Stephen Katte

The CFTC gave “no-action” letters to a group of prediction markets, including Polymarket US, exempting them from swap data reporting and record-keeping regulations.

The CFTC has scrapped its guidance on how crypto is delivered in a transaction, giving “way more flexibility for exchanges,” says StarkWare's Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos.

Bitcoin miners Marathon Digital Holdings, Riot Platforms and Hut 8 are already in the top ten largest public companies holding Bitcoin.

There are five other Satoshi statues made by Valentina Picozzi located around the world, in Switzerland, El Salvador, Japan, Vietnam and Miami, in the US state of Florida.

The MSCI Index is consulting on whether to exclude Bitcoin and other digital asset treasury companies that have a balance sheet with more than 50% of their assets in crypto.

Solv generates Bitcoin yield through lending markets, liquidity provisioning to automated market maker pools, and participation in structured staking programs.

The Trump Billionaires Club demo video on its website appears to feature a digital version of New York, showing a player token using dice rolls to move around a gameboard.

Some of the Bitcoin outflows from exchanges are going to individual users’ storage wallets, but ETFs and institutions are accumulating coins too.

The pilot program allows futures commission merchants to accept Bitcoin, Ether and USDC for margin collateral, provided strict reporting criteria are followed.

Binance’s international operations and liquidity will now be supervised end-to-end by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority in the financial free zone in Abu Dhabi.

It was only last month when Jack Mallers, CEO of Bitcoin payments company Strike, accused JPMorgan of closing his personal accounts without explanation.

FINRA found the number of people invested in crypto was steady from 2021 to 2024, but fewer were considering either buying more or investing for the first time.

Signature Bank founder ​​Scott Shay has created N3XT, a bank aiming to provide instant 24-hour payments on a private blockchain.

Meta is reportedly cooling on the metaverse with planned 30% cuts in its virtual reality research department, Reality Labs, which shareholders seemingly support.

Ledger says it was able to gain “full and absolute control” over a smartphone by using electromagnetic pulses to take over its chip.

IREN closed trading on Wednesday up nearly 7%, slightly recovering from a major drop on Tuesday after sharing plans for its latest capital raising effort.

BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world, with over $13.4 trillion in assets under management, and operates the largest tokenized cash market fund, worth $2.8 billion.

Australia’s government-funded national broadcaster, which reaches an average of over 12 million people, released a report on Tuesday that portrayed Bitcoin as a tool used by criminals with no real use or purpose.

Canaan has been steadily investing in renewable energy projects, with a gas-to-computing pilot in Canada and a deal to deploy miners at a wind-powered data center in Texas.

Fears tend to mount whenever an OG crypto whale starts shifting funds, but this one used it to double down on the blockchain network.

Vanguard CEO Salim Ramji ruled out crypto ETFs on its platform in August, but consistent demand for crypto has seemingly changed his firm’s tune.

Ripple has also made several acquisitions this year to expand its business and institutional-focused offerings, with the latest being crypto custody and wallet company Palisade.

New technologies, such as artificial intelligence, will only make bad actors more efficient and their attacks more sophisticated in 2026, cybersecurity company AhnLab predicts.

The UK has proposed a “no gain, no loss” approach to decentralized finance transactions, scrapping capital gains taxes on deposits to crypto lending platforms.

In June, the DEX to CEX spot ratio hit an all-time peak of 37.4%, largely due to “a spike in PancakeSwap’s volumes,” says CoinGecko analyst Yuqian Lim.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has just donated over $760,000 in Ether to two projects he says are pushing digital privacy forward.

The push from the Nasdaq to increase option limits for the BlackRock Bitcoin fund shows Bitcoin markets are “breaking out of their training wheels.”

Since Robinhood launched its prediction markets in March, nine billion contracts have been traded by more than one million users, according to the platform.

The ability to freeze assets and unwind transactions was a key consideration when selecting the blockchain for the pilot, according to Mike Villano from US Bank.

Half of the capital raised in the third quarter was from seven venture deals, with Revolut leading the way with a $1 billion investment.