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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.
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.
Stuck Below $87,000: In a Rate-Hike Cycle, Small Accounts Should Focus on Staying at the Table
The Fed has just raised rates, and Bitcoin has slipped back after pushing above $87,000. From Bitcoin and US stocks to futures and meme coins, every opportunity right now comes with a catch. Our take is cautious: small accounts shouldn’t go hunting for 10x coins yet. Protect your capital first and stay at the table.
U.S. betting industry groups are urging Congress to restrict platforms like Kalshi from offering sports betting.
The American Gaming Industry Association, the Tribal Gaming Association, and several labor unions are urging Congress to include provisions in the ongoing cryptocurrency legislation to explicitly prohibit prediction market platforms like Kalshi from offering sports betting services. The signatories argue that prediction markets have fueled a massive expansion of betting activity in the U.S. over…
Lawyer: Why does the U-card business seem simple, but is full of pitfalls in practice?
U-card services seem straightforward on the surface. Users deposit USDT or USDC, the platform converts it to fiat currency, and then links it to a Visa or Mastercard card for online and offline spending. Customers’ first reaction is usually: isn’t this just a “cryptocurrency bank card”? But those who have actually worked with it know…
a16z, a joint venture, published an article that appears to be a sarcastic response to US AI regulation: a “double standard” within an extreme, confrontational narrative.
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, published a lengthy, highly satirical article on the X platform, seemingly in response to the US government’s AI regulations restricting access to Anthropic’s latest model. Andreessen begins by describing the potential consequences of “strict AI regulation” from an opponent’s perspective, including stifling startup innovation, destroying the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem,…
The Solana Foundation Partners with Google Cloud to Launch the pay.sh Platform
The Solana Foundation Partners with Google Cloud to Launch the pay.sh Platform AI agents can use Solana stable coins to pay for API access—on a per-request basis—to services such as Gemini, BigQuery, and Vertex AI, enabling account-free, subscription-free, and machine-native payments. The platform provides CLI tools and integrates various LLM interfaces, supporting over 50 community…
Decentralized Science Revolution: Break the shackles of the centralized scientific research system
Decentralized Science (DeSci) is a new scientific research model based on blockchain technology, aiming to build a more open, transparent and democratic scientific research ecosystem. Its core principle is to use the distributed ledger, consensus mechanism and smart contract characteristics of the blockchain to break the centralized limitations of the traditional scientific research system and…
Hong Kong partners central banks of Brazil, Thailand for tokenization. To offer digital bond grants
Today the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced collaborations with the central banks of Brazil and Thailand for cross border tokenization transactions, including atomic settlement of digital asset transactions (delivery versus payment / DvP) and wholesale CBDC (payment versus payment / PvP). Additionally, the HKMA plans to provide grants of up to HK$2.5 million for digital bond issuances to…
DeFi – Decentralised Finance
DeFi ( Decentralised Finance ), refers to a new generation of financial systems that operate through smart contracts, eliminating traditional financial third parties such as banks and brokers, and allowing users to engage in all types of financial activities (also known as “peer-to-peer”) directly with the user, including trading, lending, insurance and more. including trading,…
