Deribit Ends Daily Proof-of-Reserves Checks on Sept. 1
The page going dark does not mean reserves disappeared, but it does strip the one piece of evidence retail and institutional clients could check every day, just four years after FTX.
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The page going dark does not mean reserves disappeared, but it does strip the one piece of evidence retail and institutional clients could check every day, just four years after FTX.
The $3B gap between operating and contracted AI cloud revenue is the bull case the market has to underwrite. Financing costs of up to 9% don't pause while delivery slips.
The number matters less than its staying power: persistent deposits and activity would turn a fast inflow into a durable adoption signal.
The crypto funding mechanic just landed inside a five-year, cash-settled, CFTC-regulated equity-index future. The launch volume already cooled: $104M near Aug. 25-26 fell to $7.2M by Aug. 28.
The reversal took only 6.6% off the cumulative nine-session haul, and ETH, XRP and Solana ETFs collectively added $145M the same day, leaving broader weekly demand still positive.
Warsh's 54% PCE breadth measure reframes the policy test: Bitcoin can ride ETF flows through the volatility, but only durable demand beyond BlackRock's IBIT will clear the bar.
Pulling distribution on a flagship AI coding tool turns the Altman-Musk feud from lawsuits into a supply-side restriction every AI app builder inside Musk's orbit will now read.
The real question isn't whether blockchain beats Swift on speed; it's whether Swift's 11,500-bank network is enough to absorb the new rails before banks settle directly without it.
A 1,516-person BPI survey puts 'digital gold' near the bottom against control, $10 entry points, and Fidelity-style access.
The $1.5T agentic-commerce forecast by 2030 hinges on a question crypto leaders still cannot agree on: one neutral "super currency" or thousands of tokens, and who owns the rails underneath both.
Evernorth's 10B-share charter dwarfs the ~34.5M shares the SPAC merger actually needs. The remaining capacity is the tool Evernorth will use to grow XRP per share through capital raises, XRPL…
Six of seven miners fell during a 21.5% BTC rally, and a two-year beta analysis confirms the decoupling is structural.
The real bottleneck holding back institutional RWA flow is T+1 redemption, not demand; protocols that collapse settlement cycles into a single auction are already shifting the constraint from…
Friday's Deribit expiry cleared roughly $6.44B in BTC options and removed the positioning that had anchored price near $80K. With ETF demand offline for the weekend, the next test is $77K.
A 49% UAE-state block inside a Trump-family US bank charter is sovereign capital landing at the intersection of Washington and Abu Dhabi, and the CFIUS optics get heavier from here.
$13T Schwab is not just naming picks; it is also adding Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink trading to its retail crypto platform, the clearest signal yet that altcoin infrastructure is going mainstream…
The Oct. 20 comment window is the last formal chance to redraw a framework that decides whether US crypto ventures raise from public markets or stay offshore.
A 49% Gulf sovereign block in a sitting US president's crypto venture invites CFIUS, ethics, and conflict-of-interest reviews the sector rarely sees, with opacity around the bank-holding structure…
Real institutional demand is the $12.87B cumulative post-launch flow line, not the $10.36B opening seed dominated by ETHE's conversion. Investors were confusing inherited assets for new money.
The bill was supposed to deliver clean stablecoin rules. If bank lobbyists carve out favorable provisions, pure-play issuers like Circle lose structural ground they can't recover on price alone.