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Strategy criticized MSCI’s proposed “non-operating company” rules, which could exclude it from the index provider’s global equity indexes. The company said the new proposal repeats the problems of MSCI’s earlier digital asset-specific plan and unfairly penalizes companies for holding bitcoin. Strategy MSTR $ 93.05 has pushed back against MSCI’s proposed methodology for identifying “non-operating companies,” which could result in the largest bitcoin treasury company being removed from the index p

(Eduardo Castro/Pixabay) Bank Leumi customers will be able to buy, hold and sell bitcoin, ether and solana through the Leumi Trade app. Galaxy will provide the trading and custody infrastructure, with the service expected to launch in early 2027. The planned launch would make Bank Leumi the first bank in Israel to offer digital asset trading directly to its customers. Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, will offer cryptocurrency trading to customers from early 2027 becoming the first Israeli bank

Implied volatility indexes in major markets. (TradingView) This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here , if you haven't already. Scan the news and there are plenty of reasons for worry: continued U.S.-Iran escalation risks, mounting sovereign debt and rising bond yields among them. Crypto carries its own set of concerns, including regulatory disappointments, weak demand and hack risks. Yet crypto, stocks, bonds and even commodity markets remain sanguine. That is clear fro

Eric Trump, co-founder of WLFI at Consensus Miami 2026 (CoinDesk) World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives. The token’s sale has been pushed back due to the Iran war disrupting travel in the region. The venture is part World Liberty Financial’s plans in tokenization, the representation of RWAs on blockchains in token form. WLFI is exploring this concept not just in real estate, but in commodi

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data) Spot bitcoin ETFs saw $192 million in back-to-back outflows as bitcoin fell to its lowest level since Aug. 3. While U.S. stocks gained after cooler-than-expected producer price data, crypto markets lagged, with bitcoin and ether slipping even as some altcoins outperformed. Derivatives and funding data show growing bearish positioning in tokens like bitcoin cash and hedera. Bitcoin volatility eased and options flows remain mixed. Bitcoin BTC $ 63.054,63 dropped below

RedotPay is said to have put its IPO plans in the U.S. on hold. (Irvin Liang/Unsplash) Stablecoin payments firm RedotPay postponed its planned $1 billion U.S. IPO, which is now unlikely to occur before 2027, as it addresses legal issues. The Hong Kong-based company, which recently obtained a U.S. money transmitter license and is preparing a U.S. product launch, declined to comment on its IPO plans. RedotPay, which calls itself the world’s largest stablecoin payment card issuer and recently reach

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Top tokens face several headwinds. (Dimitris Vetsikas/Pixabay) Top cryptocurrencies nurse losses as regulatory picture sours. Bitcoin ETFs are seeing outflows again. Rising cost of capital also poses a headwind. Some observers remain optimistic about yea-end price rally. Bitcoin BTC $ 63,054.63 is under pressure again while XRP (XRP) teeters near $1 amid a cluster of unfriendly developments over the past 24 hours. Regulatory setbacks are leading the charge. Progress on the Clarity Act has stalle

MSCI's new proposal puts Strategy and Metaplanet in crosshairs. (MSCI) Index provider MSCI has opened a new consultation that could exclude so-called non-operating companies, a category that may capture major bitcoin treasury firms such as Strategy and Metaplanet, from its Global Investable Market Indexes. The proposed rules would use a two-step screen based on whether operating assets exceed 50 percent of total assets and on five financial ratios, with companies failing at least four of the rat

JPMorgan debanked Polymarket. JPMorgan stopped providing banking services to the decentralized prediction market Polymarket in late 2025 amid regulatory concerns, according to the Financial Times. Polymarket, which was barred from serving U.S. users in 2022 after a $1.4 million CFTC settlement, reentered the U.S. market in late 2025 following a loosening of federal rules under the Trump administration. JPMorgan Chase stopped providing its banking services to the decentralized prediction market p

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Shutterstock) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again delayed its planned “innovation exemption” for tokenized securities amid concerns from the White House and Wall Street firms, industry sources said. The White House fears the move could complicate congressional negotiations over the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, while major financial firms, led by trade group SIFMA, argue that sweeping market-structure changes should go through a for

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cancelled its Regulation Crypto meeting. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suddenly postponed the Friday meeting at which it intended to propose the rule known as “Regulation Crypto.” The agency cited an “unforeseen scheduling issue” as the reason for canceling the meeting. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was on the verge of revealing its first major rulemaking effort in the digital assets sphere, having

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk) Tether said it has completed its first full financial audit, a step it had promised for years amid scrutiny of the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin. KPMG U.S. issued an unqualified opinion on firm’s 2025 financial statements, which showed reserves exceeding liabilities by $6.814 billion, the stablecoin issuer said. The audit goes beyond Tether’s prior quarterly attestations, as KPMG tested transactions, systems and assets, including a physical

How realistic is bitcoin hitting $1 million? (Getty Images) Most lofty targets are based on the assumption that money will rotate out of gold and other assets and into bitcoin, but ignore opportunity cost. High yields on long-term U.S. Treasuries make non-yielding assets like bitcoin less attractive. Bitcoin's price relative to the 30-year Treasury yield never made a new high in the 2025 bull run, unlike its dollar price. That ratio has now broken down through a multi-year support line, completi

People affected by companies' data breaches remain at risk of scams for years after the security break actually takes place. (geralt/Pixabay) Trezor said nearly 14,000 customers had personal data exposed after its fulfillment partner ShipMonk suffered an unauthorized access to its systems, though its own infrastructure and wallets remain secure. The breach, the first in Trezor’s history to expose customer phone numbers and shipping addresses, increases the risk of phishing and other scams even t