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The extension gives Cboe the exclusive license to list S&P 500 index options through 2051, a franchise the companies say traded 970.6 million contracts last year. A single permissive sentence adds that the two may also pursue new products like tokenized options, with no product, venue, timetable or filing attached.

Total dividends would not change, but STRC's record dates would go from 24 a year to 365 and the other three series from four to 365. Proposal 1 needs a majority of all outstanding common voting power, and the proxy puts Michael Saylor's share of it at 32.9%.

Evercrest Technologies filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, alleging LayerZero approved its single-verifier bridge configuration in writing and warned another integrator about the same risk without warning Kelp. The claim adds a defamation count over LayerZero's post-exploit statements and seeks Evercrest's own losses rather than the full $292 million.

Blockchain.com signed a memorandum of understanding to route its users to NYSE's planned digital alternative trading system, a venue that has not opened and still needs regulatory clearance. The companies disclosed no financial terms and no launch date, and the market data leg of the deal is the part that can start now.

The miner's self-mining hashrate rose to 79.9 EH/s and production was up about 249 percent from a year earlier, but its bitcoin balance ended the month at 61 coins, against 257 a month earlier and 1,934 a year ago. The company's own footnote says the figure counts coins pledged as collateral, which rules out one explanation for the drop.

Blockchain Recovery Investment Consortium filed in the Southern District of New York on September 12, eleven days before BitMEX stops trading, over positions liquidated on March 12 and 13, 2020. The complaint alleges the exchange controlled both the liquidation engine and the insurance fund that took the positions over.

The bank will hold bitcoin, ether, USDC, EURC and EURAU for European institutions, with go-live planned for this year and still subject to regulatory clearance. One of the three stablecoins comes from a venture Deutsche Bank's own asset manager helped set up.

The Layer 1 runs on proof of authority with eleven named institutions producing blocks, and network fees are paid in USDC rather than a native token. Circle minted 10 billion ARC at genesis and says that is not a commitment to a public token.

The miner booked a $638.8 million impairment retiring rigs to clear halls for AI tenants. Its $4 billion contracted run rate is still $3 billion above what is actually operating.

The brokerage's platform runs on Avalanche and Hyperledger Besu, and targets the private-market assets that South Korea's first tokenisation phase will legalise on 4 February 2027.

Payward has been sitting on a confidential filing since November 2025. What changed is not the business but the price: Deutsche Borse's April investment valued the exchange a third below its 2025 peak.

The consortium wants a dollar token live in the first half of 2027. The OCC will not finish writing its GENIUS Act rules until November.

Deputy chairman Anatoly Popov called the forecast conservative, because most Russian crypto flow will keep bypassing licensed venues and professional participants have until July 2027 to get authorised.

Polymarket surrendered more than a third of its monthly volume. Kalshi gave up 7 per cent. The gap says more about the two platforms than the headline decline does.

Canada is the fourth Webull market Coinbase has wired up after the US, Brazil and Australia, and it arrives with the Ontario Securities Commission reporting that crypto ownership among survey respondents has reached 25%.

The 4,603 coins cost $369.7 million out of a $602.8 million stock sale; the rest went to STRC buybacks, dividends and cash. STRC still trades below par after $635 million of repurchases.

The investment size is undisclosed, but the patent licence hands ICE the transfer-restriction and corporate-action machinery it would otherwise have to build before an NYSE-affiliated platform can settle anything on-chain.

BitGo picked up roughly 250 institutional client relationships and 30 staff. The seller kept a data centre pipeline it says runs past three gigawatts.

The tokens reach a brokerage holding $12 trillion in client assets that still cannot offer crypto in New York or Louisiana, and Schwab has reserved the right to withdraw any of the three before a client trades one.