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Keyrock has completed the acquisition of the trading and brokerage assets of BlockFills’ institutional digital asset business, expanding its capabilities in institutional cryptocurrency trading as demand for professional digital asset services continues to grow.Announced on Thursday, the transaction adds BlockFills’ institutional client relationships, trading technology, operational systems and derivatives expertise to Keyrock’s existing platform. The Brussels-based company said the acquisition will strengthen its services across market making, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, options, credit, onchain solutions and asset management while expanding its global regulatory footprint.The deal comes as institutional participation in crypto markets continues to increase, with banks, hedge funds, asset managers…

Aristotle Exchange, which Underdog acquired in March and rebranded as UDX, launched Friday after self-certifying its first sports contracts, setting trading fees and establishing a market-maker programMajor fantasy sports company Underdog launched its own prediction market exchange Friday, bringing more of its rapidly growing Predictions business in-house.Underdog CEO Jeremy Levine confirmed the launch during an interview Friday afternoon with CNBC’s Contessa Brewer. “Today, we are launching our own exchange,” Levine said, describing it as a federally regulated platform operating through the company’s designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization.Aristotle Exchange DCM, now operating as Underdog Exchange, or UDX, filed seven…

Citadel Securities, the Wall Street market maker, now has $600 million in announced strategic investments across two rival crypto exchanges, each valued at $20 billion.Crypto.com announced its $400 million deal on July 16, 2026. Previously, on Nov. 18, 2025, Kraken disclosed an executed agreement for a $200 million investment at the same valuation. Together, the investments give Citadel economic exposure to both venues as they expand beyond crypto trading. Related ReadingHuge $100 billion crypto listing stampede started by Kraken’s stealth IPO filingThe resurgence of crypto IPOs, led by Kraken, reflects a $100 billion opportunity in financial infrastructure. Nov 20, 2025…

Cardano is trading near support as ADA investors look for a stronger reason to step back into the market. The project still has one of the most committed communities in crypto, and its development roadmap remains a central part of the long-term argument. But price action has been quieter, and traders are watching whether support can hold while the broader market deals with weaker risk appetite. That is the current tension for ADA. Cardano has not disappeared from the conversation, but it needs a fresh catalyst strong enough to move beyond patient community support and bring wider market interest back.…

64 billion SHIB have left crypto exchanges today, so far. SBI inherited 1.111 trillion SHIB through the Coinhako acquisition. Exchange reserves climbed to 86.497 trillion SHIB. Shiba Inu (SHIB) is navigating two very different stories at the same time. On one side, the token is gaining more exposure in Asia through a major corporate acquisition involving one of Japan’s largest financial groups. On the other, fresh on-chain data points to renewed selling pressure as more SHIB moves onto exchanges. The conflicting signals have left the token under pressure, with buyers struggling to regain momentum despite positive adoption news. Exchange outflows…

San Francisco, CA, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Completes Third Open-Market Purchase as Contributor Network and Assets Continue to Grow Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced the completion of a third strategic purchase of Numeraire (NMR), acquiring an additional $1.2 million of the token from the open market. The purchase brings Numerai’s total NMR buybacks to $3.2 million within one year. The buyback reflects Numerai’s continued investment in the staking system that aligns thousands of independent data scientists toward improving the firm’s Stake-Weighted Meta Model, the machine learning model that powers Numerai’s…

London, United Kingdom, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover. The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties. As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional audiences, securing industry-leading protection against slashing risk for ether.fi users is critical. Over the last year, ether.fi has been systematically strengthening their stack across infrastructure, risk management, operational security and real-time defense systems.  Since ether.fi operates one of the largest validator sets on Ethereum, slashing is a…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed five Ondo tokenized stock trading pairs on its spot market in collaboration with Ondo Finance. The five companies span a supply chain that runs from semiconductor and precision component manufacturing to industrial cooling and power infrastructure supporting AI data centers, allowing users to trade these U.S. stocks using USDT on MEXC around the clock, with instant settlement and no traditional brokerage account required. The trading pairs include tokenized shares of STMicroelectronics N.V. (STMON/USDT), Fabrinet (FNON/USDT), Trane Technologies (TTON/USDT), Amphenol (APHON/USDT) and Quanta Services (PWRON/USDT).…

Dubai, UAE, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today released its Q1 2026 BTC spot execution analysis, showing that its Rapid Price Improvement (RPI) mechanism consistently delivered lower trading slippage than comparable execution measurements across major cryptocurrency exchanges. As digital asset markets continue to mature, execution quality has emerged as an increasingly important measure of market performance alongside trading fees and quoted liquidity. Bybit’s latest analysis demonstrates that improvements in market structure can materially reduce trading costs for both retail and institutional participants. Across simulated BTC/USDT spot trades ranging from US$10,000 to US$1…

Willemstad, Curaçao, July 17th, 2026, PlayNewswire Cryptocurrency has become one of the fastest-growing categories within prediction markets, as traders and investors increasingly look beyond price charts to speculate on major industry milestones. Reflecting this trend, international betting brand 1win has expanded its Markets product with a series of new cryptocurrency prediction markets covering some of the sector’s most closely watched digital assets. The new crypto-themed forecasts on 1win Markets allow users to speculate on topics, including “Crypto-related forecasts are becoming a natural extension of prediction markets, giving users another way to engage with some of the biggest narratives in the…