Hong Kong SFC Gives Crypto Platforms 1 Year to Ditch SMS OTPs
The Hong Kong SFC is forcing licensed exchanges to replace one-time passwords with cryptographic 2FA, and the liability shift is the part exchanges are reading closely.
Country and city adoption — BTC as legal tender, sovereign Bitcoin reserves, and big-corp first-time crypto moves.
The Hong Kong SFC is forcing licensed exchanges to replace one-time passwords with cryptographic 2FA, and the liability shift is the part exchanges are reading closely.
The Fed is blocked from issuing a retail digital dollar through 2030, removing the one structural threat the crypto industry had lobbied against for years, even though the central bank was never…
A bitcoin treasury firm selling into the market at $62K average while pivoting to AI data centers is a signal on both fronts: balance sheet repair plus a corporate identity shift away from pure BTC…
The world's third-largest carmaker just moved stablecoin treasury settlement out of the sandbox, compressing a US-to-Mexico wire from three to four hours to roughly seven minutes.
The split suggests MiCA pushed retail toward self-custody rather than toward MiCA-licensed competitors, a structural read on how Europe's landmark crypto regime is reshaping user behavior.
A derivatives license would let Polymarket's U.S. arm offer leveraged bets on events for the first time since a 2022 CFTC settlement, putting it on a regulatory footing with Kalshi.
Robinhood's L2 booked $433M in perp-driven flows over the past 24 hours, overtaking Hyperliquid's $296M and signalling real traction for the broker-led chain's derivatives venue.
Bitcoin and Ethereum lead the list, with Solana, Chainlink, and Hyperliquid cited as second-tier picks; Galaxy's Lucas T and Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov are quoted defending the bullish case.
The 'more than Earth' framing is Musk's signature long-horizon valuation pitch, but SpaceX is still private and trades only on secondary markets, where no public price has yet anchored a price tag…
The 19% ARB move is the headline, but the structural read is the 10% revenue share routing back to the Arbitrum DAO, a first real test of the chain-as-a-business model.
The figure is a direct read on MiCA's first months: regulated venues are now the off-ramp, not the destination, for European crypto capital.
The deployment makes Kazakhstan one of the largest real-world crypto-payment footprints in Central Asia and gives Binance Pay a live test of merchant-side scale beyond headline partnerships.
Alfa-Bank's pilot lands in a market that has shifted from blanket prohibition to state-issued rules under the digital-ruble framework, positioning private incumbents to handle the volume exchanges…
Census data shows 45% of adults aged 18-29 are in their parents' homes, the highest share since the 1940s, reshaping household formation and consumer spending patterns.
Native issuance cuts bridging friction for a $1B-supply stablecoin, landing on a network that has already settled $2.6T in stablecoin volume and a growing institutional footprint.
The first U.S. manufacturing footprint for the Bitcoin mining hardware maker lands while hashprice stays compressed, a bet that domestic capacity and supply-chain control are worth building through…
Since the September 2025 peak, monthly CEX listing activity has collapsed by roughly 77%, signalling that the 2024–2025 token-launch cycle has fully deflated and centralized venues are no longer the…
The deal is sponsorship, not custody, but it puts the XRP logo on a Power Four football jersey for a season, the kind of mainstream brand visibility a sports patch uniquely delivers.
Latin America's largest exchange now lets local traders hedge and trade volatility in BRL- and USD-denominated contracts that reference Nasdaq crypto indexes, with no on-platform token custody.
Conditional approval for Sony Bank's Connectia Trust subsidiary puts a first-tier consumer brand on the regulated US dollar stablecoin issuance rail.