The SEC is hosting a task force roundtable on the future of crypto privacy, organized by pro-crypto Commissioner Hester Pierce.
In his opening remarks, Chairman Paul Atkins said the agency is pondering how to empower groundbreaking privacy protocols while addressing “national security threats.”
“Today’s roundtable participants will wrestle with a question that, at its core, is profoundly...
The SEC is hosting a task force roundtable on the future of crypto privacy, organized by pro-crypto Commissioner Hester Pierce.
In his opening remarks, Chairman Paul Atkins said the agency is pondering how to empower groundbreaking privacy protocols while addressing “national security threats.”
“Today’s roundtable participants will wrestle with a question that, at its core, is profoundly...
CME Group just launched spot-quoted XRP and Solana (SOL) futures, expanding its crypto offerings.
The Chicago-based derivatives marketplace says it introduced the new contracts to meet growing demand from traders.
The new futures are listed on CME and CBOT, complementing existing spot-quoted Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) products.
Investors can now hold positions in spot-market terms with...
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee believes basic market dynamics favor crypto bullishness despite recent price woes.
In a new interview with CNBC, Lee predicts that crypto’s “best years are still definitely ahead.”
“Today, there are only four million Bitcoin wallets with $10,000 in them. There are 900 million IRA and brokerage accounts globally that have $10,000, so that’s 200 times larger a market.”
Lee...
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Monetary cycles define eras of opportunity. For years, we lived under quantitative tightening. Liquidity was withdrawn, balance sheets were reduced and capital became expensive.
Central banks wanted restraint, and they got it. Risk appetite collapsed, valuations fell and growth assets – from venture capital to digital infrastructure – suffered.
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The launch of the DMI (Digital Markets Infrastructure) by the LSEG (London Stock Exchange) is not only a step toward innovation but also a notable development for market infrastructure, which has long faced multi-day post-trade processes.
Now, DLT can significantly reduce post-trade timelines.
In some pilots, faster or near-real-time processing has been...
Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company, Strategy, hasn’t been dissuaded by recent crypto market price struggles.
Saylor says the firm just bought 10,645 BTC for approximately $980.3 million at a price of $92,098 per Bitcoin.
Strategy (MSTR) now owns 671,268 BTC acquired for approximately $50.33 billion, at a cost of $74,972 per Bitcoin.
Saylor says Strategy has achieved a BTC yield of...
Ripple is preparing to launch its stablecoin, RLUSD, on multiple layer-2 platforms.
The payments firm says it is partnering with the multichain interoperability protocol Wormhole (W) and plans to begin testing Ripple USD on Optimism (OP), Base, Ink and Unichain.
RLUSD launched in mid-December 2024 and is available on Ripple’s XRP Ledger and the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. The stablecoin, which...
JPMorgan Chase is rolling out a tokenized money market fund powered by Ethereum.
The fund, which is called My OnChain Net Yield Fund or MONY, launches today.
The fund targets qualified investors, offering U.S. dollar yields. MONY invests solely in U.S. Treasury securities and repurchase agreements backed by them.
Investors can access the fund exclusively through the firm’s Morgan Money platform...
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Aster, an on-chain trading platform focused on performance and privacy and supported by YZi Labs, has announced the launch of Shield Mode.
This new feature, integrated into Aster Perpetual, introduces a protected trading option designed to offer high-leverage trading – up to 1,001x – within a more secure and flexible on-chain environment...