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Africa spent a decade banning crypto. Now Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya are licensing it, building the world's first regulated stablecoin economy.
Andjela Radmilac 7 min read 
A $10 billion Bitcoin options expiry is turning a broad market shift into an immediate test for price discovery.
CME’s lawsuit against the CFTC over Kalshi’s Bitcoin perps shows how the fight over crypto derivatives is turning into a broader battle over who gets to build the next everything-exchange.
Options on Bitwise’s HYPE ETF give traders a new way to bet on Hyperliquid volatility, linking Wall Street ETF desks with crypto-native spot and perp markets.
HYPE ETFs have pulled in $161 million as investors bet on Hyperliquid’s onchain exchange model, not just another altcoin.
Wall Street wanted a regulated way to trade Bitcoin around the clock. What it got instead was a front-row seat to one of the ugliest deleveraging weeks of the year.
Hyperliquid’s growing derivatives market has pulled in traders and drawn a UK warning.
The Ethereum co-founder’s options-based synthetic asset proposal attacks a core DeFi failure mode: forced liquidation during crashes. The tradeoff is less sudden damage and a hedge that can drift.
CME’s around-the-clock crypto futures are now live, removing Bitcoin’s classic weekend gap just as BTC falls, oil spikes on Iran tensions, and the S&P 500 closes at a fresh record.
