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A quiet but significant shift is occurring in the cryptocurrency derivatives market. The cash-and-carry strategy, long considered a stable source of profit, is rapidly losing its appeal. This arbitrage model, where institutions buy spot Bitcoin and sell futures contracts to profit from the price difference, is showing signs of being phased out due to narrowing spreads and increasing market efficiency. One of the most concrete indicators of this change is that open positions in Bitcoin futures on the CME Group have fallen behind Binance for the first time since 2023. Following the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in early 2024,…

SEC Chair Paul Atkins said “the time is right” for retirement plans including 401(k)s to include cryptocurrency, while CFTC Chair Michael Selig predicted digital assets will “flourish” once Congress finalizes U.S. market structure rules. The comments in a CNBC interview were made as Senate Agriculture Committee lawmakers began marking up a draft crypto market structure bill, legislation that could expand the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s role and clarify oversight boundaries with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The committee took less than an hour to advance the legislation to the full Senate, though it still has a lengthy path before it…

Ethereum has surged back above the pivotal $3,000, with bulls retesting the threshold amid a broader cryptocurrency rally. This comes amid anticipation around the Federal Reserve’s upcoming policy decision. Notably, the top altcoin’s price climbed as Bitcoin powered to above $89,000, likely capitalizing on a weakening US dollar that bolstered risk assets across markets. Solana, BNB, and XRP, among other leading altcoins, also registered modest advances. $ETH retests $3,000 level Copy link to section Ethereum’s price surged by 4.1% in the last 24 hours to $3,020, at the time of writing. While the uptick is a boost to buyers, the…

One of Wall Street’s safest and most tightly regulated assets is inching onto the blockchain, as an ETF issuer seeks approval to tokenize part of the U.S. Treasury market without changing how investors trade or hold the fund. Summary This is not just a one-off experiment with TBIL. The push to bring traditional financial assets onto blockchains — often called tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) — has gained significant momentum in the past year. Major firms and banks are launching tokenized products. BlackRock’s digital liquidity fund has scaled quickly on Ethereum, and JPMorgan recently launched a tokenized money-market fund for…

The leaders of the two federal agencies that have U.S. crypto’s fate most in their hands hosted an event on Thursday meant to signal their commitment to coming up with crypto policies. Even as crypto legislation moves in fits and starts through Congress, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are trying to advance regulatory policy to give the industry some comfort in doing U.S. business. The CFTC has a new leader, Mike Selig, who was sworn in last month after his Senate confirmation and is already moving forward on crypto initiatives. “Chairman Selig brings…

Ethereum is forming a price structure against Bitcoin similar to what it saw eight years ago, and a full mirror could significantly impact its price. Notably, this pattern has four phases, of which the $ETH/$BTC pair is in the third phase. Historically, what comes after the current phase is a parabolic expansion to unprecedented prices. Key Points Ethereum is forming a price structure against Bitcoin similar to that seen eight years ago, and a full mirror could significantly impact its price. This pattern has four phases, of which the $ETH/$BTC pair is in the third phase. If history repeats, the…

Stablecoin issuer Circle has issued a grant to support the rollout of digital financial infrastructure across the United Nations, with the aim of making humanitarian aid payments more efficient. Announced at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, the Circle Foundation said its first international grant would support the UN’s Digital Hub of Treasury Solutions (DHoTS) “efforts to streamline monetary value transfers across the UN ecosystem.” The grant builds on Circle’s first collaboration with UNHCR and DHoTS in 2022, which facilitated $USDC ($USDC) stablecoin payments for displaced Ukrainians. UN Development Programme administrator Alexander De Croo said that…

The US Congress has moved one step closer to a potential government shutdown after a comprehensive budget package to fund the government was blocked in the Senate. Senate Democrats and some Republicans voting against moving the package forward today signals that the federal government could shut down if an agreement isn’t reached by 11:59 PM Friday. A procedural vote to move the budget package forward failed by a 45-55 vote. The forecasting market Polymarket is pricing in a 75% chance of a government shutdown on Saturday. Eight Republican senators, along with all the Democrats, voted against the package. Among those…

MegaETH, the much-watched high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network, announced that its public mainnet will go live Feb. 9, marking a major milestone for a project that has gained a lot of attention in the scaling landscape. MegaETH positions itself as a “real-time” blockchain for Ethereum, designed to deliver ultra-low latency and massive transaction throughput. The project has attracted significant attention and capital over the past year. MegaETH has been backed by prominent figures in the Ethereum ecosystem, like Ethereum co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin, and has raised millions of dollars to date. Most recently in October 2025, it completed a…

BitGo priced its initial public offering at $18 per share late Tuesday, setting up the first crypto-focused IPO of 2026 and giving public market investors their first pure play exposure to the digital asset custody business. The offering values the company at roughly $2 Billion on a fully diluted basis, a relatively modest entry point compared with other listed crypto-related firms whose valuations are often tied to volatile trading volumes. BitGo is scheduled to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday under the ticker BTGO. The pricing comes after a difficult stretch for publicly listed crypto companies…