Expand I've seen many people recommending that crypto/US stock market players/futures traders live in small towns in China: Sanya, Dali, Lijiang, whatever. They claim to "earn dollars and spend RMB." Please! The Chinese government and police are poor. Does earning dollars make you safer or more dangerous? No political power, but you can earn foreign exchange. "A three-year-old carrying gold parading through the streets." You guys are like Lin Pingzhi of the Fuwei Escort Agency! Take my advice, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Bali, Penang are all better and cheaper than Lijiang!

Expand 🇺🇸 Today: Michael Seliger, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, stated that the Cryptocurrency Market Structure Act will create a "gold standard" for the U.S. cryptocurrency market.

Expand 📊 Introduction to Futures Trading Strategies The core of futures trading lies in agreeing to buy or sell an asset at a specific price on a future date. In the cryptocurrency space, this often manifests as perpetual futures, offering 24/7 trading, greater flexibility, and unique risks. Different strategies can help traders decide when and how to participate in the market. Directional Trading ⬆️⬇️ Popular with beginners. Directional trading involves going long when prices are expected to rise and going short when prices are expected to fall. This simple long/short framework forms the basis of many advanced futures strategies, but it requires traders to have strong conviction and react quickly to market changes. New to futures trading? Or want to learn more? Learn core cryptocurrency futures trading strategies and their applications in our complete guide 👇

Expand Cryptocom has launched OG, a new prediction market application for the U.S. market, powered by its subsidiary Cryptocom Derivatives North America, which is regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). OG offers regulated sports contracts, as well as markets for financial, political, and cultural events, and plans to introduce margin trading—making it the first prediction market platform to offer margin trading.

Expand Musk's Grok is truly amazing. I bought a safe, but my iPhone 17 just couldn't connect to it. It kept failing via Bluetooth; it would fail every time I turned it on. I contacted customer service, and they spent over two hours trying, granting all permissions, but it still didn't work. Then I contacted Grok, and initially, she guided me through setting up Bluetooth, but I did that too, and it still didn't work. She told me to log into my account on another non-Apple phone, connect successfully, and then log into the safe's mini-program on my Apple phone. Then I could see the devices I had linked. I finally succeeded! Asking Doubao (a Chinese Q&A website) was exhausting, but I still couldn't get an answer. Furthermore, I discovered that Doubao's math skills are particularly poor. I asked her how many hours it takes for Comex gold futures to open from Saturday's closure to Monday's opening, and she told me about 25 hours, from 6 AM Saturday to 6 AM Monday. Can anyone tell me how long that is? Isn't it about 48 hours? I'm still a bit confused. @grok, how long is the interval between the closure of Comex gold futures on Saturday and the opening on Monday?

Expand According to Wu, Kraken's parent company, Payward, disclosed its fiscal year 2025 results: adjusted revenue of $2.2 billion (up 33% year-over-year), adjusted EBITDA of $531 million (up 26%), platform trading volume of $2 trillion (up 34%), platform assets of $48.2 billion (up 11%), 5.7 million liquidated accounts (up 50%), and futures DARTs up 119% year-over-year. Payward clearly positions itself as the unified infrastructure layer supporting Kraken and products such as NinjaTrader, Breakout, and xStocksFi.

Expand 🇷🇺 Breaking news: The Moscow Exchange plans to launch cryptocurrency indices for Solana, Ripple, and Tron in 2026, with futures expected to follow.

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Expand Wu learned that the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has added ADG platform/格睿德科技科技 to its list of suspicious virtual asset trading platforms. The SFC stated that the entity claims to operate a platform on a certain website offering trading services for tokenized physical assets and stablecoins that appear to constitute securities, and is suspected of engaging in unlicensed activities.

Expand Last week's coordinated action by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is the strongest signal to date that our financial system is about to move onto the blockchain. This makes, rather than diminishes, the necessity for market structure legislation.