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Kalshi and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) both punished a White House teleprompter operator on Friday. Gabriel Perez had bet on Trump’s speech text before the president read it out loud. Perez gave up $107,539.02 in profit. He paid a $65,000 fine on top. He cannot trade for three years. Why the White House Staffer’s Fine Came In So Low The CFTC discounted the fine and said so in the order. It credited what it called exemplary cooperation. “Under the order, Perez must disgorge the profits he made from his unlawful trading totaling $107,539.02 and pay a civil monetary…

In brief Sen. Bernie Sanders pledged in an X post to introduce legislation targeting Flock Safety, opening with “STOP FLOCK. STOP AI MASS SURVEILLANCE” and warning that unchecked tracking technology risks steering the country toward totalitarianism. He said Flock has installed more than 120,000 AI cameras scanning 20 billion vehicles monthly across 6,000-plus communities, and that newer models can combine images with databases of phone numbers, relatives and court records to identify people. Sanders joins a bipartisan backlash, including Rep. Thomas Massie’s planned funding-cutoff bill and canceled contracts from Los Angeles to Indiana. Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking aim at…

Social chatter around ZEC hit six times its August baseline before the price peak, then vanished as the ETF launched. Zcash has been one of the best-performing assets this year. It has managed to attract significant institutional capital. This week, asset manager Grayscale Investments launched the first exchange-traded fund that tracks the spot price of ZEC. But interest in the privacy-focused token peaked shortly before its price reached a recent high. Zcash Crowd Showed Up Early Data shared by Santiment revealed that social chatter faded by the time the ZEC spot ETF launched. Grayscale converted its 2017 Zcash trust into…

The debasement trade is back — and will benefit bitcoin.  That’s according to asset manager Grayscale’s crypto research team, who wrote in a note this week that the U.S. government debasing its currency would lead to cash hitting digital assets.  “Unchecked government debt growth undermines the credibility of fiat currencies and drives investors to seek out alternative stores of value like physical gold and certain cryptocurrencies,” the note by the firm’s head of research, Zach Pandl, read, adding that primarily bitcoin would benefit.  US public debt has reached over $40 trillion. The Treasury is buying back bonds to ease rising…

Bitcoin slid Friday afternoon, cooling down after a phenomenal run following huge investment from U.S. ETF buyers.  The leading cryptocurrency was trading for $77,379 on Friday afternoon in New York after dropping more than 3% over a 24-hour period.  Bitcoin hit a high this week of $81,281 but slowed down after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh gave his first major speech as head of the central bank — saying on Friday that he had “more work to do” to fight inflation.  The Bitcoin price has in the past dropped when the Federal Reserve thinks inflation is too high because it…

Washington, United States, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire As prediction-market volume hits record highs and regulators circle, identically worded midterm questions are trading several points apart depending on the venue. Predictions.io now tracks 9,700+ markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold in one place – with free fee and odds calculators so traders can see what a price actually costs them. Prediction markets have never been bigger, or more contested. Kalshi, Polymarket and Polymarket US together posted a record $50.59 billion in combined volume in July, with Kalshi accounting for roughly 74.5% of the total. In the same month, New York City…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched Earn Plus, a new flexible savings product, and introduced a limited-time event that offers eligible users an APR boost of up to 800%. Earn Plus is a flexible savings product that allows users to stake stablecoins and earn daily interest. The product offers 100% principal protection, with interest generated from low-risk, high-liquidity assets. Earn Plus has no lock-up period or maximum subscription limit, allowing users to stake and redeem assets at any time, with redemptions processed within seconds. Interest is calculated hourly and settled…

Costa Rica, August 28, 2026 — Frogbet, a new cryptocurrency casino and sportsbook, has officiallylaunched at frogbet.com, debuting a catalog of 70 original games developed entirely in-house alongsidemore than 7,000 titles from providers including Pragmatic Play, Hacksaw Gaming and BGaming.Every Frogbet original is provably fair, allowing players to cryptographically verify the outcome of anybet at any time. The proprietary catalog spans in-house slots, eight blackjack variants, poker, and a fullrange of instant games including Mines, Dice, Plinko, Crash, Limbo and Keno — none of which areavailable on any other platform. According to the team, Frogbet’s proprietary slots are the first…

Singapore, Singapore, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs, announced on August 26 that it has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs. Terms were not disclosed. TermMax was selected for YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3 and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its earlier backers include Cumberland DRW — which led the 2023 seed round — HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund. The protocol has been live on mainnet since April 2025 and now runs across 10 EVM-compatible chains, with 60 fixed-rate markets, 40 strategy…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched IPO Express, a new event offering eligible users access to SHEIN’s IPO subscription, ahead of its scheduled listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026. The first-in-market opportunity is designed to allow users to gain economic exposure to SHEIN’s post-listing performance using USDT and receive mirror credits, without directly holding SHEIN shares. MEXC is committed to removing barriers to market participation, based on the belief that opportunity should not be limited by identity, capital size, or geography. IPO allocations have traditionally…