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Kraken Launches Crypto Options, Bets Simpler Products Can Expand Market

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Derivatives account for the vast majority of crypto trading volumes, but options remain a relatively small part of the market, dominated by a handful of established sites, including Deribit, CME Group and Binance. New entrants are increasingly betting that broader adoption of options will follow the institutionalization of digital assets. The move is the latest […]

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Inside Zcash’s New Node That Targets Visa-Scale Privacy at 50,000 Transactions Per Second

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Throughput goals and role of Tachyon The reason for all this is arithmetic. Mastercard and Visa process more than 50,000 transactions per second, and the team calls that number “its floor, not its target.” Zcash’s current cryptography would require a node to retrieve and verify over 500 megabytes of data every second to keep up,

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France orders country’s internet providers to block Polymarket

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On July 16, the National Gaming Authority (ANJ), France’s gambling regulator, ordered Internet service providers to block Polymarket, treating the predictions market as an illegal gambling site rather than a financial trading platform. The ANJ said previous restrictions had failed to keep French users away from the platform. Polymarket attracted 578,751 visits from 205,057 unique

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The traditional bank account faces an existential threat from digital wallets

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Jan said that many Binance employees, including himself, already keep most of their assets on the exchange. “I could make payments, I could use my debit card to spend whatever I need wherever I want,” he said. The lines are blurring Eneko Knorr, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based Stabolut, said the line between banks and

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DOG Mode Explains Bitcoin’s Next Governance Fight

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BIP-110 proponents view Bitcoin as a utility whose scarce block space should be reserved primarily for monetary settlement. Registrations and other data-intensive applications represent the consumption of a limited resource that should be protected for financial transactions, even if this requires the introduction of new consensus rules. DOG mode is based on the opposite principle.

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Trump targets Brazil’s payments system as dollar stablecoins quietly overtake country’s payments

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Dollar-pegged stablecoins already account for around 90% of crypto transaction volume in Brazil, with most used for payments and settlement, according to tax authority data. Brazil processes between $6 billion and $8 billion in crypto each month, most of it using dollar-denominated stablecoins instead of the country’s own currency. However, even as dollar stablecoins have

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$2.5 billion BTC call spreads target $72,000 by the end of the month when the Fed meets.

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“This week we saw significant blocks in topside BTC buy spreads,” Jean-David Péquignot, chief commercial officer of Deribit, told CoinDesk. An options flow of this magnitude and repetition often reflects institutional positioning rather than retail activity, given the capital required and the precision of strike price selection. The moment is remarkable for two reasons. First,

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Tokenization has become a strategic priority for 84% of financial companies

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On Wednesday, DTCC completed its first live production transactions involving tokenized securities, marking a major step toward introducing blockchain technology to traditional financial markets. Broadridge’s findings suggest that these efforts are influencing the entire industry. Sixty-eight percent of respondents said tokenization will at least partially reshape financial markets over the next three to five years,

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