The Institutional Edge: Moomoo Targets Wall Street-Grade Trading Tools for Retail Crypto Investors
Moomoo, the New York‑based brokerage with over 30 million global users and $156 billion in client assets, is rolling out a suite of Wall Street‑grade crypto tools. The platform will add AI‑powered analytics, a no‑code algorithm builder, faster execution, staking and tokenized securities. Executives say the next competitive edge lies in intelligence and execution quality, not merely asset breadth. By integrating institutional‑level data and execution into a retail‑focused app, moomoo aims to give everyday traders the same decision‑making power once reserved for large firms.
XRP Ledger's New Proposal Blocks the Flash Loan Attacks Costing DeFi Hundreds of Millions
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has introduced a draft amendment that makes flash‑loan attacks structurally impossible by prohibiting composable intra‑transaction calls. Recent DeFi exploits, including a $10.8 million Thorchain breach and over $600 million in losses across Solana and Ethereum protocols, leveraged flash...
Wall Street’s Trillion-Dollar Dilemma: Why AI-Powered Hackers Are Keeping Big Banks Off the Blockchain
Traditional banks aim to move trillions of dollars onto blockchain, but a surge of AI‑powered DeFi hacks is creating a major roadblock. CertiK’s CEO Ronghui Gu reports that April 2026 saw exploits on 27 of 30 days, including a $1.46 billion Bybit...
When the Market Is Bad, We Build: Inside Binance’s Bold 2030 Master Plan
Binance is leveraging the current crypto downturn to launch an ambitious 2030 master plan, aiming to grow its verified active user base from about 310 million to three billion. The exchange is introducing a new Order Management System toolkit to bridge a...
Bitcoin’s Biggest Quantum Risk May Not Be Wallet Keys. An Early Investor Fears Something Bigger
A growing cohort of security experts warns that Bitcoin’s most pressing quantum threat lies not in wallet private keys but in the encrypted authentication data flowing between exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions. Adversaries are employing a “harvest now, decrypt later”...
‘The Banks Will Not Accept It’: Dimon Escalates Battle over Stablecoin Rewards in CLARITY Act Debate
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon publicly rebuked Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, warning that the latest draft of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act would let stablecoin issuers pay interest without bank‑style protections and could ultimately collapse. He argued that banks would...
U.S. Regulator Says 24/7 Trading Is Great for Crypto, May Not Be Fit for Other Sectors
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved crypto‑native platforms to launch 24/7 perpetual futures contracts while issuing an advisory that round‑the‑clock trading may not suit all derivative markets. The regulator highlighted that blockchain‑based assets benefit from continuous access, but...
Clarity Act Risks Regulation Without Oversight, Brookings Fellow Says
Brookings Fellow Aaron Klein warned that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is ill‑equipped to handle the expanded mandate proposed in the Clarity Act. He argues that without additional staff, funding, and expertise, new crypto powers could amount to regulation without...
U.S. CFTC Opens Crypto 'Perp' Door with First Approvals at Kalshi, Coinbase
The CFTC approved the first regulated bitcoin perpetual futures contracts, allowing Kalshi to list the BTCPERP contract. At the same time, the agency issued a no‑action letter that lets Coinbase Financial Markets route U.S. customers to global options and perpetuals...
What American Crypto Asset Perpetuals Mean for the Future of Crypto
The CFTC announced that a registered exchange can list a true bitcoin perpetual contract, marking the first regulated crypto‑asset perpetual in the United States. Perpetuals, which have no expiration date, are a core risk‑management tool in global crypto markets but...
Paxos Wins SEC Approval to Clear U.S. Stocks on Blockchain
Paxos Securities Settlement Company received full SEC registration to provide clearing and settlement services, becoming the first blockchain‑based central securities depository for U.S. equities. The approval lets Paxos bypass the legacy DTCC infrastructure and settle eligible stocks on a same‑day...
Hyperliquid Bigger than NASDAQ, Says ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange chief Jeffrey Sprecher announced that decentralized perpetual futures platform Hyperliquid commands more than 70% of the perp‑DEX market and trades billions of dollars in daily notional volume. He highlighted the venue’s 24/7 oil derivative trading, which attracts non‑crypto...
Bitcoin Underperforms Risk Assets as Record 9th Day of ETF Outflows Signal Waning Demand
Bitcoin hovered around $73,500 on May 29, roughly 10% below its monthly peak of $81,000, as new buying pressure stalled. Long‑term holder supply rose to a record 15.8 million BTC, suggesting coins are being hoarded rather than traded. Spot Bitcoin ETFs logged...
Diverging Trends: Ether Slides Below $2,000 While Futures Open Interest Hits Record High of 16 Million ETH
Ether slipped below $2,000 on May 28, marking its first sub‑$2,000 close since March and a near‑8% weekly decline. At the same time, ether futures open interest surged to a record 16.39 million ETH, roughly $32.5 billion in notional value, indicating heavy...
Wall Street Gets New Crypto Rival After Texas Bank Completes Regulatory Pivot
United Texas Bank (UTB) has completed an OCC‑approved conversion from a Texas state charter to a national charter, giving it the same federal licensure and direct Federal Reserve access as major Wall Street banks. The bank already processes roughly $10 billion...