Category: Web3
Blockchains, DeFi, stablecoins, DAOs and the decentralized internet.
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CME will list Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures next month, and one of them jumped 32 percent on the news
The world’s biggest derivatives exchange is adding coins at a steady clip, and traders are pricing in the institutions before a single contract has…
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Crypto lost half its market value in a year, and the economy underneath shrank 1.6 percent
Chainalysis says real usage held up through the worst bear market since 2022, though its fastest growth is in the flows hardest to measure.
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A 23-year-old who posed as Coinbase support got four to 12 years for taking $16 million
The court ordered almost $16 million in restitution from a man who forfeited barely half a million.
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RockawayX is putting $150 million behind the idea that crypto’s next big product is yield
The firm wants trade finance and private credit on public blockchains, and by its own account putting them there is the easy part.
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The CFTC called bets on what people will say easy to rig, and stopped short of banning them
Prediction markets can keep listing mention contracts, but only where the person being bet on has a strong reason not to steer the result.
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Canada’s six biggest banks will test tokenised deposits, and none has promised to issue one
Every major Canadian lender now has a seat at the table, without a chosen blockchain, a launch date or a commitment to put a…
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SoFi moved its $25 billion card programme onto a stablecoin its own bank issues
SoFi is the first US national bank to settle Mastercard transactions in its own token, and the design only works if merchants never notice.
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Binance took a $100 million stake in Circle, the company that pays it to promote USDC
The shares arrived with a five-year deal under which Circle pays Binance a monthly fee, which makes it hard to say who is investing…
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BitMEX invented the perpetual swap and has now closed on a market it no longer led
The exchange behind crypto’s most traded product stopped trading at 04:00 UTC on Wednesday, and anyone who leaves money behind now pays rent on…
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ZetaChain holders just voted to shut down the blockchain they built
A 99.4 percent vote to migrate to Solana points to a wider truth about the 2021 wave of layer-1s: chain maintenance is now the…