Coinbase wins UK license to offer derivatives and equities trading
The license lets Coinbase layer regulated derivatives and equities onto its UK book, a step beyond the crypto-only footprint that has defined its European business until now.
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The license lets Coinbase layer regulated derivatives and equities onto its UK book, a step beyond the crypto-only footprint that has defined its European business until now.
The FCA authorization lands 18 months before the UK's full crypto framework takes effect, giving Coinbase a regulated runway to roll out its 'Everything Exchange' stack to retail and institutional…
The dollar loss is the headline, but the structural shift is what every BTC treasury watcher will read: Saylor is now treating Bitcoin as a working capital asset to service preferred dividends, not…
The license lets Coinbase pair spot crypto with derivatives and equities under one UK roof, stepping up its competition with Kraken and Bitstamp for the regulated European retail book.
The block, run through PJT Partners, would let Richard Heathcote monetize a slice of the most valuable private stake in the stablecoin sector while the firm itself stays private.
Dunamu and Naver Financial push their merger close to end-2026, citing the country's first comprehensive crypto framework as the binding variable for the deal.
The reserve is still alive on paper, but with no agency owning it and no execution timeline, the headline policy is sliding into the same bureaucratic limbo that killed prior crypto executive orders.
The lawsuit hinges on whether 32 BTC sold across one May week qualifies as the kind of "notable" divestment the market was structured to capture.
A 2.85% 10-year JGB yield is dragging U.S. Treasuries back toward 4.5%, lifting the opportunity cost of holding BTC at the moment Fed cut bets had revived risk appetite.
The reserve is real policy now, but the mechanics of accumulation, custody, and congressional buy-in still shape how big a balance-sheet item it becomes.
A ninth straight week of net spot ETF inflows keeps institutional demand underneath the tape, but muted volume keeps the rebound from confirming above $1.15.
Saylor's first-ever on-chain sale of $216M did almost nothing to a market busy digesting Trump's open pivot back to the industry ahead of midterms and a record $1.79T stablecoin month.
The fight over which agency runs the reserve matters more than the reserve itself: without a clear legal home, the policy sits in limbo and Treasury's audit-only framing could box out any future…
More than a year after Trump's executive order, the Treasury vs Commerce turf fight and stalled Congress legislation mean an estimated 300,000 BTC still sits outside any formal reserve structure.
The plan to vault US Bitcoin at the Treasury is on hold while the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel decides who actually has the statutory right to hold and manage sovereign BTC.
The language matters: "structure" signals the executive branch is now framing the reserve as operational policy rather than a one-off legislative proposal, putting a Treasury-built crypto stockpile…
Bloomberg reports legal and jurisdictional questions over whether the Treasury can lawfully manage a federally-held bitcoin reserve, even as the plan was always framed around seized coins, not new…
The revived fraud claim targets Silbert personally and DCG as a defendant; consumer protection claims in four states were dropped, three others paused, narrowing the case to a sharper fight.
The August recess deadline turns a still-pending market-structure bill into a calendar problem: every week of inaction now means weeks more of the SEC-CFTC turf war the bill was written to end.
The CME FedWatch shift flips the post-cut consensus: markets now price in no 2026 easing, with the first cut pushed into 2027 as inflation and a tight labour market keep Powell anchored.