The dilution trap where Bitcoin holdings rise while shareholder value stalls
Buying shares in a Bitcoin treasury company gives ownership in a business that holds Bitcoin, and management decides how to pay for the coins and when to buy or sell them.
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Wall Street is building tokenized deposits to lock in customer balances
Imagine your company has enough money to pay a supplier, but the money is in its Singapore account and the bill must be paid from New York. If the transfer between those accounts has to wait until Monday, having enough …
Bitwise is closing the lowest-fee Dogecoin ETF after rivals captured nearly all the capital
Bitwise is closing its Dogecoin ETF after investors largely bypassed the fund in favor of competing products.
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Blockstream bets 600 Bitcoin by rejecting Liquid hacker’s $50 million bounty demand
Blockstream is refusing to pay the Liquid attacker nearly 600 Bitcoin (roughly $50 million), escalating a dispute over how the crypto industry should reward partial restitution.
Metaplanet CEO surrenders $220 million in stock rights to rebuild trust with investors
Metaplanet is cutting executive rewards after concluding that later Bitcoin purchases created less value per share.
Why Nasdaq surveillance cannot settle the fight over 24/7 tokenized markets
Nasdaq's agreement to invest $100 million in Payward, Kraken's parent company, adds a planned surveillance rollout to a push into tokenized and always-on markets. One day earlier, Citadel Securities asked U.S. regulator…
L-BTC resumes trading with reserves covering just 85% of supply
SideSwap reopened its markets on Liquid while the network’s route back to Bitcoin remained closed. The split gives Liquid Bitcoin a market price before holders regain the process that converts L-BTC into BTC.
US Bank moves USBDC across borders on Stellar, but only inside its own walls
U.S. Bank has completed a live cross-border payment pilot using USBDC, its proprietary U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. The transaction demonstrated in a limited test that the lender could move its own token between bank …
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Banks get cross-exchange crypto hedge relief under Canada’s new 2027 capital rule
Canada’s banking regulator has finalized a narrow change to its crypto capital rules that should reduce capital overstatement for some market-neutral positions without broadly easing how banks must treat digital-asset r…
Coinbase CEO sees Bitcoin at $400,000, but first it has to clear $81,000
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Bitcoin’s latest bottom is already in, even as the cryptocurrency remains below a level that historically confirmed recoveries.
Philadelphia Fed finds Bitcoin traders follow whale signals faster than Ethereum users
A Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia working paper published this month found that public notifications of large crypto transfers were followed by sharply different trading activity on Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Why Circle is spending $400M to fix the last mile holding stablecoins back from real-world payouts
Circle is offering $400 million in stock for Tazapay because a stablecoin can cross a blockchain in seconds and still fail as a payment if the recipient cannot receive usable local money.
Crypto exchange recovery rules split NES holders into winners and losers after $286M exploit fallout
Nesa’s NES token returned to trading on Binance Alpha and regained Ethereum funding on Kraken on Sept. 10 after venue-specific interruptions tied to an Aug. 24 token-contract security incident.
Nasdaq deepens Kraken ties with proposed $100 million Payward investment
Nasdaq has agreed to invest $100 million in Payward, the parent company of Kraken, while Payward plans to adopt Nasdaq market-surveillance technology across its trading businesses. The two moves add capital and market-i…
CPI and PPI climb, crushing hopes for cheap money and leaving Bitcoin traders with an expensive dilemma
US consumer prices increased faster in August, giving the Federal Reserve another reason to be cautious about lowering interest rates and leaving Bitcoin investors exposed to a prolonged period of expensive borrowing.
Circle’s Noble shutdown leaves Cosmos racing to move $92 million in USDC
Circle is pulling its USD Coin ( USDC ) stablecoin from Noble, forcing Cosmos to migrate its main digital dollar rail to Injective before January.
Treasury buys $5.2 billion of bonds as Bitcoin ETF flows stay negative
The U.S. Treasury bought $5.187 billion of long-dated government bonds on Sept. 10, completing the first operation under its expanded program as Bitcoin investors watched for evidence of easier liquidity.
Crypto never closes, but Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Solana now move on Wall Street time
Bitcoin trades nonstop, but a decade of data shows its volatility increasingly follows Wall Street’s clock.
Trading stocks against BONER is the latest trend for DeFi degens
Why would anyone want to trade a healthcare stock for a memecoin like BONER? Why wouldn’t they, ask the degens on Robinhood Chain who are building a strange new corner of DeFi.
Bitcoin’s $2.24 billion Friday options expiry teased a reversal then fell to $76k again
Bitcoin fell into Deribit’s Sept. 11 options expiry, rebounded during the first hour after settlement, then surrendered the move before a two-hour post-expiry window ended.
BitMine’s staked ETH equals nearly 12% of Ethereum’s active stake, but who controls it?
BitMine Immersion Technologies has amassed a staked ETH position equivalent to almost 12% of Ethereum’s active stake, without disclosing who controls the validators behind it.
Your Bitcoin trade can now get liquidated because a stock crashed
Monthly volume on real-world-asset perpetual futures grew from $85 billion in January to an August record of $799.5 billion, with stocks accounting for 62.3% of that total on both DeFi and centralized venues, according …
Crypto institutions are chasing a 3% return on Bitcoin, but the entire payout machine collapses if miners stop burning cash
A 3% return on Bitcoin can look like a single number on an allocation sheet, even when the economic bargain underneath it is completely different.
CLARITY Act’s biggest Senate vote could happen before the bill is actually finished
White House digital assets adviser Patrick Witt has reduced the Senate's immediate choice on the CLARITY Act to “get on the bill and let's keep talking.”