While the late-2025 rally in privacy coins like Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR) has since cooled, demand for anonymous, permissionless digital money — the cypherpunk vision that motivated early Bitcoiners — is unlikely to change. What has changed is where privacy innovation is being directed. Rather than existing primarily as standalone coins and separate networks,
Hyperliquid HIP-3 market just crossed $2B in open interest, and the number itself is almost beside the point. The detail most headlines are missing is what’s actually driving it: seven of Hyperliquid’s top ten markets by volume are now tokenized equities or commodity futures, not crypto pairs. This isn’t a DeFi platform doing DeFi things.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is leaning into artificial intelligence and automation as it faces massive new oversight responsibilities, according to congressional testimony from Chairman Mike Selig, even as his agency’s workforce has declined significantly under the administration of President Donald Trump. About a quarter of the CFTC’s staff has left since 2025, under
Charles Schwab announced further details and plans in their attempt to launch direct spot bitcoin trading through its new platform, Schwab Crypto™, signaling a major step by one of the country’s largest brokerage firms into the digital asset market. The feature will roll out in phases over the coming weeks and will allow retail clients
