Markets
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Bitcoin Shortsellers Get Destroyed With $1.7B in Positions Liquidated Following BTC Price Jump 

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Shortsellers Get Destroyed With $1.7B in Positions Liquidated Following BTC Price Jump  Those betting on the price…
Aug 19, 2026
DeFi

Cantor Fitzgerald Opens Institutional Block Trading in Kalshi Event Contracts

The investment bank will act as an introducing broker for privately negotiated prediction-market trades, with Susquehanna Predictions supplying the pricing…
Aug 19, 2026
Markets

TikTok Explores Peer-to-Peer Payments in Direct Messages, Pushing Deeper Into Fintech

Code in the current US iPhone app points to transfers routed through TikTok Pay, though a spokesperson reportedly said the…
Aug 19, 2026
Markets

Kalshi Files for Perpetual Futures on US Stocks and Copper, Its First on Equities

The exchange asked the CFTC to approve contracts tracking a 500-stock US index and spot copper, three months after regulators…
Aug 19, 2026
Institutional

Bitcoin Tops $68,000 as Short Liquidations Hit $1.7 Billion

Ether gained 9% and total crypto market value rose 5.1% after the U.S. Treasury said it would at least double…
Aug 19, 2026
Markets

President Trump To Host Crypto Execs at White House 

Bitcoin Magazine President Trump To Host Crypto Execs at White House  The meeting with crypto execs comes after a vote…
Aug 19, 2026
Markets

Coinbase Adds 50x Crypto Perps to Base App Through Hyperliquid

The Hyperliquid integration gives eligible Base App users access to more than 290 perpetual futures markets. Read Full Story at…
Aug 19, 2026
Markets

Coinbase Adds 50x Crypto Perps to Base App Through Hyperliquid

The Hyperliquid integration gives eligible Base App users access to more than 290 perpetual futures markets. Read Full Story at…
Aug 19, 2026
Markets

US commodities regulator imposes 5-year trading ban on ex-Alameda, FTX execs

The consent orders ended the CFTC’s case against two former crypto executives after FTX and Alameda agreed to $12.7 billion…
Aug 19, 2026
Institutional

Bitcoin price hits 11-week high as US Treasury doubles debt buyback size

Bitcoin joined US stocks in a broad rally after the US Treasury announced that it was at least doubling the…
Aug 19, 2026