The CFTC has scrapped a 2024 proposal to ban political prediction market contracts just as states double down on oversight.
A social media user claimed that Binance sent a cease-and-desist order over his post alleging the exchange's insolvency.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Chicago-based Bitnomial is often the first US exchange to offer many crypto products, like the first regulated XRP futures last year.
Nevada regulators accused Coinbase of offering alleged unlicensed sports betting through the exchange's prediction markets.
Payward derived about 47% of its revenue from trading operations and the remaining 53% from its growing list of other services.
Crypto.com is splitting out prediction markets into a standalone app, as competition among exchanges to offer event-based trading swells.
Crypto advocacy groups called a White House meeting on Monday to discuss an intensely contested topic on how to treat stablecoin rewards.
Cboe explores reviving all-or-nothing options as prediction markets hit record volumes and draw billions in retail trading activity.
Binance just turned its emergency insurance fund into a public, auditable pledge. And it reads like a crisis-repair letter in balance sheet form. The exchange announced Jan. 30 that it will convert SAFU's roughly $1 billion stablecoin reserves into Bitcoin within 30 days, with an explicit promise: if BTC price movements push the fund below […]
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Representatives from Coinbase, crypto trade groups and banking organizations are expected to meet next week to discuss the treatment of stablecoin rewards.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Binance acquired Gopax in 2023 amid its liquidity crisis, opening a pathway for a re-entry into the South Korean market.
Binance announced that it will turn its $1 billion SAFU fund into bitcoin over the next 30 days to support the industry through uncertainty.
Robinhood plans to roll out 24/7 tokenized stock trading and settlement to mitigate GameStop-like disruptions as regulatory clarity matures.
The exchange is also exploring a potential U.S. expansion alongside institutional custody services for tokenized real-world assets.
Crypto-focused political action committee Fairshake said it has more than $193 million in cash as it heads into the 2026 midterms.
The full rollout comes after an earlier limited launch and as prediction markets are seeing record levels of activity and revenue.
The ASA says a string of advertisements from Coinbase have been banned over concerns that they were "socially irresponsible."
HYPE has jumped more than 60% over the past week as surging silver and commodities trading on Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 DEXs fueled momentum.
Bitget named Oliver Stauber as CEO of its new EU unit, establishing Vienna headquarters to support MiCAR compliance.
Bitcoin Is Being Bought, Not Used For most of Bitcoin’s history, price and usage told broadly the same story. When price moved higher, more people showed up. More wallets became active. More transactions hit the chain. The relationship was never perfect, but it was stable enough to treat price as a rough signal for adoption. […]
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Gold's breakout above $5,000 and Clarity Act uncertainty are putting crypto's next market move to the test, Matt Hougan said.
Coinbase's Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped below competing exchanges this week, and the gap continues to widen. CoinGlass reported on Jan. 26 that its Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index, which tracks the price difference between Coinbase's BTC/USD and Binance's BTC/USDT, turned sharply negative, indicating Bitcoin trades at a discount on the largest US venue compared to offshore […]
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Kalshi, a federally-approved entity, has been battling state-level enforcement actions over its sports event contracts.
WhiteBIT said on its website that it has donated over $11 million to support the Ukrainian army and civilian population.
Bitwise has joined Morpho as a vault curator, highlighting growing institutional demand for allocating capital onchain.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Republic Europe unveiled a new Kraken SPV to give retail investors indirect access to the crypto exchange as it eyes an IPO.
Risk managers Chaos Labs and Sentora will also operate the first three USDC vaults, allocating funds to protocols like Aave, Morpho and Sky.