NYSE father or mother Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and crypto alternate OKX introduced plans to launch perpetual oil futures tied to Brent and WTI benchmarks. The contracts won’t ever expire and can roll out the place OKX holds licenses to supply perpetuals. The product is the primary joint launch for the reason that March funding, which…
XRPL’s recognized amendments web page lists fixCleanup3_1__3 for activation on May 27, and by design the occasion is a upkeep upgrade. Version 3.1.3 of rippled bundles fixes for NFTs, Permissioned Domains, Vaults, and the Lending Protocol, and the XRPL weblog set the default vote to Yes due to the significance of these fixes. The modification…
The cryptocurrency market in 2026 is at a important stage of orderly growth. The tempo of US crypto laws is accelerating, and regulatory divergences are step by step converging. The European MiCA framework has entered its precise implementation cycle, driving the crypto trade towards standardization and transparency. Bitcoin maintains high-level volatility beneath the alternating affect…
This week, Gate landed within the international high two for each gold and silver futures open curiosity as treasured metals staged a dramatic rally — gold surging previous $4,500 and silver breaking above $76. On high of that, Gate CEO Dr. Han turned heads with a daring forecast: RWA buying and selling quantity may develop…
Mark Cuban mentioned he has offered most of his Bitcoin, arguing that the asset did not behave because the hedge he anticipated throughout a interval of geopolitical stress and greenback weak spot. Speaking on Portfolio Players by Front Office Sports, launched on May 21, 2026, the billionaire investor mentioned it had “misplaced the plot” after…
Representative James Comer, Republican of Kentucky and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, introduced a proper investigation into prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi on May 22 — demanding that the CEOs of each firms clarify how their platforms detect and forestall insider buying and selling, in a probe triggered by a…
Goldman Sachs has quietly stepped out of its XRP ETF publicity, bringing a place as soon as valued round $154 million all the way down to zero within the first quarter of 2026. The transfer has shortly change into a speaking level throughout the XRP group as a result of Goldman Sachs was beforehand one…
Polymarket confronted what many customers interpreted as a doable hack on May 22 after public alerts described a fast POL drain on the prediction market platform. Polymarket-linked accounts later mentioned the incident was not a smart-contract exploit and didn’t have an effect on consumer funds or market decision. The first wave of concern got here…
Perhaps essentially the most anticipated monetary and financial occasion is simply hours away, because the US Federal Reserve may have a brand new Chairman after greater than eight years below Jerome Powell. But, earlier than we discover the seventeenth chair of the monetary establishment, let’s rewind the clock for every week and assessment what occurred…
Bitcoin is buying and selling at $77.3k to shut out the week, locked in a consolidation that has now been operating for almost two weeks round the $75k–$80k vary. The ascending channel from February is undamaged, the short-term help zone at $75k is holding, and the funding charges are constructive once more. This exhibits a…