CFTC, NHL ink deal on prediction market integrity oversight
The MOU is the second sports-league information-sharing pact in weeks, and it lands as the CFTC and a Senate panel both press prediction-market platforms on insider-trading risk.
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The MOU is the second sports-league information-sharing pact in weeks, and it lands as the CFTC and a Senate panel both press prediction-market platforms on insider-trading risk.
The call hinges on two mid-May milestones — a US executive order on Fed payment accounts for digital-asset non-banks and SBI Holdings filing Japan's first spot XRP ETF — that Gemini argues are not…
Flat BTC action is masking the real move: HYPE just printed a record high while $33.5M of short positions were liquidated, backed by $896M in protocol revenue and fresh U.S. ETF launches.
The CEX duo still dominates volumes, but the share of perpetual futures open interest sitting on DEXs has nearly quadrupled since early 2025 — a structural shift in where leverage now lives.
Prominent on-chain trader James Wynn (@JamesWynnReal) has re-entered the market with an aggressive position: a 50x…
The 2.5-year downtrend in LTH supply is breaking, and the only prior episode with more coins held this patiently was January 2024 — right before the spot ETF launch sent BTC vertical.
The CoinDesk 20 sits at 2062.9 with five of twenty assets green — the day's tape is split, not collapsing, with NEAR and TAO leading the leaders board.
The analyst model is targeting the lower regression-band rail near the April 2025 low — a $BTC vs ETH ratio still bleeding, rate-cut expectations now reversed, and a possible BoJ hike in June could…
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has secured preliminary approval from Dubai's Virtual Assets…
A nine-figure notional bet on XRP through June contrasts with Senator McCormick's prediction that the Clarity Act could land on the president's desk this summer, putting spot demand and derivatives…
Bitcoin's latest relief rally has run into a wall below the $78,000 level, with the price action cooling sharply as the…
667 $BTC (≈51.6M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
The rally is narrowing: capital is rotating into perpetual-futures protocols and quantum-resistant names with hard use cases while $BTC, $ETH and majors trade flat, a pattern Marex frames as a relief…
The AI's thesis leans on retail recognition, X-payment rumours and Musk-narrative tailwinds, while the chart has been quietly printing higher lows since February's $0.08 flush.
Deribit's bitcoin open interest has overtaken BlackRock's IBIT in notional terms, and the $80K strike already holds $532M in calls — the market is positioning for a breakout, but max pain at $75K…
The 6.5% jump that pushed HYPE's weekly run to 53% sits on top of a 15% surge in futures volume — the kind of positioning buildup that tends to resolve in one direction once options-implied vol…
Julio Moreno at CryptoQuant is reading the current pattern as a near-mirror of the cycle that preceded BTC's 2022 bear — a 37% rally that kissed the 200-day MA and rolled over, with spot ETFs now net…
A $9B network with almost no real DeFi volume is asking holders to ratify a protocol upgrade — the vote itself is the test of whether governance can move faster than the ecosystem has been growing.
The shutdown lands as the rollup market consolidates around a handful of dominant players — a thinning of the L2 field that compresses developer options but deepens liquidity on the surviving chains.
The exchange is branding the milestone, but the headline number is open interest, not spot flows — and that distinction is exactly why derivatives data rarely moves the underlying token on its own.