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Congratulations to @CoinbaseInsto, @CoinSharesCo, @arbitrum, @Alchemy, @Mysten_Labs, and @monad, six of M Group’s clients, which have been recognized across Fortune's inaugural Crypto 100 and Crypto Innovators rankings. The lists spotlight those companies and protocols advancing digital assets through innovation, infrastructure, financial services, and adoption. We're grateful for the opportunity to partner with organizations building the future of blockchain technology and global finance.

Crypto is starting to resemble FX market structure. Co-founder and CCO at @BridgePortMQ breaks it down.

“It feels like there is a trend towards potentially even more volume, and some clients are building algo strategies that target the close.” - @IEX Head of Business Analytics, Sam Stevens, speaking with Markets Media’s Shanny Basar about their April COTM, which showed that in the final 10 minutes of the day (excluding the closing print), IEX now ranks #3 among exchanges. Learn more about the COTM in @marketsmedia below: marketsmedia.com/end-of-day-vol…

Ahead of SpaceX’s upcoming IPO, @Coinbase has launched pre-IPO SpaceX perpetual futures for customers outside of the U.S. These contracts allow traders to speculate on the value of SpaceX before its public listing. With this offering, Coinbase is providing users with access to private market opportunities that have historically been difficult for retail investors to partake in. The launch is also part of Coinbase's broader effort to expand its derivatives business and provide traders with new ways to gain exposure to high profile private companies. Read the full story by @Vlajournaliste at @WSJ: wsj.com/livecoverage/s…

.@Generali has launched a new global brand, Redion, consolidating its assistance, travel insurance, and employee benefits businesses, including Europ Assistance and Generali Employee Benefits, into a single platform operating across more than 190 countries. The move also brings @EA_Group’s U.S. brands Generali Global Assistance, GMMI, and Trip Mate under the Redion umbrella as part of the company’s broader strategy to unify its care and protection services. They will focus on integrated offerings spanning travel insurance, medical assistance, employee protection, mobility, and embedded insurance solutions for global businesses and consumers. Read the full article @itijonline here: itij.com/latest/news/ge…

"Smart contracts and programmable forms of capital deployment are going to define the next wave of crypto." @TuongvyLe12 of @veda_labs tells @RemyBlaireNews institutions are turning to decentralized infrastructure to reduce friction and deploy capital more efficiently as liquidity tightens.

Incumbent financial institutions can’t afford to wait for the CLARITY Act to pass before engaging with digital assets, argues @BridgePortMQ CCO Chris Soriano, responding to a recent op-ed making the case for legislative patience. Soriano points to BNY Mellon, State Street, and JPMorgan as proof that workable regulatory conditions already exist for banks willing to act on them. He contends that waiting for Congress will have consequences given the head start already held by crypto-native firms who built foundational infrastructure under far more ambiguous conditions. Read Soriano’s Letter to the Editor in @AmerBanker below: americanbanker.com/opinion/banks-…

Eighty percent of Americans say they are excited to travel this summer, up three points from last year, according to the 2026 Holiday Barometer from @GeneraliGA_NA. The average U.S. trip budget is $3,545, with nearly half of travelers expecting to spend more than last summer. For more Barometer findings related Summer 2026’s record travel demand, check out @chriselliotts‘s article for @Forbes below: forbes.com/sites/christop…

ICYMI: @JitoFDN has appointed @kevinhbeardsley as Head of Institutional Growth, bringing over a decade of experience across Kraken, B2C2, Elwood, and Ctrl Wallet, where he most recently served as COO. The hire signals Jito’s continued push to deepen its institutional footprint coming off the announcement of their consumer trading app, JTX, early last week. Read more in @traders_tweets' weekly hiring recap here: tradersmagazine.com/featured_artic…

At Consensus Miami, industry leaders from @CoinSharesCo and @FlowTraders discussed how spot Bitcoin ETFs have solved crypto’s long standing access problem, while broader infrastructure challenges still remain. @jmmognetti, CEO and Co-Founder of CoinShares, warned that, “Right now they are all using one custodian, creating a massive concentration risk in the market.” He added, “From a protection and diversification point of view, it's a zero.” @AaronDimitri2, General Counsel for Digital Assets at Flow Traders, highlighted how ETFs are evolving bitcoin exposure beyond simple buy and hold strategies, stating, “You’re able to build in yield products, different structured vehicles.” Read the full panel recap from @CoinDesk here: coindesk.com/business/2026/…

