Tether cracks top-5 most active crypto investors in H1 2026
Seventeen deals in six months matches Tether's entire 2025 tally, with $750M concentrated in three bets: Replit, Whop, and Gold.com.
Institutional crypto activity — corporate treasuries, custody mandates, pension and endowment moves, and bank involvement.
Seventeen deals in six months matches Tether's entire 2025 tally, with $750M concentrated in three bets: Replit, Whop, and Gold.com.
The proposal splits credit decisions (off-chain, with human underwriters) from loan mechanics (on-chain, fixed at the base layer), betting that predictable, governance-free rules are what…
Tom Lee's Bitmine now holds 94% of its 5%-of-Ethereum-supply target after another 27K-ETH weekly buy, and its Russell 1000 inclusion could pull passive flows from a far larger investor base.
The world's largest custody bank now lets institutions hold, mint and redeem Circle's USDC through a single regulated platform, formalising the bridge between Wall Street balance sheets and…
Headlines called it a liquidation. The mechanism is the opposite: a 26-month runway for digital credit, dividends, and buybacks, with no forced BTC sales and Bitcoin still the primary treasury asset.
The chairman-led ETH treasury vehicle kept adding during a quiet tape, the kind of patient accumulation that does more for sector sentiment than the headline number suggests.
The headline is 'monetization,' but the structural read is a leverage decision: MSTR now treats part of its BTC stack as a funding source, with no fixed sales cap.
The integration hands Aladdin banks, insurers and pensions direct access to Ethena's synthetic dollar, while BUIDL becomes the reserve asset for a new white-label product, deepening BlackRock's…
Spot ETFs erased the scarcity premium that once made a leveraged Bitcoin wrapper worth holding, and shareholders are now rejecting dilution that used to get a free pass.
The framework lets MicroStrategy actually sell Bitcoin to fund dividends and repurchases, a structural break from the old 'never sell' reflex and a sign the preferred-share flywheel is now the…
The accumulation isn't slowing: a single-week 27K add brings Bitmine within striking distance of its 5% "alchemy" target just 11 months in, with $211M in projected staking revenue.
The Aladdin endorsement slots Ethena into the operating layer US asset managers already use to move trillions, not just onto their watchlist.
Bernstein says every major prediction platform now owns both consumer distribution and exchange infrastructure, and the two venues still missing that pairing sit squarely in the crosshairs.
The largest Ether treasury now holds 5.7M ETH, almost 5% of supply, even as quarterly losses stack up for both BTC and ETH.
Wall Street's biggest dealer is telling clients the perps market is a retail and momentum-trader venue, not an institutional hedging primitive, and that concentration in offshore books makes depth…
The pause marks a tactical pivot: with $1.15B raised but no fresh coins added, Strategy is signaling capital flexibility over accumulation, even as its 847,363 BTC stack sits untouched.
The program converts a portion of Strategy's $BTC stack into working capital, putting the issuer that turned a balance sheet into a benchmark back in the supply market for the first time.
The new Digital Credit Capital Framework is the first time Strategy has formally authorized BTC monetization, with proceeds earmarked for the USD reserve, dividends and buybacks while preserving…
Former Zodia Custody CEO John Cronin takes the helm as IRACE adds Cayman-regulated banking and a roster of ex-Zodia execs, joining SoFi, BitGo and others building one-stop fiat-and-digital-asset…
The size alone is the story: 7,432 BTC in a single day beats every prior IBIT outflow day on record, and the deposits hit Coinbase Prime during US trading hours, not offshore.