Prediction market Polymarket has partnered with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis to track and reveal insider trading. There is growing concern about insider trading in prediction markets, in which users bet on the outcome of everything from sporting matches to elections. In April, an Army Green Beret was charged with using classified knowledge of the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicholas…
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Oobit Issues Debit Card Built for AI Agents
A corporate card designed for non-human spenders
Digital wallet and payment app startup Oobit has created a new stablecoin-backed corporate Visa debit card designed from the ground up for AI agents. Backed by Tether, Oobit’s new virtual Agent Card will give agentic bots the ability to make purchases autonomously, but with built-in spending limits and oversight. “The corporate card was designed seventy years ago for a human…
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Visa Adds Five Blockchains to Stablecoin Settlement Network
Settlement run rate hits $7B, up 50%
Visa is adding five blockchains to its stablecoin settlement network as it expands its multichain vision of global payments. The news comes as the payments giant announced that its settlement run rate hit $7 billion in Q1 2026, up 50% over the previous quarter. The network allows issuers and acquirers to settle transactions with stablecoins instead of the slow and…
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Securitize Brings the $69 Trillion Stock Market Onchain
Most tokenized stocks are shares held in trust for buyers
Real-world asset tokenization firm Securitize has teamed up with transfer agent Computershare to offer tokenized stocks directly from the issuing company. Unlike most current tokenized stocks, these are real shares issued by a company rather than a third-party-issued token backed by traditional stocks held in trust. These third-party tokens lack the full shareholder rights of traditional stocks, including governance voting…
