Perps allow traders to speculate on the future price of an asset with a typically leveraged position, and the contracts don’t come with a built-in expiration. But CME, which operates the leading global venues for derivatives trading, has insisted the contracts are not futures, because… Read More
Weeks after bitcoin’s (BTC) price chart flashed a major bullish signal, Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly listed accumulator of the cryptocurrency, is about to do the same. The signal, a golden cross, occurs when a security’s 50-day average price rises above its 200-day average. Some… Read More
Financial markets are a sea of green on Monday as upbeat China data and lower oil prices revive investor risk appetite. Starting with bitcoin. The leading cryptocurrency by market value was trading around $82,500 at the time of writing, up 0.7% since midnight UTC and… Read More
Mastercard (MA) introduced Thursday its Global Money Platform with BVNK, the stablecoin infrastructure firm it acquired in August. The service combines traditional currency accounts, stablecoin balances, conversions, card spending and bank payouts through one connection. Banks and fintechs can use the platform to offer accounts… Read More
The selling started on Binance, according to a review of the trades by David Jeong, chief executive of trading firm Tread.fi, who placed the first large SanDisk and Micron sell orders on Binance at 21:21:59 UTC. Less than a second later, orders hit Hyperliquid, a… Read More
That isn’t as obvious as it sounds. Citrini argued that tokenization could lift the broader crypto ecosystem, but more assets moving onchain doesn’t automatically make bitcoin BTC$81,387.08, ether ETH$2,399.97 or whichever blockchain hosts them the best trade. Arthur Hayes, BitMEX’s co-founder and the chief investment… Read More
