Kraken has switched on perpetual futures trading for eligible U.S. customers, delivering one of crypto’s most widely used derivatives products through a domestically regulated venue for the first time at meaningful scale. The launch, announced Monday via the Kraken blog, marks a turning point in a years-long effort to bring the offshore perps market back…
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF began trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker BITA, marking the world’s largest asset manager’s boldest step yet into structuring Bitcoin as an income-generating asset rather than a pure speculative play. The launch was confirmed by Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, who noted the listing had been verified directly…
Pudgy Penguins has pulled the plug on Pudgy Party, its mobile battle royale game co-developed with Mythical Games, less than a year after its global debut. The official shutdown was announced on June 12 via the game’s X account, @PlayPudgyParty, triggering an immediate wave of community backlash as hundreds of replies and quote tweets flooded…
The Bangko Sentral ng Ngipinas (BSP) is tightening oversight of licensed virtual asset service providers that support privacy coins under a new set of crypto regulations, aiming to mitigate the risks of money laundering, terrorist financing, and untraceable transactions. The move applies to Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) supervised by the BSP, marking the next…
Wall Street has quietly placed a $161 million bet on a decentralized derivatives exchange most Americans have never heard of — and the money keeps coming in. One month after 21Shares’ 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…
Europe’s crypto industry is heading into one of its most disruptive weeks in years. With just 16 days left before the European Union’s MiCA grace period officially closes, as many as three-quarters of the continent’s crypto firms are set to lose their legal right to operate — a regulatory reckoning that could reshape the market…
It wasn’t long ago that crypto gaming was considered a tiny offshoot of the gaming world, but now it represents one of the most thrilling segments of digital entertainment by far. Players these days are no longer satisfied with receiving tokens as rewards for merely playing games. They desire deep gaming experiences, quick transactions, vibrant…
You’ve seen SeerDEX flagged as one of the leading crypto presales running — same name, three different feeds, a price that steps up with each new stage. Before the next stage closes, you want to know what the project actually does and whether the entry price today matters six months from now. What Prediction Market…
Bitcoin may have just turned a corner. Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick declared in a client note published Friday that the cryptocurrency has printed its definitive cycle low, with the floor now locked in at approximately $59,000 — and that the protracted downturn gripping digital asset markets since last autumn is firmly behind us. “Winter is…
Three of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges — Binance, Bybit, and Bitget — were forced to cancel their tokenized SpaceX IPO campaigns on Friday after failing to receive share allocations through xStocks, the tokenized equities platform operated by Kraken, exposing a critical structural vulnerability in crypto’s fast-growing push into real-world asset tokenization. A Historic IPO,…
