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Activation is manual through Kraken Pro’s account settings, with eligible balances pooled immediately afterward. Futures trading must also be enabled. Kraken’s EEA derivatives requirements include account verification and, for new futures clients, a knowledge-and-experience questionnaire and a tax identification number. Kraken says more than 40 cryptocurrencies, alongside USD, EUR and gold (XAU), can serve as collateral. In cross-margin mode, margin is calculated across the eligible pool. A loss can therefore reach spot holdings that would remain separate from futures losses under the separate-wallet arrangement, according to Kraken’s Unified Wallet documentation. Collateral is credited at asset-specific ratios. For cross margin, the…

The company’s figures include more than 27,700 completed withdrawals totaling over $10 million. Swiss-based quantitative trading and investment firm StakerX Strategies AG is responsible for building and running the platform. How StakerGPT trades—and publishes its record StakerGPT is an AI agent built on Claude Mythos that evaluates crypto markets and routes approved perpetual futures trades for execution without a person placing each order. StakerX says the agent monitors markets around the clock, assesses potential setups and applies risk filters before routing trades. StakerX’s AI trading platform publishes its trade record daily. Each entry identifies the market, trade direction, entry and…

The decline gave bearish traders opportunities to take profits, while repeated price reversals increased the risk of holding leveraged positions. CFTC figures showed that outright short positions declined by 6,437 $BTC to 59,458 $BTC, compared with a smaller reduction of 1,145 $BTC in outright longs to 28,847 $BTC. The faster decline in shorts narrowed the bearish imbalance, although leveraged funds maintained more than twice as much outright short exposure as long exposure. Bitcoin’s decline exposes traders to mounting market pressure Bitcoin’s weakness accelerated on Oct. 7 as Treasury yields approached 5.3% and expectations of additional Federal Reserve tightening weighed on…

At the same time, a Substack going by Fugazi Research released an article questioning the foundations of Stablecoin Development Corp — including upcoming warrants that would dilute retail shareholders and flood the market with new, unpurchased shares. SDEV has seen its stock price rocket nearly 1,000% and plummet 92% in a matter of weeks. Just over a week later on October 14, the stock was trading for under a dollar. So, it’s likely that the short-seller report published by Fugazi contributed to the downfall of SDEV’s stock price — especially considering that other shortsellers were complaining about an inability to…

$USDG adoption is showing significant growth on the Arbitrum platform, thanks to support from Symbiosis. This development highlights the increasing relevance of $USDG as a stablecoin in the evolving crypto landscape. As detailed in a recent tweet from @arbitrum, this trend could lead to more robust market engagement for $USDG. The Latest The broader crypto market is currently displaying mixed signals, with various assets experiencing fluctuating momentum. Amid this environment, $USDG is carving out a niche on Arbitrum, a platform that has been gaining traction in the DeFi space. The backing from Symbiosis, a notable entity in the sector, adds…

Notably, both Wahab and Hernandez were ranked as “strongly supports crypto” after they went on the record with the digital asset organization Stand With Crypto to complete questionnaires ahead of the August special election. That election was used to determine who would replace Democrat Eric Swalwell for the remainder of his term, ending January 2027. Swalwell resigned in April amid sexual assault allegations. Fairshake launched in 2023, backed largely by contributions from Coinbase, Ripple Labs and Andreessen Horowitz. Since the 2024 US elections, the Super PAC has spent tens of millions of dollars on candidates the group considers “pro-crypto” in…

Early activity was small. Shortly after the announcement, a pair of active $BTC and $ETH contracts showed lifetime quote-token volumes of about 161 $USDC and 225 $USDC, respectively, with reported open interest of about 56 and 233 shares. Those figures describe two individual contracts, not cumulative activity across the rolling series. For scale, Lighter’s $BTC perpetual market alone reported roughly $1 billion in 24-hour volume. That is a longer window and a different exposure measure than the new binaries’ quote-token turnover, not a like-for-like market-share comparison. Fully Funded Trades, Operator-Led Settlement The binaries are available through Lighter’s existing API transaction…

According to a16z crypto, relying solely on hash-based cryptography may appear safer, but in such designs, it can result in more brittle systems. Expanding the conversation further, Delphi Labs GC Gabriel Shapiro shared his take on X: “I think the Ethereum approach remains the best option here for Ethereum,” disagreeing with a16z crypto’s take. Ethereum’s Lean consensus roadmap includes fully replacing BLS signatures with hash-based signatures (some variant of Winternitz) and using STARKs to do aggregation. Shapiro suggested utilizing lattice cryptography for accounts and wallets through a precompile if it is proved to be AI-secure, adding that hash-based cryptography allows…

Bitcoin HistóricoBitcoin Histórico runs November 11 and 12 across the Centro Histórico of San Salvador, with keynotes at the National Palace live-streamed to giant LED screens on Plaza Gerardo Barrios. Organized by the National Bitcoin Office, the conference focuses on Bitcoin, financial freedom, and El Salvador’s transformation. Tickets are sold exclusively in Bitcoin at bitcoinhistorico.com. The $350 Trailblazer Seat includes guaranteed seating, access to public sessions, tech demos, community meetups, and an invitation to the afterparty, while locals with Salvadorian ID can buy entry with the $21 Satoshi Chero ticket. The $2,100 Genesis Crown Pass adds VIP seating inside the…

The firm’s discretionary USD Cash holdings declined about 72% to $447.3 million as of Oct. 18, down from $1.61 billion on Aug. 30. The latest weekly decline of $193.2 million comprised $193.1 million in STRC repurchases and $100,000 in Bitcoin purchases. Chart Showing How Strategy’s Flexible USD Cash Shrank in the Past Weeks Strategy financed $22 million of its latest Bitcoin acquisitions through the sale of 140,872 common shares, using just $100,000 of USD Cash for the remainder. Meanwhile, its separate USD Reserve, designated primarily for dividend and debt-interest payments, stood at $4.83 billion after the company withdrew $45.5 million…