Perpification: How Perpetuals Are Reshaping Global Finance
Hyperliquid ran SpaceX at launch, CME shrank oil contracts for 24/7 retail access, and the CFTC opened a 67-question docket on perpetual crude.
Strategic partnerships, integrations, and M&A — exchange and protocol deals, and enterprise blockchain agreements.
Hyperliquid ran SpaceX at launch, CME shrank oil contracts for 24/7 retail access, and the CFTC opened a 67-question docket on perpetual crude.
Project Agorá processed real cross-border payments across six currencies in roughly 80 seconds on a shared ledger, with 28 commercial banks and five central banks signaling wholesale tokenization is…
The deal would dwarf Ondo's entire $34M lifetime raise and signals that RWA tokenization has moved from niche infrastructure to a strategic acquisition category for crypto's scaling players.
The 377MW direct lease plus 152MW AMD-backstopped neocloud line is the structural beat, while 30M warrants vesting only at full 2.5GW scale cap the upside.
The DCG-owned exchange shrinks for the second time in three years, betting that B2B white-label deals and leaner ops can offset a thinning retail book.
If granted, the designated contract market license would let Binance.US list its own event contracts in the US, putting it in direct competition with regulated venues and brokers racing to own the…
Earnings beat and a record $1.31B quarter were not enough to offset a 38% year-over-year drop in crypto trading revenue, setting a cautious tone for Coinbase's report Thursday.
McInerney's 'not to pick winners' line keeps Visa neutral in a stablecoin race where it backs Open USD while USDC and USDT dominate settlement volumes.
A 0.14% sponsor fee and zero retained staking cut on MSSE and MSOL undercuts every major incumbent, while 16,000 advisers and $7.4T in client assets give the firm a distribution runway incumbents did…
Crypto still represents a sliver of SoFi's $1.2B quarterly net revenue, but William Blair sees the segment helping drive a product growth inflection across the fintech.
The lobbying push lands with a hard deadline: the Senate has until the first week of August to clear crypto legislation before election-year politics swallow the calendar.
The architecture maps cleanly onto the EDPB's July 7 blockchain guidance, but the on-device anonymization claim still has to clear the pseudonymization bar, and the payout math works out to coffee…
The vault wraps crypto wallets and payment cards into one credential and routes them over the x402 agent payment standard, turning chatbots into live payment surfaces.
BNY is shifting core ownership record-keeping for one of Wall Street's largest back-office functions onto chain, with BlackRock, Baillie Gifford and Dreyfus lined up as launch clients.
The FSB move follows Telegram's documented refusal to moderate content tied to sabotage and cyber fraud on its platform, a stance that put Moscow on a collision course with its homegrown founder…
The lawsuit alleges Apple promoted Sparrow impersonators inside curated crypto collections despite a year of warnings from the wallet's own developer, testing the App Store's 'safe and trusted' pitch…
The Dubai flagship joins a small list of flag-carrier airlines taking direct crypto at checkout, signaling continued UAE merchant adoption despite a slow global airline rollout.
AMD takes more than 500MW of capacity starting 2027, scalable to 2.5GW, deepening Core Scientific's bitcoin-mining-to-AI pivot and stacking on the CoreWeave anchor.
The 529 MW anchor, plus 1.9 GW of AMD expansion rights through 2028, repositions Core Scientific as a 2.5 GW AI colocation platform and writes down the rest of its bitcoin mining thesis.
The world's largest crypto exchange tells investigators to use slow treaty channels for most cases, while still answering direct calls on child exploitation, terrorism, and imminent threats to life.