Strategy board approves BTC monetization plan
The week's roundup bundles nine macro crypto signals, from Strategy's treasury pivot and a UK rule finalization to Visa and BlackRock backing a new stablecoin and $189M of mid-term lobbying.
Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
The week's roundup bundles nine macro crypto signals, from Strategy's treasury pivot and a UK rule finalization to Visa and BlackRock backing a new stablecoin and $189M of mid-term lobbying.
The largest spot Bitcoin ETF issuer just printed its longest sustained outflow streak on record, with $2.24B pulled in 10 sessions. When the institutional bid goes quiet, the marginal buyer flips.
The deal hands Hyperliquid its first major African distribution and gives VALR's 800K-user base a 200-market perpetuals book without running its own matching engine.
37 new CASPs cleared ESMA's MiCA register in the first update after the December deadline, pushing total authorisations to 280 and giving one of Europe's biggest banks a regulatory foothold.
The headline number ends a 10-day, $2.73B outflow streak, but Fidelity and ARK did the lifting while BlackRock posted a $40M outflow, a configuration that reads more like tactical re-entry than…
The Fund's financial counsellor framed tokenization's upside as policy-dependent, not technical. Whether shared digital ledgers become systemic infrastructure or fragmented national silos is now a…
Strategy still anchors the corporate bid with roughly two-thirds of the float, but the top 10 alone now control more than 1.1M BTC and the buyer list is broadening beyond pure-play treasury names.
Matt Hougan frames the recent STRC volatility and MSTR pullback as classic end-of-cycle deleveraging, with Strategy now able to monetize its BTC stack rather than buy through any drawdown.
The federal ethics disclosure lands while the administration is also writing the rules the industry operates under, putting the largest crypto earner in U.S.
The $3M Kalshi market tied to a song's chart position became the mechanism, and Spotify is now cutting off the prediction platforms that referenced its data.
The split between $4 billion of ETF outflows and 270,000 BTC of whale accumulation is the same divergence that has marked past cycle bottoms, with long-term holders absorbing the supply that…
Elevated put skew across all tenors signals persistent downside hedging even as spot ETFs just ended a 10-day outflow streak, a split tape that argues against calling the rebound a confirmed bottom.
The pullback in memory and semis, with DRAM down 25% and SMH off 12% from June highs, is happening alongside bitcoin climbing back above $61,000 from a two-year low, the first synchronous move in…
The $857K short liquidation is the surface beat; the structural read is the 80M ADA whales stacked into during the volatility, lifting aggregate whale holdings to a fresh peak despite the bearish…
The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives backs the bill's stablecoin framework and digital asset compliance structure, adding institutional weight to a fight that has hinged on a…
The fund itself is the bigger story: 861K ETH under management, 67% actively staked, and a 2.88% gross yield against a 0.15% fee that competing issuers cannot yet match without regulatory clarity on…
Samsung, Dunamu and other Korean names flagged as founding members say Open Standard never held formal talks, exposing a comms gap days before launch.
Tokenomist data since January shows eight projects, Meteora, PUMP, GMX, RLB, MPLX, HYPE, LIT, and AAVE, where buybacks outpaced new emissions, with HYPE running the largest dollar figure at $283M.
The list skews on-chain and lightweight: four of the five are still in testnet, positioning retail drophunters before broader market attention arrives.
Systemically important banks and large retailers are wired up; the BoR is now also exploring stablecoins as a complement to the digital ruble for cross-border settlement.