Bitwise CIO: Big Tech stablecoin pilots could drive supply to $4T
The $4T figure is roughly a 13x jump from today's ~$300B base — and the lever is Big Tech turning stablecoins into payout rails, not just trading pairs.
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The $4T figure is roughly a 13x jump from today's ~$300B base — and the lever is Big Tech turning stablecoins into payout rails, not just trading pairs.
Morgan Stanley is rolling out cryptocurrency trading through its E*Trade platform, charging a 0.50% fee — a rate that…
Ondo, Robinhood's Bitstamp and Babylon Labs told Consensus Miami 2026 that the institutional crypto conversation has flipped from exploration to execution — though adoption still splits along…
The thesis flip — and the 1,500% year — matter more than the position size Tushar Jain refused to disclose, because Multicoin's 2019 critique of ZEC was one of the loudest in the space.
The contracts are synthetic — no equity, no shareholder rights — but they tap the same $13T private-market demand pool that pulled Injective, Bitget, and Robinhood into the same trade this year.
A $14.5B unrealized Bitcoin write-down buried a record GAAP loss even as the company's preferred-stock engine (STRC) scaled past $8.5B and bought through the drawdown.
With Western Union and Meta now on the network, the Solana Foundation president framed stablecoin payments as the on-ramp to agentic commerce — and pitched 'internet capital markets' as the longer…
A MiFID II book is the price of admission to EU bank balance sheets — and Taurus now joins OKX, Gemini and Kraken on the list, with MiCA and a deep bank client roster already in tow.
Petro cited Venezuela and Paraguay as models and named three Caribbean-coast cities — Santa Marta, Riohacha, Barranquilla — but the proposal still depends on talks with the indigenous Wayúu community…
The x402 protocol turns Solana wallets into machine-to-machine payment rails — a long-arc thesis finally getting a tier-one counterparty in Google Cloud.
The headline-grabbing number is the unrealized loss on 818,334 BTC, but the broader tape tells a different story — five straight weeks of digital asset inflows, Morgan Stanley rolling out spot…
Bitmine, the investment vehicle associated with Fundstrat's Tom Lee, acquired 40,000 ETH worth approximately $94.68…
Accumulation across six venues over three weeks reads as over-the-counter desk rotation, not exchange churn — the kind of steady bid that tightens float on a thin-book token.
The president frames the pitch around clean-energy resources and indigenous co-ownership, not a policy shift — but it puts a second South American head of state on record welcoming BTC mining.
The company Saylor built as a leveraged bitcoin treasury is now outlining a path to pay shareholders by trimming the very asset on its balance sheet.
Michael Saylor said Strategy will 'probably sell some Bitcoin to fund a dividend,' framing the move as a deliberate…
Eighteen months of dividend coverage and a $12.54B Q1 net loss force the issue: the strategy that bought 818K BTC on credit now has to sell some of it to keep the model solvent.
Speakers from Circle, U.S. Bank and ChangeNOW told Consensus Miami 2026 that complexity, jargon and broken trust — not the underlying rails — keep mainstream users on the sidelines.
The paper loss reflects the GAAP accounting on a 22% larger BTC stack, not a sale — but it lands as Strategy's equity trades far below its bitcoin holdings' market value.
DFlow routes 5-10% of Solana trading volume and processed $12B in Q1 2026 — the deal makes MoonPay a liquidity-layer incumbent on one of crypto's busiest chains.