Perpetual swaps now move $50T yearly, dwarfing BTC and ETH spot
BitMEX engineer Ben Delo's 2015 fix for a Bitcoin futures annoyance became crypto's dominant trading venue, and US regulators are now eyeing the same structure for equities on the CME.
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BitMEX engineer Ben Delo's 2015 fix for a Bitcoin futures annoyance became crypto's dominant trading venue, and US regulators are now eyeing the same structure for equities on the CME.
Glassnode's Week 31 pulse reads as four corroborating signals of consolidation: spot stuck between $64K and $66.7K, perps showing softer buy-side aggression, spot ETFs back in net outflows, and…
The deal hands Fanatics full control to list and clear its own event contracts, putting it in direct competition with Kalshi and Polymarket as prediction markets go mainstream.
Participants can stake BGB or AEON tokens between July 27 and August 1, 2026 to earn a share of the 1,166,666 AEON reward pool.
AMINA is a regulated bank with $245M already raised and Tier 1 capital near $91M, so the pitch is structural growth capital, not a quick SPAC listing.
The dual move stacks more ETH per share on the corporate treasury while shrinking float, a textbook combination for a DAT amplifying its per-share NAV.
The IP spans foundational blockchain technology, banking, and supply chain verification, and directly underpins USDC, the Circle Payments Network, and the Arc blockchain.
All 34 curated node operators are posting locked ETH bonds for the first time, adding financial accountability to a system that previously ran on reputation alone.
Grayscale's sit-down with Ripple SVP Jack McDonald frames a decade-long arc from a single-purpose payments company to a full-stack institutional finance platform.
The warning targets the unnamed operators who decide who gets into the products, not the vaults themselves, exposing the discretion Wall Street quietly relies on.
The price target barely moves, but the buy thesis does: cash on the balance sheet makes the next leg of MSTR's bitcoin accumulation a financing question, not a will question.
The exchange made customers whole by October 2021, but the regulator's criminal referral over disclosure failures now lands as the precedent Thai-licensed venues will be measured against.
PUMP's rally absorbed a fresh vesting unlock without a sell-the-news reaction, leaving traders debating whether the memecoin launchpad has decoupled from its token-supply overhang.
The patent haul gives Circle, already the second-largest stablecoin issuer, a defensive IP moat that rivals will struggle to replicate quickly.
The founding argument is a Hugging Face breach in which closed AI tools reportedly blocked the forensic response; the alliance open-sources the stack defenders say they need to actually inspect…
The BlackRock and Apollo partner now holds a broker-dealer, ATS, transfer agent, fund admin and adviser license, the broadest stack among tokenization issuers as Peirce signals vault oversight is…
Hyperliquid's oil-perp volume hit a $1.2B record on a Sunday while CME sat dark, and Energy Aspects says the long-standing Friday volatility discount in WTI options is narrowing as traders finally…
The piece argues the convergence of post-2022 Treasury dominance over low-risk DeFi yields and a multi-year EU SME lending gap is what built the case for RWA private credit.
Bitmine now holds 4.8% of circulating ether and just stepped up share buybacks, while Lee frames the climbing ETH/BTC ratio as the real signal that crypto risk appetite is rebuilding.
BitMart hasn't declared a liquidity shortfall, but Nansen-tracked ETH and stablecoin balances were drained before the closure notice and 58 wallets pulled just $805K in the first 24 hours, which is…