There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come. For now, that time has not arrived. But as Congress closed a door, regulators opened a window. Both the SEC and CFTC moved with remarkable speed. Just two days after CLARITY failed, the… Read More
That’s where Abrams sees an opening. Open USD, he said, is designed for banking, cross-border payments, card settlement, institutional trading and lending, with an economic model built to reward the companies that drive supply and activity. “When are stablecoins successful? It’s when they recede into… Read More
Robinhood has already seen demand for a more technical version of the idea. More than 150,000 agentic accounts have been created since it opened its trading infrastructure to outside AI agents earlier this year, according to the company, generating millions of calls to its tools… Read More
SPX options are among the world’s most actively traded index derivatives, with a record 970.6 million contracts changing hands in 2025, or an average of 3.9 million per day, Cboe said. S&P DJI, meanwhile, operates some of the world’s most widely followed financial benchmarks, led… Read More
“There’s a convergence now that you’re seeing between traditional market participants and digital asset market participants as well,” Lynq CEO Jerald David said in an interview with CoinDesk TV. For firms using Lynq, FTIXX gives them somewhere to put cash between trades rather than leaving… Read More
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act was always doomed to fail. The bill faced an uphill battle from launch; numerous political, policy and social factors would have needed to fall into place for it to succeed. In the end, a variety of issues combined to… Read More
