Crypto’s biggest liquidation event this week wasn’t about crypto. Tokenized Brent oil futures on Hyperliquid accounted for $46.6 million of the $403 million in total liquidations over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass data, making oil the third-largest liquidated asset behind ether at $104.5 million and bitcoin at $98.3 million. Solana came in fourth…
Ripple on Thursday introduced native digital asset capabilities inside its enterprise treasury management system, letting corporate finance teams hold, view and manage XRP and RLUSD alongside traditional fiat balances for the first time within a single platform. The two features, called Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, are built on GTreasury, which Ripple acquired in…
The past four weeks have been brutal for bitcoin BTC$66,447.89 traders as prices keep chasing comments by President Donald Trump, who can’t make up his mind about Iran. One day, he talks peace and BTC and risk assets go up while oil drops, the next day he talks hawkish again, sending BTC down and oil…
Bitcoin fell 2.2% to $66,609 on Wednesday, giving back Tuesday’s gains after Trump’s primetime address to the nation promised to hit Iran “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks rather than offering the de-escalation markets had priced in. Every major token in the top 10 dropped. Ether slid 2.2% to $2,056, BNB fell…
Tokenization has become one of crypto’s favorite buzzwords, but Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl said investors should think about it less as a single trade and more as a long roadmap with different winners at different stages. Speaking at EthCC conference in Cannes, France, Pandl said that the trend is still in its infancy….
Bitcoin’s reputation has historically been built on extreme boom-and-bust cycles, with steep drawdowns of up to 90% following all-time highs. This cycle, however, the decline has been closer to 50%, a shift that analysts said reflects the maturation of BTC as an asset class. “Bitcoin’s drawdowns compressing to about 50% is a sign of a…
Cango (CANG) is at risk of losing its NYSE listing after its shares traded below $1 on average for 30 consecutive days, triggering a compliance notice from the exchange and giving the bitcoin BTC$68,177.60 miner a six-month window to recover, the company said in a press release Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange flagged the…
JPMorgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank is considering entering the prediction markets space, signaling growing interest from major financial institutions in a sector that has expanded rapidly in recent months, including among crypto-native companies. “It’s possible one day we’ll do something like that,” Dimon said on CBS on Tuesday, though he ruled out…
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week: Nilmini Rubin on the challenge facing crypto and traditional markets to create a hybrid, shared governance structure. Meredith Fitzpatrick covers how financial institutions must fundamentally rethink AML risk as crypto and TradFi converge. Top headlines institutions should pay attention to by Francisco Rodrigues. Maple…
EDX Markets, the crypto exchange backed by Citadel Securities, has applied for a national trust bank charter, marking a new step in its push to serve institutional clients. The exchange submitted its filing to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Wednesday, according to documents seen by CoinDesk. The move comes about three…
