New York's AI scene: The 25 companies you need to know

The post Tria Brings VIP Trading To Self-Custody For The First Time, Ending The Rewards Vs. Asset Ownership Tradeoff appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. New York, USA, July 9th, 2026, Chainwire New VIP Trading Badges give high-volume traders access to CEX-style fee discounts, card rewards and expanded spending power—without surrendering custody of their assets Tria, the leading self-custodial neofinance platform, today became the first platform to bring VIP trading to self-custody, giving high-volume traders access to institutional-style trading rewards without giving up ownership of their digital assets. For years, active traders have faced a tradeoff. The deepest fee discounts and richest rewards were available only on centralized exchanges, where users had to relinquish custody of their assets. Self-custody offered control, but not comparable VIP incentives. Tria’s new VIP Trading Badges eliminate that divide. The new program introduces an eight-tier volume ladder that rewards acti

The post Sony Bank secures conditional OCC approval for U.S. stablecoin trust bank appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Technology giant Sony’s online banking unit said it received conditional approval to establish a U.S. national trust bank subsidiary to support the issuance and management of dollar-denominated stablecoins. The planned unit, Connectia Trust, National Association, will be based in New York and capitalized with $40 million, according to a Sony Financial Group announcement. Sony Bank will own 100% of the subsidiary. The move comes as stablecoin usage is surging. Transaction volume hit a $1.79 trillion record last month, 63% more than in May and more than double the year-earlier level, according to Visa’s onchain dashboard. With dollar-pegged tokens accounting for more than 99% of the total $311 billon market capitalization, according to DeFiLlama data, it may be a difficult market to crack. Not only do market leaders USDT and USDC alone account for about $250 billion of

The post A New York Crypto Legal Director Role Is Advertising $1 Million to $5 Million a Year – Bitcoin News appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways Pump.fun posted a New York legal role paying $1 million to $5 million a year. Solana memecoin volume tops $300 million daily as bitcoin sits 50% below October. Pump.fun faces a 2025 New York class action as the Clarity Act points to tighter rules. Pump.fun is shopping for a top lawyer in New York, and it is dangling a payday that would make most Big Tech compensation packages look modest: $1 million to $5 million a year. The timing is awkward for anyone pitching crypto stability, with Bitcoin down about 50% since 10/01 and regulators tightening screws from Europe’s MiCA to Washington’s evolving Clarity Act. Pump.fun’s meteoric growth on Solana has brought big volume and even bigger scrutiny, including a New York class action that accuses the platform of operating a Ponzi scheme. For a company trying to become a global brand, the

A fast-growing Solana-based crypto platform is advertising a New York director of legal affairs role paying $1 million to $5 million a year, even as the market remains weak and Bitcoin is down about 50% since October. The company launched in 2024, says it processes more than $300 million in daily transactions, and is facing […]

The post Judge Torres Deals Major Blow to Kalshi as New York Sports Contracts Face Scrutiny appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways: In New York, Judge Analisa Torres granted denial to Kalshi’s request for a preliminary injunction. The court ruled that the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) does not preempt New York gambling laws. The decision may embolden other State challenges to sports-event contracts. Kalshi has suffered a major setback in its lawsuit against New York regulators when Judge Analisa Torres denied its request for a preliminary injunction. The ruling then lets the case proceed to settle the state’s right to regulate gambling-related functions. The ruling is drawing a lot of attention in crypto and prediction markets in light of one of Kalshi’s main claims to immunity: federal commodity law protects the platform from state gambling laws. Read More: Kalshi Adds XRP Perpetuals in the U.S. New York Wins Key Round Against Kalshi Kalshi has claimed that its sports-event

The post Kalshi loses New York court battle as Google bans prediction market extensions appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Kalshi has lost another round in court. A federal judge has turned down the company’s request to stop New York from applying its gambling laws to the prediction markets platform. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan issued the ruling on Tuesday. She said Kalshi was not entitled to a preliminary injunction. She reasoned that the federal Commodity Exchange Act does not override New York’s gambling laws when it comes to Kalshi’s sports-event contracts. Torres said New York has strong reasons for its position. She pointed to the state’s goals of stopping gambling addiction, protecting the integrity of sports, and keeping unregulated contracts from spreading. Those interests, she wrote, “heavily” outweigh Kalshi’s arguments about federal law taking priority, and about customers running into what the company called “intractable” tech problems. “Kalshi has no

The post Brittany Allen Submitted Herself For An Emmy After HBO Didn’t. It Worked appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 11: Brittany Allen attends Showtime’s “Dexter: Original Sin” New York Premiere at SVA Theater on December 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/WireImage) WireImage Before Brittany Allen was an Emmy nominee, she was almost a Supporting Actress. (Spoilers) Allen plays Roxie Hamler in The Pitt‘s second season, a young mother with terminal cancer who is admitted to the ER contemplating ending it all. Roxie’s arc started as a six-episode role, grew to eight scripted episodes, and then lost its final one — the death scene never made air. Emmy rules split guest and supporting categories by episode count, and losing that scene held Allen under the line: seven aired episodes instead of eight, keeping her in guest actress rather than bumping her to supporting. “When I saw that they just had her pass away off camera, first of all, I tho

The post Judge Greenlights E. Jean Carroll To Collect $5.8 Million From Trump appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Topline A federal judge in New York authorized a $5.8 million judgement against President Donald Trump, three years after he was found liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll—rejecting a last-minute motion on Tuesday night attempting to pause the disbursement out of concerns she planned to donate the funds. Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll in 2023. Getty Images Key Facts The $5 million award plus interest was mostly already paid and kept in a court-controlled account while Trump appealed the case, but Judge Lewis Kaplan authorized the disbursement of the funds in an order on Wednesday. On Tuesday, attorneys for Trump asked the court to deny Carroll’s request, insisting Trump could face “unrecoverable financial loss” if she went ahead with her plans to donate the money, should the Supreme Court later overt