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Robinhood has reported a 21% monthly decline in cryptocurrency trading volume to $17 billion for October, while customers traded 5.9 billion event contracts, up 136% from a year earlier. Robinhood’s operating update, released Nov. 12, showed lower crypto activity across…
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The CFTC approves tZERO's derivatives exchange, completing its exchange and clearinghouse registrations and meeting a milestone in its proposed $350M merger.
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Kraken resolved a one-hour trading outage on October 30 after spot and derivatives users reported problems with orders, website access and API connections.
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The CFTC has updated its guidance on tokenized customer-fund investments and blockchain records, putting the focus back on the rules that already let some futures intermediaries take crypto as margin. A fall in the token’s price sets off several different…
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Thailand’s SEC proposed allowing retail access to qualifying overseas crypto derivatives, with public comments open through Sept. 30.
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The CFTC is seeking public input on AI compute derivatives, covering liquidity, manipulation, customer safeguards and perpetual futures.
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Binance has overtaken CME Group in Bitcoin futures open interest for the first time since late 2023, holding roughly 148,500 BTC against CME’s 102,840. The reversal unwinds two years of institutional dominance narrative and raises questions about whether traditional finance…
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SNDK stock perpetual open interest reached $1.73B across crypto venues, while 24-hour trading volume climbed to $2.51B.
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The CFTC used emergency authority to override New York. Nine states have been sued. FlightAware added a data rights claim. The legal architecture of prediction markets is being built in courtrooms, not in Congress. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission does…
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BitMEX reportedly spent two years seeking a buyer before deciding to close the crypto derivatives exchange, as founder control, declining activity and legal baggage deterred potential acquirers. BitMEX held sale talks for two years BitMEX explored a sale with several…
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CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said regulators must give financial innovation room to lead as the global derivatives market enters a new phase of development. Selig rejects restrictive derivatives rules Writing in The Economist, Selig argued that regulators should avoid importing…
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Bitfinex completes El Salvador licensing across spot, derivatives and tokenized securities, extending its regulated Latin American footprint
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Keyrock acquires BlockFills’ trading assets, adding institutional clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory reach across key markets.
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eToro led a $12.5M round in Extended as it links Zengo with onchain perps and expands self-custody trading access.
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UK investors sue Binance and CZ for £150M, claiming the exchange sold risky crypto derivatives without proper authorization.
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Jake Chervinsky has accused CME Group of using a lawsuit against U.S. crypto perpetual futures to protect its position in a market where the exchange reportedly controls about 92% of exchange-traded derivatives volume. According to Jake Chervinsky, chief executive of…
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