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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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 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…
