Kraken parent Payward cuts 150 jobs ahead of $20B IPO
The layoffs trim about 5% of headcount at a venue seeking fresh capital at a $20B mark, after a quiet November S-1 filing — a familiar pre-listing rationalization playbook.
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The layoffs trim about 5% of headcount at a venue seeking fresh capital at a $20B mark, after a quiet November S-1 filing — a familiar pre-listing rationalization playbook.
Two of the world's largest derivatives exchanges are warning that an anonymous crypto perp venue could leak directly into the price of physical oil — a tradFi-on-DeFi contagion thesis regulators…
The capital flight — triggered by April's $292M Kelp DAO exploit — is reshaping the cross-chain bridge market, with Chainlink's CCIP picking up clients and scrutiny that LayerZero once dominated.
The rivals are flagging Hyperliquid's perp venue to the CFTC and Capitol Hill over concerns anonymous leverage trading could distort oil benchmarks and open a sanctions-evasion channel.
Glassnode frames BTC near $81K as a $76,900–$86,900 range call: if leveraged risk-on flows hold, $86,900 breaks; if CPI at 3.8% forces the Fed higher, the post-March bid unwinds fast.
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
699 $BTC (≈55.3M) moved from unknown wallet to #Coinbase.
The conflict became an unplanned stress test for continuous price discovery — and Hyperliquid's synthetic oil and gold perps traded through weekends while NYSE slept.
The bill still needs a seven-Democrat floor coalition and an Agriculture Committee merge before a final vote — but bipartisan committee passage is the first time a US crypto market structure bill has…
The 4.58% 10-year Treasury print and a 2008-era UK gilt level recast the macro tape in one session — rate-cut bets are gone and the market is now pricing nearly 50% odds of an actual Fed hike.
Bitwise's Hunter Horsley frames the split — stablecoins, Bitcoin, tokenization, infrastructure — as each sector now operating on its own fundamentals, regulatory path, and adoption curve.
The position is a 10x leveraged short on 175,082 HYPE ($7.62M notional) — funded with a freshly bridged 8.8M USDC and still being added to, signaling conviction rather than a tactical scalp.
The repurchase is below par — a $120M discount on the 0% 2029 notes — and the funding mix lets MSTR lean on its Bitcoin hoard instead of diluting equity at a discount.
628 $BTC (≈50.6M) moved from unknown wallet to #Coinbase.
625 $BTC (≈50.5M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
665 $BTC (≈53.6M) moved from #FalconX to unknown wallet.
One gainer out of twenty — and it's BNB, up just 0.4% — captures the day: even the leader couldn't offset SUI's 6.8% drop and ICP's 5.9% slide.
Warsaw lands in the EU compliance window on time — but the parallel probe into 350M zlotys of user losses at Zondacrypto frames the rollout as much about enforcement as about licensing.
The 92-cent-on-the-dollar buyback is cheap; the disclosure that bitcoin sales are on the table as a funding source undercuts Saylor's 'net accumulator' framing and gives the market something to price…
The $1.50 level has capped every XRP rally since February, but the open interest climbing into the Senate's May 14 CLARITY Act markup suggests traders are positioning for the level to finally break.