<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>the daily grind — Quant Trading</title><description>Market making, statistical arbitrage, perpetuals trading, MEV strategies. Among the highest-paid careers in crypto, often token + PnL share on top of base.</description><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>You Can Now Bet on SpaceX&apos;s $2 Trillion IPO on Binance — Without Owning a Single Share</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/binance-spacex-pre-ipo-perpetual-futures/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/binance-spacex-pre-ipo-perpetual-futures/</guid><description>Binance just launched Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts, letting anyone on earth speculate on SpaceX&apos;s valuation before it goes public. Wall Street just got disintermediated.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>binance</category><category>spacex</category><category>derivatives</category><category>defi</category><category>ipo</category><category>perpetual-futures</category></item><item><title>The &apos;Crypto President&apos;s&apos; Own Media Company Just Quit the Bitcoin ETF Market Before Selling a Single Share</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/truth-social-bitcoin-etf-dead-york-ville-withdrawal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/truth-social-bitcoin-etf-dead-york-ville-withdrawal/</guid><description>Trump Media&apos;s Truth Social quietly withdrew all three of its spot crypto ETF filings from the SEC — the Bitcoin ETF, the BTC/ETH ETF, and the Crypto Blue Chip ETF — before a single share was ever sold. Here&apos;s why the market murdered them before launch.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>regulation</category><category>trump</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>Trump Typed 7 Words and $657 Million in Crypto Vanished</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-iran-657m-bitcoin-liquidations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-iran-657m-bitcoin-liquidations/</guid><description>A single Truth Social post warning Iran &apos;the clock is ticking&apos; sent Bitcoin below $77K and triggered the biggest crypto liquidation event since February — wiping out leveraged longs in hours.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>liquidations</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Italy&apos;s $1 Trillion Bank Doubled Its Crypto Bet to $235M — and Completely Dumped Solana</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/intesa-sanpaolo-235m-crypto-dumped-solana/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/intesa-sanpaolo-235m-crypto-dumped-solana/</guid><description>Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy&apos;s largest bank with ~$1 trillion in assets, more than doubled its crypto exposure from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, added Ethereum and XRP for the first time, bought Bitcoin call options — and slashed its Solana position by 99%.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>institutional-adoption</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>solana</category><category>banks</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Web3 Salaries Just Crashed 75% — From $553K to $138K in 16 Months</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/web3-salary-crash-75-percent-138k/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/web3-salary-crash-75-percent-138k/</guid><description>New data from Finbold shows the average Web3 salary has hit its lowest point since 2021, with 232 candidates competing for every open role and only 14 developer jobs currently listed globally.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>jobs</category><category>salaries</category><category>web3</category><category>hiring</category><category>market</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>The New Fed Chair Owns $100M in Crypto — And Nobody at the Fed Has Ever Said That Before</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-crypto-holdings-bitcoin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-crypto-holdings-bitcoin/</guid><description>Kevin Warsh just replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. He holds Solana, dYdX, Bitcoin Lightning equity, and a stablecoin stake. The most crypto-native person to ever run the Federal Reserve is now in charge of US monetary policy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>federal-reserve</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Wall Street Built a VIX for Bitcoin — And It Goes Live June 1</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-bitcoin-volatility-futures-bvi-vix-crypto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-bitcoin-volatility-futures-bvi-vix-crypto/</guid><description>CME Group is launching Bitcoin Volatility futures (BVI) on June 1, giving institutional traders the first CFTC-regulated way to bet on how wild Bitcoin gets — not just where it goes. The VIX just got a crypto twin.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>institutional</category><category>derivatives</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>cme</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>Oil Crossed $100 Last Night and Crypto Just Lost $300 Million</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-oil-100-bitcoin-300m-liquidations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-oil-100-bitcoin-300m-liquidations/</guid><description>Geopolitical escalation in the Middle East sent Brent crude above $100 a barrel overnight, wiping out $300 million in leveraged crypto bets by morning. This is what war does to 24/7 markets.