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Nasdaq is increasing oversight of companies seeking to raise money to buy cryptocurrencies as over firms eye more than $98 billion for DATs.
Ether’s monthly spot volume on CEXs overtook bitcoin’s for the first time in years amid institutional demand, The Block’s data shows.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said nearly half of the exchange’s daily code output is now written by artificial intelligence amid a growing reliance on machine-generated development. In a Sept. 3 post on X, Armstrong revealed that about 40% of code produced at Coinbase already comes from AI tools and predicted that the figure would surpass […]
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Brian Armstrong mandated Coinbase staff to begin using AI tools last month, firing those who did not comply.
Crypto.com, Coinbase, and Kraken maintain their leadership positions in the USD-supported exchange landscape.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Superstate unveiled Opening Bell this past May to bring SEC-registered equities onchain, starting with Solana.
Analysts say ether treasury holdings now approach 4% of supply and could climb to 6–10% by year-end, even as volatility cools and ETF flows turn choppy.
Crypto exchange volume climbed to $1.86 trillion in August from July's $1.77 trillion, marking the highest level since January.
U.S. market regulators took a coordinated step to encourage the growth of crypto markets, issuing a joint staff statement on Sept. 2 that affirmed registered exchanges are not barred from offering certain spot crypto asset products. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said the statement reflects their staff […]
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Coinbase will launch Mag7 + Crypto Equity Index Futures to create the first US-listed futures product that combines traditional equities and crypto exposure, according to a Sept. 2 announcement. The product will debut on Sept. 22, arriving less than two months after Coinbase began offering CFTC-regulated perpetuals to US customers in July. The hybrid index […]
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Mag7 + Crypto Equity Index Futures, allows people to trade an index combining top tech stocks with BlackRock's Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs.
Bitget’s BGB spiked around 15% after the exchange said it will upgrade BGB into Morph’s native gas and governance token.
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World Liberty Financial’s governance token, WLFI, will begin trading on some of the world’s largest crypto exchanges later today, marking its first appearance on open markets. Spot trading is scheduled to open on Sept. 1 across major platforms, including Binance, Upbit, Bithumb, Gate.io, KuCoin, OKX, Kraken, Bybit, Bitget, MEXC, BingX, and HTX. Until now, WLFI […]
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World Liberty Financial will debut WLFI on centralized exchanges like Binance with about 24.7% of its 100 billion supply circulating at launch.
A core part of Seker's mandate is to 'strengthen engagement with policymakers and regulators,' according to Binance.
Binance restored futures trading on Aug. 29 following a suspension tied to an issue in its USD-margined contracts. Per Reuters, the exchange first said all of its $90 billion futures trading was “temporarily unavailable,” then about 24 minutes later said the problem affecting Futures UM, the stack that settles contracts in USDT or USDC, had […]
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight issued an advisory on Aug. 28 clarifying foreign board of trade (FBOT) registration rules for non-US exchanges seeking to provide Americans with direct market access. Acting Chair Caroline Pham positioned the guidance as a remedy for trading activity that departed during previous enforcement actions. The […]
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The move initially targets blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Base, Avalanche, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
Crypto firms collaborated with APAC-based law enforcement to freeze $46.9 million in USDT related to a "pig butchering" scam.
Whale activity drove a 2.5x price spike on Hyperliquid's XPL pre-launch market, sweeping liquidity and triggering liquidations.
Trump Media also signed a separate deal with Crypto.com to integrate CRO into its Truth Social and Truth+ platforms.
Trump Media Group has reached a deal with Yorkville Acquisition Corp., a Nasdaq-listed blank check company, to form a new entity focused on acquiring and holding Cronos’s CRO token, according to an Aug. 26 statement. The proposed company, Trump Media Group CRO Strategy, will be capitalized with around $6.42 billion, which is a mix of […]
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Kraken has opened a new round of dialogue with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Crypto Task Force, focusing on how tokenization could be integrated into regulated financial markets. An internal agency memo confirmed that the exchange met with the task force on Aug. 25 to present ideas on how tokenized trading systems might […]
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Hyperliquid registered more trading volume than Robinhood for the third consecutive month, with July marking the largest gap between platforms at 39.1%. DefiLlama data shows the decentralized derivatives exchange traded $330.8 billion in combined spot and perpetual volume during July, while Robinhood processed $237.8 billion across all products. Robinhood’s July volume was made up of […]
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Kraken becomes the first major crypto exchange to fully deploy distributed validator technology for Ethereum staking with SSV Network.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has projected that Bitcoin could reach $1 million by 2030, In an Aug. 20 post on X, Armstrong explained that the improved regulatory environment and increasing government adoption are major drivers that would push the top crypto to the historic milestone. According to him: “Regulatory clarity is finally emerging, the US […]
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Coinbase’s cbBTC has grown 160% in 2025, eating into wBTC’s dominance on Ethereum.