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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission issued a joint request for public comment on Thursday on updating and clarifying how they define key derivatives products, landing on the same legal question now being litigated in CME‘s lawsuit against the CFTC.
The re

Morgan Stanley filed amended registration statements for spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded funds on Thursday, signaling progress on both applications and setting fees that would be the lowest in either market.
The bank submitted second-amended S-1 statements to the SEC for the two funds,

Hsiao-Wei Wang has stepped down as co-executive director and board member of the Ethereum Foundation, effective Thursday, adding to a string of high-profile exits that have unsettled the organization over the past several months.
Her departure follows the earlier resignations, including fellow co-e

Strategy has paused the at-the-market program through which it issues STRC preferred shares, after the security sank well below the $100 level it was engineered to hold, switching off the capital-raising mechanism at the center of Michael Saylor‘s bitcoin strategy.
The pause is the consequential

ClawBank and Shodai said two incorporated AI agents negotiated, signed and executed a Ricardian contract, a single agreement meant to work as both legal prose and machine-executable code. The deal, announced Thursday, is an early test of whether autonomous agents can act as commercial

CME Group intends to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over its approval of perpetual futures earlier this month, CEO Terrence Duffy told CNBC on Wednesday, putting the largest US derivatives exchange in direct conflict with its own regulator.
Duffy argued the CFTC‘s approval of Kalshi‘s

Major cryptocurrencies edged lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady but released hawkish economic projections in Kevin Warsh‘s first meeting as chair.
Bitcoin traded around $64,150, down roughly 2.2% over the past 24 hours, while ether fell 3.6% and XRP and Solana e

Moody’s Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana, allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm’s assessments directly into blockchain-based assets.
The move, announced Wednesday in partnership with Solana-focused tokenization specialist

Strategy‘s perpetual preferred stock, STRC, has fallen to around $89, roughly 11% below its $100 par value and among the lowest levels since the security began trading in July 2025.
STRC is engineered to trade near par. Strategy adjusts the instrument’s dividend rate each month to steer the share p

Ethereum developers have entered the final stretch of work on Glamsterdam, the network’s next major upgrade, as teams begin testing a version of the fork that bundles all of its planned protocol changes.
Developers are currently running developer networks, or “devnets,” early environments used to t

BlackRock began offering a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund that limits gains in exchange for double-digit payouts on Tuesday, bringing a yield-focused product to the largest corner of the crypto ETF market.
The iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, trading on Nasdaq under the ticker BITA, is designed to

Bitcoin climbed to its highest level in nearly two weeks after the US and Iran reached a deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, removing the energy-supply fear that had weighed on markets for months.
The token traded around $65,844 on Monday, up 2.1% over 24 hours, after

Citigroup unveiled a new way for wealthy and institutional investors to buy stakes in private companies using blockchain technology on Thursday, the latest move in a broad push by major banks to bring traditional financial assets onto digital asset networks.
The product, which Citi calls Digital

Digital Asset, the developer of the Canton Network, raised $355 million in a funding round led by a16z crypto, the company announced Thursday. The financing will support the next phase of growth as more institutions bring assets, applications, and regulated workflows onto Canton.
The round drew a r

The debasement trade that fueled demand for bitcoin and gold through much of this year is unwinding, and the retreat has accelerated for bitcoin in recent weeks, JPMorgan analysts led by managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou said in a report.
The debasement trade refers to investor demand for b

BlackRock filed what Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas described as a likely-final amendment for its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, the asset manager disclosed in an amended Form S-1 submitted to the SEC on Wednesday. The fund is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker BITA.
The ETF is