Market Outlook

Richard Rosenblum, co-founder of GSR, points out the lackluster growth in listed options hides the real action taking place in OTC hedges.

A lukewarm U.S. economy is making big banks like JPMorgan Chase struggle to produce fast loan growth - even with interest rates close to historic lows. Yet, in the white-hot cryptocurrency industry, lenders are burgeoning.

Bitcoin is eyeing its best January performance in seven years after crossing the all-important 200-day average hurdle overnight.

Tether is issuing a new stablecoin as ERC-20 and TRC20 tokens, backing their price with one ounce of gold.

Digital asset issuer Amun is launching a new product for bitcoin bears on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

The trust’s shares are now registered under the Exchange Act of 1934, making the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust the first cryptocurrency investment vehicle to become a reporting company.

With only 52 votes, the DigixDAO treasury will dissolve, returning DGD holders their staked $ETH.

Former CFTC Chair Chris Giancarlo and LabCFTC head Dan Gorfine are forming the Digital Dollar Foundation, working with Accenture to determine how best to create a U.S. central bank digital currency.

Bitwise's bitcoin ETF has been pulled, but the firm said it plans to refile at a later date.

More than half of financial advisors are too spooked by regulatory uncertainty to initiate or expand their cryptocurrency investments, a new study by Bitwise Asset Management found.

WisdomTree, an asset manager specializing in exchange-traded funds, is vying to become one of the first established U.S. financial firms to offer clients digital assets, including a so-called stablecoin whose value is closely linked to the U.S. dollar.

Digital asset issuer Securitize has facilitated what it says is the first direct IRA investment in security token offerings.