Kraken said late Friday that it expects to launch CFTC-regulated perpetual futures contracts tied to Bitcoin in the United States within the next 30 days, hours after the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the instruments. The exchange said the contracts will be listed on Bitnomial Exchange, a CFTC-regulated venue recently acquired by Kraken’s parent […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released the final report on Project Agorá, a two-year experimental prototype that demonstrates how tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits can settle cross-border wholesale payments in seconds. The project, one of the broadest collaborations between central banks and private financial institutions to date, involved seven central […]
Over $935 million was wiped out across the cryptocurrency market on Thursday as Bitcoin dropped to a six-week low of $72,620, triggering the largest wave of leveraged position liquidations in weeks. The sell-off, which accelerated during early Asian trading hours, pushed Bitcoin below the $75,000 support level and has traders watching $70,000 as the next […]
Polymarket’s vice president of engineering, Josh Stevens, has clarified that identity verification requirements apply only to a new beta product and are not being added to the platform’s existing service. The statement comes after a report from The Information suggested the prediction market platform had considered mandatory Know Your Customer checks amid rising regulatory pressure. […]
Monthly payment volume on crypto-linked debit and credit cards has surged approximately 230% compared to last year, signaling a rapid shift toward using digital assets for everyday transactions. Cumulative transaction volume on these cards reached $7.8 billion this month, according to data from The Kobeissi Letter, a market research publication. The growth is driven by […]
A leading cryptocurrency advocacy group is challenging recent claims by Senator Elizabeth Warren that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency may have violated federal banking law by approving national trust charters for multiple digital asset firms. The Digital Chamber, in a letter sent Tuesday to OCC Acting Comptroller Jonathan Gould, urged the regulator […]
Today in crypto, industry political action committees have poured money into Texas congressional races set for run-off votes on Tuesday, a New York lawsuit seeking ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets raises questions over lost crypto, private keys and property law, and a new supply chain attack campaign is targeting crypto developers. Crypto PAC money […]
Rising government bond yields are creating a ‘structural’ shift in global markets that could fuel a Bitcoin ‘supercycle,’ according to Shang Wu, a senior research analyst at crypto exchange BitMEX. Wu argues that central banks, burdened by record-high sovereign debt, face an impossible choice between currency debasement and sovereign default — a dynamic that may […]
A new report from Bitcoin journalist Joe Nakamoto reveals that approximately 70% of all crypto wrench attacks — physical assaults or kidnappings targeting digital asset holders — take place in France. The data shows 41 such incidents have occurred in the country so far in 2026, equating to roughly one attack every two and a […]
The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily shut down public access to its accident docket system last week after discovering that people used artificial intelligence tools to recreate the voices of two pilots killed in a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, last year. The agency confirmed that individuals took a spectrogram file — a […]
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