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Co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, the cryptocurrency exchange and payments platform behind the Cronos blockchain.
OG.com Markets asked the CFTC to approve cash-settled perpetual futures on single US stocks, trading 24 hours a day on weekdays at a 15.05% minimum margin. At about 6 times leverage they would sell the trade margin accounts now offer, so brokers will pick the winning venue.
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An attacker pumped TONIC roughly 100x in twenty minutes and borrowed against it, which is the 2022 Mango playbook run again, and the only reason most of the money stayed reachable is a validator cap of 100.
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A 20-minute push on TONIC's price bought the attacker $74 million in borrows against it, but only about $6 million reached Ethereum before Cronos stopped producing blocks and rewound its own state.
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Event contracts brought in $156m last quarter on 13.6 billion tickets, which is the arithmetic behind Robinhood buying equity in a contract supplier as well as listing its markets. OG.com's contracts go live on September 8.
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The brokerage takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com at Citadel Securities' $20bn and $5bn marks, and in exchange gets a fourth CFTC-regulated venue to route event contracts through without owning one.
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Robinhood is paying Citadel's July price for an undisclosed minority slice of the venue that will clear volume Robinhood can move at will, which makes OG.com a fourth supplier rather than an owned engine.
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