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The suit tests whether perpetuals are futures or swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, a ruling that decides whether the offshore leverage machine becomes a domestic product or stays gated behind…
The second advisory in months targets template-style filings from Kalshi, Polymarket and peers, but the agency's primary-jurisdiction claim itself still sits in front of the courts.
The broker that cleared the crypto industry's tokenized-equity layer now faces a direct competitor from the depository itself, one that issues tokens with full shareholder rights from inside the…
The pace is unusual for the first half of a year and points to a thinning of marginal liquidity across altcoin venues, with rug pulls and abandoned roadmaps doing most of the damage.
The pivot is structural: $650M in 2025 bridge exploits is rerouting institutional and DeFi traffic to CCIP, with DTCC and Fidelity now onboarding alongside Mantle, Lombard and KelpDAO.
Search interest often leads price by a week or two, so a BANK triple-digit move plus a near-90% flush in DEXE is worth flagging even when the tickers are mid-cap and unfamiliar.
The drop from a February peak above 80% resets the timeline for the market-structure bill that US crypto derivatives, DeFi protocols, and offshore exchanges have been positioning around.
The validator exit queue is empty while the entry queue holds 2.5M $ETH, a lopsided signal that points to fresh capital locking in rather than existing stakers heading for the exits.
A potential distribution deal would let Robinhood's retail base trade Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts, deepening the battle against Kalshi as the prediction market category consolidates around a few…
RWA was the only major crypto sector to print a triple-digit gain over the trailing year, even as total market cap stayed flat and broad risk-off grips the rest of the book.
The traditional $25B weather derivatives market is opaque, bespoke and locked behind institutional balance sheets, while weather-related losses have hit $2T in a decade, a gap tokenization is finally…
Coinbase Institutional figures show entity-adjusted stablecoin volume running well above $1T a month while supply has only doubled since early 2024, a divergence that reframes the asset class as…
The fivefold jump in less than two weeks is real, but tokenized equities still account for under a tenth of the chain's $600M daily DEX volume, with memecoins and stablecoins dominating activity.
The $31.7M drained from two bridges is the headline; the third protocol pulling staking is the broader signal that DeFi is treating post-exploit contagion as the real threat.
The funding signal is strong without being euphoric: longs are paying shorts again, OI has eased, and the next read comes from a US inflation print that could finally break the $1,860–$1,930 range.
Ten cows, $20K, one stock exchange listing. The deal size is tiny, but it opens a $77.6M pipeline inside Cowmed's 100,000-cow network and slots into a tokenization thesis McKinsey sizes at $4T by…
Onchain lending rails can move capital faster, but the underwriting, collateral and legal recovery behind SME loans stay stubbornly offchain, leaving a funding gap mostly intact.
Calls now command a larger share of open interest, while compressed volatility and longer-dated skew show that defensive demand has eased mainly at the front end.
The size of the bet is the headline, but the venue is the story: a London-based quant manager is now comfortable running nine-figure derivatives exposure natively on a decentralized perpetuals book.
The bottleneck is no longer issuance. Citi's 2030 scenarios put RWA-linked DeFi TVL anywhere from $54B to $1.5T, with the spread decided by who institutions trust to price assets when the underlying…
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