DeFi

BTC $20,000 put option is very popular

Nearly $600 million worth of $20,000 bitcoin put options has emerged as the third most popular strike ahead of Deribit’s quarterly expiry, showing how...

Celo Proposes Shifting Opera to ‘Long-Term Stakeholder’ with 160M CELO Grant

The move would replace quarterly CELO grants to Opera, which each required Celo governance approval, to a one-time token payment for a three-year partnership....

Crypto markets – and the American people – deserve clarity

For more than a decade, American investors and innovators have operated under a cloud of uncertainty about when crypto assets implicate the federal securities...

Crypto Hack Losses Driven by a Handful of Major Exploits: Immunefi

A new security report from Immunefi finds that crypto hacks continue at a steady pace while losses are becoming more concentrated in a small...

OP_NET Launches “SlowFi” DeFi Stack Directly on Bitcoin L1

OP_NET said it is launching a “SlowFi” decentralized finance (DeFi) stack on Bitcoin that uses standard Bitcoin transactions and native BTC fees rather than...

Kraken Pro expands margin trading to 44 pairs in largest leverage expansion: Kraken

Kraken Pro has rolled out its largest single margin leverage expansion, adding support across 44 trading pairs including stablecoins, gold tokens, BTC and ETH...

Bitcoin Gets Native DeFi Stack as OP_NET Goes Live on Mainnet

The execution layer's launch comes alongside a DeFi stack, including a Bitcoin L1 DEX, permissionless smart contract deployment, and OP-20 token launches. OP_NET, a...

Tempo Goes Live on Mainnet, Unveils Machine Payments Protocol with Stripe

The payments-focused L1 launches with a slew of fintech and TradFi partners, while MPP is aimed at enabling agentic commerce.Payments-focused blockchain Tempo, developed by...

Ethereum Foundation Deposits Another $7.5M in ETH From Its Treasury into Morpho

The move follows the EF's first deployment into the DeFi lending protocol in October, and is part of its updated treasury policy.The Ethereum Foundation...

Kraken shelves IPO plans amid market headwinds: CoinDesk

Kraken has frozen its multibillion-dollar initial public offering plan, citing difficult market conditions just months after confidentially filing with the SEC.Kraken has halted its...

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POSCO International, South Korea's largest trading company, has begun...

Russia’s Biggest Bank Plans Crypto Trading Infrastructure By Year End

Sberbank, Russia’s biggest bank, plans to build cryptocurrency trading...

2 weeks left for Clarity: State of Crypto

The crypto industry, naturally, is urging passage. The common...

CFTC Warns Prediction Markets Over Vague Self-Certification

For the second time this year, the US Commodity...

U.S. regulator warns prediction markets against cutting corners in event contracts

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which has claimed...