Cryptonews

Perpetual futures, often called “perps,” are a type of leveraged investment that doesn’t expire. They’ve become incredibly popular, with over $61.7 trillion traded in 2025 – a 29% increase from the previous year. In fact, they make up as much as 90% of all crypto derivative trading, according to some reports. Until recently, traders in the US haven’t been able to easily access these investments, needing to use exchanges located outside the country or avoid them completely.

That crypto exchange your cousin won’t stop ranting about at family barbecues has gone and done the daft thing: they’ve launched pre-IPO perpetual futures for SpaceX, the very first product under their new “let’s regular people gamble on fancy private companies before they go public” vertical, running on their Coinbase International Exchange. The whole thing’s only open to folks outside the US, which is probably for the best – the SEC would have a fit so loud it’d blow the roof off their building and send all their paperwork flying into the Potomac.

Bitget now supports trading several new tokenized assets, including shares of companies like Apple (rAAPL), Amazon (rAMZN), and Tesla (rTSLA), as well as popular ETFs like QQQ and SPY. This update lets users do more than just buy and sell these assets on the spot market – they can now use them in futures trading to create more advanced strategies.

Coinbase, a major digital currency exchange, took a strong step by freezing $3 million in funds that were directly linked to these harmful groups.

After Bitcoin’s price continued to fall, well-known analyst Ali Martinez predicted it might soon hit a very strong support level, indicating a potential further decline.

Interpol, that stalwart guardian of global order, reports that financial scams tied to these multi-asset markets have pilfered a staggering $442 billion in 2025. Ah, the audacity of these modern-day highwaymen! As tokenized financial products sashay into the mainstream, new vulnerabilities emerge-crypto wallets, phishing schemes, fake applications, and even AI-generated scams. The digital age, it seems, is a breeding ground for the creatively deceitful.

On a Wednesday, as the sun cast its golden glow upon the land, the House of Lords’ Financial Services Regulation Committee unveiled a report on the regulation of stablecoins. With a tone both firm and genteel, they urged the Bank of England (BoE) to revisit certain aspects of their proposed rules, where the balance between fostering innovation and mitigating risk appears, in their wise estimation, somewhat awry.

Here’s the deal: Ubisoft froze the crypto wallet layer of its Champions Tactics project faster than I freeze when someone asks me to improv. They’re now porting inventories into a Web2 build because, surprise, players care about fun and polish, not blockchain buzzwords. Meanwhile, crypto investors are still throwing money at infrastructure like it’s a Mean Girls burn book. So, what’s a Web3 dev to do? Focus on gameplay, not speculation. (And maybe take a page from my book: Bossypants for game devs.)

Shinhan Asset Management and Shinhan Investment & Securities each signed agreements with the Canton Foundation, according to local news reports.

Edwards’ fancy model-which I reckon is about as reliable as a weathervane in a tornado-shows Bitcoin’s market price has taken a nosedive, dropping 15.60% to a paltry $62,099.03. But here’s the kicker: it’s now floating below the mystical “Discount Factor” line, which supposedly points to a glorious $120,000 on the horizon. If only we could hitch a ride on that rainbow.