Crypto M&A Funding Jumps 26x to $7.23B in Six Months
Quarterly capital deployed through crypto M&A went from $272M in Q4 2025 to $7.23B in Q2 2026, a curve that mirrors the early institutional ramp into spot BTC and ETH ETFs.
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Quarterly capital deployed through crypto M&A went from $272M in Q4 2025 to $7.23B in Q2 2026, a curve that mirrors the early institutional ramp into spot BTC and ETH ETFs.
The headline figure is striking, but the alleged $6M of IRGC-linked wallet exposure and a U.S. sanctions backdrop turn this from a compliance slip into a potential enforcement flashpoint for the…
The bounce off $59K is real, but funding rates have flipped negative and put-call skew shows a 25-point premium for downside protection. Bears are driving price action, not bulls.
SBI already runs a domestic crypto arm and backs several tokenised-asset initiatives, so taking Bitbank fully in-house consolidates a regulated retail venue under a balance sheet that regulators…
The print beats every prior bear-market bottom, yet long-term holders have continued to accumulate to a fresh all-time high of 14.8M coins, roughly 75% of supply.
Senator Lummis named a specific month for a floor vote on digital-asset market structure, the most concrete timeline a US lawmaker has given since the bill was introduced and a marker institutional…
The gap is policy, not demand: 61% of European wealth firms ban advisor involvement entirely, and advisors inside restricted shops are 8.5x more likely to have clients holding crypto on their own.
Roughly $10B in BTC options notional expires on Deribit Friday, with most of the pain concentrated on the bullish side as spot continues to bleed.
The structure is a revolving USDC line that lives entirely onchain, with Maple's lenders backing the credit and Kraken routing OTC borrowers into it.
Approval gives Ripple a regulated yen corridor to a G7 market where licensed banks and trust companies have dominated stablecoin issuance, putting RLUSD in rare company among non-domestic entrants.
Glassnode reads the move as spot-driven demand failure, not leverage flushing, with ETF redemptions reversing the dip-buying pattern that cushioned earlier drawdowns and macro pressure still weighing.
MemeCore (M) shed 38 ranks on CoinGecko's top-100 between 24 Jun and 25 Jun at 09:00 UTC, sliding from rank 28 to 66 on…
The single-day print is the largest BTC ETF outflow in weeks, and the Grayscale Mini Trust is the only venue drawing net new money while Fidelity's FETH leads the ETH leg lower.
The popular theory that spot gravitates to the strike where options buyers lose the most is failing in real time, with BTC stuck near $61,700 against a $72,000 max pain target on Friday's record…
The macro stack lined up against risk assets: persistent spot BTC ETF outflows, a Fed holding its hawkish line, and a stronger dollar pushed Bitcoin briefly under $60K and the Fear & Greed Index to…
Hyperliquid's SPCX perps let traders price a private-market thesis with crypto leverage, and over $50M in liquidations shows the speculative capital is real even before any SEC filing exists.
The bounce came not from crypto buyers but from Micron's blockbuster earnings, proof that the same AI memory trade that hammered risk assets on Monday is now the only thing steadying the market…
The total is roughly equal to CoinEx's entire 2023 trading volume, and the IRGC and sanctioned Russian counterparties on the counterparty list turn this from a compliance story into a sanctions story.
The bounce was a stock story, not a crypto one: BTC is still down 5.4% on the week, the dollar is at a seven-month high, and the 200-week moving average is now in play as a longer-term cycle line.
With CSSF sign-off, Coinbase swaps a country-by-country European footprint for a single passport covering 450 million people, and turns Luxembourg into its EU crypto hub.