Author: BPay News

Key DevelopmentsNearly $600 million worth of $20,000 bitcoin put options has emerged as the third most popular strike ahead of Deribit’s quarterly expiry, showing how traders are positioning…

Key Policy UpdateThe U.S. federal regulator of prediction markets has secured a formal information-sharing arrangement with Major League Baseball in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s first such deal…

Key DevelopmentsMorgan Stanley filed a second amended S-1 for its proposed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), detailing seed capital, trading partners and listing plans as the Wall Street…

Key DevelopmentsBrowser marker Opera (OPRA) wants to replace its cash-based deal with Celo with a 160 million CELO token allocation, a move that would make the browser company…

Key DevelopmentsForward Industries, a publicly traded company with a Solana-focused treasury strategy, has launched a share repurchase program funded through a crypto-collateralized loan from Galaxy Digital LLC, underscoring…

Key DevelopmentsBitcoin’s BTC$70,758.90 biggest limitation just got shattered. A new protocol went live Thursday, making it simple to put the largest cryptocurrency directly to work in powerful, yield-generating…

Key Exchange UpdateSingapore-based crypto exchange Crypto.com is cutting about 12% of its workforce, or roughly 180 employees, as it leans into AI-driven efficiency, joining a growing wave of…

Key DevelopmentsEtherFi has allocated $25 million to Plume’s real-world asset (RWA) protocol Nest, as it integrates tokenized RWA yield directly into its platform, as it looks to expand…

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)The big news of the past 24 hours is that the Fed, the world’s most powerful central bank, is unlikely…

Key DevelopmentsThe governance token of Venus (XVS), a BNB Chain-based money market with over $1.4 billion in total value locked, has dropped more than 9% in 24 hours…