CFTC Launches Rulemaking for Leveraged Crypto Trading
The proposed exchange category could offer a federal alternative to state licensing, but would not mandate CFTC registration without congressional action.
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The proposed exchange category could offer a federal alternative to state licensing, but would not mandate CFTC registration without congressional action.
The proposal links access to leveraged crypto trading with exchanges opting into federal oversight, putting regulatory clarity and retail access in the same debate.
Accounts were more than twice as likely to stop trading for 30 days after a loss than after a win, a warning sign for trader retention.
The integration turns every ticker in the timeline into a one-tap trading rail, putting Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Moomoo and IBKR directly into the scroll for hundreds of millions of users.
The $130M week landed on the back of an emerging memestocks sector that bundles memecoin launches with tokenized equities, putting the L2's fee trajectory on a fresh slope.
The figures challenge the crowd-wisdom narrative: participation can be broad while financial gains remain concentrated among a narrow group of traders.
Exchange revenue is broadening toward a multi-asset model, with gold, silver, oil and stock-linked products filling the gap left by fading retail activity.
eToro is hedging its retail base toward US equities while Cathie Wood buys crypto's public-market cash registers into weakness, a mirror-image bet that the next recovery runs through stocks, not…
Fading retail activity is pushing major exchanges toward traditional-asset products, giving Wall Street-style trading a larger role in crypto markets.
Retail trading gains a formal route, but the payment ban remains, separating crypto market access from everyday commerce.
The headline number buries the real story: a record quarter was saved by an options-trading surge while the $20B Bitstamp acquisition turned into the drag Wall Street had been bracing for.
Bernstein backs the long-term strategy while flagging weak execution in newer lines; Mizuho flags Robinhood as the rising mainstream venue for retail crypto trading.
The Hong Kong licensed venue's retail launch extends XRP's regulated reach beyond institutional books in the city, the kind of venue-level adoption that deepens liquidity and tightens spreads.
If enacted, the framework opens a legal channel for retail crypto trading under Bank of Russia supervision and could pull volumes out of the offshore venues that currently dominate.
BitMEX invented the perpetual swap. The venue that made that product is closing in September while spot volumes hit a 25-month low, and analysts say only well-capitalised, MiCA-ready venues will…
The bill opens a tightly capped market for everyday Russians while keeping domestic crypto payments banned and carving out foreign-trade settlement as the real strategic win for Moscow.
The crypto onramp now lets US users buy slices of 4,000+ equities with proceeds from digital-asset conversions, and the platform is prepping round-the-clock weekday hours.
KRW 2.15 trillion lost in a month, with 62% concentrated in 20s-and-30s accounts. The painful side of retail perpetuals mania, not the only side.
The WSJ scoop frames a paid priority-access tier as a niche product for a specific audience, but it crystallises how closely Trump's social posts now move retail trading books.
The attack fits a wider pattern: South Korea's retail-trading forums have turned violent before, and the gap between social-media financial advice and personal accountability keeps narrowing.