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)SummaryBitcoin, gold and oil price contracts are among the fastest-growing prediction market products, according to Robinhood executive JB Mackenzie. The Federal Reserve's interest rate decision was Robinhood's largest event contract in September, while crypto contracts have moved toward 15-minute settlement periods. Prediction markets are also drawing customers into Robinhood's stock, crypto and retirement products, potentially making the business one of the company's fastest-growing segments. Robinhood is seeing growing demand for prediction markets tied to bitcoin, gold and oil, as traders increasingly look beyond sports and elections to bet on moves in financial markets. Price volatility contracts tied to those assets are among the fastest-growing products in prediction markets, according to JB Mackenzie, VP and GM for futures and prediction markets at Robinhood. Sports is the largest product the platform offers, said Mackenzie at the NEXTPredict conference in New York on Thursday. However, he said there is a shift in how people use the platform.

Updated Oct 21, 2026, 11:30 a.m. EDTPublished Oct 21, 2026, 11:09 a.m. EDT3 min readBybit CEO Ben Zhou (Danny Nelson/ CoinDesk)ZusammenfassungBybit CEO Ben Zhou said partnerships are a standard approach of Bybit’s when entering new territories. The second-largest cryptocurrency exchange is looking to expand into the U. K., saying it remains an attractive, untapped market. Bybit, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, plans to buddy up with an established local company when it enters the U. S. to help it challenge the reach of firms like Robinhood Markets HOOD$102,32, according to CEO Ben Zhou. Zhou said finding a partner is Bybit’s standard approach when entering new territories, suggesting that for the U. S., Bybit will consider working with a company such as Interactive Brokers (IB), for example. “It’s best at this stage to work with a partner who wants to enter the crypto field and who already has a client base in the U. S.,” Zhou said in an interview. “For example, IB or one of those guys who haven't gone into crypto and have a good U. S.

Oct 16, 2026, 7:15 a.m. EDT3 min readU. S. investors will soon have access to binary options on some publicly traded companies. (geralt/Pixabay)SummaryThis is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here, if you haven't already. While traders spent this week watching bitcoin BTC$81,781.42 gyrate above $80,000 amid key U. S. inflation data, a decision from the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission got far less attention. The (SEC) approved the listing of binary options tied to key performance indicators (KPIs) of 23 U. S. publicly traded companies. The metrics include trading volume at crypto exchange Coinbase Global (COIN), customer count and revenue at Robinhood Markets (HOOD), and bitcoin production at mining firm MARA Holdings (MARA). “For crypto, this creates a new way to trade crypto-linked company performance beyond betting directly on BTC’s price,” Eleanor Terrett, the host of Crypto America, said on X.

A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against Toronto-based crypto wallet maker Coinkite Inc., alleging that negligence by the company and its co-founders allowed hackers to steal more than US$140-million worth of bitcoin from users. The lawsuit, filed in Ontario Superior Court last month, also asserts that the company breached its contract with users, failed to warn them about a critical vulnerability and violated Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act. In addition to naming the company, it also lists Coinkite co-founders Rodolfo Novak and Peter Gray as defendants. The allegations have not been proven in court and the class action has not yet been certified. The company declined to comment on the proposed litigation, but said it is preparing to publish a “full postmortem” on the security incident in the coming days.

Open this photo in gallery:Unions have tried to make inroads at numerous Amazon warehouses across North America and Europe. DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian PressAmazon.com Inc. AMZN-Q used an artificial-intelligence tool in Canadian warehouses to assess the likelihood of workers unionizing, assigning a “labour risk” score to each of its facilities. Internal company documents obtained by The Globe and Mail, as part of hearings between Amazon and Unifor at the British Columbia Labour Relations Board, outline the use of an AI tool called Atlas in recent years across more than 50 warehouses in the United States, Canada and Europe. The tool, according to the documents, uses hundreds of data points to design a “labour risk framework,” which then allows Amazon to evaluate “emerging workforce issues,” “labour union targets” and “internal or external labour threats.” The documents do not indicate what exactly the data points are, or how Amazon collects them. In a statement to The Globe, Amazon spokesperson Sam Stephenson said the information gathered helps the company identify trends and prioritize them accordingly.