Nasdaq is working with Kraken parent company Payward to build infrastructure for issuing and trading tokenized versions of stocks and exchange-traded products, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Coinbase has rolled out crypto futures trading for users across 26 European countries, expanding its derivatives offering as the exchange pushes to build a broader multi-asset trading platform.
Crypto custody firm BitGo said its European entity has obtained dual regulatory approval in Germany, marking a significant milestone as the European Union rolls out its comprehensive digital asset regulatory framework.
G7 finance ministers convened an emergency session Monday alongside the International Energy Agency to hammer out a coordinated release of between 300 million and 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves - the most aggressive market intervention of its kind in modern history.
Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair J. Christopher Giancarlo - widely known in crypto circles as "Crypto Dad" - made clear this week that American banks have more to lose from legislative inaction than the crypto industry does.
Shayne Coplan, CEO of prediction market platform Polymarket, didn't mince words at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last week.
For years, Bitcoin ran on a predictable clock. Every four years, a halving event slashed new supply, retail investors piled in, prices exploded, and the whole thing collapsed 80% before starting again. Analysts could map it. Traders could position for it. It was practically a given.
World Liberty Financial, the crypto project backed by Donald Trump and his family, is in the middle of a governance vote that critics say is engineered to consolidate power among large holders while sidelining the retail investors who funded the project in the first place.
Two of fintech's heaviest hitters are making a coordinated bet that the next wave of commerce won't be driven by consumers clicking "buy" - it'll be driven by AI agents doing it for them.
The world isn't running out of oil. It's running out of room for it. That's the paradox sitting at the center of the worst energy disruption in recent memory - and it's one that price charts and headlines have largely failed to capture.
Michael Saylor has once again hinted that Strategy may be preparing to buy more Bitcoin, continuing the company’s multi-year strategy of aggressively accumulating the digital asset.
American investors have been quietly staging one of the largest cash migrations in financial history. U.S. money market fund assets crossed $8.27 trillion in early 2026 - a record, and a 58% jump from the $5.2 trillion sitting in these funds at the close of 2022.



