Yen at 4-Decade Low Pushes Japanese Firms Into Bitcoin, XRP
SBI VC Trade says corporate accounts have doubled since 2025 as the carry-trade unwind meets a yen that's lost its carry, forcing balance-sheet diversification into hard assets.
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SBI VC Trade says corporate accounts have doubled since 2025 as the carry-trade unwind meets a yen that's lost its carry, forcing balance-sheet diversification into hard assets.
A fresh US-Iran escalation is doing exactly what the February oil shock did: pushing energy prices higher, dragging rate-cut expectations lower, and forcing a rotation out of risk assets including…
The federal sign-off matters less for what it approves today than for the precedent it sets: a US-built frontier model cleared for full public release without geographic or capability gating.
The buy follows BitMine's pivot to an ETH-focused treasury strategy, with Lee's fund joining a growing list of public-company vehicles accumulating Ether at scale.
The proposal would shield tokenized securities and on-chain DeFi activity from enforcement risk, the clearest signal yet that the agency is moving from courtroom enforcement to written rules for…
Vanguard's $200B wealth arm buying BTC for the first time and telling clients to be fully allocated by October is the legitimizing signal this cycle has been missing, with a strategic Bitcoin reserve…
The dollar volumes migrated to Base, XRPL is racing to host a second issuer beyond RLUSD, and the chain that routes the dollar is the chain that wins the next cycle.
The award lands as the most concrete dollar figure yet attached to the regulator-driven debanking campaign, and Sethi is using the moment to push the Clarity Act through the Senate.
The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly a fifth of global oil shipments; a direct US-Iran kinetic exchange there is the risk-off macro shock markets have been pricing as tail.
The headline $8.7B RWA figure sits on a thin base of concentrated products, but the $1B weekly flow into tokenized equities shows real bid, not marketing.
The revocation closes a sanctions workaround that let a narrow set of buyers keep taking Iranian crude, with tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz providing the trigger.
The move ends the carve-out that had let Tehran keep crude flowing to select buyers, accelerating a supply shock into an OPEC+ market already pricing in tighter Q3 barrels.
The license revocation hits roughly 1.5 million barrels a day of sanctioned crude already moving through opaque channels, and the supply shock is landing straight on top of an inflation fight the Fed…
The bounce was priced on a guess about what Fed officials said three weeks ago; Wednesday's transcript replaces the guess, and a dovish miss would unwind the rally toward $58,000.
The chokepoint isn't the ban, it's the single state-owned bank that now decides which flows stay in the regulated perimeter and which get pushed offshore to evade rising costs.
If granted, Kraken would be the only crypto-native exchange with a European banking charter, a structural edge that lets it offer current accounts and lending across the EEA.
If Project Tachyon's verification lands, it would close the trust gap opened by June's Orchard disclosure, which wiped over 40% off ZEC in two days.
Treasury drains via simple on-chain vote have moved from theoretical to routine, and the Bonk memecoin community is the latest proof that low voter turnout is the real attack surface.
The 20-year anchor lease at the Justified Data Campus reframes TeraWulf from a leveraged Bitcoin miner into a long-duration AI hosting landlord, with the Abernathy stake sale clearing the runway.
A single Japanese strategic backer writing the whole round is unusual for an institutional venue that counts Schwab, Citadel and Fidelity on the cap table, and it lands as SBI doubles down on…