Kalshi’s 15-minute gold contracts generated an estimated $5 million in trading fees during September, almost twice the $2.6 million attributed to equivalent Ether markets, showing how quickly short-duration commodity products are becoming a meaningful part of the prediction market operator’s non-sports business.Gold recorded about 542 million contracts during the month, compared with 318 million for
Bitcoin Group SE is preparing a new operating model for bitcoin.de after Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, BaFin, refused its futurum bank AG subsidiary authorization as a crypto-asset service provider under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation.The decision removes the regulatory route Bitcoin Group had been relying on to relaunch bitcoin.de as a redesigned brokerage. Operational
Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, giving the brokerage direct exposure to the cryptocurrency as it expands further into digital-asset trading, tokenization and blockchain infrastructure.Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international, said the purchase was intended primarily to align the company more
Russia has admitted its first cryptocurrency exchange operators and digital custodians to the regulated financial market, moving the country’s new crypto framework from legislation into live infrastructure just over a month after the main law took effect.The Bank of Russia said four organizations have entered its register of cryptocurrency exchange operators and five have been
World Liberty Financial is preparing to push its USD1 stablecoin into mainstream online payments through a partnership with crypto payments infrastructure provider Mesh, while the Trump family-backed venture separately works toward taking control of USD1 issuance from BitGo.Mesh co-founder and CEO Bam Azizi announced the payments agreement during a stablecoin panel at Token2049 in Singapore
Key Facts On 2 October, Financière Marjos SCA told the Paris market it plans to mobilise and reposition as an investor in AI data centres, and to rename itself Future Infra SCA. A capital raise is planned for 2027 and still depends on approval from the AMF. Future Infra would start as a partner of
Coinbase is bringing Coinbase Pro back by the end of 2026, more than four years after beginning to retire the original professional trading platform, while its completed Deribit integration has created what the company is calling Coinbase Global Exchange.The U.S. exchange announced the changes on October 7 as part of a wider expansion aimed at
Evernorth Holdings has delayed its planned Nasdaq debut under ticker XRPN from October 8 to approximately October 12, giving investors several more days before one of the largest dedicated corporate XRP treasuries reaches the public market.The company disclosed the change in an October 6 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, citing an “administrative
U.S. spot crypto exchange-traded funds delivered sharply divergent flows on October 6, with Bitcoin products attracting $118.8 million while Ether ETFs suffered $201.9 million of net redemptions and Solana funds lost another $3.7 million, according to finalized Farside Investors data.Across the three categories, that produced a combined $86.8 million net outflow, with heavy selling from
South Africa’s First National Bank has launched cryptocurrency trading for retail customers, marking another significant move by the country’s traditional banking sector into digital assets.FNB said its new Crypto Investing service gives customers access to five crypto assets — Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana and Tether’s USDT — through the bank’s existing share-trading platform. Trading is