Bithumb says no crypto was stolen when hackers broke into its staff groupware, but the exchange is still checking whether customer details sat in the messages and files exposed.
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.
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.
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.
Wallets that had not traded through Bloom for more than a year were among those drained in a near-$1 million theft, according to Bitquery’s investigation.
Institutional clients at Australian crypto firm Zerocap sold USDT for US dollars and kept the cash during a risk-off week, barely touching Bitcoin or Ether in the process.



