Trump praises prediction markets, defends CFTC as court cases compound

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U.S. President Donald Trump said it was “critically important” that the CFTC keep “exclusive authority” over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chair Michael Selig in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, late Tuesday afternoon. “Under my leadership, we are setting ‘rules of the road’ that are the Gold Standard for the States,” he […]

Trump-backed WLFI token drops 12% to record lows after team defends multi-million lending position

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World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token fell about 12% in the past 24 hours after the Trump-linked crypto venture published a thread on X defending its lending position on Dolomite, the DeFi protocol whose co-founder advises WLFI. The thread came in response to CoinDesk’s reporting that WLFI had deposited its own governance token as collateral, borrowed […]