Digital assets are no longer a fringe experiment in finance, they’re fast becoming a core part of how banks, asset managers, fintechs and corporates plan to move money, store value and manage risk. That’s the key takeaway from fintech firm Ripple’s survey of more than 1,000 global finance leaders, which reveals how the industry sees…
Bitcoin’s BTC$70,483.40 price action is giving us a sense of déjà vu, and it’s not the good kind. If you look at the price swings since early February, a very specific, ominous pattern is forming that looks strikingly similar to the setup we saw between November and January. That set up eventually paved the way…
Morgan Stanley wants its planned spot bitcoin BTC$70,483.40 ETF to trade under the ticker MSBT when it debuts. The investment bank disclosed the ticker in its latest filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), amending its January application for the fund. The filing also revealed key fund details, which include a 10,000-share creation…
Bitcoin BTC$70,662.70 and the wider crypto market saw a notable price bounce on Friday after major economies announced joint efforts to boost oil supplies through the now-disrupted Strait of Hormuz. BTC, the largest cryptocurrency, jumped to $70,800, up more than 1% on the day, extending its recovery from overnight lows under $68,900, according to CoinDesk…
OpenClaw developers on GitHub, a platform for collaboration and version control, are being targeted in a phishing campaign using fake token giveaways to lure victims into connecting crypto wallets that can then be drained. The attackers created bogus GitHub accounts and tagged developers in issue threads, claiming they had been selected to receive roughly $5,000…
On Friday, global markets will face a trillions-of-dollars quarterly derivatives event known as quadruple witching. The event occurs on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December, when four major types of derivatives expire simultaneously. These include stock index futures, stock index options, single-stock options, and single-stock futures. Because traders must close, roll or…
Exchange giant Coinbase’s (COIN) asset management arm is bringing its bitcoin yield fund onchain, creating a tokenized share class of the fund with $3.5 trillion fund administrator Apex Group. The Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund, managed by Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), will be available to investors on the Base network, Coinbase’s blockchain built on Ethereum. Apex…
Prediction market provider Kalshi may be hit with a temporary restraining order from the state of Nevada after a federal appeals court declined to block such a motion on Thursday. The Nevada Gaming Control Board sent Kalshi a cease-and-desist order in March 2025, ordering it to stop offering sports-related prediction market contracts. However, Kalshi said…
For more than a decade, American investors and innovators have operated under a cloud of uncertainty about when crypto assets implicate the federal securities laws. Markets function best when everybody understands the rules. Yet, for too long, financial regulators have responded to good-faith regulatory inquiries with silence, raised barriers to entry, and ad-hoc enforcement actions…
The negotiation to get a crypto market structure bill through its next stages in the Senate have hovered over an almost-there status for weeks, and Republican lawmakers met on Thursday to figure out how to bridge the final gaps. The White House was expected to get some updated legislative language on Thursday, reflecting the ongoing…
