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Inside the CME and CFTC’s battle over onchain perpetual futures
Weeks ago, the U.S. CFTC opened the gates for crypto perps with its first listing approval, but major derivatives player CME is fighting back against what it sees as a diversion from the law.
Crypto’s favorite $90 trillion trading product is coming to Wall Street, but big banks are taking it slow
Regulated perpetual futures are officially landing in the U.S., but while agile trading firms and crypto exchanges race to capture massive retail demand, traditional Wall Street banks are holding back until liquidity, rules, and infrastructure mature.
What are perps, anyway? Everything you need to know about crypto’s hottest trading instrument
Perps, which launched on BitMEX in 2016, have become one of the most traded financial products in the world.
Nvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google
The chipmaker and 36 other companies say defenders need AI they can run themselves. Major AI players OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are not among them.
Crypto is rewriting how Wall Street traders spend their weekends
Around-the-clock crypto markets are forcing Wall Street to reevaluate one of its oldest assumptions: that weekends are for waiting.
Democratizing weather derivatives through tokenization could be crypto's most important real-world use case
Main Street, which faces the most significant climate-related financial risk, currently lacks an avenue to hedge weather-related risks, argues CoinDesk’s Omkar Godbole.
Saylor and team overhaul Strategy's bitcoin metrics as bear market persists
New framework gives common shareholders a clearer view of net bitcoin exposure after preferred stock and convertible debt obligations
Coinbase's corporate customers can now accept payments from AI agents
Rolling out this week, Coinbase Business users will be able to accept payments from AI agents, done via the x402 protocol, developed and incubated by the exchange.
Uniswap pushes deeper into tokenized assets with permissioned trading pools
The framework, developed with Superstate, Securitize and Dowgo, lets regulated funds and securities trade on Uniswap while enforcing compliance rules necessary for institutions.
Goldman Sachs CEO backs Clarity Act despite banking industry's concerns over stablecoin rules
The Goldman Sachs CEO said the crypto market structure bill would create a more stable regulatory framework, breaking with other major bank leaders who oppose key stablecoin provisions.