The @hedera ecosystem came together in Miami for HederaCon 2026, with conversations spanning institutional adoption, AI, tokenization, stablecoins, and the future of enterprise blockchain infrastructure. Hashgraph introduced CLPR ("Clipper"), a novel bridgeless cross-ledger protocol in development that enables tokens, data, and messages to move freely across blockchain networks without bridges, pooled liquidity, or intermediary validators. Discussions also revolved around the growing momentum behind tokenized assets, the importance of trusted and compliant infrastructure for institutions, and how AI and blockchain are beginning to intersect in more meaningful ways. Watch the full @CoinDesk feature here: CoinDesk HederaCon Coverage: coindesk.com/video/the-hede…

At Solana Accelerate today, @jito_sol announced plans to launch a new consumer-facing trading app, @jtx_trade, marking an initial move into developing a trading tool for sophisticated @Solana traders. The platform brings professional-grade order types, persistent charting, high quality assets, and execution quality that beats centralized exchanges, with assets remaining in the user's custody throughout. JTX is the first product on Solana that gives serious traders the execution and order types they've been forced to leave the chain to find, as Co-Founder and CEO @buffalu__ stated, “We don’t really want to wait for other people to make things better above. We’re just going to go and do it ourselves.” Read the full story by @whosknave for @fortunemagazine here: fortune.com/2026/05/05/sol…

Through Coinbase Prime, @coinbase has become the only full-service prime brokerage in crypto, according to Head of Strategy at Coinbase Institutional, @johnjdagostino. Now Coinbase offers trading, custody, financing, derivatives, staking, and cross-margining in a single, integrated platform, delivering the efficiency and seamlessness that institutions expect from their providers. Find out more about Coinbase’s prime brokerage offering from @willcanny99 in @CoinDesk at the link below: coindesk.com/business/2026/…

Frank Drouet has been named APAC CEO of @FlowTraders, part of a broader leadership restructuring in the region that includes a new COO (Fabian Rijlaarsdam) and CCO (Ken Han). Drouet, who has more than three decades of industry experience, will lead the firm’s continued expansion in Asia Pacific, highlighted by its recently launched China markets trading operations. Learn more in Lucy Carter’s story for Global Trading here: globaltrading.net/drouet-leads-f…

A new report following Kraken’s IPO filing highlights a growing concern in digital assets: roughly ~$60B in capital is effectively trapped within crypto market infrastructure according to @BridgePortMQ CEO @NirupRam. These inefficiencies point to a broader need for improved financial “plumbing,” with firms such as BridgePort focused on enabling more seamless capital movement. Read Nirup Ramalingam’s full thoughts in @sobradob’s story for @Forbes here: forbes.com/sites/digital-…

Ahead of the CFTC’s expected move to allow trading in perpetual crypto futures, various global crypto exchanges are preparing to offer these “perps,” futures contracts. According to @RebeccaRettig1, Chief Legal and Operating Officer at @Jito_Labs, the CFTC has been "extremely engaged" with the industry while determining how these products fit within its regulations. Additionally, Boris Ilyevsky (@bilyevsky), Head of Derivatives at @Coinbase, said that while the exchange is already processing millions of perp trades per day, he expects retail participation will continue to increase. To learn more about the launch of perps in the US market, read @HannahDLang’s story for @Reuters below: reuters.com/legal/governme…

During times of volatility, investors are inclined to load up on risk to ostensibly buy market dips, writes @DavidUberti of @WSJ. The discrepancy between ongoing geopolitical events and market sentiment makes for a unique trading landscape marked by both easy opportunities and discomfort. When trading, “it doesn’t matter if something is real or fake,” said Sean Lambert, Global Head of DV Commodities. “Whatever the price is doing, that’s your main input.” Check out the full article here: wsj.com/finance/stocks…