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CFTC Closes FTX Cases With Trading Bans for Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang and No Financial Penalties
The agency declined to seek restitution, disgorgement or civil penalties from the two cooperating FTX executives, pointing to their assistance and the $11.020 billion criminal forfeiture order.

HYPE Surges After Trump Says the CFTC Is Working to Bring Hyperliquid Onshore
A single line from Trump about bringing the offshore perpetuals venue into U.S. regulation sent HYPE up 17% and lifted every Hyperliquid-linked product on the market.

Trump Presses Congress to Pass a ‘Fair Version’ of the Clarity Act at White House Crypto Meeting
Flanked by the CEOs of Coinbase, Ripple, Robinhood and Nasdaq, Trump urged Congress to finish market structure legislation that still lacks the Democratic votes to pass.

Bitcoin Blows Past $70,000 as Nearly $3 Billion in Shorts Are Liquidated
Bitcoin's first push above $70,000 in two months has erased nearly $3 billion in short positions, powered by a Treasury buyback expansion.

Trump’s Hack-Back Memo Isn’t a License for Cyber Vigilantes, Crypto Lawyers Say
On DEX in the City, a former government lawyer and a crypto podcaster argued a barely-noticed White House memo deputizing private firms to fight foreign hackers is tightly supervised, and may be exactly what crypto needs.

Cantor Fitzgerald Opens Institutional Block Trading in Kalshi Event Contracts
The investment bank will act as an introducing broker for privately negotiated prediction-market trades, with Susquehanna Predictions supplying the pricing and liquidity.

TikTok Explores Peer-to-Peer Payments in Direct Messages, Pushing Deeper Into Fintech
Code in the current US iPhone app points to transfers routed through TikTok Pay, though a spokesperson reportedly said the feature is not in testing anywhere.

Kalshi Files for Perpetual Futures on US Stocks and Copper, Its First on Equities
The exchange asked the CFTC to approve contracts tracking a 500-stock US index and spot copper, three months after regulators cleared the country's first bitcoin perpetual futures.

How Render Network Has Evolved and What AI Advancements Could Mean for Its Next Phase
Trevor Harries-Jones, a director at the Render Network Foundation, lays out how the network is bringing artists and creators onchain, why onchain proof of creation is central to its vision and how AI may accelerate its growth.

Metaplanet to Take Nearly 96% of Super League in a $134.6 Million Bitcoin and Cash Deal
Metaplanet is seeding a Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury platform called Superplanet with 2,100 BTC from its own balance sheet and a five-year lockup.

FASB Proposes Guidance That Would Let Companies Count Qualifying Stablecoins as Cash Equivalents
Stablecoins with one-to-one liquid reserves, disclosed annually, and on-demand redemption could join Treasury bills in the cash equivalents line under FASB's proposal.

SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets, Its First Major Crypto-Specific Offering Rules, With Two Exemptions and a Safe Harbor
The SEC's Reg Crypto proposal would exempt smaller token offerings from registration and give issuers a certified path out of securities treatment.

Treasury’s New Stablecoin Rule Could Force US Exchanges to Delist Tether
Reading Treasury's newly proposed GENIUS Act rules on Bits + Bips, Austin Campbell said Coinbase's US platform "might have to delist Tether," pointing to Europe's MiCA delistings as the template.

Visa Seeks New Stablecoin Settlement Partner After Mastercard Buys Payments Firm BVNK
Visa is looking at settlement and over-the-counter partners holding crypto exchange licenses in four countries, CoinDesk reports, weeks after Mastercard closed its purchase of the firm Visa had been working with.

Cash App Users Can Now Buy Ether, Solana, XRP and More Through MoonPay Checkout
Block is letting a third party sell the tokens it has never listed, and Cash App balances can now fund outside wallets including MetaMask and Ledger.

Citi Puts Bitcoin Custody Inside New Custody+ Suite, Targets Launch Later in 2026
The bank's long-signaled crypto custody service has a product name as it continues to target a launch this year.

