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CME has added SOL and XRP to its cryptocurrency derivative products. Regulated products allow traders to choose between micro-contracts and standard contracts. Contracts are “physically settled” into corresponding futures. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group expanded its derivatives trading with Solana and XRP options. The new product has been approved and monitored by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and begins trading today. The team confirmed: Solana and XRP CFT regulated options are currently live and currently trading. CFTC-regulated options for Solana and XRP are now live and trading today 🚀 ✅ Seamless integration: Physically integrated into the underlying futures contract.✅ Flexible…

Financial innovation in digital assets is rapidly transforming the American economy, promising a new era of financial opportunity and global competitiveness. To seize this moment, Washington must pursue smart, informed reforms that protect investors without stifling innovation. When the federal government reopens, Congress should prioritize developing a clear, modern framework for digital assets, but it must do so carefully and with a true understanding of the technologies it is regulating. Digital assets have the potential to empower millions of Americans, giving individuals more control over how they save, invest, and build their futures. More than one in six Americans already…

Financial innovation in digital assets is rapidly transforming the American economy, promising a new era of financial opportunity and global competitiveness. To seize this moment, Washington must pursue smart, informed reforms that protect investors without stifling innovation. When the federal government reopens, Congress should prioritize developing a clear, modern framework for digital assets, but it must do so carefully and with a true understanding of the technologies it is regulating.Digital assets have the potential to empower millions of Americans, giving individuals more control over how they save, invest, and build their futures. More than one in six Americans already participates…

This partnership aims to bring together NFTs and institutional funds. Sharp’s Solana-based treasury network improves cross-chain interactions and capital efficiency. PENGU rose more than 2% after the announcement. NFT brand Pudgy Penguins has entered into a strategic partnership with publicly traded Sharps Technology to explore ways to integrate non-fungible tokens into on-chain treasury strategies. This development is extremely important as it represents a significant move in Pudgy Penguin’s growth beyond Web3. 🚨New: @pudgypenguins has partnered with Nasdaq-listed Sharps Technology to integrate over $400 million in @Solana-based digital asset vaults with the Pudgy brand. The partnership aims to connect NFT culture…

Uniswap Labs has announced a new system to make cross-chain interactions secure and smooth. Compact introduces a sharing mechanism to reduce fragmentation across distributed platforms. This new feature has the potential to change the way assets and projects interact in the blockchain industry. Uniswap Labs has unveiled a significant move towards solving one of the key challenges in decentralized finance (DeFi): interoperability. This means communication or interoperability between different blockchains. The decentralized trading protocol has announced The Compact, an open source contract system for application and digital asset interoperability. Compact is an open-source, composable smart contract system that enables seamless…

Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned Bitcoin as a “peer-to-peer electronic cash” for direct transactions without intermediaries. Now, with corporate treasuries amassing huge Bitcoin holdings, ChangeNOW’s chief strategist argues that stablecoins, rather than hoarding by institutional investors, are realizing their original vision. BeInCrypto sat down with ChangeNOW Chief Strategy Officer Pauline Shanguette during her recent APAC tour to discuss the company’s evolution and her contrarian perspective on competing trends in cryptocurrencies. ChangeNOW started in 2017 as a no-account, no-questions-asked, non-custodial instant swap service. But Shangett says the company’s ambitions quickly expanded beyond retail trading. “Our B2B platform has evolved to be more than…

Binance Coin surpassed $1,300 for the first time. CAKE maintains its bullish strength after surging more than 70% weekly. Solana is focused on a short-term rally to the key $250 mark. Cryptocurrencies showed stability on Tuesday, with most tokens on the verge of a breakout. Bitcoin is trading above $124,500 as the cryptocurrency market cap increases by 0.6% in the past 24 hours to reach $4.28 trillion. In an optimistic light, this article looks at altcoins that are making waves with their impressive price movements. Binance Coin continues to lead the alt season with a new all-time high of over…

In the widely reported development, Coinbase is working with charity Give to provide 160 New Yorkers with six months of Stablecoin USDC to Stablecoin USDC worth $12,000. The initial payment is worth $8,000, and then the recipient is set to receive $800 per month. Coinbase and Givedirectly call this the pilot program for what is called the Universal Basic Income (UBI), or the sum of the amounts offered to everyone, so they can afford shelters, food and other essentials as work begins to decline in advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. But is this actually a UBI pilot program? The…

Opinion: URE UTAH, Technical Advisor to Nigeria Minister of InnovationThe world is rushing to earn cash as the value of digital currencies has skyrocketed nearly $4 trillion. While grabbing the headlines of Elon Musk’s Dogecoin (Doge) and the official Trump (Trump) coins of the US President, Africa is at the forefront of this global financial upheaval.This is an important point. Unless African leaders act to regulate or utilize the code, what happens next will determine whether the continent’s 1.55 billion residents will develop greater sovereignty in the future or a new era of financial instability.The opportunities are enormous. Utilizing Crypto…

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation board is set to discuss rules that could affect crypto companies in bank’s claims.In a notice Thursday, the FDIC said the board would consider a notification of proposed rules-making “about the prohibition on the use of reputation risks by regulators.” The agenda did not explicitly mention any distraction concerns related to digital assets, but FDIC Chairman Travis Hill’s performance previously criticised the use of “reputation risk” for using “reputation risk” as justifications that prevented some banks from engaging in cryptographic activities, such as allowing clients to send funds in exchange.US President Donald Trump used this…