While an incoming chairman appointed by Trump, a recent crypto convert, could effectively clear the decks of future enforcement actions, dealing with the many cases already being litigated is a stickier prospect. Turning the SEC ship could take several months into 2025 — maybe longer. And even then, the lawyers say, dramatic case dismissals might not even happen.

Aaron Brogan, a crypto industry lawyer, said that hypothetically, a company could strengthen IP address blocks by incorporating GPS data from users’ mobile devices, “but this might be impractical in commercial use.” A customer using a laptop without a GPS, for example, might have a hard time logging on without two-factor authentication.

One of the biggest roadblocks in converting Latin American investors to concept of crypto, is education about the sector. Cryptocurrencies, which don’t have a physical existence like gold or cash, can be a difficult concept for investors to grasp. “Latin American investors are still very traditional,” she added. “They tell me they only invest in things that they can stand on, or things they can touch. We’re trying to change that mentality… we need to prove to them that these technologies actually work.”

With this universe in mind, we examined how many tokens in the top 150, on any given day, outperformed bitcoin over the next year. At certain points in 2019 and 2020, it seems like beating bitcoin was easy, with many tokens beating it by a wide margin (north of 1000% over bitcoin’s own generally stellar return, on average). What’s more, it used to not require too much exploration out of the scale of market cap to find the tokens beating bitcoin, with an average market cap rank of the outperformers of ~30 pre-2020.

According to CF Benchmarks, traders are flocking to the $100,000 call option on the CME, a location favored by institutional investors, following the lead of their Deribit-based counterparts. A call option gives the purchaser the right, but not the obligation, to purchase the underlying asset at a predetermined price on or before a specific date. A call buyer is implicitly bullish on the market.

The BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), issued in partnership with tokenization platform Securitize, is now accessible on the Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism’s OP Mainnet and Polygon networks, the company said on Wednesday.

The concern of inflation not being slayed can be shown in the U.S. yields, which have only soared since the Federal Reserve started the rate-cutting cycle with a 50bps rate cut, followed by a further 25bps rate cut. Since the first rate cut on Sep. 16, the U.S. 10Y has jumped from 3.6% to 4.4%. With the U.S. 3-month treasury yield trading at 4.6%, which follows the effective federal funds rate, it’s suggesting that no more than 25bps of rate cuts will occur over the next three months, as the current target rate is 450 – 475.

Proposed soft forks percolate up from the bitcoiner community. They undergo study and debate, and if they find sufficient interest, get a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) number. From there, they face more debates, security reviews, debates, and also debates. BIPs that win community consensus (whatever that means) must then be activated as a soft fork – a mechanism that itself is up for debate.