The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says El Salvador’s Bitcoin reserve growth over the past year came from private donations, not new government spending. In its latest review of the country’s loan program, the global financial agency said documents supplied by El Salvador showed that Bitcoin accumulated since the previous review reflected private donations. It added…
Coinbase said this week it filed notice registrations with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer single-stock perpetual futures domestically, according to a post from the company’s official account. The move adds another regulated derivatives product to Coinbase’s US lineup and comes as regulators continue sorting out how perpetual contracts should be classified…
Solana’s v1 transaction format promises more than three times as much room per transaction, but RPC clients, indexers, relayers and fee sponsors that are not ready for it can fail in two very different ways: some systems stop, while others keep running with the wrong resource limits. Solana’s live upgrade page still lists v1 as…
Bitwise has given the market a rare look inside an institutional XRP carry trade. The Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund, or USCC, paired XRP held in custody with an almost equal short position in September Coinbase XRP futures. The structure was 97.48% matched by quantity, leaving limited exposure to a parallel move in XRP while positioning…
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission unveiled a phased roadmap on September 4 for converting stocks, bonds and investment funds into blockchain-based tokens, with the earliest phase due to start in February 2027 once an amendment to the Electronic Registration Act takes effect. The plan links the country’s securities market to a stablecoin payment system that…
The Firo hard fork was 153 blocks away from activation early Friday, leaving wallet users and network operators only hours to install software that repairs an August vulnerability in the privacy coin’s Spark transaction system. The chain reached block 1,370,847 at 1:45:47 a.m. UTC on Sept. 4. The fork activates at block 1,371,000, which Firo…
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange advised its clients to be extremely cautious amid a rise in phishing attacks targeting crypto investors. Here are the necessary steps that could lead to better protection against such wrongdoers. Don’t Act Before You Think Binance explained that attackers send fake “security alert” text messages to trick users into clicking…
Bitcoin’s next Federal Reserve test is split across two dates. The Federal Open Market Committee will decide policy on Sept. 16 after seeing August payrolls, producer prices and consumer prices. Official August personal consumption expenditures inflation, along with a Bureau of Economic Analysis annual update that will revise the PCE series, is not scheduled until…
US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended August on an impressive note and appear to have continued to build momentum, recording $731 million in net inflows on September 3rd, their strongest single-day performance since January. Now, a pattern has sparked speculation over whether Bitcoin could see another short-term top following the latest surge in ETF demand. ETF…
A Michigan judge has placed prediction-market exchange Kalshi under a preliminary injunction that keeps its sports event contracts fenced off from people in the state until the court issues a final order. The ruling moves the dispute beyond a short-term restraint and into an open-ended compliance regime. Kalshi calls the products federally regulated event contracts,…