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Rockstar Games developers in the United Kingdom have gone public with the studio's first union, the Rockstar Game Workers Union. It's a significant moment for an industry long resistant to organized labor, and it signals that the conversation around crunch culture and worker conditions in game development isn't going away anytime soon.
Shifting to crypto regulation, the CFTC is now moving to reverse course on its penalty against the Winklevoss twins' Gemini exchange, which had already paid a five million dollar fine following the agency's lawsuit. It's a rare regulatory about-face, and it raises real questions about consistency and the direction of federal oversight in the digital asset space.
And on the investment side, Calamos is pushing protected Bitcoin ETFs as a hedge against the kind of volatility that just drove more than one billion dollars out of spot Bitcoin funds in a single week. The pitch is essentially downside protection built in — appealing to investors who want crypto exposure without the stomach-dropping swings.
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