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 or copying rules that could limit competition and prevent new financial products from reaching the
Demand for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has accelerated over the past week, with a string of daily inflows coinciding with the Coldcard wallet hack — timing that has prompted speculation about whether some investors are reconsidering self-custody. According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), Fidelity Wise Origin
A Bitcoin strategic reserve is a government-held stockpile of Bitcoin treated as a national asset alongside gold, oil, and foreign currency reserves. The United States signed an executive order creating one in March 2025, and at least a dozen other countries are now exploring the same idea. Every country holds reserves. The composition of those
Block Inc. has increased its corporate Bitcoin treasury by 85 $BTC, taking its total holdings to 9,117 $BTC and moving the Jack Dorsey-led company to 15th place in the Bitcoin 100 corporate holdings ranking. According to Bitcoin Treasuries.NET, Block’s latest purchase raised its Bitcoin balance from 9,032 $BTC to 9,117 $BTC, placing the fintech company
Sui-based decentralized exchange Astros, in collaboration with the data platform Walrus, has launched WVTS, a trading data standard designed to be machine-readable by AI systems. The initiative aims to provide a structured foundation for AI agents to participate in financial markets. According to an update shared on X, over 22 million transaction records have already
A prominent German Bitcoin developer has admitted that concerns over self-custody security prevented him from accumulating more $BTC despite the fact that he actually believed in the cryptocurrency’s long-term potential. This rather unusual confession came after the biggest hardware wallet security incidents in Bitcoin’s history. René Pickhardt, a famed Bitcoin researcher and Lightning Network developer,
As Bitcoin ($BTC) spot trading volume recently dropped to the lowest level in 2026 amid the ongoing cryptocurrency bear market, Michaël van de Poppe, founder of MN Fund, argued that the market is offering an opportunity to accumulate. Poppe said the current “ghost town” conditions in crypto and Bitcoin should not be viewed as a
Hut 8 reported over $7 billion of cash, restricted cash, and cash equivalents at June 30, but its Aug. 4 quarterly filing shows that only $233.6 million was unrestricted and available for general corporate use. The other $6.8 billion, or 96.7% of the total, was restricted. That distinction makes Hut 8’s headline balance a misleading