OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Marex clears first USDC-margined US derivatives trade
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) no-action letter that made this week's first USDC-margined clearing trade possible also covers Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The first live transaction used none of them — it used…
US stablecoin yield ban pushes idle USDC into…
The US ban on stablecoin yield was supposed to end the practice of paying holders to sit in dollar tokens. Instead, it is relocating that yield rather than killing it. As the GENIUS Act's stablecoin…
MiCA cliff: 210 firms authorised, 990 must wind…
The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) transitional period closed on July 1, 2026, and roughly 210 firms hold full authorisation against more than 1,200 that previously operated on national crypto registrations across the European Union…
Coinbase’s 3.5% USDC reward survives the July 18…
The US stablecoin yield ban takes full effect on July 18, 2026, and the largest yield payment in the market will survive it untouched. Coinbase pays holders of USD Coin (USDC) 3.5% annual percentage yield…
Visa, Stripe and Coinbase back Open USD to…
A consortium of more than 140 businesses — including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, American Express, BlackRock, BNY, Google, Shopify and, pointedly, Coinbase — has launched Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin built to share reserve earnings with…
MiCA grandfathering ends July 1, resetting EU crypto…
MiCA's Article 143(3) grandfathering period ends on July 1, 2026 with no extensions across all 27 EU member states, and with roughly 204 firms holding full Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorisation against an estimated 3,000…
Tokenized RWAs top $31.76bn but the holder base…
The on-chain market for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) reached about $31.76 billion in mid-June 2026, up roughly 300% year-over-year and excluding stablecoins, according to RWA.xyz. Yet the same dataset exposes the catch institutional desks keep…
How the CFTC’s crypto-perpetuals opening splits four markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) May 29, 2026 clearance for Coinbase to route US clients into crypto perpetual futures onshores a product that the European Union, the United Kingdom and Singapore still wall off…