Tarek Mansour has a number he cannot stop thinking about. Three and a half years. That is how long it took Kalshi to reach $1 billion in prediction market trading
When the FBI knocked on his rival’s door, Kalshi’s CEO couldn’t resist. Now everyone’s asking why. When federal agents raided the home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, most of Wall
From a Lightning Network payments app to a NYSE-listed treasury, a $2.1 billion lending machine, and a three-way merger that could define public Bitcoin markets for a generation this is
Hedge Fund Returns May 2026: Melqart Leads With 12.3% as Citadel and Balyasny Trail While Citadel and Balyasny navigated May with disciplined caution, event-driven specialists ran the table. The month’s
CoinShares data shows the worst institutional outflow streak of 2026. Brian Armstrong announced 21 new products on June 16. The two stories are not unrelated. Digital asset investment products bled
Binance locked $557 million in customer funds. Bybit took orders it couldn’t fill. The biggest IPO in history just exposed the biggest structural flaw in tokenized finance. SpaceX listed on
Venture capital is having the best year of its life, and most startups will never feel a dollar of it. Investors committed roughly $300 billion to about 6,000 startups worldwide
Private equity is doing fewer deals than at almost any point this decade and writing some of the largest checks in its history. In the first half of 2026, deal
Kalshi is about to do something no prediction market has done before: put its name on the boards at a FIFA World Cup. The regulated exchange, run by co-founder and