BitMEX to Shut Down Sept 2026 After 11-Year Run
The exchange that pioneered the 100x perpetual swap in 2014 hands the franchise back to Binance, OKX and Bybit after an 11-year run, with a Sept.
Institutional crypto activity — corporate treasuries, custody mandates, pension and endowment moves, and bank involvement.
The exchange that pioneered the 100x perpetual swap in 2014 hands the franchise back to Binance, OKX and Bybit after an 11-year run, with a Sept.
The world's largest custody bank is using stablecoin reserve flows as the wedge to break Treasury settlement out of its weekday-only window, with tokenized Treasuries on a private chain next.
The first time a top Korean financial conglomerate has grabbed a controlling stake in a domestic crypto venue signals that the country's trillion-dollar retail market is now too big for traditional…
Thune is forcing the floor even without a Democratic deal, signaling the market-structure bill has enough Republican support to clear without bipartisan cover.
The deal marks one of South Korea's largest traditional financial institutions planting a full-scale flag in domestic crypto infrastructure, with a stake increase to 97.15% expected before the week…
After three months dormant, a single wallet absorbed 27,000 ETH through Galaxy's OTC desk in one block, a size that points to an institutional accumulator rather than a retail buyer.
The $112M impairment is a non-cash accounting entry Tesla's GAAP books require on every digital-asset decline. The real signal is unchanged: the EV maker has not touched its bitcoin stack since 2022.
Hougan names five structural pillars, with institutional DeFi scaling into the trillions as the headline call, framing the next cycle as a financial-infrastructure story rather than a…
The downgrade hinges not on the bill itself but on the 140-company Open USD consortium behind it, which Mizuho says could fragment Circle's issuer revenue if the law passes.
The reframing matters more than the price target: Benchmark is telling clients Hut 8's AI compute pipeline, not its bitcoin mining hash, is now the lens for valuing the equity.
The measure targets perceived conflicts of interest and seeks to reinforce confidence that lawmakers do not hold an unfair trading edge.
The 53% markup in under a year, lifting Revolut past Barclays, lands alongside a UK banking license and a US charter pursuit as crypto banking goes mainstream.
A senior enforcement principal deputy exits mid-pivot on crypto policy, with a former SEC attorney lined up to take the role as priorities shift toward court-tested actions.
Spot ETFs and stablecoin rails wired crypto into the same macro plumbing as traditional assets, so diversification does less work in risk-off regimes than allocators tend to assume.
Trading volumes slumped most of the quarter before stabilizing in June, but the analyst sees the market-structure bill as a larger swing factor than the near-term print.
Sandy Kaul's thesis hinges on agentic AI needing programmable, low-cost payment rails for fractions-of-a-cent transactions. If she's right, demand for native crypto could rise with AI adoption itself.
The morning call signals the market-structure bill is moving fast enough that industry lobbying groups want the latest draft before committee markup resumes.
The appointment links OKX to ICE’s market infrastructure push as tokenized listings near 20% of H1 exchange launches and RWA perpetuals hit $311B.
The provision bars the president, Congress, and federal officials from issuing crypto while in office, with bipartisan negotiators aiming to lock in updated language within days.
Edge on event contracts is migrating from retail to desks with faster infrastructure; the Fed's July 29 hold, with 87% priced on Kalshi, is the first test of whether that flywheel holds at scale.