US regulators have already found a home for true Bitcoin perpetuals inside the CFTC’s exchange framework. The SEC is now turning to another part of the same market: how a team can pay to build a network before its token has much use. A derivatives exchange starts with an established asset and places a new […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac22 Aug
The Nov. 3 midterm election is less than 11 weeks away, and its betting market had already surpassed the full 2024 congressional cycle in the latest comparable data. Traders had placed at least $133 million across markets tied to House and Senate races by Aug. 10, compared with $92.4 million during all of 2024. The […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac22 Aug
Riot Platforms entered 2026 with 3,977 BTC pledged against a $200 million Coinbase loan. Bitcoin then fell far enough that the agreement required another 1,825 BTC, taking the collateral balance to 5,802 in February. Those coins still belonged to Riot and sat in a segregated custody account under Coinbase's lien. Riot couldn't deploy them elsewhere […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac22 Aug
Bitcoin enters the weekend within striking distance of $80,000, registering an intraday high at $79,500 on Aug. 21. The move caps the biggest weekly rally in two years, built on a rare combination. A surprise Treasury intervention, roughly $1.6 billion of spot ETF inflows, and billions of dollars in forced short liquidations all landed together. […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos22 Aug
By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin could still move freely across blockchains and yet disappear from the buy menu on an American exchange. Under the Treasury Department’s proposed GENIUS Act rules, a digital asset service provider wouldn't be able to offer or sell a payment stablecoin to someone in the United States from that date […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac22 Aug
The public Bitcoin treasury structure is gone, while two 2026 payments carry a narrow seven-day release condition.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright22 Aug
Warwick says six months of cost reductions restored runway, but the studio has not published its current burn.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright22 Aug
The better.codes contest puts Ethereum’s abstract security target against live certificates, but its score covers only koalaIRS12.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright22 Aug
Transactions, transfers and staking remain unavailable after MANTRA said an attacker exploited an upstream dependency.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright21 Aug
The gap is verifiable, even as Justin Sun’s broader claims of fraud remain unsupported by available evidence.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo21 Aug
July output was worth roughly $1.16 million at Aug. 21 spot prices before unsettled hosting costs, as interest begins on $16 million of seller notes.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright21 Aug
The suspected address has spent nothing, while Maya has not detailed who absorbs the wider repricing and arbitrage damage.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright21 Aug
Four days of fund inflows now face a $183 billion Treasury auction window that can test the rally’s staying power.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright21 Aug
The approximately $6 million figure stems from a 2017 attempted extortion, and DOJ materials do not allege that HBO paid.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo21 Aug
Burning SHD is irreversible and only preserves eligibility for a Feather allocation whose ratio, amount and timing remain unknown.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright21 Aug
Nearly all H1 sales came from related-party inventory as a still-unproven ASIC launch absorbs capital.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo21 Aug
GPU-rental benchmarks may price one layer of AI capacity while HIVE and Riot retain project and financing exposure.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo21 Aug
Justin Sun said on Aug. 20 that a California federal judge rejected World Liberty Financial's attempt to force all of his claims into private arbitration, keeping his individual allegations in open court. The public docket confirms World Liberty filed a motion to compel arbitration and a separate motion to seal case materials. That news arrives […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos21 Aug
President Donald Trump said Aug. 19 that CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid to the US in a fully compliant, legal way. Hyperliquid's official interface currently keeps US persons off the platform, part of the regulatory geography that let crypto's largest perpetual futures venue grow up outside American oversight. Hyperliquid processed over […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos21 Aug
Bitcoin surged toward $80,000 on Friday, extending a three-day rally that has liquidated more than $4 billion in bearish bets and pushed the cryptocurrency to a three-month high. Data from CryptoSlate shows Bitcoin climbed as high as $78,449, gaining more than 10% over the past 24 hours before easing to $77,873 as of press time. […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo21 Aug