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Crypto.com is partnering with Hollywood.com to launch an entertainment-based prediction market that will facilitate trades related to films, TV shows, music, awards shows, Broadway shows and more.   The event contracts will be offered through Crypto.com’s CFTC-registered exchange and clearing house and available on Hollywood.com, an entertainment news site.In the press release announcing the partnership, Crypto.com Managing Director of Global Head of Capital Markets Travis McGhee and Hollywood.com co-CEO Mitchell Rubenstein both speak of the passion of entertainment fans and the burgeoning popularity of prediction markets.“Entertainment fans are some of the most passionate consumers and we look forward to providing them a…

In 2025, cloud mining is becoming one of the easiest ways to join the crypto space. Without buying hardware or paying high electricity costs, users can rent remote hash power to mine Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other coins directly from their phones or browsers. This simple and accessible form of crypto mining allows anyone to earn daily rewards through trusted crypto cloud mining platforms—no technical skills required.While hundreds of platforms claim to offer cloud mining services in 2025, only a few stand out for their transparency, legal compliance, and real profitability. This guide highlights eight trusted crypto cloud mining sites that…

BlackRock will list an iShares Bitcoin ETF on the Australian Securities Exchange in mid-November 2025, according to public filings and market reports. Related Reading The product will be a local wrapper around BlackRock’s US iShares Bitcoin Trust — a vehicle that launched in January 2024 and now manages about $85 billion. Based on reports, the new ASX ticker will charge a management fee of 0.39% per year. BlackRock Brings IBIT To ASX The move aims to give Australian investors an easier way to gain exposure to bitcoin through a familiar exchange-listed product. Reports have disclosed that investors who buy the…

WorkforcePool, the first winner of the Pi Network Hackathon and the initial freelance marketplace built on the Pi blockchain, is up for sale. This move highlights growing sustainability challenges for developers in the Pi Network ecosystem.The November 4, 2025 announcement has unsettled the Pi developer community. It raises serious questions about the platform’s viability for builders.Sponsored SponsoredA Symbolic Loss for Pi Network DevelopersWorkforcePool was a leading example of innovation on the Pi Network. As the first-place winner of the Pi Hackathon, it inspired many to develop decentralized applications. The platform aimed to be a freelance marketplace, similar to a Pi-powered…

About Yammie Pang Name: Yammie Pang Designation: Co-founder & Managing Director Company: Higooga Country: Hong Kong Yammie’s Learning Journey That Inspires Which 101 Blockchains courses or certifications have you completed? I have completed the 101 Blockchains Certified Cryptocurrency Professional (CCP)™ certification. Why did you choose 101 Blockchains, and how was your Overall Learning Experience with the Platform? I’ve long been fascinated by how blockchain can reshape how we live and work. During my MA in Photography, I built an NFT photography archive, which sparked a deeper interest in how tokenisation, provenance, and programmable incentives could be applied in commerce and…

France’s proposed “unproductive wealth” tax has raised eyebrows among crypto investors, but most won’t be affected. By lifting the taxable threshold to €2 million, the measure targets only the ultra-wealthy. Every day crypto holders will remain outside its reach. Its real impact lies not in new tax burdens but in how France is redefining digital wealth within its broader fiscal policy.Sponsored SponsoredCrypto Added To “Unproductive Wealth” ListFrance has advanced plans to include cryptocurrency in its revamped wealth tax, following lawmakers’ narrow approval of an amendment classifying digital assets as “unproductive wealth.”Proposed by centrist deputy Jean-Paul Mattei, the measure passed the National…

Lido is integrating Chainlink’s interoperability standard to power wrapped Staked Ether (wstETH) transfers. The Chainlink cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP) is now the official cross-chain infrastructure for wstETH. wstETH will implement CCIP on supported chains in stages. Lido, a leading liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, has announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink.  The protocol has adopted the oracle network’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the official infrastructure for securing all cross-chain transfers of the Lido wrapped staked Ether (wstETH) token.  Integration comes after the Lido DAO community approved the partnership via snapshot voting.  Key details of the Lido and Chainlink partnership…

Staked Stream USD (xUSD) is trading at less than 30 cents on the dollar amid concerns about the protocol’s solvency.After a week of uncertainty, yield optimizer Stream Finance announced late last night that it has lost $93 million, a significant portion of its total value locked (TVL), and the market is bracing for further contagion from its collapse as the broader market craters.What began as a back-and-forth between CBB, an anonymous whale, and the Stream team over risk management has evolved into an alarming event for decentralized finance (DeFi) users after Stream shared that “an external fund manager overseeing Stream…

In brief Publicly traded Bitcoin miner MARA said that it had generated $252 million in revenue, a 92% year-over-year increase The firm is looking to expand beyond Bitcoin mining, embracing a role as a digital infrastructure firm that also helps power AI. Shares of MARA have fallen around 6% as Bitcoin briefly slipped below $100K. Publicly traded Bitcoin miner, MARA, recorded the firm’s highest ever quarterly revenue in Q3, generating $252 million, a 92% year-over-year increase. The firm also generated income of $123 million or $0.27 per share compared to a loss of $124 million at this time last year, while…

NEW YORK — The XRP Ledger’s ability to support both value transfer and real-world payments from a single platform could give it a structural advantage in the growing crypto ETF market, according to derivatives exchange Bitnomial founder and CEO Luke Hoersten.“What I think is unique about XRP and RLUSD is you have a single ledger that is driving a two-prong strategy, one of wealth storage and transfer in XRP, and the other is in RLUSD, which is payments,” Hoersten said at Ripple’s Swell conference in New York on Tuesday. “Having that both on a single ledger with a single strategy,…