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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dug into plans for around-the-clock trading in an event on the same morning it approved tokenized securities.

The "innovation exemption" lets qualifying venues trade tokenized versions of U.S. stocks on public blockchains without registering as exchanges—though it excludes price-tracking "synthetics" and lets companies block tokenization of their shares.

The U.S. is likely to lose out to foreign markets in the short term, but SEC and CFTC rules will help underpin the industry.

Tokenized stocks gain a temporary SEC pathway after the CLARITY Act misses the Senate's 60-vote threshold, leaving broader crypto rules uncertain. The post Crypto Tokenized Stocks Gain a Temporary SEC Pathway After Senate Setback appeared first on Cryptonews.

ARMA would lock qualifying reserve Bitcoin in place from enactment and require annual audited reporting, while purchases remain a study. The post Lawmakers pass bill to freeze federal Bitcoin holdings for two decades appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin has absorbed a fresh macro shock without losing its broader post-breakout structure. The Federal Reserve raised its target rate by 25 basis points to 4.00% on Wednesday, a tightening move that also strengthened the dollar and pushed Treasury yields higher. Despite this traditionally challenging backdrop for risk assets, BTC continues to trade around $76.7K, […]

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A complete guide to Arc, Circle’s stablecoin-native Layer 1 blockchain, covering its architecture, USDC gas model, ecosystem, use cases and competition.

The regulator has granted temporary relief allowing certain venues to facilitate trading of tokenized US stocks through onchain liquidity pools.

Crypto.com’s CEO said its sister exchange was cleared to offer US access to single-stock perpetual futures, as the latest platform to bridge TradFi and digital assets. OG.com has received authorization from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer single-stock futures in the US. Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of crypto.com, made the announcement its sister futures exchange in a Thursday X post that received regulatory approval to list single-stock futures in the US. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has acknowledged OG.com’s 1-N filing, authorizing the platform to offer single-stock futures in the US, . Read more

The SEC’s Innovation Exemption allows limited tokenized US stock trading on onchain venues with trading caps and transparency requirements. The US Securities and Exchange Commission approved a temporary exemption allowing limited trading of tokenized US stocks on certain onchain venues. Under the innovation exemption approved Thursday, Tokenized Securities Venues (TSVs) can offer permissioned trading of tokenized National Market System (NMS) stocks. The exemption covers trading through automated market makers and liquidity pools, subject to requirements including transaction transparency, recordkeeping and technology safeguards, SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said. TSVs must also regularly publish US dollar-denominated transaction data, including prices, trade sizes, timestamps, pool addresses, end-of-day pool sizes and daily volumes. Read more

The working paper says contract proliferation and cross-chain stablecoin use make raw activity totals noisy measures of economic reality. The post Why standard Bitcoin transfer figures are off by up to six times, according to the BIS appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin treasury companies promise to amplify returns over investing in Bitcoin alone, but does the potential upside outweigh the risks to the downside? There are now 179 listed companies holding Bitcoin on their balance sheets, all following variations of the same simple formula: Raise capital on traditional markets, buy Bitcoin and attempt to increase the amount of BTC that backs each share faster than the company dilutes shareholders. According to Mark Palmer, managing director and senior equity research analyst at StoneX, that’s how treasury companies attempt to “beat” Bitcoin’s returns. Read more

Building on its recent market-data investment in Kaiko, S&P Global’s latest purchase targets the technological risks facing banks and asset managers onchain.

"ETH is looking extremely bullish here," one popular analyst claimed.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a blanket 5-year exemption for listing and trading tokenized securities without registering as an exchange.

S&P Global agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, which says its smart contracts have facilitated more than $37 trillion in value transfers. S&P Global is set to acquire the blockchain security company OpenZeppelin, expanding the financial data, ratings and benchmark provider’s digital asset capabilities. The deal announced on Thursday is aimed at complementing S&P Global’s risk assessment and ecosystem development capabilities in the digital asset market, it said. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the transaction remains subject to closing conditions. “Our digital assets strategy centers on bringing trusted data, benchmarks and transparent risk assessment to markets as they move onchain,” S&P Global ratings president Yann Le Pallec said. He added that OpenZeppelin would expand his company’s smart contract and onchain technology risk assessment capabilities. Read more

The group says it chose whom to target by scanning the blockchain for Revolut accounts holding significant crypto.

July’s bill rebound masked a split at longer maturities as official buying offset most private selling and September’s 10-year yield held near 5%. The post A $29B private exodus from US bonds is threatening Bitcoin’s next big rally appeared first on CryptoSlate.