A market maker is an individual or organization that provides liquidity to a cryptocurrency exchange by continuously offering to buy and sell assets at specified prices. By maintaining buy (bid) and sell (ask) orders, market makers help ensure that traders can execute transactions quickly and efficiently. They profit from the spread between bid and ask prices. Market makers are essential for maintaining market stability, reducing price volatility, and improving trading volume. In crypto, both centralized and decentralized exchanges rely on market makers to support an active market.
With the HIP-4 proposal, Hyperliquid is integrating event contracts directly into its high-speed L1 blockchain, allowing traders to cross-margin “Yes/No” bets against leveraged perpetuals.
Following a year of regulatory wins and the approval of its RLUSD stablecoin, Ripple opens a massive new regional headquarters in the Dubai International Financial Centre to scale its Middle East and Africa operations.
Four years after the collapse of its Diem project, Meta is returning to blockchain payments. In partnership with Stripe, the tech giant is testing USDC payouts for creators on the Solana and Polygon networks.
Trust Wallet users can now trade 200+ perpetual markets, including crypto and real-world assets like oil and gold, directly within the app via a new high-speed Hyperliquid integration.
Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot has reached a $7 billion annualized run rate, prompting the payment giant to add support for Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon, and Tempo.
Argentine fintech Belo secures $14 million in a round led by Tether to scale its stablecoin-powered digital wallet across six new markets, targeting the region’s exploding remote workforce.
Ripple’s enterprise-grade stablecoin, RLUSD, has officially integrated with OKX, bringing 280+ trading pairs and institutional-grade margin collateral to one of the world’s largest trading platforms.
At the Bitcoin 2026 conference, CNB Governor Aleš Michl presented data showing that a 1% Bitcoin allocation optimizes sovereign reserves, marking a historic shift in central bank policy.
Canada, the birthplace of the Bitcoin ATM, is moving to ban the machines entirely. Citing their role as a “primary method” for fraud and money laundering, the 2026 Spring Economic Update marks a major shift in Ottawa’s crypto strategy.
Polymarket is in active discussions with the CFTC to lift the 2022 prohibition on US users, aiming to merge its massive international liquidity with its regulated domestic arm as competition with Kalshi heats up.