Tag: Liquid staking

TL;DR: CFTC chairman Michael Selig said on November 3 that individual-equity perpetual futures can begin trading on appropriately registered US exchanges. The contracts fall within a joint CFTC-SEC regulatory framework, highlighting the effort to bring perpetual-style trading into supervised domestic markets. Perpetual futures have long been central to crypto derivatives trading, particularly on venues outside…

TL;DR: The SEC published a November 6 notice on a KalshiEX rule change concerning listing standards for perpetual security-futures products. The filing takes effect under the exchange’s applicable self-regulatory process, with public comments invited; it should not be confused with approval of every future contract that a venue might want to list. Kalshi’s expansion into…

Michael Saylor has revived expectations of another Bitcoin acquisition by Strategy after sharing its long-term accumulation chart. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, meanwhile, has challenged the investment argument built around ETH’s fee-burning mechanism. At Ripple, former chief technology officer David Schwartz has responded to criticism over XRP’s declining price, describing his personal influence as very limited.…

TL;DR: Bitget announced an Open Custody Network on November 5 intended to connect external banks and institutional custodians with its trading infrastructure. The arrangement aims to reduce the need to keep trading assets directly at an exchange, though the security benefits depend on the exact custody and settlement design. The largest crypto exchanges have historically…

TL;DR: BVNK says eligible business customers can now mint, redeem, hold and transfer Open USD (OUSD) on Ethereum, Solana, Base and Tempo. The November 6 rollout is a practical payments integration, but the company has not provided transaction volumes proving how extensively the new service is being used. A stablecoin’s biggest hurdle may not be…