BTC: Strategy pivots to cash buildup as Saylor dials back bitcoin buys
TD Cowen and Benchmark keep buy ratings on MSTR after Q2, but split on price as the $8.2B loss and a five-week BTC buying pause push STRC preferred back to par as the main goal.
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TD Cowen and Benchmark keep buy ratings on MSTR after Q2, but split on price as the $8.2B loss and a five-week BTC buying pause push STRC preferred back to par as the main goal.
The CleanCore shares pledged as collateral on this loan are already committed to a separate financing, so the promised repayment is effectively double-pledged stock.
Nearly 600 BTC were stolen from a flaw in Coldcard's firmware that let attackers reconstruct wallet seeds, reopening the case that institutional products like BlackRock's IBIT now make more sense for…
A watchlist of testnet, points, and retroactive campaigns currently open for drophunters who want to lock in activity before future token allocations close.
The headline number is volume, but the read is composition: prediction markets are absorbing a year-round sports calendar now, not just isolated tournament weeks.
Strategy's BTC Yield slides, Metaplanet trades below its coin stash, and a clutch of European treasury newcomers are asking public markets to fund them on terms nobody has priced yet.
Krishna's timeline pulls commercial quantum computing inside the half-decade window, with Alphabet, IonQ and Rigetti in the race and crypto watching the long-term encryption threat.
The Treasury Secretary publicly leans on Bitcoin's founder to break a year-long stall on the market-structure bill already passed by the House.
The treasury-trade playbook that lifted Strategy's stock for two years is cracking: dilution is no longer rewarded, and a biotech is the latest to test how far shareholders will stretch.
The profit print alone would be a beat, but the gold buildout is the structural signal: Tether is now one of the largest private holders of physical bullion on the planet.
For a DEX best known as a swap venue, moving into lending is the bigger story: it turns Uniswap into a place to park assets, not just route them, and routes that flow straight through Morpho's vaults.
Supply pressure stacks across mid-cap alts, with one $641M cliff-event dwarfing the rest and setting up textbook dilution risk into thin books.
Senators Tillis and Gallego shipped the latest ethics proposal to the White House this morning, and Senator Lummis took to the Senate floor to lobby colleagues as a Senate vote moves into view.
Sygnum's Thomas Brunner says the validator entry queue reflects Ethereum protocol mechanics as much as institutional appetite, and almost no one is un-staking.
The claim targets the equity round Binance and its CEO funded at the top of the prior cycle, not trading activity, and lands as the estate hunts every major 2021 counterparty for clawback.
The new S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index screens 18 tokens by protocol revenue and a $500M market-cap floor, and the omission of BTC and XRP signals Wall Street is finally judging altcoins the way it…
The NYDFS authorization lets Circle wrap fiduciary and custody around USDC at the same time it holds an OCC national trust bank approval, a dual US regulatory footprint few stablecoin issuers can…
An $8.2B Q2 loss, 40% Bitcoin drawdown, and forced STRC margin sales exposed how the perpetual preferred has become both the growth engine and the cheapest way to break the balance sheet.
Analysts broadly blame a weak market, not execution, but they disagree on when trading volumes return. The record 10.3% market share gain and stablecoin push are the long-term offset.
The state charter lands weeks after Circle's federal OCC trust bank approval, giving the USDC issuer paired state and federal footing as it courts bank-grade institutional flows.