Muyao Shen

Leverage remains the key driver.

(Bloomberg) -- Low Ze Sheng has spent the past two years trading memecoins, chasing the jokes and bursts of attention that can send a token soaring before the crowd moves on.

Citrini Research is making the case that a “new paradigm of ‘fundamental crypto investing’” has arrived because agentic finance will be built on top of blockchains.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan outlined a regulatory approach that would shield his fast-growing cryptocurrency trading platform from direct US exchange oversight, as American authorities consider how to bring offshore venues into the domestic financial system.

Cryptocurrency firms are increasingly turning to the world of traditional finance for their next leg of growth by positioning themselves as competitors to Wall Street’s entrenched institutional businesses.

(Bloomberg) -- Binance.US is looking to raise as much as $100 million as the crypto exchange seeks to beef up its US business amid intensifying competition for digital-asset customers.

Jump Trading and DRW are committing traders and capital to an emerging market for financial contracts tied to computing power, as efforts to make the infrastructure behind the AI boom tradable move from theory into practice.

At a small cryptocurrency shop in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, a sheet of paper dated Oct. 10 is taped to shutters over the entrance: “Our physical stores are temporarily closed until further notice.”

Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder of Binance, said that the world’s largest crypto exchange may have been hacked but that user funds were safe.