Bitcoin climbed back above $80,000 on Tuesday ahead of the Fed decision, but its 1.2% gain trailed a group of altcoins that rose 4% to 12%.
The CFTC plans to publish futures positioning twice a week by the end of 2026, with Monday and Wednesday cut-offs that would put CME Bitcoin data two days behind.
Crypto.com has opened CFTC-regulated perpetual futures to eligible US traders, listing bitcoin, ether, solana, HYPE and zcash contracts on its Exchange with up to five-times leverage.
A senior Mastercard executive says slow conversions at either end can cancel out the speed of stablecoin payments, and Mastercard now sells that conversion layer through BVNK.
XRP and RLUSD can now sit in BNY’s institutional custody, while a separate Ripple deal with C2FO will settle suppliers’ early invoice payments in RLUSD on the XRP Ledger.
Bitcoin is drifting below $80,000 in some of the quietest trading since 2021, yet recent buyers are moving coins to Binance at a loss almost as heavily as in July.
Ethereum developers have changed Glamsterdam’s deposit rules so ETH that staking protocols send to new validators cannot end up in a builder account controlled by their node operator.
Ripple has won final federal approval for its national trust bank, which will manage the reserves behind its $2.5 billion RLUSD stablecoin and offer institutional crypto custody.
CoinShares has started offering its managed stablecoin yield strategies inside Safe smart accounts, letting Safe’s enterprise users allocate without handing their assets to a custodian.
Hyperliquid says Kraken parent Payward intends to become the first CFTC-regulated firm to run its own US perpetual futures market on the decentralized exchange, pending regulatory approval.
Cardano has bounced near $0.20 after surrendering more than half of its measured rally, leaving buyers with a first recovery test at the moving-average cluster near $0.21.
Ripple has introduced 24/7 Returns for eligible corporate customers, allowing qualifying digital assets, including RLUSD, to generate income through its treasury platform outside traditional banking hours.
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