Tag: crypto

Kristin Johnson departs Commodity Futures Trading Commission with predictions market warning

5 September 2025 at 6:40am UTC-4
Departing Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Kristin Johnson has warned that prediction markets, and some crypto platforms, are attracting unprecedented retail ...

Tech company exec charged for gambling seed funding online casino app

15 August 2025 at 7:01am UTC-4
Former Chief Executive Officer, Richard Kim, of technology company Zero Edge Corporation has been charged with securities and wire fraud after gambling US$4 million from investor ...

SharpLink Gaming buys US$25.7 million in Ethereum

14 July 2025 at 6:04am UTC-4
US igaming and sports betting affiliate SharpLink has bought 10,000 Ethereum for US$25.7 million. SharpLink Gaming is listed on the Nasdaq and is the largest publicly traded ...

Stablecoin created in Tinian amid online gambling legalization

20 May 2025 at 7:40am UTC-4
The island of Tinian, in the US territory of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, has created its own stablecoin after the island legalized online gambling. On ...

BetHog: Prospecting on the crypto gambling frontier

19 May 2025 at 8:15am UTC-4
In 2007 Nigel Eccles launched an online political prediction market called Hubdub, which by 2009 had evolved into the fledgling daily-fantasy-sports platform FanDuel ...