CME Sues CFTC Over U.S. Perpetual Futures Approval
The complaint — filed by the world's largest futures exchange — argues perps should be swaps under Dodd-Frank, and lands just weeks after the CFTC greenlit bitcoin perps for Coinbase and Kalshi.
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The complaint — filed by the world's largest futures exchange — argues perps should be swaps under Dodd-Frank, and lands just weeks after the CFTC greenlit bitcoin perps for Coinbase and Kalshi.
Armstrong's read attributes the pullback to AI rotation, stablecoin regulatory tailwinds, and cooling inflation — not structural demand erosion — and he's still long into 2030.
With the stablecoin market at $320B and projected to hit $4T by 2030, Fidelity and State Street are racing to capture the reserve-management mandate the GENIUS Act just created.
The rate decision itself was priced; the new SEP is the shock — higher inflation forecasts and a slower path to cuts pull the rug from a market that had been leaning on 2026 easing.
The levy doesn't touch peer-to-peer transfers directly — but it taxes buying, holding, and storing digital assets alike, and a16z's Miles Jennings warns it could drive builders out of the state.
A single policy announcement triggered one of the fastest large-cap erasures in recent memory, underscoring how sensitive equity markets remain to any Fed signal that deviates from consensus.
The $90 trillion annual perps market has been entirely offshore and unregulated until now — Kalshi's CFTC-regulated launch gives US traders legal protections and federal oversight for the first time.
A $10M-backed perps DEX with $1.2M left in TVL is calling it quits — yet another protocol casualty in a cycle where even recognized teams can't turn traction into revenue.
The on-chain trail is live: a known exploit wallet converted stablecoin proceeds into ETH at $1,764 average and is actively mixing through Tornado Cash, making recovery increasingly unlikely.
The sovereign transfer, tracked by Arkham Intelligence, marks a notable drawdown in Bhutan's state-held Bitcoin reserves and adds fresh sell-side pressure to an already watchful market.
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CryptoQuant analyst IT Tech says altcoin sell pressure on spot exchanges has reached a five-year extreme, with the spot…
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