Macro events that move crypto — central bank rate decisions, inflation prints, banking stress, and global risk shifts.
The complaint — filed by the world's largest futures exchange — argues perps should be swaps under Dodd-Frank, and lands just weeks after the CFTC greenlit bitcoin perps for Coinbase and Kalshi.
Armstrong's read attributes the pullback to AI rotation, stablecoin regulatory tailwinds, and cooling inflation — not structural demand erosion — and he's still long into 2030.
The call puts sovereign stablecoin issuance and on-chain equity on the same policy agenda — a framework that would let any country plug its capital markets directly into global crypto liquidity.
The agreement formalizes a revenue stream for Iran over one of the world's most critical oil transit chokepoints, with implications for shipping costs and sanctions enforcement.
The rate decision itself was priced; the new SEP is the shock — higher inflation forecasts and a slower path to cuts pull the rug from a market that had been leaning on 2026 easing.
The deal gives Ripple a direct foothold in Africa's fragmented cross-border payments infrastructure — a market where XRP's settlement rails have the most to prove against legacy correspondent banking.
Saylor frames the current AI data center financing wave as a 12-to-24-week rotation cycle — not a structural shift away from Bitcoin — with inflows expected to resume once those deals close and…
Nine of 18 FOMC officials now project at least one rate hike this year, a shift that reframes the policy outlook from 'on hold' to 'next move may be up.'
The remark is short but the source is high-leverage: a sitting Fed Chair signalling openness to change is the kind of forward guidance markets reprice around.
The Fed's decision to stand pat keeps borrowing costs at their current range, signaling policymakers see no immediate case for either a cut or a hike given the present inflation and employment…
Abandoning forward guidance strips markets of their primary tool for pricing future rate moves, forcing traders back to meeting-by-meeting uncertainty not seen since the pre-Bernanke era.
Warsh's debut at the podium marks a leadership transition at the world's most influential central bank, with markets watching for any tonal shift in how the Fed communicates policy direction.
The levy doesn't touch peer-to-peer transfers directly — but it taxes buying, holding, and storing digital assets alike, and a16z's Miles Jennings warns it could drive builders out of the state.
A single policy announcement triggered one of the fastest large-cap erasures in recent memory, underscoring how sensitive equity markets remain to any Fed signal that deviates from consensus.
Markets have spent months pricing out cuts as inflation stays sticky; Warsh's press conference debut could redefine how the Fed communicates policy for years to come.
The move would unwind a long-standing sanctions tool and signals a potential shift in US-Iran relations with broad implications for oil markets and regional geopolitics.
The $90 trillion annual perps market has been entirely offshore and unregulated until now — Kalshi's CFTC-regulated launch gives US traders legal protections and federal oversight for the first time.
A $10M-backed perps DEX with $1.2M left in TVL is calling it quits — yet another protocol casualty in a cycle where even recognized teams can't turn traction into revenue.
A $120 million prediction market on a permanent Iran peace deal is under dispute after Trump comments complicated how resolvers should interpret the outcome.
Senators Schiff and Curtis are pushing to carve sports-event contracts out of CFTC jurisdiction entirely, a move that would reshape the regulatory boundary between prediction markets and traditional…
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