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According to Bloomberg, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is conducting an extensive investigation into prediction market platform Polymarket, covering areas such as social media activity and fake transactions. Polymarket hired dozens of college-aged creators to film videos of simulated trading to attract users. The CFTC and the Department of Justice had previously concluded an investigation into whether Polymarket violated the ban on US users, as some US users accessed the platform via VPN. Since reaching a settlement with the CFTC in 2022, Polymarket has prohibited US users from accessing its main platform and is currently taking steps to reintroduce the main exchange into the US and working with the CFTC to lift the ban.

According to The Defiant, the defunct DeFi protocol Stream Finance has launched creditor registration, involving approximately $285 million in debt exposure. Creditors include direct holders of xUSD, xBTC, and xETH, as well as institutional lenders on Euler, Morpho, Silo, and Gearbox. Among them, the TelosC debt exposure is approximately $124 million, while the Elixir debt exposure is around $68 million.

Odaily reports that according to MSX.COM data, US stocks closed higher: the Dow Jones rose 0.59%, the S&P 500 Index rose 1.18%, the Nasdaq rose 2.07%, and the VIX Volatility Index fell 4.13%. AI-related stocks saw broad gains: Astera Labs rose 16.39%, KLA rose 11.97%, Palo Alto Networks rose 9.14%, Ambarella rose 7.85%, and Baidu rose 7.64%. It is reported that MSX is a leading RWA trading platform, having launched hundreds of RWA tokens covering popular US stocks and ETF token assets such as NVDA, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSM, and AMD.