For over a year, trading Hashdex’s diversified crypto ETF was like riding an amusement park without seatbelts. Investors could speculate, but if the market fell, there was little protection. That’s now changed. Options on the Hashdex Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF (NCIQ) went live on Nasdaq on Monday, providing investors a way to hedge, generate…
A Maryland man has been charged with carrying out the 2021 hacks that drained more than $50 million from decentralized exchange Uranium Finance and forced the platform to shut down, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. Jonathan Spalletta, 36, of Rockville, Maryland, faces one count of computer fraud and one count of money laundering,…
Bitcoin BTC$67,454.94 has jumped 2% this week, but shaky demand-supply dynamics and rising “real” interest rates could limit the rally. Last week, CoinDesk noted that inflows into spot ETFs have cooled, pointing to renewed institutional apathy. Further, stablecoin growth has stalled, signaling a lack of fresh fiat inflows. The figures look alarming compared to the…
Trump may be ready to walk away from the Iran war. Markets aren’t sure what that means yet. Bitcoin traded at $67,545 on Tuesday morning, roughly flat over 24 hours after recovering from a dip below $65,200 that briefly marked its lowest level since the war began in late February. Ether held above $2,000 at…
Breaking Bitcoin’s blockchain with quantum computers may not be as difficult as once thought, and Bitcoin’s Taproot technology, which enables more efficient, private transactions, may be partly to blame, Google’s Quantum AI team said Monday in a blog post and newly published whitepaper. The team said the computing power required to break Bitcoin’s security may…
The teetering bond market received some good news on Monday, but it wasn’t enough to offset a continued surge in oil prices, which sent U.S. stocks lower and crypto giving up most of its gains. Speaking at Harvard University, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank — for the moment — is looking…
I did not expect to feel this way. By most measures, we are in the middle of a historic crypto winter. Prices have been low. Sentiment has been even lower. If you’re looking for the kind of market euphoria that typically makes conference season feel electric, you won’t find it in the charts right now….
More than 40 Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives sent a letter to a federal regulator and to ethics officials to ask them to warn government officials that insider trading in derivatives is illegal and that bets they make on prediction markets firms like Polymarket and Kalshi qualify under that category. The…
The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule that would make it easier for 401(k) plans to include alternative assets such as cryptocurrencies, private equity and real estate. The proposal is in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order, released in August, which directed the Labor Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to…
The World Foundation sold $65 million in WLD tokens through over-the-counter block trades with four private counterparties at an average price of $0.2719 per token. Source link