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cftc trump crypto connections controversy tests crypto regulation trade The "CFTC Trump Crypto Connections Controversy" is about claims that political pressure shaped crypto approvals at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) during Trump's second administration. ...

SEC approves Nasdaq BTC index options: CFTC still has final say The SEC has approved Nasdaq's plan to list Bitcoin index options. Useful step. Not a launch. The CFTC still has to approve the product before anyone can trade it, and that second approval is the part I would not hand-wave a ...

Fed Chair Change Revives crypto market correction fed chair Debate A new Twitter thread has traders dragging out an old fear: is crypto close to another ugly pullback? BTC is the ticker on the screen. The logic is blunt. Traders are pointing to an old overlap where a change at the top of ...

Bitcoin Pizza Day history: a $7.7 billion lesson in adoption Bitcoin Pizza Day falls on May 22 each year. It marks the moment Bitcoin stopped living as code, theory, and forum chatter. It bought dinner. That sounds small. It was not. On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid ...

Polymarket Polygon hack 520K tests prediction market trust The "Polymarket Polygon hack 520k" refers to a reported incident where more than $520,000 was allegedly withdrawn from Polymarket's UMA CTF Adapter on Polygon, according to ZachXBT. ...

Trump Media Sells Bitcoin at Loss, Pressuring the Corporate BTC Story Trump Media reportedly sold 2650 BTC for $205 million, according to a Lookonchain post. If that wallet read is accurate, the sale was rough. I'll be honest: it also pokes a hole in the tidy story that corporate Bitcoin ...

btc, s&p 500, dxy, oil, iran react to deal reports Reports of a possible United States-Iran agreement moved BTC, the S&P 500, DXY and oil, according to the TG wire. For crypto traders, the message is blunt: BTC is not floating off in its own little crypto weather system here. It ...

US Congress Bitcoin Reserve Bill Puts BTC Treasury Trade Back in Focus The proposed US Congress Bitcoin Reserve Bill would create a 1,000,000 BTC strategic reserve, equal to about 5% of Bitcoin's total supply, according to the source post. ...

Delphi Digital Bitcoin Outperforms Alts as Liquidity Warning Builds Delphi Digital says Bitcoin could beat altcoins over the next 12 months if global liquidity keeps tightening. My take: the delphi digital bitcoin outperforms alts call reads less like a hype trade and mo ...

Echo Protocol hack on Monad tests DeFi bridge risk The Echo Protocol hack on Monad reads like a DeFi control failure, not a Monad failure. My take: this is the part traders should not blur. The reported loss was 385 ETH, worth about $816,000. The route was messy but read ...