Polymarket has filed for Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) registration with the National Futures Association (NFA) via an affiliate entity called Coming Home GBA, according to Bloomberg. The July 3, 2026 NFA filing signals the world’s largest prediction market’s intent to offer regulated margin trading to US users – allowing traders to take leveraged positions on
Strategy has more BTC holdings than Binance, so the firm has a significantly larger unrealized loss margin than the exchange. As the business intelligence and Bitcoin treasury company Strategy just carried out its largest BTC sale this week, analysts are comparing just how deeply the firm is underwater. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost reviewed Strategy’s Bitcoin
The x402 standard revives a dormant corner of the web’s original design, the 402 Payment Required status code, to let AI agents pay for services autonomously, per call, with no accounts and no cards. Ripple has moved to put the XRP Ledger and RLUSD inside that standard, betting that when machines become the economy’s newest
Growing crypto Regulation has been rumored to be behind the departures of top executives at Coinbase and Grayscale, two of crypto’s largest firms, with both seeing a top executive step down this week. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal and Grayscale Chief Financial Officer Edward McGee announced their exits hours apart. Both are leaving on
Metaplanet has started a joint study into Bitcoin-backed digital credit products with stablecoin issuer JPYC, tokenization company Progmat and its securities arm in Japan. Summary Metaplanet will study Bitcoin-backed credit using JPYC settlement and Progmat’s security token infrastructure in Japan. No product has launched, while issuance timing, yields, terms, and distribution methods remain undecided. Project
In Bitcoin ETF news today, nearly $5Bn exited US-listed spot Bitcoin ETF products in Q2 2026, a record quarterly bleed, while the $2 trillion private credit market absorbed $15.6Bn in redemption requests that overwhelmed standard quarterly caps. The numbers look different on the surface, but they are telling the same story: investors across structurally unrelated
Will there be more volatility today prompted by the expiry event? The end of another week has arrived, which brings another Bitcoin and Ethereum options expiry event as spot markets remain sideways. Around 23,400 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, July 10, with a notional value of roughly $1.4 billion. This one is
Goldman Sachs has prohibited employees from trading prediction market contracts tied to the bank, elections, financial markets, macroeconomic data, and geopolitics as companies respond to growing insider trading risks on event-based platforms. Summary Goldman Sachs has barred employees from trading prediction market contracts tied to the bank, elections, financial markets, and geopolitical events. The move
Zcash has scheduled its Ironwood network upgrade for July 28, setting the activation date for the protocol change designed to close the Orchard shielded pool and help verify whether the previously disclosed vulnerability was ever exploited. Summary Zcash has scheduled the Ironwood network upgrade for July 28 to replace the Orchard shielded pool after the
Bitdeer Technologies has unveiled a $36 million manufacturing facility in Nevada, bringing production of its SEALMINER Bitcoin mining machines to the United States. Summary Bitdeer will invest $36 million in a Nevada factory to produce SEALMINER Bitcoin mining machines. The new Sparks facility is expected to begin commercial production by the end of 2026. Bitdeer