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PORT VILA, Vanuatu, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vantage Markets expanded its Pre-IPO CFD offering with the launch of its Unitree Pre-IPO CFD for eligible clients, available from 10 August 2026 under the symbol UNITREEUSD. The launch provides eligible clients with exposure to movements in the applicable reference price of Unitree Robotics, a company operating in the fields of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. The Unitree Pre-IPO CFD is a leveraged derivative product that provides eligible clients with exposure to movements in its applicable reference price, as determined in accordance with Vantage’s applicable pricing methodology and trading terms. It does…

Hyperliquid, the decentralized exchange (DEX) specializing in perpetual futures, has emerged as a dominant force in on-chain trading, but its speed is exposing cracks in institutional trading workflows. Over the past 30 days, Hyperliquid has processed $200 billion in perpetual futures volume, with open interest currently sitting at $11.5 billion—a 9.3% share of global perp markets, up from 6.9% in May, according to DeFiLlama. Its appeal is clear: Hyperliquid offers one-block finality, processing trades, liquidations, and margin updates in just 0.07 seconds. However, this speed is proving incompatible with traditional institutional approval workflows, which often require multi-party human sign-offs that…

Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 96% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 14 months In July, ETH outperformed Nasdaq 100 by 2,500 basis points, the largest since July 2025, reflective of the strengthening fundamentals of crypto Bitmine repurchased 1.7 million shares of common stock in the past week, and has repurchased over 20.8 million shares cumulatively since July 2026 under its previously announced $4 billion share repurchase program Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is…

Bitcoin (BTC) is starting the new week at around $63,000, but bear-market history continues to repeat with weekly close below a key long-term trend line.Key points:Bitcoin has been trading in a range between $57,700 and $67,300, but last week’s close came with a drop below the key 200-week moving average at $64,216.Markets are pricing in near-70% odds of a hold by the Federal Reserve in September, as July meeting minutes are due this week.Japan Q2 GDP figures fall short of expectations at 1.1% as analysis warns of “global tightening” that could impact Bitcoin and risk assets. Bitcoin sees weekly close below…

Bitcoin near $63,500 looks like more summer torpor, capped below $64,000 and holding above the low-$60,000s, but the flow picture underneath has reversed, said Yusuf Fakhro, partner at ARP Digital, in a note to CoinDesk.US spot ETFs took in more than 14,000 BTC over five days into August 7, he said, the strongest stretch since May, and Q3 has drawn roughly 11,000 BTC of net inflows against 110,000 BTC of outflows in the back half of Q2. The institutional selling that defined the second quarter has flipped to buying.Spot volumes have fallen to two-and-a-half-year lows, perpetual volumes to three-year lows,…

Miami, Florida, USA, August 16th, 2026, PlayNewswire BiggerZ is strengthening its position as a fairness-first betting platform, bringing casino gaming, sports betting and prediction markets together under one account while making transparency, verifiability and clearly defined rules central to the player experience. As online betting platforms expand across crypto, casino gaming, sports and prediction markets, BiggerZ is taking a different approach to how these products are presented to players: fairness should be explained rather than simply claimed. The platform’s approach is built around four principles – transparency, clarity, verifiability and defined rules – applied at the moments where players would…

The additions come as Bybit’s TradFi perpetuals lineup grows to more than 200 products spanning equities, ETFs, commodities, indices and private companies.

The contracts traded just 1.6% apart on average when both markets were active, and traded near $92 and $94 most recently, translating to a more than 300% upside from the IPO price.That fourfold premium also means Unitree could have a blockbuster debut and still leave leveraged bulls nursing steep losses.“Unitree can open at twice its IPO price and still liquidate a third of long exposure,” Allium said.An opening around $45, double the IPO price, would still be about 52% below the current perp price and could liquidate roughly 33% of long exposure, the analysts said. At the other extreme, a…

Gen Z traders on Binance are allocating a growing share of their equity activity to exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with the products accounting for 25% of the cohort’s trading volume in early August, according to Binance Research.ETFs accounted for 21.9% of Gen Z net equity inflows in July, up from 18.5% in June, while the share going to individual stocks fell to 74.2% from 77%.The analysis examined activity across direct equities, tokenized stocks and traditional finance perpetuals, comparing Gen Z accounts with Millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers on measures including trading frequency, net flows and leverage use.The younger cohort traded…

President Donald Trump is expected to be in attendance when the administration’s new innovation committee — a crowd of crypto CEOs and leaders of prediction market and AI companies — sits for a White House meeting on Wednesday, said people briefed on the planning.The chief executives of companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket and Kalshi are members of the new Innovation Advisory Committee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but before they attend their first committee meeting on Thursday, the crypto CEOs will gather for the White House meeting, said the people, who asked not to be named,…