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Kalshi is pushing to bring one of crypto's most aggressive trading instruments into the mainstream equity markets. The prediction-market platform is seeking U.S. regulatory approval for roughly sixty perpetual contracts tied to stocks and ETFs, including Tesla and Nvidia, available around the clock. The catch is that nobody in Washington seems to agree on who actually gets to oversee them, with the SEC and CFTC both eyeing jurisdiction — a turf war that could define how these products evolve.
Meanwhile, crypto markets are taking a hit. Bitcoin has slipped below seventy-seven thousand dollars, shedding more than five percent on the week, and nearly all of the CoinDesk one hundred are in the red. Traders appear to be pricing in the possibility of a Federal Reserve rate hike, with Zcash leading the broader losses as risk appetite dries up across digital assets.
And in a story about how work is changing, a new survey finds that nearly two-thirds of AI users between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight want their managers to give instructions more like the tools they use every day — precise, structured, and unambiguous. Almost half of that same group admit struggling to explain work they completed with AI assistance, which raises real questions about accountability and skill development in the modern workplace.
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