issuers. That’s up from...
Oct 27, 2026
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McDonald's McRib Doesn't Actually Boost Bitcoin's Price, Sorry Everyone
The McDonald's McRib has become a crypto meme in recent years, due to many traders believing that its reintroduction to the menu precedes a boost in Bitcoin's price. And, with the tangy pork sandwich back in certain states across the U.S., crypto traders are getting excited. But experts have taken the McRib theory off the menu, saying that those parroting the theory are forgetting all of the times that the McRib hasn't coincided with a Bitcoin price increase. The McRib is back on 10/27. BTC his...
Oct 26, 2026
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NBA Embraces the CFTC on Prediction Markets as the NFL Fights It in Court
The NBA has struck a deal with the top U.S. derivatives regulator to help police prediction markets, becoming the latest major sports league to formalize an integrity partnership as betting on games moves onto federally regulated platforms. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the basketball league to protect the integrity of professional basketball in prediction markets. Myriad: Who wins the World Series? Click to make your prediction...