Schwab Launches Direct Crypto Trading at 0.75% Fee—Undercutting Fidelity
Charles Schwab's $11T brokerage now lets clients buy bitcoin and ether directly at 0.75% per trade—cheaper than Fidelity's 1% but higher than Robinhood. Wall Street's crypto…
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Kraken Drops $550M on Bitnomial—The Biggest U.S. Crypto Derivatives Play Yet
Payward, Kraken's parent, is buying Bitnomial for $550M—acquiring all three CFTC licenses needed to offer regulated crypto derivatives in the U.S. The deal values Payward at…
Charles Schwab’s $11 Trillion Shadow Enters Prediction Markets—And It Won’t Touch Sports
The $11 trillion brokerage is eyeing prediction markets tied to financial events, just as it launches Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. Wall Street is done watching from…
Russia’s $96 Billion Crypto Laundering Successor Just Got Hacked—and Blames Western Spies
Grinex, the sanctioned exchange that replaced Garantex after a $96B laundering run, suspended operations after a $13M hack it blames on ‘Western Special Services.’
Public Bitcoin Miners Dumped Record 32,000 BTC in Q1—Then Asked for More
Public Bitcoin miners sold more BTC in the first quarter of 2026 than in all of 2025, shattering records as mining economics crater.
Czech Central Bank Governor to Explain Bitcoin Reserve Strategy—While the ECB Says No
Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl will keynote Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, explaining why his central bank bought Bitcoin while the ECB explicitly rejected it.
FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Through iPhone’s Back Door—Without Breaking Encryption
The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by pulling them from Apple's push notification cache—a technique that never touched Signal's encryption.
Almost Every Crypto Protocol Hides Its Market-Maker Deals—Only One Didn’t
A Novora study of 150 crypto protocols finds fewer than 1% disclose their market-making arrangements—only Meteora went public.
South Korea Will Pay Government Bills With Programmable Tokens—Not Cards
South Korea's finance ministry will pilot blockchain-based deposit tokens for government spending in Q4 2026, replacing purchasing cards with programmable money that enforces spending rules before…
Bitcoin Miners Are Losing $19K Per Coin—HIVE’s Answer Is a $75M Bet on GPUs
HIVE Digital raises $75M in zero-interest notes to buy GPUs and build AI data centers, joining a wave of bitcoin miners pivoting to AI hosting.