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A $3M bet on Bitcoin hitting $95K by October. A single trader placed a $3.17 million options bet that bitcoin will reach $95,000 by the end of October, using a strategy that pays off most if BTC lands right at that level. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Find out more at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Strike CEO Jack Mallers, who explains why he stepped down as CEO of Twenty One Capital, makes his case for bitcoin as "the most American money," and unpacks the launch of Strike Private. Zero Knowledge Group Founder and CEO Austin Campbell breaks down the CLARITY Act's failure to advance...

The SEC approved its "innovation exemption" that brings stocks on-chain. Google and Apple are both hiring for digital-asset roles, from tokenizing real-world assets in Asia to Apple Pay strategy, a sign that stablecoins and tokenization are becoming core expertise inside Big Tech. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backe...

The SEC approved its "innovation exemption" that brings stocks on-chain. The SEC approved a five-year "innovation exemption" that lets firms trade real tokenized U.S. stocks on public blockchains, favoring tokens that carry full shareholder rights over synthetic price-tracking products. The move opens a regulated lane for DeFi and puts pressure on offshore offerings like Robinhood's stock tokens a...

Nikhil Chandhok, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Circle, joins CoinDesk Contributor Kate Irwin on Markets Outlook the day Arc mainnet goes live. Chandhok explains why gas on Arc is USDC and not a native token, how opt-in privacy works, why BlackRock and Visa signed on as validators, and what changes for institutions when GENIUS rules take effect in January. Plus, Beezie Founder and CEO And...

The CLARITY Act comes down to a procedural vote. The U.S. Senate votes today on whether to advance the Clarity Act, crypto's market structure bill. A pass moves the industry closer to its first clear U.S. rules, while a failure would likely shelve the effort until after the November midterms. Bitcoin slipped to below $77,000 as Polymarket odds on the bill faded. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinD...

On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ram Ahluwalia, CEO and Founder of Lumida, who makes a non-consensus case that the Fed will hold rather than hike at its September meeting, and argues that AI has more room to run than crypto as capital rotates between the two. Then Joris Delanoue, CEO of Fairmint, breaks down the SEC's pr...

Trump agrees to stricter ethics rules for CLARITY Act. President Trump agreed to about 80% of a stricter ethics package tied to the Clarity Act, clearing a path for a Senate cloture vote Tuesday. The deal lets state attorneys general enforce the law and forces elected officials, spouses, and federal judges to divest or blind-trust any significant crypto stake. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDes...

Kalshi wants 24/7 Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia perps. Kalshi is seeking approval for roughly 60 perpetual futures tied to individual stocks and ETFs, including Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia — which would be the first regulated single-stock perps in the U.S. The plan is already igniting a fight over whether the CFTC or SEC should regulate them. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This epis...

CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open on the AMC–Robinhood tokenization showdown playing out on X and "CLARITY Act death watch," before sitting down with Cody Carbone, CEO of the Digital Chamber. Carbone argues the bill's fate comes down to ethics and that the White House and President Trump himself will have to weigh in publicly on the Tillis–Gallego ethics...

Ran Neuner, Founder of Crypto Banter, joins Coindesk’s Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook with charts in hand to explain why Bitcoin's pullback from $82K is textbook post-golden-cross behavior, and why he thinks the real story is what comes next. Neuner breaks down Scott Bessent's Treasury buybacks as the engine of the rally, why ETH just broke a nine-year downtrend against Bitcoin, and why he's...

Nasdaq's Ventures invested $100 million in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken. Payward Chief Commercial Officer Mark Greenberg joins Jennifer Sanasie to explain what the deal unlocks: from bringing Nasdaq's traditional equities on-chain as permissioned tokens, to new collaborations on market surveillance, data, and expanding xStocks to more markets. Plus, insights into Kraken's...

On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by special guest co-host Ophelia Snyder, Co-Founder of 21Shares. Payward Chief Commercial Officer Mark Greenberg breaks down Kraken parent Payward's new partnerships with SoFi and the London Stock Exchange, and how xStocks is bringing tokenized equities and 24/7 markets to investors around t...

An Anthropic researcher warns AI could kill us all. A researcher who spent three years on pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic resigned with a warning that the labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence that could kill everyone by the end of the decade. Anthropic's own alignment lead put the odds above 10%. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought t...

Hunter Biden is launching a LAPTOP memecoin. Hunter Biden is launching a memecoin called LAPTOP on Base, named after the laptop he left at a Delaware repair shop in 2019. Founders get 30% of the 1 billion supply, and part of the airdrop targets wallets underwater on the TRUMP token. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin...

Zcash jumps above $1,000. Zcash surged around 20% to $1,000, nearly doubling in a month and liquidating $34.5 million in short positions. A new Grayscale spot ETF is helping fuel the privacy coin's run. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Find out more at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ realf...

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise Asset Management, joins Jennifer Sanasie for a special edition of Markets Outlook from the New York Stock Exchange to unpack the market's overnight flip from despair to euphoria. Hougan explains why a traditional 60/40 portfolio is "100% fiat currency," why holding 0% Bitcoin has become a misallocation, and where he's allocating now. Plus, why he gi...

The copy-paste hack that stole $150K. CrowdStrike and federal authorities dismantled Sality, a botnet that spent eight years swapping copied wallet addresses for the attacker's, so victims unknowingly sent crypto to a stranger. The fix is simple: check the first and last characters of any address after you paste it. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to y...

Tether faces lawsuit for allegedly freezing $42M USDT before a warrant. Two Thai businessmen are suing Tether, alleging it froze 42.4 million USDT months before U.S. authorities obtained a seizure warrant. Tether calls the lawsuit baseless, but it raises the question of whether the issuer can freeze tokens in private wallets before any legal process. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Dai...

On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ben Spiegelman, Head of Institutional at Base, to break down Coinbase's newly launched tokenized stocks. Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale, unpacks the debut of the first-ever Zcash ETF. Plus, Solstice CEO Ben Nadareski explains strcUSX, a Solana-based product that splits the econ...

North Korean hackers cashed out Bitcoin from Hyperliquid. North Korea's Lazarus Group has sold more than $30 million in bitcoin on Hyperliquid over the past three weeks, according to blockchain data reviewed by Arkham. The activity comes just as the Trump administration explores bringing the platform onshore. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by R...

How did Bitcoin react to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole speech? Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote today, and crypto traders are watching for whether the Fed will back the Treasury's plan to cap long-term borrowing costs. Bitcoin has climbed from $64,000 to $80,000 in a week on those expectations — a dovish signal could extend the rally, while a p...

CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol host Renato Mariotti takes a deep dive into the CFTC's inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee. Renato breaks down the viral, spicy exchange between CME Group CEO Terry Duffy and CFTC Chairman Michael Selig over event contracts and market manipulation, and introduces his own comment-letter concept "accountability arbitrage" that focuses on the enforcement gap that op...

Pierre Rochard, CEO of The Bitcoin Bond Company, joins Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook to unpack the narratives driving crypto markets heading into Q4. From his 80K year-end price target to his rebuttal of Mark Cuban's "chips are the new crypto" take, Pierre breaks down why Bitcoin's scarcity story remains intact and why miners pivoting to AI could actually be a tailwind for Bitcoin price. Plu...

Nvidia beats earnings estimates. Nvidia beat earnings estimates and guided to $108 billion in revenue next quarter, lifting tech stocks and pushing bitcoin toward $80,000. The chipmaker also agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, extending its reach beyond chips and into the AI software stack. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is broug...