Kalshi is pushing deeper into U.S. professional sports through new brand partnerships with five Major League Baseball teams: the Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants. The company said the deals will place Kalshi across stadium signage, social media, digital channels, radio and in-person fan activations, rather than limiting promotion to online ads. At Dodger Stadium, the arrangement includes LED advertising, naming rights for an in-stadium bar, and fan events and special offers at Centerfield Plaza. Kalshi said baseball-related trading volume on its platform has risen sharply. According to the company, baseball trading volume grew 36-fold over the past year, and baseball-related contract volume in 2026 has approached 13 billion contracts so far, up from about 355 million during the same period last year. Kalshi describes itself as a federally regulated event contracts exchange, though the article notes that contracts tied to game outcomes can look increasingly similar to sports betting from a fan’s perspective. That overlap makes the MLB tie-ups more sensitive in light of the case involving Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, who admitted to bank fraud and filing a false tax return after using illegal bookmakers and stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani’s account.

Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes has identified multiple fake cryptocurrency anti-money laundering, or AML, screening websites that imitate legitimate services such as AMLBot and try to get users to connect their wallets and approve transactions. The company said a real AML screening process only requires a public wallet address and does not require users to connect a wallet, approve permissions, or sign transactions. The fraudulent sites mimic a normal service flow with fake progress bars and fabricated screening results. One of the sites also asks users to deposit a small amount of funds as a supposed screening fee, then shows a result marked “clean, low risk” regardless of whether any actual check has taken place. Malwarebytes said connecting a wallet does not by itself steal funds, but it can expose wallet addresses and asset holdings, giving scammers the information they need to build transactions for users to approve later. Users who have granted suspicious token permissions should revoke them. Anyone who entered a seed phrase or private key should treat the wallet as compromised and move assets to a new wallet, according to the report cited by Decrypt.

Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes has warned that scammers are setting up fake anti-money laundering, or AML, checking services aimed at crypto users. The sites claim to assess whether a wallet has touched stolen funds, sanctioned entities, scams, or other suspicious activity, but instead push visitors to connect wallets and approve actions they should never need to authorize for a basic check. Some pages imitate the legitimate service AMLBot, while others use generic branding such as “AML Check.” Malwarebytes said the scam pages often display fabricated progress messages and bogus results to make the process look real, and at least one site asked for a small top-up fee before returning a “Clean, Low Risk” label. The firm stressed that a standard AML wallet screening only requires a public wallet address, not wallet connection, permission approvals, or transaction signatures. Malwarebytes also said the same layout and workflow appeared under multiple names and logos, pointing to a reusable scam kit. The warning comes as crypto phishing campaigns keep surfacing, including cloned sites tied to Coldcard, Pudgy World, and more than 1,200 fake CoinDCX domains identified over a period running from April 2024 to January 2026.

YaKyoLife, a free browser-based game that lets players simulate the full career of a Taiwanese baseball player, has recently surged in popularity across Taiwan’s baseball community. The game starts with a 16-year-old high school player and runs through the draft, domestic professional baseball, possible moves to Japan or the United States, international tournaments, decline and retirement. As discussion spread across Threads and PTT’s baseball board, users began posting their career outcomes, while broadcaster Wei Chu-yu also shared the game and drew in more players. According to the article, the creator said on PTT that he did not personally write the code line by line, but he designed the core systems, including defensive positions, league evaluation and stat conversion. He also said the game’s text was developed through discussions with AI, though he plans to spend about a week revising it so the tone better matches the style of Threads and PTT baseball communities. The article frames YaKyoLife as an example of a personal development model shaped by generative AI: AI can lower the technical barrier to building a game, but whether the game works still depends on the creator’s understanding of baseball, systems design and community culture.

Binance said in an official announcement on Aug 5 that Cross Margin, the Unified Account mode and Unified Account Pro will accept 10 bStocks tokens as eligible collateral starting at 20:00 UTC+8 on Aug 5, 2026. The newly supported tokens are BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNRB), Super Micro Computer (SMCIB), IREN Limited (IRENB), ASML (ASMLB), Netflix (NFLXB), AST SpaceMobile (ASTSB), Coherent (COHRB), Credo Technology (CRDOB), USA Rare Earth (USARB) and Astera Labs (ALABB). Corresponding bStocks trading pairs will also have leveraged trading enabled. Eligible users will be able to put these bStocks tokens to use as margin collateral. That widens the mix of collateral options available for margin trading on the platform. The change covers the cross margin account, the unified account mode and the unified account pro version, and all ten tokens are scheduled to become eligible at the same time: 20:00 UTC+8 on Aug 5, 2026. BlockBeats reported the update, citing Binance's official announcement.

Binance will add 10 bStocks tokens as eligible collateral assets on August 5, 2026, at 20:00, including BitMine, Super Micro Computer, IREN, ASML, Netflix, AST SpaceMobile, Coherent, Credo Technology, USA Rare Earth, and Astera Labs. Eligible users can use these tokens as margin collateral for cross margin, unified account mode, and unified account professional mode trading.

Bitcoin traded in a tight range around $64,000 after briefly touching about $64,500, with traders watching U.S. nonfarm payrolls, progress on the Clarity Act, and developments tied to a temporary Hormuz Strait agreement. On-chain data cited in the report showed roughly 155,000 BTC changed hands between $62,000 and $65,000, while Glassnode said about 515,000 BTC last moved near $63,000 and another 362,000 BTC near $61,000. The report also noted that spot price is sitting close to the 200-week moving average around $63,700, pointing to a key support area. Options markets remain calm for now. Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility has dropped to 36%, the lowest level since late May, even as traders on Kalshi increased bets on a move below $60,000 this month, with more users also positioning for $57,500 and $55,000. CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. said Bitcoin has a 55% probability of trading between $58,000 and $67,000 in August, versus a 30% bearish scenario and a 15% bullish one. The report also reviewed U.S. equity futures, crypto-related stocks, Michael Burry’s renewed warning that the stock market may be near a major top, and a series of upcoming earnings and token unlocks that traders are tracking.

Giannis Antetokounmpo said he has joined prediction market platform Kalshi as a shareholder, but the move quickly drew criticism over possible conflicts of interest tied to his status as an active NBA player.