Circle renews Coinbase deal creating two ways to challenge Coinbase’s USDC payouts, but neither works quickly
The new term opens 60- and 90-day cure paths, followed by possible exclusions and up to 12 months of payments.
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How crypto turned a 68-point deficit into a market lead as Bitcoin and top altcoins outrun the Nasdaq
Bitcoin trailed the Nasdaq 100 by 68 percentage points over the past year, and it has spent the last 60 days turning that deficit into a five-point lead. According to Glassnode's cross-asset return table, Bitcoin fell 44% over the past…
Bitcoin price hits $69,500 because US just doubled Treasury buybacks to crush long-term yields
Bitcoin and Ethereum surged above $69,500 and $2,000 on Wednesday after the US Treasury doubled planned buybacks of long-dated government debt. On Aug. 19, the Treasury Department said it will raise the maximum size of its liquidity-support operations for 10-…
Wall Street piled $1.2 billion into MSTR in Q2 before Strategy turned its Bitcoin flywheel toward rescuing STRC
Wall Street institutions increased their exposure to Strategy's MSTR in the second quarter, just before Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin accumulation machine began redirecting capital toward STRC. On Aug. 18, Strategy said 12 of its 15 largest institutional shareholders increased their MSTR…
Metaplanet’s US Bitcoin treasury bet could unlock up to $3.4 billion, but there’s a catch
The proposed deal hands Metaplanet 95.7% at closing, while later capital depends on unexercised warrants and an optional preferred right.
A hidden divide inside the Fed could trigger a hawkish shock for Bitcoin at 2 PM today
The minutes become a hawkish shock only if tightening support stretched beyond the three officials who formally dissented.
Ripple just scored two major institutional wins but XRP traders are bracing for a bigger move
On Aug. 18, Ripple deepened its push into traditional finance, securing a South Korean banking deal as its prime brokerage raised $275 million. The crypto payment company revealed that South Korea's Jeonbuk Bank became the country's first regional lender to…
Bitcoin’s Q2 selloff split Wall Street as banks bought, hedge funds cut and sovereigns held
Bitcoin fell 14.2% in the second quarter, while institutional Bitcoin ETF holdings rose 7.5% over the same period, climbing from 498,389 to 535,723 BTC equivalent. Fewer institutions drove that increase, with the number reporting Bitcoin positions through 13F filings falling…
SEC opens door to day-one crypto insider sales that Senate draft would block
The SEC's new crypto fundraising proposal deliberately treats tokens as free to trade as soon as a buyer acquires them, unless the issuer or another law says otherwise. Insiders typically know more than the public while a token project is…
This Solana treasury company may sell SOL as a DeFi loan ties up more than half its treasury
Even after its estimated C$22 million unencumbered crypto, roughly C$12.2 million of the illustrative gap remains.
Ethereum’s 12-GPU proving problem just got a 4-GPU answer
Its claimed 9.62-second p99 fits Ethereum's latency target, while workload, proof and whole-system power details remain undisclosed.
Canaan counted paused Ethiopia mining as nearly 35% of its July operating hashrate total
The company placed 4.96 EH/s in its operating column while a footnote said Ethiopia mining was paused.