Robinhood has spent the past few years trying to outgrow its meme-stock reputation, and the clearest sign that it is thinking differently now sits far from Menlo Park. In early December, the company said it would buy PT Buana Capital Sekuritas, a small Indonesian brokerage, and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto, a licensed digital asset trader, […]
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Pakistan also granted preliminary clearances to Binance and HTX to prepare its license applications for a full launch in the country.
"2026 is where we find out if crypto IPOs are a durable asset class," according to Laura Katherine Mann, a partner at global law firm White & Case.
When Binance rolled out its new “Binance Junior” accounts this month, the announcement landed with the kind of split reaction usually reserved for children’s TikTok privacy updates. On paper, the product is tightly controlled, restricted to a savings lane, and anchored to a parent’s KYC identity: there are no trading buttons, no margin sliders, no […]
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Several major crypto players, including Gemini and Crypto.com, are also venturing into the growing prediction market sector.
x402 V2 is “multi-chain by default” and compatible with “legacy payment rails,” like ACH and card networks.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The U.S. crypto exchange chose Chainlink’s cross-chain interoperability standard as the “exclusive bridging solution” for its wrapped assets.
Binance added a new API endpoint for signing a “TradFi-Perps agreement contract,” signaling early work for potential stock perpetual futures.
Binance has launched a private indication of interest feature for large spot and loan orders, saying it is the first crypto exchange to do so.
Gemini's Designated Contract Market will offer binary event contracts and may expand into other CFTC-regulated derivatives.
The hacker spent 19,479 USDT to buy 21.16 million of the tokens, making around $55,000 from the subsequent pump, according to Lookonchain.
The transaction marks the ninth such transfer this year, likely to consolidate custody and upgrade from legacy bitcoin addresses.
The proceeds would be used to repay its prior loan agreement with Singapore-based Antalpha formed in October.
PNC says the move is driven less by near-term trading demand and more by keeping clients from shifting crypto activity to outside platforms.
On Dec. 7, at 05:29 UTC, someone deployed a token called “year of yellow fruit” on-chain. Less than one minute later, the Binance Futures official account posted text and images promoting the token. Within two hours, the token surged 4,600% and reached nearly $4 million in market cap. Binance’s internal audit confirmed an employee used […]
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The move builds on a CFTC initiative in September expanding the use of tokenized collateral, particularly stablecoins, in derivatives markets.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The suspected token, called "year of the yellow fruit," was promoted using official Binance channels just seconds after it was issued onchain.
Bybit will increase USDC’s presence across its ecosystem by boosting liquidity in spot and derivatives markets.
Robinhood said it is buying Indonesian brokerage PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and digital asset trader PT Pedagang Aset Kripto.
Indian users can currently trade only between cryptocurrencies, with a full fiat on-ramp expected in 2026, TechCrunch reported.
Paribu has acquired CoinMENA in a transaction valued at up to $240M, expanding the platform’s regulated footprint into Dubai and Bahrain.
Senate negotiators are struggling to finalize a bill as disputes over stablecoin yield, conflicts of interest, and DeFi slow progress.
Longtime gold advocate Peter Schiff said bitcoin’s demand is fading despite ETF inflows, corporate accumulation, and intense market hype.
Kraken and Deutsche Börse Group announced a collaboration to create a two-way bridge between traditional market infrastructure and crypto-native platforms.
Bitnomial has become the first exchange to list CFTC regulator-approved spot cryptocurrency products, the agency announced.
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Yi He will lead the company alongside previous solo CEO Richard Teng, the exec announced during Binance Blockchain Week.
Ark Invest bought another 28,315 Coinbase shares on Tuesday, worth around $7.5 million, as it continued to rebalance its fund weightings.