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On Apr. 16, the Securities and Exchange Commission will host a public roundtable on listed options market structure covering quote-driven competition, customer experience, and growth.
This is standard regulatory fare, except that Bitcoin exposure is migrating into regulated, centrally cleared products just as the SEC is reconsidering how the machinery works.
Small changes to spreads, routing, and...
Wall Street is pouring billions into public Bitcoin mining companies, but the investment thesis has little to do with the emerging industry's future.
Instead, the financial institutions are treating these crypto firms as critical power-and-permitting infrastructure, a scarce asset in an artificial intelligence boom that is increasingly constrained not by a lack of advanced semiconductors, but by...
Bitcoin has again failed to hold $71,500, reinforcing the level as a long-term ceiling while global markets shift into a risk-off environment driven by rising oil prices and higher bond yields.
The latest rejection came after Bitcoin briefly rose past $73,000, then lost momentum and fell back below $71,500.
Bitcoin price chart showing BTC rejection near $73,000 and a drop below the $71,500...
Israel’s Finance Ministry has put a weekly price tag on the country’s widening war with Iran, estimating that the economy could take a hit of more than 9 billion shekels (equivalent to $2.93 billion) a week if emergency limits on activity remain in place.
The estimate links the economic toll to the Home Front Command’s current “red” restrictions, which include school closures, travel restrictions...
Ripple is sharpening its argument that it can help institutions move value across traditional rails, stablecoins, and blockchain networks.
On March 2, DTCC’s National Securities Clearing Corporation updated its MPID directory to add Ripple-owned “Hidden Road Partners CIV US LLC” for its first trade. The entry appears under the OTC column.
A day later, Ripple said its payments business is now “end...
Crypto promised diversification beyond Bitcoin. For years, the pitch was simple: spread risk across blockchains, decentralized applications, and layer-1 protocols.
In practice, that diversification often collapsed when Bitcoin stumbled. Ethereum, Solana, and other major altcoins routinely fell harder than BTC during drawdowns, leaving portfolios concentrated on the same directional bet, just with...
Most people only see IPOs after the price resets at the open. Institutional investors and select clients receive allocations at the offering price, while everyone else waits for the exchange to start trading and buys at the market price.
The gap between those two prices, the “IPO pop,” can be substantial.
Circle's IPO last year was priced at $31 and opened at $69, then closed at $83.23,...
Bitcoin slid to $63,030 after US-Israel strikes on Iran triggered a risk-off cascade across markets. From there, BTC rallied to $74,000 intraday on Mar. 4, a roughly 17% rebound.
As of press time, Bitcoin trades at $73,613, up 7.7% in the past 24 hours. The move recaptured much of the selloff, but whether it holds depends on a handful of levels and liquidity signals that on-chain data identifies...
Kraken has cleared a regulatory hurdle that crypto firms have chased for years: direct access to the Federal Reserve’s core payments infrastructure.
On March 4, the exchange said its Wyoming-chartered bank, Kraken Financial, has been granted a Federal Reserve master account, allowing it to settle US dollar payments directly over Fed rails instead of routing transfers through sponsor banks.
The US...
Switzerland-registered FANtium AG launched $BANK on Solana today, with a public sale via Metaplex Spotlight.
The token is designed to give holders liquid on-chain exposure to a professionally managed poker bankroll. The sale window runs through March 6, 00:00 UTC, accepts payment in $SOL, and carries no KYC requirement, excluding restricted jurisdictions.
How $BANK Works
The core premise replaces...