Evolveify
Recent dispatches, newest first. Each one starts with what changed and ends with what is worth examining next.
A new order under the Online Criminal Harms Act names affiliate marketers, influencers, and PR agencies right alongside the platforms. This is the first jurisdiction to close that loophole — it won't be the last.
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A trillion dollar quarter and a well run dealing desk are two different achievements. Only one of them shows up in a screenshot.
An FCA broker went from open for trading to force liquidating positions in two weeks. Here's what your program needs to survive that.
A licensing deadline three weeks out turns every crypto CFD affiliate banner into a liability with your name on it, not legal's.
$2.3 million, a Nigerian director, and a ban on referral incentives. Every other frontier market is reading the same PDF.
AI search is answering the queries your comparison partners rank for. Run this audit before you approve next quarter's affiliate spend.
One CFD broker grew profit 150% by outspending everyone on marketing. The other handed shareholders more cash than it earned. Both are calling it strategy.
Adjust and AppsFlyer catch the obvious stuff. Cookie stuffing isn't on that list, and regulators just made it your problem.
CySEC's on-site sweeps, the UK's affiliate ad ban, and a stalled US crypto bill — three signals for where your license actually needs to be this quarter.
G makes 9x what XTB makes per client. NAGA just proved the fix — and CySEC is now auditing why the rest of the industry hasn't.
Why "Claude or GPT experience" just became a hiring requirement — and what it means for anyone still cold calling manually
$1.3B buys you a distant third place behind Kalshi's 90% and Polymarket's lawsuits — here's why that's the smart bet, not the desperate one.
Why 2026 operators are ditching one-rate-for-everyone and pricing commissions off player LTV instead
BitMEX and BitMart died three days apart last week. Your revshare book is the real casualty.
Europe's biggest crypto decision this year isn't the one everyone's watching.
HTFX, YaMarkets, BDSwiss , and the public filing nobody in this industry reads.
MiCA's grace period is over, prop firms are racing to zero, and iGaming affiliates are getting audited, regulated growth just traded trust for proof.
Vantage, eToro, CMC, and LMAX are racing to trade gold 24/7. Nobody's saying who's holding the risk when the real market is closed.
OKX's bonus isn't a headline. It's a retention mechanic wearing one.
CFD brokers can't run trading bonuses in Europe. Crypto exchanges just did ,legally, and right on cue for MiCA.
513 funding programmes. 35 firms. Zero of them can tell you where the payouts come from.
Perps didn't die in Europe — they just found out they had a dress code.
Binance got 10 days' notice before Greece locked it out. Its EU head says that's not how success should be measured. She's wrong.
Somewhere in Brussels, a clock that's been running since 2023 hit zero this morning.
Mandatory ad labels, balanced-risk rules, and the liability lands on you, not the creator.
6,500 of us spent three days on prediction markets and crypto convergence — while Brussels quietly repriced the entire broker model.
93% of the market, scrubbed off the menu. Here's who eats the deposits now.
Prediction markets, binary options, and a split happening in real time.
Match-Trader launched prediction markets in Limassol.Match-Trader launched prediction markets in Limassol. Most brokers saw a product. Affiliate teams should see a funnel.
Spain reclassifies. Emerging markets go dark. And 154 brokers just got caught with nothing.