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>liquidations</category><category>macro</category></item><item><title>Gemini Just Beat Every Crypto Exchange in the World — It Now Controls Its Entire Derivatives Pipeline, Legally</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gemini-cftc-full-derivatives-stack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gemini-cftc-full-derivatives-stack/</guid><description>Gemini quietly assembled the full CFTC regulatory stack — a DCM license to list derivatives and a DCO license to clear them in-house. No other purely crypto-native exchange has pulled this off. Futures, perps, and prediction markets are next.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>derivatives</category><category>gemini</category><category>cftc</category><category>futures</category><category>perps</category></item><item><title>US Traders Have Been Using Illegal Offshore Exchanges for Crypto Perps for Years. That Ended Today.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kalshi-polymarket-crypto-perps-us-regulated/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kalshi-polymarket-crypto-perps-us-regulated/</guid><description>Kalshi launched CFTC-regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures on April 27 — and Polymarket panicked and launched theirs first to beat them. The race to own America&apos;s $100B crypto derivatives market is on.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>derivatives</category><category>regulation</category><category>cftc</category><category>kalshi</category><category>polymarket</category><category>defi</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>Kraken Just Bought the Only Key That Unlocks U.S. Crypto Derivatives — For $550 Million</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kraken-bitnomial-550m-cftc-derivatives-monopoly/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kraken-bitnomial-550m-cftc-derivatives-monopoly/</guid><description>Payward&apos;s acquisition of Bitnomial hands Kraken a decade-long regulatory moat: the only full-stack CFTC-licensed crypto derivatives platform in America. No one else has all three licenses.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>acquisitions</category><category>kraken</category><category>cftc</category><category>derivatives</category><category>regulation</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Morgan Stanley Just Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Costs Half as Much as BlackRock&apos;s</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morgan-stanley-msbt-bitcoin-etf-blackrock/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morgan-stanley-msbt-bitcoin-etf-blackrock/</guid><description>MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca at 0.14% — nearly half BlackRock&apos;s IBIT fee — making Wall Street&apos;s biggest wealth manager the most aggressive new entrant in the Bitcoin ETF war.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>morgan-stanley</category><category>wall-street</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Someone Deliberately Blew Up $3M on Fartcoin to Steal $1.5M From Hyperliquid</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperliquid-fartcoin-suicide-liquidation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperliquid-fartcoin-suicide-liquidation/</guid><description>A whale built a $15M leveraged Fartcoin position across four wallets, then intentionally imploded it — weaponizing Hyperliquid&apos;s auto-deleveraging system to dump losses onto the exchange&apos;s own vault.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hyperliquid</category><category>defi</category><category>exploit</category><category>memecoin</category><category>on-chain-drama</category></item><item><title>One Company Now Owns 4% of All Ethereum — And It&apos;s Listing on the NYSE Tomorrow</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitmine-4-percent-ethereum-supply-nyse-uplisting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitmine-4-percent-ethereum-supply-nyse-uplisting/</guid><description>Bitmine Immersion Technologies quietly accumulated 4.8 million ETH, staked 3.3 million of it, and is now uplisting to the NYSE. The MicroStrategy of Ethereum just went mainstream.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>institutional</category><category>staking</category><category>treasury</category><category>corporate-crypto</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>The Man Who Called Bitcoin a Fraud Just Said JPMorgan Might Build a Prediction Market</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/jpmorgan-dimon-prediction-markets-crypto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/jpmorgan-dimon-prediction-markets-crypto/</guid><description>Jamie Dimon — Wall Street&apos;s most famous crypto sceptic — has signalled JPMorgan could enter prediction markets. Goldman Sachs is already meeting with Polymarket. The last wall between TradFi and on-chain betting is crumbling.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>tradfi</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>jpmorgan</category><category>institutional</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Oracle Just Fired 30,000 People via 6 AM Email to Build AI Data Centers. Here&apos;s Where Those Engineers Should Actually Go.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/oracle-layoffs-crypto-careers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/oracle-layoffs-crypto-careers/</guid><description>Oracle cut 18% of its workforce overnight to fund a $156B AI buildout. 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We break down the real differences in compensation, culture, and long-term prospects.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>cefi</category><category>crypto jobs</category><category>web3 developer</category><category>blockchain career</category><category>crypto salary</category><category>crypto hiring</category></item></channel></rss>