KAST has raised $80 million in a Series A led by QED Investors and Left Lane Capital, valuing the startup at $600 million.
Coinbase Financial Markets will provide 24/7 access to over 20 futures contracts as the exchange expands its prime brokerage offering.
Core Scientific secured a $500 million Morgan Stanley facility, with an option that could bring total commitments to $1 billion.
When markets are closed and Bitcoin is moving, the custody agreement decides who can act. A spot Bitcoin ETF fixed an awkward problem for finance. Bitcoin used to arrive as software, keys, and operational responsibility. The ETF repackaged it as a ticker that sits next to every other ticker. That convenience came with a structural […]
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MEV Capital’s assets under management fell 80% from a peak of $1.5 billion to about $300 million following millions in direct losses linked to deUSD depeg in October.
Better and Framework Ventures agreed to a $500 million credit plan via Sky's stablecoin ecosystem alongside a $45 million equity investment.
Bitdeer plans $300 million convertible note offering to expand high-performance computing; shares drop 18%, down 37% this month.
S&P Global gave the majority of the bonds the less-than-stellar rating of BBB-, according to a Feb. 9 report.
Brevan Howard’s BH Digital Asset fund fell 29.5% in 2025, its worst performance since the crypto-focused fund's 2021 launch.
Ark Invest bought 41,453 Coinbase shares on Tuesday for three of its ETFs, reversing earlier February sales amid market volatility.
Peter Thiel fully exits ETHZilla, filing shows, as shares slide and the firm shifts from ether buildup to tokenization.
Harvard trimmed its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund holdings by 21% in Q4 and opened an $86.8 million Ethereum ETF position.
Kalshi has partnered with Game Point Capital for sports hedging as its Super Bowl trading topped $1 billion, and January volume surged.
Bernstein sees $60-$75 as a bear-case accumulation range for Robinhood, with prediction markets tracking $435M ARR and a $160 price target.
Citadel Securities and Ark Invest have bought LayerZero's native ZRO token, which appears to be a first for Citadel.
Cipher shares closed down 12.36% on Wednesday amid a continuing selloff in crypto tokens and equities, despite the outsized interest.
TRM Labs has reached unicorn status after closing a $70 million funding round that values the crypto crime-fighting startup at $1 billion.
Trump denied knowledge of a $500 million Abu Dhabi investment in World Liberty Financial as conflict-of-interest concerns mount in Congress.
Metaplanet targets up to $137 million in total potential funding through shares and warrants for its bitcoin treasury plans.
Nomura's Laser Digital launched a tokenized Bitcoin Diversified Yield Fund on Jan. 22, targeting around 5% returns.
Grayscale filed an S-1 with the SEC to convert its NEAR Trust into a spot ETF, marking the second U.S. NEAR ETF application.
Wood removed bitcoin from his model portfolio, reallocating the 10% stake into gold and gold-mining stocks amid quantum computing concerns.
Anchorage tapped Spark to unlock onchain credit markets for its institutional clients who want to keep their assets in off-chain custody.
The $200 million in MrBeast’s Beast Industries ties the largest U.S.-listed Ethereum treasury to a global YouTube and creator economy.
Galaxy Digital closed a $75 million tokenized CLO on Avalanche to finance Arch Lending’s crypto-backed lending facility.
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Adeniyi Abiodun predicts that 2026 is the year Wall Street starts building on blockchain, not around it. Then, Andy Baer’s first Vibe Check of the year, reviewing the crypto’s quarterly mood swings in 2025 and the energetic start to 2026.
Industry insiders expect deal momentum to continue into 2026, driven by consolidation, targeted acquisitions, and a still-open IPO window.
The firm holds about 6.8 million SOL tokens, more than the next three largest SOL DATs combined, according to The Block's SOL treasury data.
Kraken said Tuesday afternoon it has raised $800 million across two different tranches over the past two months.
The deal involves the issuance and sale of about 63.7 million American depositary shares at $1.131 per ADS.