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New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul have announced a lawsuit against Polymarket US. The state alleges the prediction platform is operating illegal, unlicensed gambling in New York. The lawsuit seeks to stop the activity and asks for fines, forfeiture of alleged illegal gains and restitution for users. **ID:** N25-03 **Site:** NewsBTC **Status:** READY **Author:** NewsBTC Editorial Team **Focus Keyword:** Polymarket **Image Keyword:** Regulation **Category:** Regulation **Tags:** Polymarket, New York, Prediction Markets, Regulation, Kalshi **Primary Source:** https://ag.ny.gov/press-release New York Says The Federal Structure Does Not Override State Gambling Law Polymarket returned to the U.S. market after acquiring…

On Wednesday, September 23, Bitcoin [BTC] saw a brief pullback from $87.3k that sent the leading crypto down to $82.9k. This dip has since begun to recover. Source: Coinalyze Internet Computer [ICP] did not see much of a price dip in recent days, and has pushed higher by 7.1% in the past 24 hours. Its Open Interest was up by 8.4% in 24 hours, too, signaling bullish short-term conviction amongst speculators. The spot CVD has not begun to recover despite the price gains, and the funding rate was in negative territory. It indicated that the majority of derivatives market participants…

Block has joined the x402 Foundation and contributed Bitcoin Lightning support to the open payment protocol used by AI agents, web services and applications. Block’s September 24 announcement states that the company has brought Lightning payments into x402 as part of its work on agentic commerce. The payment company said Lightning fits transactions that require low costs, fast settlement and repeated small payments. Block has joined the x402 Foundation, an open standard for agentic payments, to help build the rails that will let people, businesses, and agents pay and get paid.We’ve also contributed Bitcoin Lightning payments, which is purpose-built for…

Circle Foundation has unveiled two initiatives with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to explore digital payments and regulated stablecoin infrastructure for development and humanitarian operations. The support is expected to help international organizations improve the speed, cost and transparency of payments while expanding access to digital financial services, Circle Foundation said Friday. The team noted that UNDP will use a Circle Foundation grant to establish the Digital Asset Innovation Pool, which will provide a structured framework for using regulated payment stablecoins in development programs. The pool, which will complement existing banking channels, is…

Solana is now the leading blockchain when it comes to handling tokenized commodities trading on decentralized exchanges. Latest data from Blockworks shows that the network now holds a 36% market share of tokenized commodities spot DEX volume, ahead of Robinhood Chain at 26%. Three weeks ago, Solana’s share was just around 1%. Canton came in third with 19%, followed by Ethereum at 13% and $BNB chain at 4%. HyperCore picked up about 1% and the rest of the chains like Base, Polygon, Avalanche and Monad barely registered. The current composition here is drastically different from a market Ethereum led almost…

Humanity Protocol [H] rallied more than 15% in the past 24 hours, but its weekly gains are in the red. That is, H has lost more than 23% of its market cap in the past week. However, traders should be wary of how long this rally will last amid an upcoming token unlock. Here is what pushed the altcoin higher and whether the trend can hold. Why is Humanity Protocol trending up? Looking at Arkham data, it was clear that capital was moving from exchanges to personal wallets. For instance, an insider transferred more than 107.64 million H tokens, worth…

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce wants financial firms to stop stockpiling customer data after breaches exposed the cost of mandatory identity collection.This week, the SEC Commissioner called for wider use of reusable digital credentials that could establish facts about customers without requiring every financial institution to collect the underlying personal information again.According to her:“Today society is at a crossroads. Down one path lies the status quo: more data collection, more intermediary surveillance, more “know your customer’ requirements that turn our financial rails into a panopticon. Down the other path lies an opportunity to use new technologies…

A bug in Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2 was exploited to steal NFTs before security researchers identified the issue and launched a whitehat rescue operation, as reported by 0xQuit, also known publicly as Quit, the pseudonymous vice president of blockchain at Yuga Labs. At 9AM EST today somebody abused a bug in Payment Processor V2 to steal 10 Meebits, 50 Otherdeeds, 10 WoW, and 235 Desperate Apewives. It wasn’t until over 12 hours later that somebody reported it to me, and upon digging in I realized that a great many NFTs were subject to the… pic.twitter.com/Vue8TUyMD2 — Quit (@0xQuit) September…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 25, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, will return to TOKEN2049 Singapore as a Platinum Sponsor, with a broader on-site presence spanning interactive booth experiences, product showcases and conversations on the MEXC Stage. The event will give users, partners and industry participants more ways to engage directly with MEXC, from exploring new AI experiences to joining discussions on how trading platforms and global markets are evolving.   This year, MEXC’s presence will spotlight how AI is evolving from market analysis into active, agentic execution. Where quantitative capabilities and high-speed algorithmic tools were once…

A whitehat moved 3,832 non-fungible tokens from hundreds of wallets on Friday amid concerns about a vulnerability involving $NFT marketplace Magic Eden. $NFT community member who goes by Cirrus on X flagged the activity on Friday, saying a single wallet moved 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets. Cirrus said the transactions appeared as sales through Magic Eden and advised $NFT holders to revoke permissions as a precaution. Shortly afterward, Yuga Labs’ pseudonymous vice president of blockchain, 0xQuit, said the transfers were part of a white-hat operation. He said the NFTs held in the receiving wallet are safe and “will be…