Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its MiFID authorization.The rollout is not for UK retail users. Eligibility is limited to users … [Read More...]
Bitcoin News

Riot’s Anthropic Deal Shows Bitcoin Miners Are Moving Deeper Into AI Compute
Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into AI and high-performance computing as miners continue looking beyond block rewards.The company’s filing describes a … [Read More...]

BlackRock Cuts IBIT In-Kind Conversion Minimum To $1M
BlackRock has reduced the in-kind conversion minimum for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, potentially making the mechanism available to a wider group of institutional participants.The change was disclosed in an updated IBIT … [Read More...]

BitMine Pushes Ethereum Treasury Past 5.8M ETH
BitMine Immersion Technologies has added another 7,391 ETH to its balance sheet, pushing its Ethereum treasury to about 5.81 million ETH.The company’s Ethereum position now represents roughly 4.8% of circulating supply, while more than 5 million ETH … [Read More...]
CoinDesk News

The bitcoin futures market looks like a crowded club with a tiny exit – and it could cause pain
Volume, meanwhile, is dead simple as it measures the number of contracts that changed hands during a given period. Think of it as measuring how many times the front door of that exclusive club opened … [Read More...]

XRP traders bet on a rebound as price slips to $1 and bearish chatter surges
XRP traders are increasingly betting on a rebound even as the token struggles around $1 and online commentary turns its most bearish in three months. Futures open interest, the money tied up in … [Read More...]

Bitcoin tops $64,000 in Asia morning hours as HYPE jumps 8% on the week
Bitcoin crossed $64,000 in Asian morning hours Monday, up half a percent on the day but down almost 3% over the week, as a softer dollar and fading rate-hike bets failed to lift crypto out of its … [Read More...]

The SEC meeting that wasn’t: State of Crypto
Earlier this month, as it became clear that the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act would not receive a vote prior to the Senate's August recess, industry participants suggested that if Congress didn't … [Read More...]

Crypto investors are looking past market-cap rankings and back to fundamentals
Perpetual-futures volumes still run at a multiple of spot across most major tokens, while funding, positioning and liquidations set the tone intraday, he said Over the past 12 to 18 months, however, … [Read More...]