Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $77,000, and the question hanging over it has shifted in the space of two weeks. The market has moved a September Federal Reserve rate hike from a tail risk to the base case, and two research desks have publicly placed this cycle’s low in the months just ahead. For anyone
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Kaiko have combined their crypto benchmarks into the S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices, a co-branded suite covering more than 4,000 rates and indices. Existing S&P crypto indices and Kaiko reference rates will be renamed, with Kaiko supplying data and calculation technology and S&P DJI handling benchmark administration, licensing and distribution,
Granite River Trading has formally launched as a principal digital-asset trading firm, naming co-founder Josh Gibson as chief executive and disclosing connections to more than 25 centralized, decentralized and onchain venues. The company announcement says the firm trades its own capital through systematic and discretionary strategies. That principal designation is important. GRT is not announcing
What Are Payward and the LSE Bringing Onchain? Payward, the owner of crypto exchange Kraken, is partnering with the London Stock Exchange to tokenize the 100 largest LSE-listed companies, bringing some of the UK market’s biggest stocks onto blockchain rails through the xStocks framework. The first London-listed xStocks are expected to become available in the
How Do Binance’s New Stock Options Work? Binance is expanding deeper into traditional markets with physically settled options on more than 1,000 U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, adding another brokerage-style product to a platform historically built around cryptocurrency trading. The options will be offered through Nest Trading Limited, Binance’s broker-dealer regulated by the Abu Dhabi
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) fell more than 3% on Tuesday to trade below $144, dropping out of the $149-$151 range it had held for days, on the morning its reported payroll-cut deadline was due to arrive. The stock changed hands around $143.77, down about 3.6% on the day, and is now off roughly 27% for the
The US Treasury is about to buy back a lot more long-dated debt, and the precious-metals market has been front-running the move for two weeks. On August 19, Treasury said it would at least double the maximum size of its liquidity-support buyback operations in the long end of the curve, and the bigger operations begin
Why Are Crypto Token Buybacks Surging? Cryptocurrency projects have spent a record $638 million buying back their own tokens so far in 2026, according to Allium Labs data, with decentralized exchange Hyperliquid and memecoin launchpad Pump.fun accounting for nearly 90% of the total. Hyperliquid was responsible for roughly $370 million of token repurchases so far
What Did Polygon Fix in the Austin and Kyoto Hard Forks? Polygon has disclosed a series of previously private security vulnerabilities affecting its proof-of-stake network after fixes were deployed through two coordinated hard forks. The vulnerabilities affected Polygon’s Bor and Heimdall clients and included denial-of-service risks, validator resource exhaustion and weaknesses involving checkpoint and milestone
How Did The Rain Solana Card Exploit Affect Tria Users? Crypto finance platform Tria has reimbursed 636 users who lost a combined $431,945 from card balances after a vulnerability in card issuer Rain’s Solana infrastructure allowed unauthorized withdrawals. Tria said every affected customer received a full refund plus an additional 10%. If applied directly to