OKX has launched a USDT-margined Shein perpetual that trades around the clock, extending leveraged price speculation beyond Hong Kong’s cash-market hours without delivering share ownership to traders.

Kalshi is reportedly preparing a CFTC filing for an expiry-free WTI crude contract, which could become the first regulated US oil perpetual if approved by the agency.

Wyoming has selected Chainlink to publish verified FRNT reserve data onchain, while a planned safeguard would eventually block minting when reported backing becomes insufficient for new issuance.

G20 finance ministers and central bank governors have linked digital-asset regulation and cross-border stablecoin work to a wider effort to modernize global payments.

Twenty-one financial institutions can give a stablecoin immediate credibility. Whether they can also deliver liquidity, direct redemptions and regular use will be the harder question.

Binance has added more than 1,000 US stock options, but the contracts come with an exercise cutoff that matters more than the size of the product menu.

Zakura says its new cryptography can reduce private Zcash transaction construction to under 200 milliseconds, although wallet adoption and blockchain confirmation remain separate issues for users.

Solana is generating record fees as validators prepare for lower inflation rewards. The question is whether activity-based income can cover enough of what smaller operators lose.

Crypto trading generated Robinhood Chain’s first $25 billion in DEX volume. Stock Tokens now need their own market makers, deeper liquidity and repeat demand from investors.

Tokenized stocks generated nearly $30 billion in monthly onchain transfers while distributed value barely grew, leaving one central question: how much reflected actual investor trading?

Ripple’s April roadmap is back in view as Bitcoin and Ethereum advance quantum-security work, but XRPL’s real challenge begins after an account rotates its key.

With 70 minutes left, Solana’s faster-disinflation proposal was losing. A late reversal and delegator overrides pushed it across the line by just 0.334 percentage points.