OKX has filed with the SEC to launch tokenized-stock trading in the US, Bloomberg reported, aiming at buyers barred from its 70-plus ticker offshore line. The SEC's new exemption admits only tokens with dividends and votes, so the synthetic product it sells abroad would need rebuilding first.
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CME plans to list two Nvidia GPU compute futures on October 5, pending regulatory approval, with prices running 36 months forward. Bitcoin miners that moved into AI hosting can hedge with them only if what they are paid moves with a GPU rental index.
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Polymarket, valued at about $21 billion, hired ex-Goldman partner Lisa Mantil to bring big traders onto its US exchange. She starts selling while federal investigators, House members and New York officials still dispute how its contracts should be policed.
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JPMorgan ended Polymarket's primary banking relationship over regulatory risk in October, around the time ICE put an initial $1 billion in at a roughly $8 billion valuation.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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A White House remark about CFTC Chairman Michael Selig repriced HYPE and a Nasdaq treasury stock. No approval, no registration path and no timeline has been put on the record.
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The rebate ladder that recruits big exchanges also shrinks the burn: 60 cents of every fee dollar at the bottom tier, 26.25 cents at the top.
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1789 Capital's new money works out to about 1.4 percent of Polymarket at the $21 billion mark, roughly a fifteenth of what ICE holds, and the change the disclosed record shows since April is jurisdictional rather than financial.
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The cheque is small enough to read as a partnership fee, and it arrives with a surveillance contract, a 2027 token launch date, and a quarter in which Payward's adjusted EBITDA fell to $23m on $508m of revenue.
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Polymarket has hired Warren Jenson, formerly finance chief at Amazon, Delta Air Lines and Nielsen, to set capital strategy for a business now marked at about $21bn with no revenue figure attached to it.
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Arc's mainnet went live Wednesday with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa and Mastercard among its founding validators, and the 10 billion ARC tokens Circle minted this week sit behind a presale that valued the network at $3 billion.
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The exchange's Digital Trading Platform has been in the approval process since January, while Blockchain.com's Ondo-powered wallet has gone from about 100 tokenized US stocks and ETFs to more than 430 for non-US users.
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Six of the eight positions Harris Associates increased in Q2 2026 are banks, brokers, exchanges or payments processors. The other two are Salesforce and Sysco, and the trim list includes an insurer.
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Arc's founding validator set has twelve members, drawn from card networks, clearing houses and asset managers. The company that issues the chain's fee asset is also the company that can freeze it.
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Warren Jenson, who has been finance chief at Amazon, Delta Air Lines and Electronic Arts, takes over capital strategy at a company that has published no audited numbers and paid $112m for its way back into the United States.
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Custody+ adds digital asset custody later this year, starting with bitcoin, inside the framework Citi uses for traditional securities. The bank says it will hold native tokens rather than route them out.
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