Muyao Shen

BitMEX was one of the first places where crypto’s anything-goes culture took shape: an offshore exchange built around high leverage, perpetual futures and the idea that markets should never sleep. Years after regulators clipped its wings and traders migrated elsewhere, the company is finally shutting down.

Bitcoin sank below $63,000 on Friday as fading momentum behind US crypto legislation and disappointing earnings from Coinbase Global Inc. and Strategy Inc. added to signs that speculative investors are pulling back from riskier trades.

Online Gacha propels pursuit of coveted cards.

President Donald Trump said US regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid, a fast-growing crypto platform, into the country, offering one of the clearest signals yet that the White House wants to pull a major piece of the industry’s offshore market infrastructure onshore.

Police inquiries involving Binance Holdings Ltd. employees in the United Arab Emirates are testing the crypto exchange in a country that has become one of its most important bases, after investigators scrutinized a bank account it uses to hold customer money.

When the US and Israel launched their aerial assault on Iran on the last Saturday of February, the world’s main oil markets were closed. The price of crude kept moving anyway.

Some venture investors see the SEC proposal as an important reset.

Hyperliquid Labs is in advanced talks to bring its perpetual futures to US traders through Kraken’s parent company Payward, just weeks after President Donald Trump said his administration was working to bring the fast-growing platform into the US.

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is offering customers access to options tied to more than 1,000 US stocks and exchange-traded funds through a partnership.

James van Geelen, the founder of independent investment-research shop Citrini Research, has sold the firm to semiconductor and AI researcher SemiAnalysis.