CFTC Approves Coinbase’s USDC Clearinghouse Launch
In-house clearing adds a regulated layer to Coinbase's derivatives business, with USDC collateral and settlement designed to operate around the clock.
Decentralized finance — DEXs, lending, yield strategies, on-chain derivatives, and tokenized real-world assets.
In-house clearing adds a regulated layer to Coinbase's derivatives business, with USDC collateral and settlement designed to operate around the clock.
Combining tokenized equity exposure, collateral and perpetuals on one platform brings the basis trade into a single venue.
The 344,780 COMP transfer arrived 58 minutes before a snapshot and shifted supporters from a potential minority to 50.1% of available voting power.
The approval gives Coinbase more control over fully funded derivatives, while leveraged products remain outside its new clearinghouse.
The move brings a major institutional Treasury product into blockchain-based settlement and gives institutions a way to earn yield between trades.
In modeled high stress, a 1,500 ETH deposit reserve raised average withdrawal finalization from 6.3 to 7.9 days, though actual waits depend on live conditions.
The live reading offers a snapshot of the American Power Index's current political tilt, not an explanation of what is driving it.
The launch brings short-horizon Bitcoin price markets to Polymarket's US app, extending access to event-based trading.
The historical data challenge using rising stablecoin supply as a proxy for DeFi deployment, but do not show that DeFi balances or usage fell.
Restaking secured $10.02B but generated just $99,977 in weekly fees, while ordinary liquid staking earned roughly 53 times more per dollar secured.
The U.S. app brings prediction-market trading closer to real-time Bitcoin price action, extending Polymarket into very short-term crypto markets.
The position's reported value is $272K above its $164K cost, an unrealized gain that puts the trade back in focus.
The staff guidance could give developers, businesses and financial institutions more confidence to assess crypto products, but it is not a new law or blanket approval.
Robinhood Chain contributed $53B, more than the quarter’s $28B net increase, making its launch the central driver of the recovery.
The liquidation highlights the risk of leveraged exposure during a price decline, though one trader's loss does not establish broader market-wide liquidation pressure.
The dispute pits Bitget’s effort to recover stolen funds against THORChain’s refusal to selectively block addresses, while cross-chain swaps keep the attacker’s activity visible.
Downside protection remains historically cheap, while BTC’s $82,813 support is being tested after prices fell below $83,000.
Users can borrow USDT or USDC against fund shares without moving the underlying assets to the exchange, while those shares continue to earn yield.
Oil's return above $100 after Trump rejected Iran's terms coincided with losses across crypto and traditional markets, while falling futures open interest points to traders closing positions.
Rising Treasury yields and renewed rate-hike bets put Wednesday’s inflation reading and Friday’s payrolls in focus for risk assets.