Bybit has officially secured regulatory approval to operate in Dubai, the exchange announced, marking a significant milestone in the company's push to establish a regulated presence in one of the world's most active crypto hubs.
Conflicts
Coverage where policy, market structure, and company pressure collide across the crypto stack.
Conflicts is mapped from the WordPress categories that most consistently surface regulatory tension, exchange pressure, and contested narratives.
Chamath Palihapitiya, the venture capitalist and longtime Bitcoin advocate turned vocal critic, has laid out a scenario in which Bitcoin does not just crash but goes all the way to zero: a catastrophic hack that shatters confidence in the network's foundational security.
The move puts both companies in line at the CFTC, the federal derivatives regulator whose approval is a hard prerequisite for any US-regulated prediction market offering. Neither a filing nor any pending review constitutes approval, and no launch timeline has been confirmed.
Bakkt is setting a hard number on its digital-asset ambitions: $3 billion in transaction volume by the end of 2026. The target is the clearest signal yet that the company is betting its future on becoming a serious player in digital-asset infrastructure, not just a peripheral name in the crypto space.
Six of the most prominent names in blockchain infrastructure have signed onto a joint letter addressed to the U. S.
Chinese authorities are seeking to seize 61,800 Bitcoin tied to an alleged $5. 7 billion fraud scheme, a move that would place one of the largest state-controlled Bitcoin caches in the world under government custody.
Grayscale has opened in-kind transaction capability across 10 crypto assets, a structural shift that lets eligible investors move the underlying tokens directly into and out of Grayscale products rather than going through a cash-only process.
The reported action focuses specifically on foreign-operated networks running crypto scams against American victims, according to CoinGape .
The approval clears Evernorth to proceed with a capital raise, with the stated purpose of buying more XRP . The SEC's sign-off matters because it brings the fundraising effort inside the bounds of U.
Bitget is moving into Thailand by acquiring a locally licensed crypto exchange, a strategic step that gives the global trading platform a regulated foothold in one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing digital asset markets. The name of the acquired exchange and the financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

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