Author: Kryptonews

CBOE Global Markets announced plans to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum continuous futures contracts on Nov. 10, pending regulatory review.According to a Sept. 9 announcement, the new product suite debuts on CBOE Futures Exchange with contracts structured as single, long-dated instruments featuring 10-year expirations.This design eliminates periodic rolling requirements that characterize traditional futures contracts, simplifying position management for traders seeking long-term digital asset exposure.The continuous futures will be cash-settled and aligned to real-time spot market prices through daily cash adjustments using a transparent funding rate methodology.CBOE Clear US, a derivatives clearing organization regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will…

Prediction market PredictIt, which started out as an academic platform focused on political forecasts, is preparing to launch a new exchange after getting the nod from the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.PredictIt, operated by the D.C.-based Aristole, said last week that the CFTC approved its applications to operate as both a designated contract market, or DCM, and derivatives clearing organization, or DCO.“With these approvals, Aristotle will launch a new exchange designed to provide U.S. traders with more diverse markets, deeper liquidity, and broader participation,” the company said last week in a press release.The company plans to expand beyond just political markets,…

The United States’ first memecoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) is set to debut on Thursday, marking the latest step in the expansion of regulated crypto products after the successful rollout of Bitcoin and Ether funds last year.In a social media post on Tuesday, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said the Rex-Osprey Doge ETF (DOJE) is set to debut Thursday. “Pretty sure this is the first-ever US ETF to hold something that has no utility or purpose,” Balchunas said.Source: Eric BalchunasBalchunas hinted at the potential launch last week under the Investment Company Act of 1940 — a different framework from the Securities…

Metaplanet, the Japanese hospitality and real estate group turned Bitcoin treasury company, said Tuesday it will issue 385 million new shares to expand its Bitcoin holdings and related businesses.The shares will be sold through an international offering outside Japan at 553 yen ($3.75) each, raising an estimated 212.9 billion yen ($1.44 billion), the company said. The issue price represents a 9.9% discount to Metaplanet’s Tuesday closing price of 614 yen.Source: MetaplanetThe payment date is set for Sept. 16, when underwriters and investors will transfer funds to the company. The delivery date follows on Sept. 17, when the new shares will…

Documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein that were submitted to the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee—including pages from a birthday book which included contributions from collectors Leon Black and Leslie Wexner—were recently released in full by the panel. A partially redacted version of the leather-bound book compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday was released on September 8, including the lewd drawing from President Donald Trump in the shape of a naked woman, and uploaded online by Axios. The book includes poems, photos, and messages from friends and business associates. It was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell, his former associate who…

Solana (SOL) registered a new all-time high of $12.11 billion in total value locked (TVL) on Sept. 9, surpassing its previous record of nearly $12 billion set on Jan. 23.According to DefiLlama data, the milestone represents a 15% increase over the past 30 days, driven by broad-based growth across the ecosystem’s largest DeFi protocols.Seven of the eight protocols with over $1 billion in TVL posted double-digit monthly gains, with only Kamino recording modest growth of 3%.Jupiter leads Solana’s DeFi landscape with $3.3 billion in TVL, followed by Jito at $3.2 billion and Kamino at $3.1 billion. Sanctum holds $2.894 billion,…

Ethena Labs became the sixth bidder for Hyperliquid’s USDH stablecoin, announcing its proposal in a Tuesday blog post. The competition will decide who controls billions in liquidity and revenue on one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) fastest-growing derivatives exchanges.The team behind USDe and USDtb is proposing a version of USDH backed entirely by USDtb, a stablecoin tied to BlackRock’s BUIDL fund and soon to be issued through Anchorage Digital Bank. If selected, Ethena has pledged to return 95% of reserve revenue to the Hyperliquid community and implement safeguards through an elected validator “guardian network.”The protocol has also promised to cover the…

Filecoin FIL$2.4451 traded little changed over the last 24 hours, with the shares trading in a $0.08 range representing 3.3% volatility between $2.41 and $2.50, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model.The model showed a pronounced V-shaped recovery trajectory, as the digital asset initially retreated from $2.44 to test institutional support levels near $2.41-$2.42 during overnight trading, before mounting a sustained rally that reached $2.50 during the morning hours. Selling pressure emerged at the $2.50 resistance level with institutional volume reaching 4.7 million tokens, while the $2.41-$2.42 price zone demonstrated robust institutional backing through multiple successful support tests, with trading…

Crypto mining stocks jumped on Tuesday after Nebius Group announced a five-year agreement to supply Microsoft (MSFT) with graphic processing units valued at $17.4 billion.The deal, aimed at bolstering Microsoft’s artificial intelligence infrastructure, sparked investor enthusiasm for companies with large-scale computing power, bitcoin miners among them.Read more: CoreWeave Shares Gain 4.5% After Launch of VC Arm Targeting AI StartupsThe rally in mining shares came even as bitcoin BTC$111,290.84 itself gave up an early advance and declined by about 1% to $111,100 over the past 24 hours. The contrast underscored how investor attention is increasingly tied to the role mining infrastructure…

“Ethereum is winning the war for real-world assets, and nothing is close,” said Ryan Sean Adams from Bankless on Monday. The network currently has a 57% market share of RWA on-chain value, including stablecoins, and that number is even higher when Ethereum layer-2 networks are included. Adams said that RWAs are a network effect game, liquidity begets liquidity, and institutions go where there is liquidity. Impressive Statistics The numbers speak for themselves, with Ethereum taking a commanding market lead over rival chains for on-chain RWA value, which is currently at an all-time high of $28.5 billion (excluding stablecoins). The stablecoin…