Unlimited leverage and sentiment-driven valuations create cascading liquidations that wipe billions overnight. Crypto’s maturity demands systematic discipline. Opinion by: Lucas Kiely, CEO of Future Digital Crypto’s most significant issue is that it lacks the type of quantifiable value that traditional stocks possess, which makes it entirely speculative. On top of that, investors can leverage trades in a way that can tank billions of dollars overnight.Industry diehards behind the technology argue that blockchain’s innovative infrastructure is what gives it value. Yet there’s very little evidence that this translates into real, tangible gains for tokenholders.Read more Unlimited leverage and sentiment-driven valuations create cascading liquidations that wipe billions overnight. Crypto’s maturity demands systematic discipline. Opinion by: Lucas Kiely, CEO of Future Digital Crypto’s most significant issue is that it lacks the type of quantifiable value that traditional stocks possess, which makes it entirely speculative. On top of that, investors can leverage trades in a way that can tank billions of dollars overnight.Industry diehards behind the technology argue that blockchain’s innovative infrastructure is what gives it value. Yet there’s very little evidence that this translates into real, tangible gains for tokenholders.Read more

                                                                               BitGo’s move creates further competition in a burgeoning European crypto market that is expected to generate $26 billion revenue this year, according to one estimate.                     BitGo, a digital asset infrastructure company with more than $100 billion in assets under custody, has received an extension of its license from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), enabling it to offer crypto services to European investors. The company said its local subsidiary, BitGo Europe, can now provide custody, staking, transfer, and trading services. Institutional clients will also have access to an over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk and multiple liquidity venues.The extension builds on BitGo’s previous Markets-in-Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license, also issued by BaFIN, and adds trading to the existing custody, transfer and staking services. BitGo acquired its initial MiCA license in May 2025, which allowed it to offer certain services to traditional institutions and crypto native companies in the European Union.Read more