CME's Duffy Clashes With CFTC, Kalshi on Prediction Markets
A 100M-contract TradFi incumbent, a fast-growing prediction platform, and the federal regulator publicly sparred in a CFTC committee room. The bill will eventually land on retail traders.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
A 100M-contract TradFi incumbent, a fast-growing prediction platform, and the federal regulator publicly sparred in a CFTC committee room. The bill will eventually land on retail traders.
A few transactions are setting the sector's headline totals, so half-year comparisons need to be read through the lens of deal concentration.
Beyond the HBO breach, prosecutors allege that 8,000 professor accounts were compromised and attackers stole at least 31.5 TB of academic data and intellectual property.
Armstrong links regulatory clarity to the next phase of Bitcoin's cycle, making the Sept. 15 Senate vote a key catalyst for crypto investors.
The procedural Senate vote is widely expected to fail, but the substance bakes intermediaries into the regulatory core while developers, self-custody users, and peer-to-peer transactions stay outside…
The yield reversal gives risk assets a softer macro backdrop, while the 22% XRP upside call rests on a separate argument that Ripple remains undervalued.
GPU rental futures from CME and ICE arrive just as miners pour hundreds of millions into AI data centers, but financing risk and equity dilution dwarf the compute-price swings these contracts…
The combination broadens the signal beyond price, linking Treasury buybacks, a White House push for the CLARITY Act and tokenized-asset volume.
The divergence makes the Treasury announcement a macro signal about currency value and liquidity, not a broad equity risk rally.
The SEC's Reg Crypto Assets proposal, the CLARITY Act push, and a FASB stablecoin-cash project all landed in one week, but Hougan says Bitcoin ETFs took 2.5 years to go from legal to genuinely…
The milestone highlights a CFTC-cleared route for U.S. traders into perpetual futures, a notable shift in access to crypto derivatives.
The first new license in four years is the headline, but the more durable catalyst is Japan's financial-instruments reclassification, which lays the legal runway for spot crypto ETFs and a 2027 tax…
Forfeitures, civil penalties, and gifts can grow federal crypto holdings, but only Congress can authorize scheduled multibillion-dollar open-market purchases.
Korean retail crypto trading has slumped hard enough to drag first-half profits at Upbit and Bithumb, but the institutional side just landed its first globally regulated custodian with local…
Recent buyers are collectively in profit, and crypto equities are joining the move. A sustained break above $75,689 would put the average active investor in unrealized profit.
For institutional RWA users, regulated ownership administration becomes part of Injective's network proposition alongside its existing on-chain asset activity.
The deferral signals a structural shift: rulemaking, not ad-hoc executive purchases, will set the floor for government demand on Bitcoin.
The millions spent are the easy number. The structural cost is 80% of Ripple's hiring leaving the country while the case dragged on.
Procedural, but the distribution framework is the first real map for getting money back to Terra retail investors, and how it dovetails with the Terraform bankruptcy track is the open question.
The split may reflect USDC's stronger institutional and payment-settlement position, backed by EU MiCA authorization and integrations with Visa and Mastercard.