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Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, sold 3,588 BTC over the past week for around $216 million, according to a Monday disclosure. The proceeds funded dividends on its preferred shares and topped up its U.S…
Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added around $73 million in ETH last week while Strategy, its leading Bitcoin counterpart, dumped $216 million in BTC to pay dividend obligations.
Ripple said Monday that Luxembourg upgraded its preliminary Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization under the European Union’s (EU) Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulations to a full license. The approval …
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, plans to offer a cryptocurrency wallet and digital depository by December, bringing the financial institution into a market the country spent years trying to contain.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has laid out an updated vision for the blockchain's next several years, billing it as the most sweeping rebuild since the network ditched mining and declaring that Ethereum is "reinve…
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Cantor said Strategy's (MSTR) top priority is restoring its STRC preferred stock to par, arguing that doing so is key to restarting the company's bitcoin
Strategy (MSTR) sold 3,588 bitcoin for approximately $216 million last week, reducing its total holdings to 843,775 BTC, according to a Monday SEC filing.
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Ether (ETH) led crypto majors into Monday as bitcoin held above $63,000, steadying after a week that pulled it off its lows and back to its highest in more than a month.
Brandt, CEO of Factor LLC and widely followed chart analyst, said on X that he is mulling liquidating some of his BTC and using the proceeds to buy gold, as he sees the yellow metal outperforming BTC.
Bitcoin touched $63,882 overnight before retreating to around $62,900, per CoinDesk data. The 24-hour high of $63,900 held briefly before sellers pushed it back down.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has a fresh set of takeaways on "Lean Ethereum," the multi-year plan to rebuild nearly every major part of the network, following research meetings.
XRP finally pushed through the $1.14 level that had capped recent attempts higher, but the move did not run cleanly into the next resistance band. Buyers drove the token as high as $1.158 on heavy volume before sellers …
Welcome to another update on the Clarity Act. Will it pass? Jury (and by that I mean Congress) is still out. It's certainly possible. But we are running into some timeline issues, like the fact that it is now July.
Kalshi is putting a hefty bet on its legal wrangling as the prediction markets firm fights for its survival in the potentially existential question: Are its users gambling or purchasing derivatives?
Everyone in crypto is talking about stablecoin yield right now. Yield-bearing stablecoins grew roughly 300% last year, and 21Shares expects the segment to more than triple to over $50 billion in 2026. Every few weeks, a…
When Standard Chartered (STAN) said it would offer institutional clients direct access to minting and redeeming Circle Internet's (CRCL) USDC this week, it wasn't simply adding another digital asset service.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said this week that he will hold his bitcoin
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao's suggestion that the estimated 1.1 million tokens belonging to Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto should be frozen to prevent them from being stolen should quantum computers break the block…
A $3,000 server was enough for a blockchain security researcher to simulate an attack path they say could have put as much as $70 billion in crypto infrastructure at risk.
Investors holding the TRUMP memecoin are down $3.81 billion combined, while the U.S. President made more than $1.4 billion from his crypto ties, according to data from analytics firm Nansen shared with CoinDesk.