CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/cftc-prediction-markets-mike-selig
Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick.
Friend link bypasses the paywall: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-april-18-dc10dc138ec2?sk=88535911cf3233927dd5ac9a18302423
Well, the state of play at the end of this morning's work:
'OK, the problem is that make_frame fails to put the arguments into the frame.
I do not (yet) know why not, but that is the problem."
https://git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
TEAGUE: No! Wait! It's opening... There's a powerful light source from somewhere. We're going in now.
[Leylan turns round to Krell]
LEYLAN: Krell? Get kitted up and standby to give backup if it's needed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/525
SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…
Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk officer following a CFTC demand; the company has expanded its legal team in recent months (Bernard Goyder/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/polymark…
Sports-focused prediction market Novig raises a $75M Series B led by Pantera Capital at a $500M valuation; Novig is commission-free for retail traders (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/18/sports-prediction-markets-novi…
EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-sanctions-iran-group-hacked-charlie-hebdo/…
Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (John Wang/@j0hnwang)
https://x.com/j0hnwang/status/2034425352366473223
Q&A with Kalshi co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara on suing the US government, solving market making, agentic and insider trading, ethics, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/creating-prediction-markets-and-suing