On Mar. 5, Justin Sun reached a $10 million settlement with the SEC to resolve a civil fraud case that alleged he generated $31 million through wash-trading-style transactions and undisclosed celebrity promotions. The settlement, which requires court approval and includes no admission of wrongdoing, moves the case toward dismissal. The same day, US banking regulators […]
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Crypto promised diversification beyond Bitcoin. For years, the pitch was simple: spread risk across blockchains, decentralized applications, and layer-1 protocols. In practice, that diversification often collapsed when Bitcoin stumbled. Ethereum, Solana, and other major altcoins routinely fell harder than BTC during drawdowns, leaving portfolios concentrated on the same directional bet, just with different branding. Now, […]
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Cardano's community funding pipeline just stopped mid-cycle. Project Catalyst, the on-chain grants mechanism that has distributed over $150 million across 2,200 projects since launch, recently announced that stewardship is moving from Input Output Global to the Cardano Foundation. Additionally, Fund15 and Fund16 won't proceed in their proposed form until the transition completes. The Catalyst team […]
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Bitdeer, the largest Bitcoin mining company by hashrate, wiped its BTC ledger clean this week. Its corporate Bitcoin treasury now shows 0 BTC as the company sold 189.8 newly mined BTC and pulled 943.1 BTC from reserves. A mining business usually carries Bitcoin like pressure in a pipe, some flows out as revenue, some stays […]
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Dragonfly Capital closed its fourth fund at $650 million this week, the same size as its 2022 vehicle, raised into a venture market Fortune calls a “mass extinction event.” The headline reads like a vote of confidence: institutional capital returning, crypto winter thawing, alt season loading. But peel back one layer and the picture warps. […]
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Peter Thiel went to zero in ETHZilla, and the ETH treasury company trade just got a lot more real On Feb. 17, an amended 13G/A posted to ETHZilla’s investor site listed Peter Thiel and Founders Fund-related vehicles at zero shares and 0.0% beneficial ownership. The filing also stamped a “date of event” of Dec. 31, […]
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Ripple enters 2026 with new permissions in the UK and the EU. In January, Ripple said it received UK Financial Conduct Authority permissions covering an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license and cryptoasset registration. On Feb. 2, it said it received full EMI approval in Luxembourg. But what does that really mean for XRP investors? Ripple’s […]
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Crypto's IPO market is back, but the companies leading the charge aren't the ones most exposed to token volatility. BitGo priced its initial public offering on Jan. 21 at $18 per share, raising $212.8 million and valuing the custody platform at $2.08 billion. Shares opened the next day at $22.43, a 24.6% jump that pushed […]
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told Bloomberg at Davos that investors who don't have at least 5% of their net worth in Bitcoin will “probably be pretty sad” by 2030. Recently, Morgan Stanley's wealth management division published portfolio guidelines capping crypto exposure at 4% maximum for even its most aggressive growth models. Both used “5%” as […]
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The crypto industry's capital headline for 2025 looks like a comeback story: $50.6 billion across 1,409 transactions, up sharply from 2024's totals. However, the composition tells a different story. According to the annual Crypto Fundraising Report, 43.7% of that capital came from just 21 mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Traditional venture capital and private investment accounted […]
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The Laser Digital Bitcoin Diversified Yield Fund SP targets excess returns on top of BTC performance.
Financial advisors held crypto allocations below 1% for years, treating Bitcoin as a speculative footnote rather than a portfolio component. That era is ending. According to Bitwise and VettaFi's 2026 benchmark survey, 47% of advisor portfolios with crypto exposure now allocate more than 2%, while 83% cap exposure below 5%. The distribution tells a more […]
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Tether bought 8,888 Bitcoin in Q4 2025, lifting its holdings above 96,000 BTC, according to a post by CEO Paolo Ardoino. The purchase extends a strategy Tether has tied to operating results: allocating 15% of quarterly profits to Bitcoin. If USDT liabilities keep expanding and short-term rates remain high enough to keep interest income elevated, […]
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XRP is ending 2025 with one of the most paradoxical profiles in the crypto market, thanks to record-breaking institutional inflows colliding with one of the weakest price charts. According to CoinShares data, XRP investment products attracted approximately $70.2 million in net new money in the final trading week of December. This pushed its monthly inflow […]
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When Circle's shares opened at $69 on the New York Stock Exchange in June, more than double the $31 pricing, it looked like validation. Investors paid up for a regulated stablecoin issuer with real revenues, treating USDC rails as financial infrastructure rather than speculative crypto exposure. Six months later, Circle trades at $82.58, up nearly […]
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OpenEden has closed a new strategic investment round backed by some of the most influential names in blockchain and institutional finance, including Ripple, Lightspeed Faction, Gate Ventures, FalconX, Anchorage Digital Ventures, Flowdesk, P2 Ventures, Selini Capital, Kaia Foundation, and Sigma Capital. The raise marks a significant milestone for the RWA tokenization platform as institutional appetite […]
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Coinbase spent 2025 positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for retail crypto access, absorbing teams and technology that could accelerate its “everything exchange” vision. A Nov. 21 announcement that it acquired Vector.fun, Solana’s fastest-moving DEX aggregator, fit the pattern: acquire the rails, sunset the product, integrate the speed. But the deal carved out an unusual […]
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Younger, wealthier Americans seem to be rewriting the house rules of wealth management. They like broad equity indices. They park cash in T-bills. They still buy real estate and private deals. But they also expect to see Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a handful of other digital assets on the same dashboard as everything else. For them, crypto is a normal […]
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The story of corporate Bitcoin adoption is often told as a parade of logos. New CFO decides to be bold. Board nods. Treasury buys coin. Number go up. That parade has not shown up for two months. According to BitBo’s treasuries tracker, the last fresh company to join the BTC-on-balance-sheet club was GD Culture Group […]
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CleanSpark just sold $1.15 billion of zero-coupon convertible notes to buy more power and machines in the most brutal mining environment yet. The deal is a 144A private placement due in 2032, with an initial conversion price of around $19.16, roughly a 27.5% premium to the $15.03 stock price at the time of announcement. Approximately […]
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AsiaStrategy said Sora Ventures CEO Jason Fang is now its largest shareholder following a change to the ownership of its major shareholder, Pride River Limited. According to a company statement dated Nov. 10, Pride River’s cap table will shift under an agreement signed Nov. 7. It will move from 70% held by Mr. Ngai Kwan […]
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Ripple Labs closed a $500 million strategic funding round in 2025 at a $40 billion valuation, led by Fortress Investment Group and Citadel Securities with participation from Brevan Howard, Marshall Wace, Pantera Capital, and Galaxy Digital. This came on top of a $1 billion tender offer earlier in the year at the same valuation, providing […]
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October closed roughly 4% down for Bitcoin, yet venture funding hit $5.1 billion in the same month, the second-strongest month since 2022. According to CryptoRank data, three mega-deals account for most of it, as October defied its own seasonal mythology. Bitcoin fell 3.7% during a month traders have nicknamed “Uptober” for its historical winning streak, […]
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The 12 spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETFs) in the United States reversed sharply last week, recording $1.2 billion in net outflows. According to SoSoValue data, this was their second-largest weekly setback since launching in January 2024. The pullback snapped a two-week run of inflows that had brought in more than $5 billion, a period many […]
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Crypto-based funds attracted $3.17 billion in new capital, even as markets reeled from tariff-related tensions between the United States and China, according to CoinShares weekly report. On Oct. 10, President Donald Trump announced that the US could raise tariffs in response to China’s new rare-earth export restrictions. The statement triggered a broad sell-off across risk […]
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A high-stakes capital race has redefined the prediction market. Kalshi’s $300 million raise at a $5 billion valuation positioned it as the most valuable CFTC-regulated event-contract exchange in history. The firm’s expansion into 140 countries and growing list of macro and cultural markets seemed to cement its place as the global leader. Around the same […]
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A US government shutdown and the weak jobs report have pushed digital asset investment products to their strongest weekly inflows on record. According to the latest CoinShares report, crypto-related investment products attracted $5.95 billion in inflows last week, pushing total assets under management (AUM) to an all-time peak of $245 billion. The rally did not […]
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Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) expanded its Bitcoin holdings by purchasing of 196 BTC for $22.1 million at an average price of $113,048 per coin, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated Sept. 29. According to the firm’s dashboard, this acquisition marks its third-smallest buy this year, following its 130 BTC […]
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SoftBank and Ark Invest have entered early discussions to participate in Tether’s largest external capital raise, according to a Sept. 26 Bloomberg News report. The stablecoin issuer seeks between $15 billion and $20 billion in exchange for approximately 3% equity through a private placement. The fundraising could value Tether at $500 billion, positioning it among the […]
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Y Combinator announced plans to fund Web3 startups through a new “Fintech 3.0” initiative created in collaboration with Base and Coinbase Ventures on Sept. 23. The accelerator targets companies building financial systems on blockchain infrastructure, citing regulatory clarity and infrastructure maturity as key factors enabling this sector’s growth. The announcement, released simultaneously by Y Combinator […]
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