Kraken parent Payward has filed to launch CFTC-regulated perpetual futures for eligible U.S. traders through Bitnomial, the Designated Contract Market acquired by the company. The proposed products would cover BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and ADA perpetual derivatives, according to Kraken’s announcement. The filing marks an important step because perpetual futures are one of crypto’s most…
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is weighing a temporary moratorium on new Operator of Payment Systems licenses as part of a wider push to strengthen compliance standards around payment operators and virtual asset service providers. The policy update targets licensing and oversight. It should not be treated as a ban on crypto trading in the Philippines,…
Capital B SA has completed a €25.3 million capital increase and used the proceeds to buy 376 Bitcoin, adding another European name to the corporate BTC treasury trend. The company acquired the Bitcoin at an average price of €67,287 per coin, bringing its total treasury reserve to more than 1,800 BTC. That puts Capital B…
Bitget Wallet has launched Assetback, a card rewards program that lets users earn up to 3% cash-back in selected digital assets, including Bitcoin, tokenized gold, and tokenized U.S. stocks. The product sits in a busy corner of crypto: payments, rewards, tokenized assets, and self-custodial wallets all meeting at the checkout layer. It is a clean…
A Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallet has moved 600 BTC after more than 16 years of dormancy, drawing fresh attention to one of the market’s favorite on-chain signals: old coins waking up. The wallet dates back to 2010, when Bitcoin mining rewards were still 50 BTC per block and the network was tiny compared with today. The…
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have pulled in $3.8 billion in net inflows over a three-week stretch, with BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC leading the flow data. The figure gives Bitcoin traders another strong institutional-demand signal after a volatile period for broader risk assets. ETF flows are not the whole Bitcoin market, but they remain one…
Liquid Network paused operations after a purported $320 million Bitcoin withdrawal from multisig reserve addresses, with the party behind the transaction claiming it was a white-hat rescue tied to a suspected security flaw. The key detail is scope. This was not Bitcoin mainnet stopping. Bitcoin blocks kept moving as normal. The issue concerns Liquid, Blockstream’s…
Axis Robotics has released Axis Sim Dataset V1, one of the largest open-source simulation datasets for Franka arm manipulation, with the full dataset, training code, and benchmarks publicly available. V1 is built from more than 50,000 human-teleoperated simulation trajectories across 207 manipulation tasks and 60,000+ scene variants on a simulated Franka Research 3 arm. This…
Tether reported $1.3 billion in Q2 net operating profit in its latest BDO attestation statement, while excess reserves rose to $5.2 billion above full USDT backing. The figures keep Tether at the center of the stablecoin market’s profitability and reserve debate. USDT remains the largest dollar stablecoin in crypto, and Tether’s reserve earnings have become…
The SEC has approved a Cboe Options Exchange rule amendment allowing listed options on the WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund, opening another regulated derivatives route around a U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF. The approval applies to options on BTCW, not to the underlying spot Bitcoin ETF itself. That difference matters because the fund already exists; the new development…