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Kalshi reportedly plans to ask the CFTC to approve a WTI crude oil perpetual futures contract. The proposed product would trade around the clock five days a week and would not have an expiration date.
A law firm and tokenization platform are planning a possible 2027 test issuance of catastrophe bonds onchain. The proposed structure would give investors legal ownership of the securities and could lower minimum investment requirements.
CryptoSlate reports that an SEC draft could let public blockchains help determine legal stock ownership, while one transfer agent retains control and physical addresses remain the minimum requirement.
Bitcoin, gold and stocks fell as some observers argued that a Federal Reserve rate increase would be a mistake. CoinDesk’s Sept. 2 briefing highlighted the monetary-policy concern across related markets.
The SEC has proposed its first transfer-agent reporting overhaul in 40 years. New Form TA-2 questions would ask agents how many share registers they maintain on distributed ledgers, highlighting tokenization’s growing relevance.
The SEC is seeking to modernize transfer agent rules largely unchanged since the 1980s, with provisions addressing blockchain-based records, tokenized securities and increasingly automated market infrastructure.
Michael Saylor is calling on MSCI to drop a proposed screening rule that could remove Strategy from its global indexes. The screen would affect three companies in November, with Strategy the largest of them.
Hyperliquid is discussing a potential US launch for its perpetual futures through Payward-owned, US-regulated Bitnomial. The arrangement would mark the decentralized exchange’s first US entry, according to Decrypt.
CryptoSlate reported that the SEC’s proposed $75 million crypto pathway differs from Congress’s unfinished ancillary-asset framework in eligibility, enforceable investor rights and how overlapping rules would apply.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency requested a fiscal 2027 tax reform to exempt trust-type stablecoins from mandatory tax filings. Cointelegraph said the regulator expects the change to support their use as transaction tools.
Capital B plans to raise €21 million to acquire nearly 270 BTC, but full exercise of associated warrants could reduce the displayed ratio by about 24%, creating significant dilution risk.
The Japanese Bitcoin Industry has unveiled Aurora, a Bitcoin and Lightning-focused initiative designed to improve cross-border payments for global fans of Japan’s anime and games market, valued at 2 trillion yen.
Decrypt reports that Nvidia’s potential acquisition of Hugging Face could concentrate more of the open-source AI pipeline—from chips to model distribution—within one company, with possible implications for developers and users.
Unstoppable Domains has dropped plans to bring .crypto and .bitcoin to the standard internet. CoinDesk reports that the abandoned bids would have cost more than $2 million in base fees alone.
Bitcoin researchers propose SHRINCS, a quantum-resistant approval design that could allow larger transaction signatures while preserving more network capacity than existing post-quantum alternatives, according to CoinDesk.
