The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is leaning into artificial intelligence and automation as it faces massive new oversight responsibilities, according to congressional testimony from Chairman Mike Selig, even as his agency’s workforce has declined significantly under the administration of President Donald Trump. About a quarter of the CFTC’s staff has left since 2025, under […]
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In today’s newsletter, Marcin Kazmierczak from Redstone takes us through the evolution of tokenization as it moves from “concept to allocation.” Then, in “Ask an Expert,” Kieran Mitha answers investor questions about tokenized investments. – Sarah Morton Where Tokenized Assets Are Today Tokenization is moving from concept to allocation. What matters now is how these […]
A conservative U.S. political action committee backed by the Solana Policy Institute — the Sentinel Action Fund — has committed to a massive advertising spend on the political opponent of former Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat and prominent crypto skeptic who is trying to return to Washington in this year’s Ohio Senate election. Sentinel and […]
Morgan Stanley is signaling a growing focus on tokenization and blockchain-based infrastructure, framing “onchain” finance as a potential next step in how it serves wealth clients. Speaking during the bank’s first-quarter earnings call, executives described a future where assets and liabilities move more freely across digital rails. “How do you think of a tokenized world? […]
Bitcoin BTC$74,224.79 started the day with a promising chance for a breakout, but the rally fizzled out at a familiar brick wall that has kept a lid on prices for more than two months. After briefly topping $76,000 — a key resistance level — the largest crypto reversed course, slipping below $74,000 later in the […]
High Roller Technologies Inc. (ROLR) stock more than doubled after the online casino operator said it planned to introduce an event-based prediction market in the U.S. in conjunction with Crypto.com. The Las Vegas-based company said Tuesday it will initially offer its customers Crypto.com Derivatives North America (CDNA) event contracts in the U.S. across finance, sports […]
Congressmen Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and Max Miller (R-Ohio) re-introduced their Digital Asset Protection, Accountability, Regulation, Innovation, Taxation and Yields (PARITY) Act late last month, seeking to update how the U.S. addresses crypto and taxes. Congress is going to address taxes (in general) in the coming months, and crypto may end up part of this. It’s […]
The slide that began Saturday night, after Vice President J.D. Vance left Pakistan without securing a peace deal in Iran, has, for the moment, somewhat reversed. After falling to as low as $70,500 at one point Sunday, the price of bitcoin has bounced back to $72,100 during U.S. Monday morning trading hours. Helping were reports […]
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig told CoinDesk that the agency will continue to defend its “exclusive regulatory authority” to oversee prediction markets in court. “It doesn’t matter if it’s on sports, politics or anything else, if it’s a validly offered product within a CFTC-regulated exchange, then we regulate that,” Selig said. You’re reading […]
Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity Investments, characterizes the current market environment as “another wild ride,” where each week seems to deliver headlines stranger than the last. Yet despite the volatility, his overarching message is that conditions are not nearly as dire as they might appear, and he remains relatively constructive on the […]
Bitcoin BTC$71,736.44 and other major cryptocurrencies all fell around 2% late Saturday evening U.S. hours after Vice President J.D. Vance announced that U.S. and Iranian negotiators had failed to agree to an extended ceasefire. The parties met in Pakistan Saturday to negotiate an agreement after the U.S.’s nearly six-week long campaign against Iran. Vance said […]
Crypto exchanges are starting to take on a new role: pricing traditional assets while Wall Street is closed. The growing market for perpetual futures contracts tied to traditional financial instruments including commodities like gold and oil that runs around the clock on cryptocurrency exchanges is responsible. Data from Binance Research suggests these markets, which hit […]