SpaceX's record-setting market debut has completed a sharp reversal just over a month after the rocket and satellite company raised $85.7 billion in the largest initial public offering in history. Data from Yahoo Finance shows that SPCX shares fell to a post-listing low of $132.28 Wednesday, slipping below their $135 offering price for the first […]
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Both resolutions need 75% of votes cast, and failure of either keeps the sale and delisting off the table.
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BlackRock generated $82 million in revenue from its digital-asset products during the first half of 2026, even as falling Bitcoin and Ethereum prices erased nearly $30 billion from the assets supporting the business. The world's largest asset manager recorded $42 million in digital-asset base fees and securities-lending revenue in the first quarter, followed by $40 […]
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Preliminary OCC approval outlines a bank that could consolidate key crypto functions, while outside venues and infrastructure remain essential.
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BitMine's push to turn one of the world's largest corporate Ethereum holdings into a source of recurring income generated nearly $46 million from staking last quarter. Yet a $92.1 million options loss overwhelmed those gains, while rising treasury costs and aggressive share issuance further weakened the economics for existing shareholders. For the fiscal third quarter […]
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Empery disclosed two February calls, but missing collateral data now hides which treasury would be forced to act first.
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Chesky announced no product. His trust thesis points toward regulated financing built on verified bookings, contingent payouts and specialist-held legal claims.
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The July 14 snapshot stayed 27% below the 30-point average despite two successive increases.
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Crypto exchanges are increasingly becoming distribution platforms for Wall Street exposure as trading in tokenized stocks and real-world asset derivatives accelerates across crypto markets. Tokenized assets became the most-listed category across major centralized exchanges in the first half of 2026, accounting for nearly one in every five new listings, CryptoRank data shows. The category represented […]
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US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their first weekly net inflow in more than two months, attracting $197 million across 13 products. The inflow ended an eight-week run of net redemptions that pulled more than $8 billion from the Bitcoin ETF sector. Following the renewed inflows, Bitcoin prices appreciated 3% this week, pushing past […]
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Cantor and BSTR are negotiating new terms after the old financing package stopped being binding, turning a Bitcoin treasury launch into a test of investor demand.
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CoreWeave's latest financing gives hard evidence for the idea that AI infrastructure is competing with Bitcoin for speculative capital, credit appetite, and macro liquidity.
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The washout reduced forced-selling risk, but spot volume and ETF creations still need to carry the next move.
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Vanguard posted a Head of Digital Assets, Personal Wealth role on July 6, with openings in Dallas, Scottsdale, Charlotte, and Malvern. The posting asks the incoming executive to lead digital assets strategy, build a multi-year roadmap, and run enterprise execution across Vanguard's wealth business. Two years earlier, the same firm refused to list spot Bitcoin […]
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Bitcoin’s next major rally may depend less on whether investors still believe in the asset than on whether enough large balance sheets are willing to fund the trade. Fresh analysis from CryptoQuant Chief Executive Ki Young Ju shows that the world’s largest cryptocurrency has grown into a market too large to move with the same […]
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Cathie Wood's ARK Invest bought roughly $77 million of crypto stocks in June, adding $44 million of Coinbase (COIN), $25.25 million of Circle (CRCL), and $8.2 million of Bullish (BLSH) during Bitcoin's worst month in four years, according to ARK's daily trade disclosures. The purchases extend a thesis both Wood and other funds have held […]
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Michael Saylor’s Strategy has calmed the immediate panic around its preferred-stock complex, but the company’s latest overhaul points to a more complicated phase for one of Bitcoin’s most visible corporate buyers. Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, announced a new capital-management framework this week after STRC, its flagship preferred stock, fell to a low of $71.25 […]
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Crypto users spent years making USDC the default dollar of institutional DeFi trading, lending, and settlement, but Open Standard's new Open USD stablecoin is testing whether the dollars users hold can be repaid. Open Standard says businesses will be able to mint and redeem Open USD for free, at unlimited volume, and that reserve earnings […]
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Ripple is trying to move the XRP Ledger (XRPL) deeper into institutional credit, a push that could expand the network’s role beyond cross-border payments and give XRP a broader claim on the next phase of onchain finance. The company is backing a proposed lending upgrade that would allow institutions to borrow against assets they hold […]
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XRP’s retreat toward $1 is testing whether one of the cryptocurrency market’s largest tokens can hold a level that has become increasingly important after months of declining prices. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the digital asset fell to $1.02 on Friday, its weakest price since February, as a market-wide selloff prompted traders to reduce exposure […]
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Regulated securities rails could give BTC treasury firms a new engine, if product demand and mNAV math hold up.
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Bitcoin’s prolonged decline is forcing cryptocurrency companies to cut staff, automate more work, and abandon the expansion plans that defined the last bull market. At the same time, it is also creating one of the industry’s busiest periods for takeovers. Crypto mergers and acquisitions reached $7.23 billion during the second quarter of 2026, up from […]
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Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) is discovering that strengthening one part of its increasingly complex balance sheet can expose weaknesses elsewhere. The Bitcoin treasury company spent $1.5 billion in May repurchasing convertible notes, reducing its debt but also draining cash that investors viewed as a backstop for its preferred-stock dividends. Weeks later, its Variable Rate […]
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The Ethereum Foundation has cut roughly 20% of its workforce and slashed its budget by roughly 40% as part of a broad reorganization, even as the blockchain it helps steward has seen its highest-ever levels of user activity and attracts deeper participation from major financial institutions. On June 23, the nonprofit revealed that it dismissed […]
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Through June 18, US-traded spot Bitcoin ETFs shed nearly $2.3 billion, and Ethereum ETFs lost around $200 million. Hyperliquid products attracted about $50 million in net inflows, XRP ETFs added roughly $24 million, and Solana finished with $3.4 million in outflows. Altcoin inflows totaled about $74 million, less than 3% of the $2.5 billion that […]
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South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI stock index plunged nearly 10% today, triggering a market-wide trading halt one day after the country’s top financial regulator acknowledged that authorities had rushed the approval of leveraged funds tied to its two largest chipmakers. According to reports, the KOSPI closed down 9.99% at 8,203.84, its steepest decline since March 4. […]
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The filing points to tokenized equity access inside exchange and DTC controls, with shareholder rights and settlement kept on familiar rails.
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Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) raised $335.5 million by selling common stock last week, then placed almost 90% of the proceeds into cash rather than Bitcoin as the company moved to shore up the preferred securities financing its cryptocurrency purchases. The company sold about 2.71 million MSTR shares between June 15 and June 21 and added $300 […]
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The first-client deployment shows tokenized money-market funds can become working collateral, but the hard questions sit in custody, valuation, and liquidation terms.
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Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 by mid-June after a punishing start to the month, but the figure drawing the most attention across trading desks is the June 26 Bitcoin options expiry, with over $10 billion of contracts set to expire and roughly 80% currently sitting out of the money. In equity markets, zero-days-to-expiry options now make […]
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