Category: Cryptocurrencies

Everyone knows about the ETFs, but almost nobody knows about the dozens of obscure institutional products being built around Bitcoin while the funds soak up all the attention, from a $40 million insurance reserve in Barbados to an S&P-rated bond deal sold to Wall Street investors by Jefferies. The ETFs answered only one question, which […]

Congress wants a task force for cryptocurrency theft months after the Justice Department disbanded NCET. The proposal, introduced by Reps. Lance Gooden and Josh Gottheimer, would create a Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Task Force inside the Justice Department and place it under the attorney general or a designee, according to the bill text and a June […]

One month after THYP launched on Nasdaq, the three US-traded spot HYPE ETFs have pulled in $161 million in net inflows. June 5 was the only session to register an outflow, a $2.9 million redemption from BHYP, and every other trading day has closed in the green. The clean flow record partly reflects access mechanics, […]

SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share on June 11, raised $75 billion in the largest public offering in history, and opened on Nasdaq at $150 Friday morning. By the time the stock reached $164, retail investors had gained “SpaceX exposure” through actual Nasdaq shares, Backpack Securities’ redeemable token on Solana, xStocks tracker certificates […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving to dismantle a stock-trading rule that has governed Wall Street for two decades. On June 11, the agency submitted a proposal that would rescind Rule 611 of Regulation NMS, the trade-through rule that requires trading centers to prevent stock trades from executing at prices worse than protected […]

SBI Shinsei Bank is reportedly offering crypto deposit rewards to customers, with vouchers worth 20% of their interest payments redeemable for BTC, ETH, or XRP through SBI VC Trade. A three-month campaign launched on June 10, with a broader rollout planned for fall, covering ordinary deposits and time deposits from three months to five years, […]

Crypto traders have turned Elon Musk’s expected SpaceX listing into a round-the-clock proxy market, pushing more than $1 billion through SpaceX-linked perpetual futures in the last three days as investors try to front-run one of the largest public offerings in Wall Street history. The shift comes as retail investors face limited allocations in a heavily […]

The UK Financial Conduct Authority is weighing a rule that would let UCITS schemes and most non-UCITS retail schemes hold crypto exchange-traded notes, capped at 10% of scheme property. The proposal, set out in the FCA’s CP26/17 consultation, would move crypto exposure deeper into regulated fund plumbing. Retail investors already gained a route to crypto […]

Amid crypto’s ongoing DeFi hack crisis, Humanity Protocol’s H token crash has turned a biometric identity project into the latest example of the sector’s oldest failure mode: control of keys. The project is built around proof-of-humanity infrastructure, with official materials describing palm biometrics, zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized identifiers, and verifiable credentials as parts of a privacy-preserving […]