President Donald Trump has named his new choice to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, formally backing Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer Mike Selig after jettisoning his one-time pick of former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz. The near-term leadership of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission… Read More
Crypto.com has applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter, a step it says would expand its federally supervised crypto-custody services for institutions. In Friday’s announcement, the exchange framed the filing as an extension of… Read More
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The crypto market is buoyant, with bitcoin BTC$111,832.89 climbing to $111,500 and the CoinDesk 20 (CD20) Index rising 2% to 3,667 points. Most major cryptocurrencies, including BNB, XRP, SOL, and ETH, traded higher after President Trump… Read More
Digital asset prime broker FalconX agreed to acquire crypto asset manager 21Shares, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, will allow FalconX to expand beyond market making and liquidity services into issuing crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a… Read More
The spotlight is firmly on the crypto market over the course of the week after a spurt of liquidations between Oct. 10 and Oct. 17, with BTC and ETH trading well below their respective early October highs. Despite market uncertainty, a number of catalysts are… Read More
Beast Holdings, the business entity tied to YouTube personality Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson, has filed a U.S. trademark application for “MrBeast Financial,” with language suggesting a possible push into crypto. The application includes services like cryptocurrency payment processing, crypto exchange, and trading through decentralized exchanges (DEXs).… Read More
