The investment bank will help its roughly 3,000 institutional clients execute large block trades in event contracts.
Apate’s 200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ are so good at scam baiting, the company has a monthly KPI for how many F-bombs scammers drop at the infuriating bots.
“Crypto mom” Hester Peirce praised the SEC’s proposed crypto regime, published days after the Senate failed to pass the CLARITY Act, the US’ first comprehensive industry framework.
Scott Shay said big banks could use blockchain payments to take market share from smaller rivals as N3XT expands globally.
The warehouse facility gives Ethena another source of returns for the assets backing USDe while channeling onchain capital into overcollateralized institutional loans.
The American Bankers Association seeks to strengthen the Clarity Act, not kill it, argues Rob Nichols, president and CEO of the ABA.
Similar setups have historically produced below-average 90-day and 180-day bitcoin returns, said the asset manager.
The exchange that lost $1.46 billion to North Korean hackers is the first large centralized firm to put numbers on a claim bitcoin developers have been making all month.
Symbiotic’s Liquid Lane gives eligible holders immediate USDC liquidity across three Centrifuge funds managed by Janus Henderson and NYLIM.
Sweden’s H100 reported a $26 million loss for the first half of the year, as it completed its acquisitions to become Europe’s second-largest Bitcoin treasury by holdings.
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) added 20 new operators this year across two rounds of expansions, including eight additions this week.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said investors may be underestimating blockchain transaction activity by 10 to 100 times as tokenized markets expand.
Ripple said the $275 million raised will support its expansion into traditional financial services such as prime brokerage and multi-asset clearing, citing strong demand from institutions.
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Bitcoin maintained its appeal as a diversification investment despite dropping more than 50% from all-time high, a BlackRock report stated.
John Darsie, CEO of SALT and partner at SkyBridge, said bitcoin's changing holder base is part of a broader maturation process.
BTC volatility has dropped to multi-year lows as surging Treasury yields rattle equities and traders await the Fed's July meeting minutes for clues on the interest-rate path.
Nexo introduced regulated, cryptocurrency-backed credit lines that allow users to access liquidity in Australian dollars or stablecoins by borrowing against their digital assets.
Rain CEO Farooq Malik said more than 100,000 merchants accept stablecoins unknowingly, with transactions settling through Visa in three days.
The feature, which follows earlier moves into financial transactions, is not yet being tested anywhere, a spokesperson said.
Ripple Prime's inaugural senior notes carried an investment grade rating and drew institutional investors across key financial markets.
Widening losses and intensifying competition coincide with a pause in frontier reinforcement-learning training as openai strengthens its safety controls.
U.S. Treasury yields retreat from the highest levels in decades, while bitcoin holds above $64,000.
Hayes revealed his new role as Flop Labs CEO and teased a “massive airdrop” from the AI inference protocol in the fourth quarter of 2026.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $189 million on Tuesday, lifting August net inflows to $951 million, while Ether ETFs added $71.5 million.
A chain of six flaws caused the cross-chain trading network to credit a pool with nearly 50 million tokens that were never properly funded, letting an attacker drain real assets.
A Hyperliquid perp priced Unitree far above its IPO valuation before Shanghai trading began, but the robot maker’s first public trade still opened roughly 75% above crypto traders’ implied price.
A preliminary analysis says six chained bugs let a 23-message transaction drain 48.87 million CACAO, sending the token down nearly 89%.
Bitcoin held near $64,000 and every major except BNB gained, while Korean semiconductor stocks fell more than 7% and Fed minutes are due at 2 p.m. ET.
The FASB said secondary-market liquidity alone would not be enough, with holders needing direct issuer redemption rights and one-to-one liquid reserves.
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