Institutional crypto adoption — ETFs, corporate treasury, and traditional finance entering blockchain.

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Michael Saylor’s Strategy is now tracking bitcoin’s 200-week moving average

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy has shifted its treasury management focus to track Bitcoin's 200-week moving average, signaling heightened attention to…

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The reverse bridge: Crypto meets Wall Street using perps

Crypto exchanges have weaponized perpetual futures to blur the line between digital and traditional assets. Platforms like Bybit, Binance, and OKX now…

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Strategy leaves preferred STRC dividend at 12% as price still below par

MicroStrategy's preferred STRC shares continue yielding a 12% dividend despite trading below their $100 par value. The company maintains this payout r…

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XRP ETFs Keep Drawing Cash, So Why Is the Price Down 40%?

XRP spot exchange-traded funds recorded their fourth consecutive month of inflows while the token plummeted roughly 40% from January highs, creating a…

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Ten mystery investors are using 2,380 BTC to completely hijack a Nasdaq company and gut its leadership

A group of ten anonymous investors is executing a takeover of a Nasdaq-listed company using 2,380 BTC as their acquisition vehicle. The deal targets c…

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After 3 reverse stock splits and a $13.5M loss, this real estate firm bet $8M on crypto it may not be allowed to withdraw

A struggling real estate firm has poured $8 million into cryptocurrency holdings despite financial turmoil that includes three reverse stock splits an…

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Strategy holds STRC dividend at 12%

MicroStrategy's board opted to maintain its STRC dividend yield at 12% despite the security trading well below par value, breaking from the company's …

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MicroStrategy Post-Earnings CLARITY Act Push Could Add New Catalyst for Its Stock

MicroStrategy threw its weight behind the CLARITY Act just hours after releasing Q2 earnings, layering a regulatory catalyst onto its core bitcoin tre…

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Coinbase’s Q2 miss sparks split on Wall Street, analysts debate growth beyond crypto trading

Coinbase reported Q2 earnings that fell short of expectations, triggering a mixed response from Wall Street analysts who reassess the exchange's growt…

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The good and the bad of perps, according to crypto traders

Perpetual futures markets have become a defining feature of crypto trading, but participants increasingly voice concerns about their structural dynami…

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Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Posts $8.2B Loss As BTC Price Suffered

MicroStrategy, the publicly traded business intelligence firm that built the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, recorded an $8.2 billion unrealized l…

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Urges Lawmakers to Vote on Clarity Act, Quotes Satoshi Nakamoto

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly pressured lawmakers to vote on the Clarity Act, invoking Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto in …

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BlackRock Bitcoin Buying Rebounds as ETF Investors Sit 22% Underwater

BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF clients deployed $273 million into bitcoin over two days, signaling institutional demand remains present despite retail E…

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Strategy books $8.2 billion Q2 loss on bitcoin price decline

MicroStrategy booked an $8.2 billion loss in Q2 after bitcoin's price decline eroded the value of its massive BTC holdings. The company, which holds m…

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Ondo Finance weighs acquisition worth up to $500 million

Ondo Finance, a leading tokenized real-world assets platform, is exploring an acquisition valued between $250 million and $500 million as consolidatio…

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Bhutan’s Gelephu taps 3iQ to manage part of Bitcoin treasury

Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City has appointed 3iQ, a Canadian digital asset manager, to oversee a portion of its Bitcoin treasury. The arrangement m…

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Strategy posts $8.2B Q2 loss as Bitcoin slump drives unrealized losses

Strategy, the publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company, reported an $8.2 billion loss in Q2 driven primarily by unrealized losses on its Bitcoin holdi…

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Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Sells Bitmine While Adding to Coinbase and Circle Holdings

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest executed a mixed portfolio rebalance during Wednesday's crypto equity selloff, trimming exposure to mining and trading infras…

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BoJ Holds Rates at 1%: Will Japan’s Yen Intervention Hold?

The Bank of Japan held its policy rate at 1% in its latest decision, maintaining its hawkish stance even as the yen faces sustained pressure. The BoJ …

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Japanese game developer launches Bitcoin, altcoin fund with SBI

Gumi, a Japanese game developer, has launched a Bitcoin and altcoin investment fund in partnership with SBI, Japan's largest online brokerage and fina…

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Hyperliquid Draws First Japanese Corporate Buyer as US Funds Shed $27 Million

Eole, a Tokyo-listed company, has become the first Japanese publicly traded firm to hold Hyperliquid (HYPE) tokens, purchasing 1,078 tokens for 10.08 …

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Wall Street’s Worst Day Since April 2025: Did the Fed Just Lose the Market?

The Dow Jones dropped 1,153 points in what marks Wall Street's worst session since April 2025, following the Federal Reserve's decision to hold intere…

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“There’s no free money forever”: Twenty One Capital’s new CEO warns the Bitcoin treasury playbook is dying

Raphael Zagury, newly appointed CEO of Twenty One Capital, contends that the corporate Bitcoin treasury strategy popularized by MicroStrategy and othe…

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Wall Street veteran Don Wilson says regulators are getting perps all wrong

Don Wilson, CEO of trading powerhouse DRW (Dynamic Research and Trading), argues that perpetual futures occupy the wrong place in regulators' minds. T…

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BlackRock, Fidelity, other Wall Street giants back the Clarity Act

BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, and SoFi have thrown their weight behind the Clarity Act, a Senate bill designed to establish …

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Dubai-Based Emirates Airline Adds Bitcoin and Crypto Payments

Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, now accepts Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for ticket purchases and services. The carrier had tea…

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Quick Maths On STRC Buybacks: The Truth About Net Bitcoin Per Share and Accretion

MicroStrategy's preferred stock buyback program hinges on a nuanced metric that separates accretive from dilutive capital allocation. The company, led…

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SK Hynix’s Record Profit Still Trails What Analysts Wanted to See

SK Hynix reported second-quarter results that exceeded historical records but fell short of analyst expectations. The South Korean memory chipmaker po…

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Seagate’s 48% Revenue Surge Silences Growing AI Infrastructure Skeptics

Seagate delivered a 48% revenue surge in Q4, delivering strong earnings that challenge skepticism around AI infrastructure investments. The storage gi…

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Crypto’s favorite $90 trillion trading product is coming to Wall Street, but big banks are taking it slow

U.S. regulated perpetual futures just launched, opening a multibillion-dollar opportunity that crypto platforms are sprinting to capture while Wall St…

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Institutional crypto adoption — ETFs, corporate treasury, and traditional finance entering blockchain.