BitMEX Shuts September 23. Its Futures Were Due to Settle the 25th.
BitMEX settles four September futures 46 days early on August 10. Three adjustment rates came back at 1.00, one at 1.03, and 18 contracts go Tuesday.
BitMEX settles four September futures 46 days early on August 10. Three adjustment rates came back at 1.00, one at 1.03, and 18 contracts go Tuesday.
Treasury sanctioned two more Iranian crypto venues on August 7. The June round covered 72% of inflows; the new case names flows of $2 million.
Kraken is force-selling seven delisted tokens this week. Its own notices show 56 more assets queued for automatic liquidation by November.
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.
Vietnam fines unlicensed crypto trading from September 1, 2026. Not one local exchange holds a license yet, and the retail figure is disputed.
One pre-market trade at a 29.96% discount dragged Hyperliquid's SK Hynix perp to $927, an hour before Seoul opened and crashed harder.
ICE, owner of the NYSE, and crypto exchange OKX launched a 50-50 venture, led by Andrew Cuomo, to give 120 million users access to ICE futures and tokenized NYSE stocks. Wall Street is now building the rails itself.
Payward just paid $600 million for a Hong Kong payments company that makes money moving stablecoins across borders. The firm was already profitable on $60 million in total funding.
South Korea now requires homebuyers to disclose crypto sales in their financing plans. The first batch of data is in, and it tells a generational story.
Hana Bank acquired 6.55% of Dunamu from Kakao for 1 trillion won. The deal includes a won-stablecoin partnership and closes three weeks before Dunamu's merger vote with Naver.
The FSC's emergency inspection found three of South Korea's five major platforms reconciling balances only once every 24 hours. The trigger: Bithumb crediting 620,000 BTC — roughly $56 billion — to 249 users instead of 620,000 Korean won. Regulators have now mandated five-minute reconciliation cycles, automatic kill switches, monthly external audits, and daily public disclosure of results. The deadline is May 2026.
Operating without Bank of Russia registration could bring up to seven years in prison. The Supreme Court says the bill is premature until a broader digital currency law takes effect in July.
The same investigator who crashed RAVE is now offering $10,000 bounties for LAB market-making contracts. The founders ran a token that dropped 93% before this one.
Payward grew revenue 3% year-over-year while Bitcoin fell 22% and industry spot volume dropped 38%. Futures DARTs jumped 51%. But adjusted EBITDA collapsed from $168 million to $18 million because the company spent the quarter buying everything it could find.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan called Hyperliquid one of the most mispriced assets in crypto. The firm launched a HYPE ETF on the NYSE, pledged to buy and hold HYPE with 10% of its management fees, and published a memo arguing investors are making two fundamental errors in how they value the token.
A criminal group is threatening to release videos of internal systems unless Kraken pays up. The exchange says no breach occurred and funds were never at risk. Kraken has identified and removed the insiders involved in both incidents, notified affected users and is cooperating with law enforcement.
Crypto exchanges act as the primary gateway to digital asset markets, enabling users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies in real time. These platforms provide access to liquidity, price discovery, and market execution, forming the backbone of the broader crypto ecosystem. As of 2026, they continue to evolve with improved infrastructure, risk controls, and integration with on-chain finance, shaping how capital flows across digital markets.