As global trading trends race toward 24-hour, no-days-off markets, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued that it may be fine for the new blockchain-native players, but that expanded hours might not be appropriate for some of the traditional markets, the derivatives watchdog said in a Friday letter issued to the wide waterfront of firms

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has cleared the way for American traders to access one of crypto’s most important derivatives markets, approving the first true bitcoin perpetual futures contract on a U.S. exchange and issuing parallel relief that lets Coinbase route U.S. clients into global perp and options liquidity. On Friday, the agency

Eightco treasury composition as of May 27, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $144M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $374 million World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Independent data shows OpenAI’s coming social network will land

Solana trades at $82 amid critical support at $80. Analysts watch for a breakout or drop to mid-$20s as accumulation signals emerge. Solana is trading at $82.32, sitting just above a critical support zone. The past week saw SOL range between $80.62 and $87.55.  Daily volume hit over $2.1 billion in the last 24 hours.

North American listed miners are responding to challenging post-halving economics by pivoting toward AI infrastructure — but not uniformly, and not without risk. The shift is splitting the sector into different kinds of companies. Bitcoin, meanwhile, looks likely to absorb the change largely as designed. One of the biggest stories of 2026 so far has

Cardano is quietly bleeding. ADA trades near $0.23, down modestly over the past 24 hours, and three consecutive weeks of losses have left bulls with very little to celebrate. The more interesting question isn’t where ADA is today; it’s what the derivatives data suggests about where it’s heading next. CoinGlass figures tell a sobering story:

OKX Ventures, the investment arm of crypto exchange OKX, will invest KRW 80 billion ($53 million) for a 19.6% stake in South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinone, the companies announced Friday, marking one of the largest recent investments by a global crypto firm into Korea’s digital asset sector. Korea Investment & Securities (KIS), one of South

Digital asset markets are slogging through a choppy 2026, with prices under pressure even as the underlying plumbing of the system quietly advances — from tokenization on Wall Street to quantum‑resistant upgrades on Bitcoin.  A new mid‑year update from Fidelity Digital Assets frames the year as one of “structural retooling,” where regulatory progress, infrastructure build‑out,

ZEC trades near $559 after pulling back from $650–$680 resistance, with $520 support and the $700 zone in focus. ZEC price action has returned to focus as traders compare the latest rally with the November move into the same resistance area. ZEC/USD recently approached the $650 to $750 zone, while the chart showed a double

As the CLARITY Act moves closer to a full Senate vote, one of its most important contributions may ultimately be a mechanism for separating a token’s secondary-market status from the transaction through which it was originally sold — a distinction that courts and regulators have failed to settle for over a decade. The Digital Asset