CME sues its own regulator to block US crypto perps
The unusual lawsuit pits the largest US derivatives venue against the CFTC over whether blockchain-based perpetual futures count as swaps, with $60T in offshore perps volume hanging over the fight.
Spot and futures crypto ETFs — flows, AUM, new filings, approvals, and issuer activity.
The unusual lawsuit pits the largest US derivatives venue against the CFTC over whether blockchain-based perpetual futures count as swaps, with $60T in offshore perps volume hanging over the fight.
The brokerage partnership is a stepping stone, not the headline: Metaplanet is laying groundwork for 4–6% bitcoin-backed bonds that may eventually settle on-chain via stablecoin.
Glassnode's Week 31 pulse reads as four corroborating signals of consolidation: spot stuck between $64K and $66.7K, perps showing softer buy-side aggression, spot ETFs back in net outflows, and…
The raise adds fresh buying power on top of an already-record corporate Bitcoin treasury, while a $25M STRC buyback signals management is treating the preferred as a float-management tool, not equity.
Net positive for a third week, yet $465M of Thursday-Friday outflows and a shrinking weekly figure show institutional buyers are tiptoeing back in, not charging.
The streak that briefly looked like a demand recovery just gave way to a two-day $465M reversal, and the price doing nothing is now the story: macro headwinds are back without breaking the floor.
Net inflows crossed $1.49B cumulative and total ETF assets cleared $997M, yet the spot chart has not reacted: at a $69B market cap, weekly demand at this scale cannot overwhelm existing holders…
Three G7 central banks meet in five days, with U.S. Q2 GDP and June PCE on Thursday the data tests that will set the rate direction crypto prices have to discount.
Bitcoin is range-bound around $65,500 while ETH takes the lead, with macro calm, a hot slate of Big Tech earnings, and upcoming PCE and GDP prints framing the week.
Hong Kong's 1.99% product exposes the real structural split in staked crypto ETFs: who captures native rewards, and whether the wrapper risks pushing Solana toward validator concentration.
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 four-price map ($68k, $65k, $62.5k, $60k) is more than technical noise: ETF flows, the Fed's July 28-29 meeting, and short-term-holder cost basis all converge on the same weekly close.
The cost is the friction of two clearing systems that refuse to recognize each other's hedges, and it can flip direction: the same comparison produced a negative 4.77-point reading at the fifth…
The year-to-date picture has flipped: cumulative net flows into US spot BTC ETFs sit below zero for 2025, a reversal from the first months of the year when every week printed green.
Ether funds pulled in more than three times as much new capital and now match BTC ETFs on a three-week basis despite holding roughly an eighth of their assets.
The asset manager behind the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund is the largest TradFi voice yet to publicly back the bill that would move spot crypto oversight from the SEC to the CFTC.
One session does not erase a trend, but when a single fund accounts for nine of every ten dollars walking out the door, the ETF demand thesis gets a real test on the next print.
The largest US police union backing the bill signals bipartisan momentum for digital asset market structure legislation, smoothing the path past competing Senate and House drafts.
Morgan Stanley and KBW are running the process for the London-based institutional venue, with a Nasdaq listing currently the preferred route as it sits on a $150M Ripple tie-up and a 24/7 multi-asset…