Derivatives
DeFi
XRP holders could earn new yield, but getting out may take up to 60 days
Firelight plans to pay XRP holders for backing DeFi coverage, but withdrawals could take up to 60 days once its coverage system launches.
DeFi
Why 90% of your DeFi trades are quietly being routed back to Wall Street market makers
The shadowy market makers DeFi tried to replace are taking over again.
Wallets
The biggest vulnerability in your Bitcoin wallet might be the shipping label
Hardware wallet scan keep a thief away from your Bitcoin while the forgotten paperwork from buying it helps them find you.
Stablecoins
Stablecoins make sending money easy until someone needs to spend it
Stablecoins compete with remittance companies at the grocery bill as much as on the blockchain.
AI
The challenge for AI agents is deciding who pays for automated errors
AI agents can buy services with crypto, but users still need control over budgets, mistakes, and repeated charges.
Digital Asset Treasuries
The dilution trap where Bitcoin holdings rise while shareholder value stalls
A Bitcoin treasury company can buy hundreds more Bitcoin without giving its existing shareholders much more Bitcoin at all.
Banking
Wall Street is building tokenized deposits to lock in customer balances
Banks are using tokenized deposits and stablecoins to make cross-border payments faster, reducing the time cash stays trapped for companies.
Analysis
CPI and PPI climb, crushing hopes for cheap money and leaving Bitcoin traders with an expensive dilemma
Inflation picked up just days before the Fed meets, making cheap money a little harder for Bitcoin investors to count on.
Regulation
SEC gives Bitcoin-heavy trusts a new 15% window to venture beyond existing listing rules
A new SEC-approved rule gives Bitcoin-heavy trusts more room to add other assets and derivatives without automatically losing access to a faster listing process.
Tokenization
It looks like a stock and trades like a stock, but it isn’t actually a stock – what is it?
Tokenized stocks can look remarkably like the shares investors already know, but beneath the familiar ticker can sit a very different deal over ownership, dividends and voting rights.
Lending
You can borrow against Bitcoin without selling it, but there’s a catch
Bitcoin can serve as collateral for a loan without being sold, but moving its value into blockchain lending markets introduces risks that owning BTC alone doesn't carry.
Market
Bitcoin just hit a decade-low S&P 500 correlation, but the daily data tells a different story
Bitcoin and the S&P 500 are showing their lowest correlation in a decade by one measure, even as their daily losses continue to overlap.
