
SEC Proposes Its First Transfer Agent Overhaul Since the Late 1970s
The draft writes blockchain into the rules for share registers and opens a 60-day comment window. Outlets give two release numbers and three counts of the firms affected.
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The draft writes blockchain into the rules for share registers and opens a 60-day comment window. Outlets give two release numbers and three counts of the firms affected.

Open interest in XRP futures fell while the price rose, and CME took a bigger share of what was left. The accounts of the rally's window do not agree.

RWA.xyz counted $29.5 billion in tokenized-stock transfers over 30 days, up 415%, while the value of the tokens themselves rose 1.45% to $2.54 billion.

The Bitwise Solana Staking ETF passed $1 billion in assets about ten months after listing, though its share price is still around 40% below debut.

BitGo is taking on NYDIG's derivatives, financing and structured-products desk, with about 30 people moving across. Neither side has published a price.

Schwab said on Thursday it will put solana, avalanche and chainlink on its spot crypto platform in the coming months. No launch date was given.

Crypto derivatives volume doubled to $149B on 18 August as funding hit a 20-month high, ETF flows flipped positive and Binance passed CME in futures open interest.

One share traded 29.96% below the prior close in Seoul, and an SK Hynix perpetual on a Hyperliquid HIP-3 market fell 18.7%. Three liquidation totals circulate.

Bitcoin held a $63,700 to $65,406 band as the day's digests disagreed on the print, and 97.2% of its liquidations fell on longs.

Bitcoin settled at $64,062 with prices barely moving, but DOGE futures open interest neared 16B tokens and ether's hit 14.53M ETH — the most since June 7.

Bitcoin drifted higher on thin weekend volume, and the day's forced liquidations fell almost entirely on shorts — a read on positioning, not direction.

Traders bought 20,000 $70,000 calls and sold 20,000 $72,000 calls on Deribit for the 31 July expiry, a $2.5B notional structure that settles two days after the Fed.