CFTC Approves First US-Regulated Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Contract
The dollar cost is zero; the structural win is bringing offshore perp liquidity back onshore — and the approval lands without a formal rule, leaving it reversible by the next chair.
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The dollar cost is zero; the structural win is bringing offshore perp liquidity back onshore — and the approval lands without a formal rule, leaving it reversible by the next chair.
Chairman Selig framed the move as onshoring a market that already traded offshore — the structural shift is that US venues can now compete for the world's most liquid crypto derivatives book on equal…
Senate Banking cleared the bill 15-9 on May 14, but Republicans hold 53 seats and cloture needs 60, leaving the bill needing five more Democratic or independent votes before the June floor window…
Kalshi leads on volume and fees, Polymarket holds the onchain engagement lead, and a growing fringe of niche books is starting to look like a real sub-sector rather than a curiosity.
PSSC becomes the first blockchain-native central securities depository authorized alongside DTCC, collapsing a T+1 settlement window to near-instant and unlocking locked institutional collateral.
Sprecher's framing lands less as a market-cap claim and more as a regulatory challenge: 70% of decentralized perps flow, weekend oil trading ICE can't touch, and a clear ask for Dodd-Frank to either…
Michael Saylor's Strategy accumulated Bitcoin at a pace that dwarfed the entire network's mining output in 2026 —…
BlackRock has deposited 2,448 BTC and 28,683 ETH to Coinbase, according to on-chain tracking platform Lookonchain. The…
Sprecher also flagged Hyperliquid's SpaceX perps as a market that could outsize the June 11 IPO itself, and asked why regulators tolerate a DeFi venue that traditional exchanges cannot match.
A hypothetical merger between Tesla and SpaceX would consolidate Elon Musk's corporate Bitcoin holdings into a single…
Geoffrey Kendrick's year-end target rests on network usage, DeFi TVL, and tokenization — not on $ETH catching up to $BTC.
The S&P 500 is at all-time highs while Bitcoin sits 36% below its own — a divergence that played out identically in December 2019, right before the last crypto rally began.
Aave Labs has secured two regulatory licenses in the United Kingdom through a local subsidiary, clearing a significant…
CME Group officially launched around-the-clock crypto futures trading on May 29 at 4:00 p.m. CT, marking a structural…
Six perp DEX tokens launched in the past year reserved more than a quarter of supply for community rewards, but only ASTER crossed the two-thirds threshold.
Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network, Base, has launched Azul on mainnet — a significant protocol upgrade that advances…
South Korea's largest exchange adds the decentralized GPU network's token — deposits and withdrawals route through Solana — landing IO alongside the few alt listings Upbit has cleared this quarter.
The spread between the two perpetual preferreds is doing the talking: STRC's cash coverage just collapsed to roughly six months of dividend obligations while Strive's SATA stays pinned to $100 with a…
Paxos has secured registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a clearing and settlement agency —…
Jeff Dorman says Strategy raised $2B in stock to ease default fears, then used the cash to buy back 2029 bonds rather than fund the ~$1.5B annual preferred dividend — and a forced seller may emerge…