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Finance

BitMEX sale collapsed as buyers balked at founder ownership and shrinking business

Potential buyers, including Exodus, passed on BitMEX amid concerns over founder ownership and its shrinking business, according to a source familiar.

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Finance

Crypto market maker Wintermute lands SEC approval to trade equities and ETF blocks

The crypto market maker can now trade US stocks and options and support ETFs as crypto moves closer to traditional markets.

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Bitget set to exit Japan, close all remaining positions by year-end

The crypto trading platform, ranked fifth on CoinGecko, stopped accepting new registrations on Sunday and plans to shut down all remaining positions by Dec. 31.

Tokyo, Japan. (Erik Eastman/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto faces 3 barriers to next bull run, STS Digital CEO says

Institutional options selling, AI and delayed U.S. crypto regulation are weighing on bitcoin, according to STS Digital CEO Maxime Seiler.

Trading screen. (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Markets

Institutional crypto trading hits a record 72% as Wall Street calms crypto's wild swings

A new report from market maker Wintermute found that institutions now dominate crypto trading, driving lower volatility, selective altcoin flows and growth in tokenized assets.

Wall Street street signs. (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Finance

BitMEX and BitMart may be first casualties of crypto trading slump

Trading volumes across major centralized platforms fell down to $1.05 trillion, marking the quietest stretch of activity for the digital asset market in over two years.

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Finance

Digital asset trading platform Uphold cuts 17% of global headcount as crypto winter bites

The crypto trading platform said the layoffs reflect a strategic shift toward its fast-growing enterprise business.

Computer monitors and a laptop screen show trading charts on a desk overlooking an expanse of water at sunset. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin's Sharpe Ratio slides to lowest since 2022. Here's what it means.

A reading that negative means investors would have been better off in risk-free assets like 10-year U.S. Treasuries.

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Finance

JPMorgan sees limited institutional demand for perpetual futures

The bank said institutional demand for perpetual futures remains muted, with the products better suited to speculative trading than hedging.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London

Finance

FundBank becomes IRACE Digital in bid to bridge traditional finance and crypto

The institutional banking provider is expanding into digital asset custody, liquidity and execution services as former Zodia Custody Ireland CEO John Cronin takes the helm.

John Cronin and the IRACE Digital Bank team