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VARA fines crypto firms for unlicensed and misleading operations, imposing fines up to AED 600,000 in Dubai’s tightening crypto regulation drive.

PancakeSwap has launched CakePad, a new early-access platform that strengthens CAKE’s deflationary model and renews market momentum. The rollout coincided with a price surge, even as the team resolved a Chinese X account hack promoting a fake token.

ICE will invest $2B in Polymarket, valuing the platform near $10B and positioning prediction-market probabilities as data products. The plan centers on distributing event-driven data, exploring tokenization, and advancing a compliant route back to the U.S. market. For readers, this is the moment prediction data meets Wall Street rails.

Galaxy Digital (Nasdaq: GLXY) unveils the GalaxyOne platform for U.S. investors, combining commission-free stock and ETF trading with blue-chip crypto access. The app offers 4% APY on FDIC-insured cash and an 8% Premium Yield note for accredited users, positioning Galaxy as a regulated, yield-focused alternative.

Coinbase has applied for a U.S. OCC national trust company charter to bring parts of its business under federal supervision and scale payments and custody nationwide. This piece explains what the charter is, how to verify approval status yourself, and why rivals are racing for similar licenses.