Unchained

Cboe debuted binary option contracts on the Mini-S&P 500 Index through Interactive Brokers, giving retail traders a prediction market product fully backstopped by OCC clearing and standard U.S. options rules.

It’s been an ugly few weeks for Strategy’s STRC. Here’s why it’s trading so far below par and what the company can do to get it back to $100.

The biggest names in finance are building on Ethereum, but ETH itself is bleeding value against bitcoin. Here’s where the money is really going.

Hsiao-Wei Wang stepped down as co-executive director and board member of the Ethereum Foundation, the latest of at least eight senior departures in five months, leaving board member Bastian Aue to steer the nonprofit amid scrutiny of its governance and rising competition.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.

Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.

Coinbase spent $375 million acquiring Cobie’s Up Only NFT and his fundraising platform Echo, signaling a push into crypto media and onchain capital markets.

Senators Warren, Blumenthal, and three colleagues are demanding sworn testimony on whether a half-billion-dollar Gulf state investment in World Liberty Financial shaped Trump administration policy toward the UAE.

Kalshi just brought crypto perps to the US, targeting a $90 trillion offshore market. Its Head of Crypto, John Wang, explains the bet, the risks, and who Kalshi is actually competing with.

The CFTC and SEC issued a joint request for comment on clarifying the definitions of “swaps” and “security-based swaps,” including for perpetual futures and event contracts, the same day CME sued the CFTC over its approval of Kalshi’s perpetuals as futures rather than swaps.

Two White House executive orders accelerate U.S. quantum computing development while setting a 2030 deadline for federal agencies to migrate to post-quantum cryptography, sharpening the urgency for crypto networks still weighing their own defenses.

OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and the AI IPO cycle face a structural problem: a cheap, capable open source exit is already drawing enterprise users away before either company goes public.