Strategy Overtakes BlackRock as Largest BTC Holder After 34,164 Buy
Strategy's 34,164 BTC buy pushed its stash past IBIT's 802,523, but Bitwise data on 100 prior Strategy purchases suggests the market still tends to sell the news.
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Strategy's 34,164 BTC buy pushed its stash past IBIT's 802,523, but Bitwise data on 100 prior Strategy purchases suggests the market still tends to sell the news.
The setting — a $TRUMP-holder summit with Tether's Ardoino and Mike Tyson — doubles as a campaign ad and a policy signal: the White House is publicly picking crypto over banks on stablecoin rewards.
Nikil Viswanathan frames the pitch as structural: agents don't sleep, don't carry cards, and transact natively in code — so the friction in TradFi is a bottleneck, not a feature, for the next…
The two-year-old spot product just closed a scale gap Deribit took a decade to build, with $27.6B in open IBIT contracts on Nasdaq now slightly above the offshore giant's $26.9B — a structural shift…
For a decade, DeFi audited code. Mythos maps how small weaknesses in keys, bridges and oracles chain into systemic failures — and both attackers and defenders are already moving.
MiCA collapsed a patchwork of national rules into a single passportable framework — and BBVA, DZ Bank, Société Générale and KBC are the proof points that the architectural question is already…
Roughly $48M in payment volume has already moved through x402, with about 95% of it landing on Base — early but directional evidence that agentic commerce is becoming a real flow, not a slideware…
Roughly one-third of all bitcoin ever mined is already in wallets whose public keys are visible on-chain — and the network has no formal migration plan to match Ethereum's eight-year head start.
Nearly 35M XRP left exchanges in one of the year's largest daily outflow readings while spot XRP ETFs kept absorbing — the compressed range is doing the work the headlines haven't.
Chairman Selig is now running a four-front federal preemption campaign — Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York — while 37 state AGs just signed on to fight Kalshi in Massachusetts.
The liquidity bid is the story, not the price: USDT's supply has grown by roughly $5B this month as Bitcoin climbs 13% — capital is rotating back into crypto, and traders say the Fed meeting will…
Treasury's 'Economic Fury' campaign pulls Tether directly into the sanctions stack — the freeze happened on-chain in USDT first, with OFAC's wallet designations following the next day.
The OTC block is small relative to Bitmine's 4.97M ETH stash, but it shows a treasury-firm bid still live while peers have stepped back — and routes fresh capital straight to the Foundation.
The probe's closure lifts the Tillis hold that had blocked Kevin Warsh's confirmation — and Kalshi's Warsh-confirmation odds jumped from ~30% to 80%+ on the news, signaling traders see a near-term…
A $75B raise at a $1.75T valuation, layered onto $240B+ from OpenAI and Anthropic, would pull risk-on capital from the same pool that has been bidding crypto higher through the spot-ETF era.
The administration's 9.9% position, converted from CHIPS Act grants at $20.47 in August, is now worth roughly $35.4 billion — an $26.5B unrealized gain that recasts industrial policy as an active…
Greenspan agrees the bottom is in but says the real driver ahead is central banks adding BTC to reserves alongside gold — and the US strategic reserve, El Salvador's daily buys, and 300K US-held…
Exodus CEO JP Richardson frames the setup: Morgan Stanley, Schwab and BlackRock keep adding to spot ETFs while retail capitulates, and the 20-week moving average is back at a level that's triggered…
Manuel Bllye — the analyst who nailed the October bearish call before the slide to $60K — says his model has now flipped and Ethereum confirming Bitcoin's higher highs is what seals the read.
St. Louis Fed's Musalem now sees core inflation near 3% for 2026 and rates potentially unchanged — the bullish case for BTC's liquidity tailwind is suddenly conditional on Hormuz traffic normalising…