Blockchain.com Files for US Prediction Markets, Derivatives Licenses
Blockchain.com applies for two CFTC licenses to offer prediction markets and crypto derivatives to U.S. customers, accelerating its $500 million IPO push.
Blockchain.com applies for two CFTC licenses to offer prediction markets and crypto derivatives to U.S. customers, accelerating its $500 million IPO push.
Visa and Mastercard's $1 billion Open USD commitment translated to $468 million in actual reserves at launch, with the gap in how liquidity backing works.
Bitcoin open interest rose 4% in seven days, matching pre-crash pace, but the debt ratio sits 14% below last year's $19 billion liquidation event.
Crypto firms spent $8 million lobbying for the Clarity Act. It failed 49-50 on September 15. Ethics provisions and banking rules killed it, not crypto law.
Robinhood CEO claims America's first perpetual futures despite Coinbase launching in July 2025. CFTC's May 2026 approval enabled both platforms.
Coinbase Clearing received CFTC approval on September 28 for USDC-native derivatives settlement, completing the firm's vertically integrated stack.
Perpetual futures never expire, so an eight-hour funding fee and a mark price keep the contract near spot. Here is how the market's biggest bet works.
Coinbase filed to bring single-stock perps to US traders and shares rose 10 percent, but the filing names no date, no stocks, and faces a CME lawsuit.
Tokenized stock transfers hit $29.5B, up 415% in a month. The value actually held on chain rose just 1.45%, and three venues hold 81% of the total.
Payward, Kraken's parent, grew Q2 revenue 17% to $508M while adjusted EBITDA fell 71% and trading volume dropped 18%. The lift came from client balances.
DefiLlama lists 99% of Hyperliquid fees going to the HYPE buyback. Over 30 days only 69% arrived, and 61% in the last day.
Trackers say Cardano ETF eligibility starts August 9, six months after CME listed ADA futures. The SEC rule and Chainlink's own fund say otherwise.
Pump.fun cut over 40 staff before their June token cliff. Three weeks later insiders unlocked 86.49 million dollars of PUMP.
Coinbase booked about $130 million of trading revenue in July's first 26 days. Its guided subscription line is set to pass it in Q3.
Over 34% of bitcoin has revealed its public key on chain. What quantum computers could reach, and the two BIPs written to close the gap.
BitMart says withdrawals stay open as it winds down. On-chain data shows only 58 wallets and $805K left in 24 hours, with funds moving to rival exchanges.
Coinbase is the largest publicly traded crypto exchange in the US and the company most exposed to whatever the SEC, Treasury, and Congress decide next. The coverage here tracks the full operating picture: quarterly earnings and the trading volume swings that drive them, regulatory battles with the SEC and the lawsuits that set precedent for the entire industry, product launches from Base to the AI agent app store to staking services, Brian Armstrong’s public positions on regulation, custody, and policy issues that move the political debate, institutional client wins as traditional finance increasingly routes through Coinbase Prime, and the compliance and listing decisions that determine which tokens reach US retail. The company sits at an unusual intersection. It lobbies hard for clearer rules while fighting cases that could redefine what counts as a security. It builds new products like prediction markets while regulators decide whether those products are even legal. Coinliva covers the earnings, the lawsuits, the listings, the policy moves, and the broader strategic question of whether Coinbase becomes the regulated US gateway for crypto or gets squeezed by competitors operating with less compliance overhead.