STRC Drifts to New Low as Record Volume Tests $90 Handle
Above $100, the instrument funds bitcoin buys; below it, the ATM goes quiet and the company defends the dividend instead — a structural signal on the cost of leverage in the Strategy flywheel.
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Above $100, the instrument funds bitcoin buys; below it, the ATM goes quiet and the company defends the dividend instead — a structural signal on the cost of leverage in the Strategy flywheel.
ERCOT's new "Batch Zero" process tackles a 438,000 MW connection queue — and a handful of Texas-campused miners are already positioned to absorb the wave, with stock moves and signed hyperscaler…
A $300M-valuation startup pitching joint CFTC-SEC oversight for single-name equity perps arrives just as the agencies are harmonizing their rules and CME is suing over the very approvals that would…
The order lands as Mashinsky already serves 12 years for fraud — the lifetime ban and registration strip are the regulatory bookend, not a fresh sentence.
Fairshake deployed its largest single-race outlay yet — over $10M — to help Trump-endorsed Rep. Barry Moore win the Alabama GOP Senate primary, part of a $193M war chest the crypto PAC is wielding…
The $2B-a-month Base-native venue is using the offshore perp trajectory as its strategic compass — a fragmented market of coexisting venues arbitraged by the same pro desks, not a winner-take-all…
The Consensys founder frames the next leg as institutional — Wall Street capital meets AI-driven on-chain agents, with a warning not to trust those agents with real money yet.
The trades land a day after Coinbase launched tokenized U.S. equities and rolled out an AI advisor — moves Benchmark calls a step from crypto venue to broader onchain financial infrastructure.
The payoff cleaned up the capital stack but cut preferred-stock dividend runway by two-thirds — and a debt-free competitor paying daily dividends now sits next door as the cleaner trade.
The 0.2% Digital Asset Tax Act takes effect January 2027 and targets crypto brokers in a way no other state taxes stocks or bonds — industry lawyers say it will trigger geoblocking and capital flight.
Katana CEO Matt Fisher argues the next phase of DeFi lending isn't about pulling users on-chain — it's about making the protocol layer invisible inside cards, apps, and exchanges that already own the…
The discount to par is the lead, not the dollar number: STRC was built to trade near $100, and the gap signals the market wants a richer payout before Saylor's preferred-stock funding channel reopens.
The preferred is supposed to trade at $100 — it just printed $85.32, and with $2.7B in dividends due over the next 12 months, the cost is now showing up on Bitcoin's chart through MSTR-dilution math…
Twelve wallets tied to a16z have quietly bought and staked 4M HYPE on Hyperliquid since March at ~$64 average — the kind of patient TWAP accumulation that turned early a16z bets on L1s into…
Grayscale values Aave at $80 to $100 today and sees a path to $175 if tokenized RWA flow accelerates into DeFi lending — a near-double that hinges on regulatory clarity.
The 11% discount to its $100 stated amount matters more than the price tag — the dividend was designed to defend that level, and it's now visibly failing to.
The narrative is louder than the on-chain footprint: Musk's public disclosure is still the 0.25 BTC from 2020, but SpaceX and Tesla together hold more than 30,000 BTC, and the chart is consolidating…
Fed funds futures have now priced a 35% chance of a September rate hike — up from 12% a week ago — and the dollar's surge past 100 is putting fresh pressure on risk assets across the board.
The headline number is orders of magnitude above the $3–$20 institutional band — and the gap between the two says more about retail-priced-out thesis-making than about XRP itself.
The position size is modest and the leverage is extreme — but the story matters because it lays bare the math retail traders face when they bet against a 30-day chop and the support below them is…