CME Captures More XRP Futures Volume as Token Posts 40% Weekly Gain
Hyperliquid Eyes US Market Entry Through Payward's Regulated Bitnomial Platform
OpenSea Adds Full Solana NFT Support After Four-Year Beta Wait
Bitcoin Enters Volatile Monthly Close as Bond Yields Eye 20-Year Highs
Ontology Mainnet Halts Over Security Concern
Sberbank Plans to Accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether as Loan Collateral
Former SEC and CFTC Officials Warn Burdensome Rules Keep $90 Trillion Perps Market Offshore
NYSE Parent ICE Takes Strategic Stake in tZERO, Joins Tokenized Securities Platform Build
Kalshi Issues First Lifetime Ban to Former Rep. George Santos Over State of the Union Trades
Japan FSA Seeks Tax Filing Exemption for Trust-Based Stablecoins in 2027 Reform
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Sberbank Plans to Accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether as Loan Collateral
Former SEC and CFTC Officials Warn Burdensome Rules Keep $90 Trillion Perps Market Offshore
NYSE Parent ICE Takes Strategic Stake in tZERO, Joins Tokenized Securities Platform Build
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CME Captures More XRP Futures Volume as Token Posts 40% Weekly Gain
XRP surged 40% in the past week, with CME's share of XRP futures trading climbing notably. The shift signals institutional desks rotating into the asset, though futures volume gains don't guarantee sustained price appreciation.
OpenSea Adds Full Solana NFT Support After Four-Year Beta Wait
OpenSea has officially enabled full Solana NFT trading on its platform, allowing users to buy, sell, and trade Solana-based digital collectibles directly through the marketplace, closing a chapter that began with a limited beta rollout in 2022.
Bitcoin Enters Volatile Monthly Close as Bond Yields Eye 20-Year Highs
US Treasury yields are closing in on 20-year highs, and Bitcoin is feeling the pressure heading into the August 31 monthly close. When fixed-income instruments offer genuinely competitive returns, the calculus for holding a non-yielding, high-volatility asset like Bitcoin shifts.
Ontology Mainnet Halts Over Security Concern
Ontology halted block production on its mainnet on August 31 after validators identified a security concern serious enough to freeze the network entirely. Transactions cannot settle, and Ontology-side bridge transfers are stalled while the validator set investigates.
Regulation
Hyperliquid Eyes US Market Entry Through Payward's Regulated Bitnomial Platform
Hyperliquid is pursuing its first official US market entry by routing decentralized perpetual futures through Payward's CFTC-regulated Bitnomial platform. Payward has submitted the proposed structure to the CFTC for review.
Sberbank Plans to Accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether as Loan Collateral
Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, intends to accept Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether as loan collateral, contingent on new crypto regulations taking full effect and Bank of Russia approval. The move signals institutional adoption but faces regulatory hurdles.
Former SEC and CFTC Officials Warn Burdensome Rules Keep $90 Trillion Perps Market Offshore
A coalition of former SEC and CFTC officials is pressing Washington to adopt lighter regulatory standards on crypto derivatives, arguing that the current framework is ceding an estimated $90 trillion perpetual futures market to offshore venues.
Kalshi Issues First Lifetime Ban to Former Rep. George Santos Over State of the Union Trades
Kalshi has permanently banned former U.S. Representative George Santos from its platform, marking the first lifetime ban in the company's history. The action stems from Santos's trading activity on State of the Union event contracts and signals the platform's commitment to compliance.
DeFi
Ethena Adds Equities and Commodities to USDe Basis Trade, Closes HIP-3 Market on Hyperliquid
Ethena is broadening the collateral strategy underpinning its USDe stablecoin to include equity perpetuals and commodities, while simultaneously shutting down its HIP-3 market on Hyperliquid and overhauling ENA tokenomics in what the protocol is framing as a push to reignite growth.
Bullish Commits $100M to USD.AI for GPU-Backed Loan Products
Bullish has committed $100 million in financing to USD.AI, a lending platform using GPU hardware as collateral for digital asset loans. The deal marks a major institutional bet on computational assets as a DeFi lending primitive, following broader adoption of real-world asset lending.
Virtu and Tradeweb Complete First Onchain Repo Trade Using Marshall Islands Digital Bond
Virtu Financial and Tradeweb have executed what appears to be the first onchain repurchase agreement using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, completing the full transaction cycle in under 10 minutes on the Canton Network.
Aave V4 Deposits Hit $806M After 30% Weekly Surge, But V3 Still Dominates at $31B
Aave V4 deposits surged to $806 million following a 30% weekly gain, with EtherFi Cash accumulating $257 million as the second-largest market. The growth occurred without major external catalysts, suggesting organic adoption as V4 enters early scaling phase.
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Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.
Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown
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Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
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Quantinuum Surges 13% on Nasdaq IPO Debut, Raising $1.68B
Quantinuum's shares opened at $68 on their first day of trading on Nasdaq, a 13% jump from the $60 IPO price, raising $1.68 billion in total proceeds and valuing the quantum computing company at approximately $17.63 billion market capitalization.
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