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On Dec. 4, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved leveraged spot crypto trading on federally regulated exchanges.
For the first time in American history, spot Bitcoin and other crypto assets can trade with margin inside the CFTC framework that already governs futures and options, backed by central clearing and long-tested risk management.
Acting Chairman Caroline...
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs gave back nearly all of their 2025 gains after hitting a cycle high in early October, with total net assets sliding to $120.68 billion as of Dec. 4, down $48.86 billion from the Oct. 6 peak.
The drawdown leaves the category essentially flat year-over-year, sitting just $30 million below the $120.71 billion recorded on Dec. 16, 2024, emphasizing a “wipeout” year in which big...
In an industry that thrives on noise and chaos, Cardano is betting its future on a “quiet” hard fork and improved coordination among its leading internal stakeholders.
The blockchain network is preparing to execute a technical upgrade engineered to be virtually invisible to the market.
Known as Protocol Version 11, the “no new era” hard fork is a deliberate departure from the spectacle-driven...
On Dec. 3, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju made the feared call that “most Bitcoin on-chain indicators are bearish.”
He added, “Without macro liquidity, we enter a bear cycle.”
The CEO was explicit. He tied his argument to his firm’s composite on-chain dashboards and a global-liquidity framework, framing the November drawdown not as a healthy correction but as the opening act of a new secular...
The year is 2075. The judge does not ask for a deed. She asks for a transaction ID.
The landlord’s lawyer queues up a Bitcoin transaction from fifteen years earlier that moved a token representing the property.
The tenant’s lawyer concedes the transaction exists, yet claims the signature was obtained under duress.
Everyone in the courtroom accepts what the chain records, but no one agrees on what...
Grayscale’s conversion of its legacy Chainlink trust into the GLNK exchange-traded product on Dec. 2 did more than simply add another ticker to the NYSE Arca board.
With roughly $13 million in day-one trading volume, $41 million in immediate inflows, and assets climbing to approximately $64 million within the first 48 hours, GLNK entered the market distinct from the speculative alt-coin listings...
Ethereum completed its Fusaka upgrade on Dec. 3, marking one of the network’s most essential steps toward long-term scalability.
The upgrade builds on a series of changes since the 2022 Merge and follows the earlier Dencun and Pectra releases, which lowered Layer 2 fees and increased blob capacity.
Fusaka goes further by restructuring how Ethereum confirms that data is available, widening the...
Vanguard’s reversal this week closed the last major holdout. The firm opened its brokerage to third-party crypto ETFs and mutual funds tied to BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL, while still refusing to launch its own crypto funds or touch memecoin products.
That shift matters because Vanguard was the last major, brand-name US asset manager with a blanket ban on Bitcoin exposure through listed products....
On the night of Nov. 26, Danylo K., a 21-year-old Ukrainian student and the son of Kharkiv’s deputy mayor, was lured to the underground garage of Vienna’s Sofitel hotel by a fellow student.
As local outlets reported, what followed was a torture session designed to extract cryptocurrency wallet passwords: attackers beat him until his teeth were knocked out, forced him to reveal credentials to two...
Cayman foundation formations climbed more than 70% year over year to exceed 1,300 by the end of 2024, extending a multi-cycle shift toward offshore structures.
According to a Cayman Finance report, early 2025 data showed that more than 400 additional registrations indicate the trend has continued despite recent moves by the United States to recast itself as a competitive jurisdiction for digital-...