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Markets

State Regulators Bet on a Legal Difference Between Prediction Markets, Sports Gambling

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Connecticut claims Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto.com don’t have the proper licenses to handle sports wagers in the state.

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ETF Upside

Advisors Loading Up on ETFs Favor Crypto, Commodity Strategies

More than half of RIAs increased the number of strategies in which they invested.

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Advisor Upside

SEC Zeroes In on Advisors Recommending Alternatives. Just Not Crypto

Crypto’s exclusion further highlights the complete 180 Paul Atkins’s SEC has done on multiple issues from the previous administration.

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Blockchain

Bitcoin HODL’ers Unfazed by New Bottom

Bitcoin has entered “death cross” territory, meaning its 50-day moving average has fallen below its 200-day moving average.

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Advisor Upside

Tokens Are the Future. But How Soon Will We Get There?

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Outside of some high-net-worth clients’ portfolios, tokenized assets are not yet the norm among advisors.

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Blockchain

Bitcoin Struggles to Bounce Back from Deleveraging Crisis

Bitcoin has so far fallen 20% from its 2025 peak this cycle; in previous bear markets, it fell as much as 30% to 40%.

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Blockchain

Rough Week Erases Most of Crypto’s 2025 Gains

While digital assets are feeling the chill heading into fall, it’s too early to say it’s the start of a full-blown crypto winter.

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Advisor Upside

JPMorgan Tokenizes PE Fund on In-house Blockchain

The move comes before the bank’s full rollout of its tokenization platform next year.

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Finance

The ‘Everything App’: How Robinhood Grew From Trading Platform to Financial Ecosystem

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Still in the “early innings of its growth story,” Robinhood has morphed from an app with crowdsourced stock advice to a financial ecosystem.

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Blockchain

Tether Poised to Join Ranks of World’s Most Valuable Private Companies

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A $500 billion valuation would put Tether on par with OpenAI and SpaceX — not to mention dwarfing its next closest direct rival, Circle.

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Finance

Halt and Catch Fire: IPO Market Accelerates After Sleepy Summer

Investor appetite for StubHub and Klarna is especially compelling at a time when consumer sentiment starting to slump.

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Advisor Upside

SEC Enforcement Claims Tumble Almost 50% This Year

Chairman Paul Atkins said his agency is going after fraud affecting retail investors.

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Blockchain

Winklevoss Twins Seek $2.2 Billion Valuation for Gemini IPO

The pair invested early in bitcoin, becoming some of the world’s first bitcoin billionaires and launching Gemini in 2014.

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