CFTC Chairman Selig taps two new senior officials as agency expands amid prediction market fights The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is adding senior firepower just as prediction markets become one of the nastier regulatory battlegrounds in U.S. finance. Two new senior officials added at the CFTC Prediction markets face growing regulatory scrutiny Crypto and DeFi […]
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U.S. crypto regulation is still being shaped by the wreckage of FTX, and the latest developments involving Sam Bankman-Fried, the CFTC, and state regulators show just how messy the cleanup remains. Court rejection keeps SBF under pressure CFTC enforcement remains a major threat to crypto firms State regulators are still carving up the map U.S. […]
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CFTC Chair Michael Selig Defends Approval of Perps Trading in the US The fight over perpetual futures, or “perps,” is heating up in Washington, and CFTC Chair Michael Selig is making the case that the US should stop pretending these markets can be kept outside its borders. Perps are high-risk crypto derivatives with no expiry […]
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Washington is finally confronting a blunt reality: if the U.S. keeps punishing the people who write blockchain software, the next wave of crypto innovation will keep moving somewhere else. BRCA is the key fight inside the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act Open-source developers should not be treated like money transmitters Regulatory uncertainty is already pushing […]
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The CFTC has brought in a former SEC crypto adviser to strengthen its data and enforcement chops just as the fight over digital asset oversight, prediction markets, and sports event contracts gets uglier. Donald Battle is now the CFTC’s chief data innovation officer He has experience at the SEC crypto task force, FinCEN, and the […]
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Stablecoins as Idle Cash: Why $320B in Supply Still Needs Real Payment Velocity Stablecoins have ballooned into a roughly $320 billion market, but a fat supply number does not automatically mean real-world usefulness. If those digital dollars are mostly sitting around like parked cash instead of moving through payments, remittances, settlement, and liquidity management, then […]
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Strategy just put another $100 million into Bitcoin, adding 1,587 BTC and making it painfully clear that Michael Saylor’s corporate BTC playbook is still in full swing. 1,587 BTC bought for $100 million Total holdings: 846,842 BTC U.S. dollar reserve: lifted to $1.1 billion 32 BTC sale was a systems test, not a cash problem […]
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Kraken has brought perpetual futures to eligible U.S. traders through its CFTC-regulated Bitnomial arm, giving Americans access to one of crypto’s most popular trading products without having to roam the offshore casino floor. Perpetual futures now available for eligible U.S. clients One Kraken Pro account for spot, margin, futures, and perps Bitnomial powers the launch […]
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83% of Europe’s Crypto Firms Have Not Secured MiCA Licenses, and the July 1 Deadline Is Days Away Europe’s crypto market is about to get a regulatory gut check. The EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regime, or MiCA, is nearing the end of its transitional period, and most firms that were previously operating under national crypto […]
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Bitcoin treasury companies are finding out that leverage is a hell of a drug. If BTC stays weak, some firms may be forced to restructure debt, sell coins, or merge with stronger peers before the market does the ugly work for them. Weak BTC can expose fragile treasury balance sheets Convertible debt is the biggest […]
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