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UBS boosted its quarterly call option exposure for BlackRock's IBIT by over 24-fold, reaching 1.95 million underlying shares as of June 30. Direct holdings of IBIT also rose 12% to 407,890 shares, while put option exposure dropped roughly 53% to 143,300 underlying shares during the quarter. The filing doesn't clarify if the increase stems from client initiatives, dealer hedging, market-making, or proprietary exposure, and lacks strike prices. Banking giant UBS, with over $7 trillion in assets un

The Kremlin in Moscow (Artem Beliaikin/Unsplash) Moscow and parts of Kursk banned crypto mining and pool participation through Dec. 31, 2032, under government decree No. 936 to preserve power grid stability. The Energy Ministry enacted the year-round restriction to mitigate power-capacity shortages as energy-intensive mining facilities continue to strain regional grids. This decision follows Russia's legalization of registered mining in 2024 and subsequent bans in 10 other regions due to rising

The Kremlin in Moscow (Artem Beliaikin/Unsplash) Moscow and parts of Kursk banned crypto mining and pool participation through Dec. 31, 2032, under government decree No. 936 to preserve power grid stability. The Energy Ministry enacted the year-round restriction to mitigate power-capacity shortages as energy-intensive mining facilities continue to strain regional grids. This decision follows Russia's legalization of registered mining in 2024 and subsequent bans in 10 other regions due to rising

Paul Tudor Jones in New York in 2018. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images) Tudor raised its IBIT stake by 18.9% to 688,529 shares, worth $22.9 million, as of June 30. The stake remains 91.4% below its 2024 peak and equals roughly 0.03% of Tudor’s reported 13F securities. Tudor Jones has repeatedly framed bitcoin as an inflation trade. Tudor Investment, founded by billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, increased its direct stake in BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF in the second quarter while cutting its report

Regulated crypto firms drew all the cash in H1 2026, an indication that permissionless projects are no longer of any interest to those writing the checks. (Logan Voss/Unsplash) Crypto startups raised $11.2 billion in the first half of 2026, with all disclosed funding flowing to regulated, permissioned businesses rather than the permissionless projects that once defined the industry. Payments and stablecoins, prediction markets, and exchanges and trading platforms drew the most capital, much of i

Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Harold Mendoza on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk) Crypto is entering a more regulated, institutionalized phase as U.S. lawmakers debate the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act and regulators refine their own rulemaking. Bitcoin markets flashed mixed signals as major corporate holders and miners sold while large wallets and hedge funds increased bullish positions. Wall Street is deepening its involvement in select crypto products and infrastructure even as a shakeout forc

Etherealize co-founder Vivek Raman (Etherealize) The resurgence of private, permissioned “consortium chains” risks recreating siloed systems that undermine the interoperability and liquidity blockchain technology was meant to enable, Etherealize CEO Raman says. Etherealize, backed by Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation, is pitching Ethereum’s open mainnet as the neutral base to which institutions can add permissioned and privacy-preserving features at higher layers. The rapid uptake of g

Donald Trump is expected to make an appearance at a White House meeting with crypto leaders next week. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) People involved in a White House innovation meeting next week have been advised that President Donald Trump is planning to attend, alongside a number of crypto CEOs involved in a new Commodity Futures Trading Commission advisory committee. The meeting is a prelude to the innovation committee’s Thursday inaugural event, at which the long list of CEOs from crypto, predic

Donald Trump is expected to make an appearance at a White House meeting with crypto leaders next week. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) People involved in a White House innovation meeting next week have been advised that President Donald Trump is planning to attend, alongside a number of crypto CEOs involved in a new Commodity Futures Trading Commission advisory committee. The meeting is a prelude to the innovation committee’s Thursday inaugural event, at which the long list of CEOs from crypto, predic

President Donald Trump at the White House (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted World Liberty Trust Company a federal charter, clearing the way for it to take over issuance of World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin. Lawmakers had expressed concerns with World Liberty’s application due to its ties to President Donald Trump. A federal bank regulator has granted World Liberty Trust Co. a conditional bank charter, it announced Friday. The Office

Wall Street street signs (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash) Shares of tokenization-focused firms including Bullish (BLSH), Figure (FIGR), Coinbase (COIN) and Circle (CRCL) slipped Friday as the SEC delayed its planned “innovation exemption” for tokenized securities and canceled meeting on proposed crypto offering rules. Uniswap’s UNI dropped 7% leading CoinDesk 20 index losses, as the exemption was expected to provide relief for trading securities on DeFi venues. The regulatory setback is a “speed bump” for

Wall Street street signs (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash) Shares of tokenization-focused firms including Bullish (BLSH), Figure (FIGR), Coinbase (COIN) and Circle (CRCL) slipped Friday as the SEC delayed its planned “innovation exemption” for tokenized securities and canceled meeting on proposed crypto offering rules. Uniswap’s UNI dropped 7% leading CoinDesk 20 index losses, as the exemption was expected to provide relief for trading securities on DeFi venues. The regulatory setback is a “speed bump” for