The pathway to acquiring Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has often been perceived as complex, involving multiple steps. However, a monumental shift is now underway as Apple Pay has integrated into leading crypto platforms, and getting a major upgrade is becoming as seamless and intuitive as any other digital transaction. This integration removes one of the biggest barriers to entry by replacing traditional transactions.
Apple Pay is now directly integrated with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. A crypto site, CryptosRus, has revealed on X that Apple users can now purchase BTC and other cryptocurrencies directly within Trust Wallet using Apple Pay. This integration will make buying crypto as easy as buying Apps from the App Store, dramatically lowering friction for newcomers with no more clunky bank transfers, complex onboarding forms, and steep learning curves.
With a few simple taps via Apple Pay, the crypto will be in your Trust Wallet. In short, Apple is helping to replace fear and friction with just tap-and-own simplicity. This Apple Pay and crypto is the kind that will seamlessly onramp.
Bitcoin and crypto adoption are sharply gaining traction globally. In a surprising turn for one of the world’s most tightly controlled economies, Turkmenistan has officially legalized Bitcoin and broader cryptocurrency trading. CryptosRus stated that President Serdar Berdimuhamedov has signed a new Sweeping bill that sets the stage for a fully regulated crypto market to begin in 2026.
The new law establishes a dedicated state Commission that will oversee licensing, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) protocols, cold-storage rules, mining registration, and even the power to halt or require refunds for token issuances. According to CryptoRus, this is a sign that even the most controlled states are being pushed into crypto adoption as the global regulation accelerates.
An author and ideologist, Shanaka Anslem Perera, pointed out that the day $13.4 billion in Bitcoin options expired, the traditional financial system nearly collapsed. At the crucial hour of 03:00 GMT, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) froze, a cooling failure originating from a single data center. The failure led to 90% of global derivatives trading being halted.
Meanwhile, a larger sum of $15 billion in crypto options was settled on time, with each block confirmed and every trade seamlessly executed. The machines that price the world stopped working because they were overheated, and the decentralized alternative rails ran exactly as designed. “This isn’t a coincidence, it’s a stress test, and only one system passed the test,” Shanaka noted.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange executed an unexpected trading pause on Friday after a CyrusOne data center overheated, sending major services and platforms offline. Today’s official X post confirmed:
Due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centers, our markets are currently halted.
A routine market session turned into chaos as futures linked to currencies, stock indices, Treasuries, and commodities stopped updating, suspending live price feeds, leaving traders without reliable prices as brokers lacked the data to quote markets.
Notably, the initial alert surfaced on CME’s platform at 02:40 GMT, notifying users of the outages in multiple platforms.
Meanwhile, leading contracts, including Nikkei, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100, failed to update for several hours as of early Asian sessions.
Also, the currency side experienced issues as CME’s EBS platform stalled, with key pairs such as USD/JPY and EUR/USD offline.
The incident has grabbed the crypto community’s attention as it comes days after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced that its Cryptocurrency options and futures suite hit new ATHs in daily volume.
The event left brokers navigating the markets without vital features as live pricing went offline.
Some suspended trading activities, while others switched to internal models or backup sources.
CME’s head of Middle East and Asia, Christopher Forbes, said that he has never seen such an incident in two decades, calling it “a pain in the arse.”
For now, the platform is working to maintain stable pricing using alternative feeds, which can lead to mispricing amid volatile conditions. Forbes stated:
We are now taking a lot of unnecessary risks here to continue pricing. My guess is the market is not going to like this. I think it will be a bit volatile on the open.
Meanwhile, the outage arrived as the market experienced slow activity due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
CME’s outage comes at an awkward time for the trading platform.
Four days ago, on November 24, the team celebrated a crucial breakthrough as its crypto derivatives complex recorded an all-time high in 24-hour volume, signaling renewed momentum for digital currencies.
Commenting on the milestone, CME Group’s Global Head of Crypto Products, Giovanni Vicioso, said:
Amid ongoing market uncertainty, demand for deeply liquid, regulated crypto risk management tools is accelerating. Clients across the globe continue to turn to our benchmark Cryptocurrency futures and options to hedge their risk and pursue opportunities in this complex environment, with both large institutions and retail traders driving record activity across our product suite.
Today, November 28, the narrative is vastly different.
Rather than celebrating increased activity, the exchange operator is fighting to answer questions about the resilience of its infrastructure.
For now, a leading derivatives engine remains offline, idling not due to financial challenges, but an overheated data center that usually runs quietly in the background.
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