Author: Jeremy Ryan

Perpetual futures contracts tied to individual stocks can begin trading on regulated US exchanges for the first time, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), extending a derivatives product popularized in cryptocurrency markets into traditional equities.CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said in a Tuesday statement that the contracts were deemed approved under CFTC Regulation 40.3 and could be offered on exchanges registered with both the CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to trade security futures products.Selig said bringing the products into regulated US markets would allow American traders to access perpetual futures under US regulatory safeguards rather than being…

Public services increasingly rely on digital systems that enable institutions to collaborate across organizational and national boundaries. Such cooperation may involve government agencies verifying documents issued by other authorities, or humanitarian organizations coordinating assistance while safeguarding sensitive personal information. Yet technical interoperability alone does not resolve a more fundamental question: who controls the infrastructure on which this cooperation depends? Ethereum offers a different foundation for digital public infrastructure. It is a global network that no single organization controls, and its software is open source for anyone to inspect, use, and build on. Our new website, https://publicsector.ethereum.foundation/, explores what these characteristics…

Memecoins using Jesús de Miguel’s name and image have drawn criticism from crypto traders after CD Tenerife confirmed the 30-year-old striker’s death on Nov. 3 following an on-field collision the previous evening. Summary Traders circulated screenshots of De Miguel-themed tokens showing profits of $84.99 and $90.29. CD Tenerife confirmed the striker’s death and relayed his family’s request for privacy. Crypto accounts condemned traders for using news of the footballer’s death to make money. Pump.fun has previously described removing inappropriate token names, images, descriptions and comments. According to CD Tenerife, De Miguel died at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. The club expressed…

OKX has suffered another big blow to its grand aspirations of tokenizing stocks after Tesla, Amazon, and four other big names turned down plans for the tokenization of their shares on the cryptocurrency exchange’s joint venture with New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).Six new companies have raised objections to their shares being tokenized on the OKXICE platform.Among the new objectors are Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX, e-commerce giant Amazon, streaming giant Netflix, semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research and fintech firm SoFi Technologies. Hyperliquid Whale Refuses to Sell 35 Million XRP as Market Slumps: Main Crypto News This Morning…

November 2026 brings heavy hitters to Meta’s Horizon+ subscription, including Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR and the brand-new Payday: Aces High.On top of those great additions, the mind-bending adventure game Reach and the physics-based sandbox I Am Monkey are the Meta Horizon+ Games of the Month for November.Payday: Aces High is coming to Horizon+ when the game launches on November 5. It’s one of the most anticipated VR games to release this year, and a game that we at UploadVR have been looking forward to ever since our preview play session with Payday’s creators back in August. Payday: Aces High puts…

In brief Users on X say some Claude Opus 5.5 requests are being routed to an unreleased model they call Fable 5.5, but Anthropic has not announced it and its Mythos page still lists version 5.1. A “Mythos 5.5” label appeared in the hidden code of Anthropic’s Mythos page on November 1, and a “claude-fable-5-5” entry was added to the LiteLLM catalog on October 13 with specs copied from Fable 5.1. OpenAI’s “gpt-6.2-astra” appeared in Codex usage data for some accounts on November 1, while Anthropic’s IPO roadshow cannot start before November 10. Users on X say Anthropic is quietly…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! A major US payments and financial technology company, Fiserv, has introduced a new settlement system designed for businesses that work with digital assets. The platform, called INDX, allows these companies to move US dollars at any time, without waiting for regular banking hours, according to an announcement released on February 12.It runs continuously throughout the year and uses a single custodial account to support instant transfers, which can make it easier for exchanges and trading firms to handle their cash needs. Did you know? Want to get smarter & wealthier with crypto?…

NEAR Protocol’s House of Stake has approved a proposal to reduce the network’s maximum annual token issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%. The change will be introduced gradually over 24 months, marking another step in the network’s effort to reduce token inflation.The proposal, HSP-029, received 99.96% support through on-chain governance. It keeps the existing distribution of newly issued tokens unchanged, with 90% going to staking participants and 10% allocated to the protocol treasury.The reduction will take place through a gradual adjustment across network epochs rather than an immediate cut. The proposal also includes a 90-day grace period before the scheduled reduction…

TL;DR Tria announced AI-agent access to perpetual trading on October 30. Trading keys can expire or be revoked and do not authorize withdrawals. The API documentation says both supported venues use real mainnet markets. Tria has introduced a way for AI agents to open and close perpetual futures positions from a user’s account, bringing automated decision-making closer to live trading. Its October 30 announcement says dedicated keys authorize trading without granting withdrawal permission. The new feature supports Hyperliquid and Decibel. Users can limit how long a key remains active or revoke it. Whether an agent needs approval for a particular…

A September study found wider realized round-trip spreads for Solana trades routed outside aggregators at five of six major proprietary liquidity venues, suggesting that access to the same pool did not mean access to comparable trading terms.The result puts the route into the center of the price comparison. A pool can settle trades on a public blockchain while a single operator controls its quotes. Comparing pool addresses alone therefore leaves out an important part of the transaction: how the order arrived.The preprint by Ozan Solmaz, Lioba Heimbach and Jason Milionis, posted Sept. 29, examined proprietary automated market makers, or propAMMs,…