Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig told the inaugural gathering of the Innovation Advisory Committee that his agency won’t sit idle.

Longtime bond market investor Mark Connors sees routine government bond buybacks improving liquidity and bringing bitcoin’s next rally closer.

Bitcoin’s improving momentum could produce a golden cross, but the rally still faces an important test.

Banks are moving deposits on-chain using permissioned systems, not open ones. See why privacy and compliance dictate this path in this week’s newsletter.

The approved plan reallocates 546.9 million OP from user airdrops to a Foundation-controlled Strategic Ecosystem Fund.

Three hours spanning the London afternoon and New York morning account for about 23% of XRP moving onchain, up from roughly 14% a year ago.

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Erald Ghoos, OKX Europe CEO, says U.S. crypto rules could blow new life into the market amid a rotation of capital from AI back to bitcoin.

Six weeks of compression ended in the largest short liquidation since at least 2021, with $3 billion of bearish bets forced to buy back into thin supply.

Conversations with X are ongoing, according to a person who also works with other social media platforms testing stablecoins to pay influencers.

Backed by Hana Financial Group and SK Telecom, BitGo Korea built a locally registered entity from scratch to serve institutional and enterprise clients, rather than taking the acquisition route.

Bitcoin has gained 15% since monday, reclaiming several key technical and on-chain levels as bullish momentum builds.

Markets seem likely to test the resolve of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s desire to lower long-term government bond yields.

The Hyperliquid wallet known as pension-usdt.eth was forced out of a 50,000 ETH short as ether surged, with five liquidation orders helping push the price higher during the unwind.

Traders betting against crypto lost $2.74 billion in a day, more than the short side of the October 2025 crash that remains the biggest liquidation event in the market’s history.

Every major except tron posted double-digit weekly gains, with nearly $1.4 billion of short positions wiped out after the Treasury doubled its bond buybacks.

The largest crypto asset rose more than 7% on Wednesday after several catalysts sent crypto-related assets higher.

During a White House meeting Wednesday, President Donald Trump said CFTC Chair Mike Selig is working to bring the perpetual futures platform into the U.S. under federal rules.

The CEOs from companies across several tech-forward sectors met with the president in advance of this week’s first Innovation Advisory Committee at the CFTC.

In a race that drew criticism to crypto’s leading political action committee for featuring fake headlines in ads, Fairshake’s expensive effort fell short.

BTC rose about 6% while ether, solana and crypto stocks climbed after the Treasury doubled the size of its bond buybacks.

Bitcoin is close to forming a pattern that analysts say could signal prices rising to as high as $76,000.

COIN and BLSH rose about 8% and CRCL gained nearly 10% ahead of a key procedural vote scheduled for Sept. 15.

AI agents could boost crypto activity, but much of the value may bypass blockchains and their tokens.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Solstice Finance’s David Plisek argues that most of the money lost in DeFi this spring wasn’t taken by hackers but by yield strategies that quietly stopped working. Looking at April’s $13 billion drawdown, he shows that a headline yield number reveals almost nothing about whether it will hold under stress, […]