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Chicago-based derivatives exchange and clearinghouse Bitnomial has announced plans to offer Tron ($TRX) futures trading to eligible individual and institutional investors in the United States. The move follows Bitnomial’s acquisition by Payward, the parent company of Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges globally. Expanding Regulated Crypto Derivatives Bitnomial’s decision to list $TRX futures marks a notable expansion of regulated crypto derivatives in the U.S. market. The exchange, which is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization, provides a federally regulated venue for digital asset derivatives trading. This regulatory framework…

What’s Being Sold According to the Stack’s Bowers Galleries announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News, the token is graded MS-66 by the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS). Only 15 examples exist at that grade. Just 11 coins have been graded finer, all at MS-67. The token remains funded, meaning the 0.5 $BTC loaded onto the blockchain at creation is still intact and redeemable. The coin was produced by Mike Caldwell, a Utah-based software engineer who began minting the Casascius series in 2011. Each physical coin holds a private key beneath a tamper-evident hologram, with real bitcoin loaded onchain at the time…

The Sui Foundation has announced that it is repurchasing $SUI tokens using returns generated from funds that manage stablecoins. The move, disclosed in a recent update, is part of a broader strategy to support the ecosystem and create a self-sustaining economic loop. How the Buyback Works According to the foundation, the buyback program uses operating returns from its stablecoin management funds. These funds generate yield through various activities, and a portion of that yield is now being used to purchase $SUI from the open market. The acquired tokens are then reinvested into ecosystem initiatives, such as grants, developer programs, and…

As the U.S. Senate advances the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, the legislation is facing mounting criticism from ethics watchdogs, former regulators, banking analysts, and consumer advocates. Critics argue the bill contains regulatory loopholes, weak conflict of interest safeguards, and inadequate investor protections despite. Top 10 Criticisms of the CLARITY Act 1. Weak Conflict of Interest Safeguards Democracy Defenders Action and Transparency International U.S. criticize the CLARITY Act for protecting existing crypto holdings, allowing family loopholes, lacking divestment rules, limiting disclosures, and providing weak enforcement. 2. Stablecoin yield loopholes Analyst Kian Sarreshteh warns the CLARITY Act could leave a stablecoin…

Magic Labs, the company behind the embedded wallet infrastructure used by apps including Polymarket and WalletConnect, sold its wallet business to Payward, the parent company of Kraken, and is rebranding itself as Newton Labs. Co-founder and CEO Sean Li announced the two decisions Monday in a post on X. “First, we’ve sold our wallet business to Payward, Inc., the parent company of Kraken. This is an asset sale,” Li wrote. The two companies remain separate and independent, and from August 1, 2026, wallet customers will be serviced by Payward. Li said customers need to take no action and that affected…

Real estate investor Grant Cardone is positioning his Cardone Capital to challenge the traditional real estate investment trust (REIT) sector by integrating Bitcoin directly into large-scale multifamily deals. With roughly $5 billion in real estate assets under management across about 15,000 units, Cardone claims the hybrid approach can deliver superior returns while onboarding new investors to Bitcoin. In a recent interview at Consensus 2026, Cardone laid out his strategy for disrupting the multi-trillion dollar Realestate Investment Trust sector, also known as REITs, companies that own, operate, or finance income-producing real estate. Established under U.S. law in 1960, they must distribute…

The figures contrast with BlackRock’s broader business, which posted record assets under management (AUM) of $15.3 trillion after attracting $192 billion in net inflows during the quarter. The company also beat Wall Street expectations with adjusted earnings per share of $13.91 on $7.08 billion in revenue. BLK shares traded 4.15% higher at £1,068 in pre-market trading Wednesday. BlackRock’s crypto target BlackRock is targeting $500 million in annual revenue from the business under its 2030 plan, the firm said in its earnings call. This would represent an increase of more than tenfold, compared to the $40 million BlackRock currently generates in…

Ripple is getting ready to unlock 1 billion $XRP from escrow tomorrow, August 1, worth about $1.08 billion based on the $XRP price of $1.08 at the time of writing. The upcoming unlock is part of Ripple’s long-standing escrow schedule, according to which the company typically unlocks 1 billion $XRP on the first day of each month. With the token’s circulating supply currently at about 62.52 billion $XRP, the new release will increase it by roughly 1.6%, although Ripple is likely to return a large portion of the unlocked tokens to escrow. How much $XRP will Ripple unlock tomorrow? Indeed,…

Perpetual swaps, also called perpetual futures or “perps” for short, are the dominant trading instrument in the crypto market, processing an estimated $40 to 50 trillion a year in volume. They dwarf spot trading, and they are the product that professional traders, hedge funds and retail speculators reach for when they want leveraged exposure to the price of bitcoin or tther without owning the underlying asset. Despite their ubiquity, the mechanics that make them work are not widely understood. To understand perps, it helps to understand what came before them. In traditional finance, leveraged exposure to an asset typically comes…

The supply of Bitcoin held on major cryptocurrency exchanges has fallen to its lowest level since 2020, according to data from crypto research firm AlphaFractal. As of June 15, the Bitcoin Exchange Flux Balance — an on-chain metric that tracks the cumulative change in total $BTC held across major trading platforms — stood at approximately 2.56 million $BTC. This marks the lowest figure recorded since the beginning of the current decade. What the Data Shows Over the past 12 months, the exchange balance has declined from roughly 3 million $BTC, indicating that about 440,000 Bitcoin has been withdrawn from exchange…