Hong Kong to Seek New Licenses for Crypto Dealing, Custody, Advisory and Management, With a Bill Due by Year-End

Hong Kong’s government has confirmed it will send an amendment bill to the Legislative Council before the end of 2026 to set up licensing regimes for four types of virtual asset services: dealing, custody, advisory and management. Together with the existing licenses for trading platforms and stablecoin issuers, the city’s crypto rules would then cover the industry’s main links.

Read More

Starting With $100: Running an Open-Source AI Agent on Polymarket’s 5-Minute Bitcoin Markets

A Markov chain reads Bitcoin’s short-term state, the agent only trades when its probability beats the market price by at least 5 points, Kelly sizing sets the stake, and every night a language model reviews the log and rewrites the parameters. Here is how this open-source Hermes setup for Polymarket’s 5-minute Up/Down markets works, what it needs and how to build it.

Read More