Crypto Trading

Crypto Trading

Tech

Why this ex-Solana exec is using a Wall Street trick to level the playing field in DeFi

DoubleZero’s private fiber network aims to eliminate latency advantages like Hyperliquid’s Tokyo edge, but exchanges have yet to show an interest.

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Markets

Crypto perpetuals predict the direction of Wall Street’s Monday open with 89% accuracy, data shows

Over half (57%) of Monday market opens is s already reflected in crypto markets' perpetual futures products.

Price chart on a mobile phone lying next to laptop (Aidan Hancock/Unsplash)

Finance

The ‘wash trading’ bust: Why the feds are finally calling out crypto’s dirty little liquidity secret

An FBI-created token helped expose how firms allegedly engineered fake volume and why the incentives behind it remain deeply entrenched

Crime (David von Diemar/Unsplash)

Markets

Brazil's B3 exchange to offer bitcoin-linked 'event contracts' for the ultra-rich

The contracts are regulated by Brazil's securities regulator and designed for professional investors with at least 10 million reais ($1.9 million) in assets.

Trading chart (Vladislav Maslow)

Finance

Crypto investment firm Keyrock valued at $1.1 billion in Series C led by SC Ventures

The Brussels-based digital asset firm said the new capital will bolster its balance sheet and support expansion and acquisitions.

US dollars loan ( Frederick Warren/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Stablecoin market hits $312 billion as banks, card networks embrace onchain dollars

As regulation advances and institutions adopt blockchain settlement, stablecoins are expanding beyond crypto trading into payments infrastructure.

Stablecoin networks (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Elon Musk's X to launch crypto and stock trading in ‘couple weeks’

Users will be able to interact with ticker symbols in posts and execute trades within the app, the company's head of product said.

Elon Musk (jurvetson /CC BY 2.0./Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Robinhood is investing in crypto trading platform Talos at $1.5 billion valuation

The $45 million Series B extension also includes participation from new strategic investors Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, QCP and Karatage.

Robinhood logo on a screen

Finance

Germany’s second-largest lender DZ Bank secures retail crypto trading MiCA license

DZ Bank will "shortly" roll out a crypto trading platform for cooperative banks to offer to clients.

(Photo: DZ BANK Press Office/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Japan’s finance minister says she supports crypto trading at stock exchanges

Finance officials signal tax and regulatory changes aimed at bringing digital assets into the financial mainstream.

Speech by finance minister signals increasing openness toward crypto in Japan. (Photo by Intrepid on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk).