The Arbitrum Foundation has hired Brendan Ma, formerly of Immutable and Goldman Sachs, as its head of investment strategy.
The move marks the first Nasdaq-listed company to hold its treasury in tokenized gold, backed by LBMA-standard bullion stored in Switzerland.
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Dogecoin treasuries and ETFs are continuing to gain traction in 2025, but token and share prices are struggling.
The company previously said it wants to sell EU users stock tokens that would track high-profile private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX.
Scaled for size, a relatively small amount of flows into Solana could significantly impact prices in the months ahead, Matt Hougan said.
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Nasdaq will buy $50 million worth of Gemini shares in a private placement at the time of its IPO, two people familiar with the matter reportedly said.
BlockSpaceForce and Mainnet Capital have launched a new crypto hedge fund to invest in public companies, including DATs.
The 150,000 ETH investment from longtime Ethereum proponent Jeffrey Berns will hit the firm's wallet later this week.
Trump Media also signed a separate deal with Crypto.com to integrate CRO into its Truth Social and Truth+ platforms.
Lombard is launching the BARD token community sale on Buidlpad, raising $6.75 million at a $450 million valuation.
Chamath Palihapitiya's latest special purpose acquisition company, American Exceptionalism, could take a DeFi company public.
The full 200 MW of high-performance compute is expected to come online by the end of 2026, the company announced Thursday.
Heritage Distilling is set to launch an IP token treasury strategy worth about $340 million, backed by a16z crypto and other investors.
ALT5 Sigma is raising $1.5 billion to launch a WLFI token treasury strategy that will see it hold about 7.5% of the token’s total supply.
The company will change its ticker from VAPE to BNC and operate its BNB treasury strategy under the name BNB Network Company.
The LTC tokens were purchased at an average price of $107.58 between July 30 and Aug. 4. At current market prices of around $124, the LTC treasury is now valued at about $115 million.
The deal was led by Kingsway Capital and includes over 110 investors, including Blockchain.com and Ribbit Capital.
DevvStream raised $300 million via senior secured convertible notes to purchase crypto and is looking to expand its line of credit.
Falcon Finance is founded and backed by the same team behind DWF Labs — a controversial player in the crypto ecosystem.
180 Life Sciences has entered into a $425 million PIPE agreement with over 60 investors to build an Ethereum treasury strategy.
Ethereum treasury firms have bought 1.26 million ETH since June and could grow their holdings tenfold, according to Standard Chartered.
The funding is more than seven times the amount the project sought to raise, as it sets out to provide free USDT transfers.
Crypto inflows are up nearly 50% since May and are on track to comfortably surpass last year’s record total, JPMorgan analysts said.
MARA Holdings will sell $850 million zero‑coupon converts due 2032 to fund more bitcoin buys as corporate treasury races heat up.
Talos has acquired the blockchain data provider Coin Metrics in a deal closed at over $100 million, according to a source familiar.
The deal would follow Cantor's first bitcoin financing deals on May 27, which closed with Maple Finance and FalconX.
Susquehanna Crypto also joined the round, backing Two Prime as it scales its crypto-native institutional offerings.
Upexi expects to have 1.65 million SOL, worth around $273 million at current prices, upon closing its convertible note offering around July 16.