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In a follow-up to his essay on sizing crypto risk, Lionsoul Global's Gregory Mall backtests bitcoin in a 60/40 across bull, bear and sideways regimes, showing how a straight bitcoin position, a large-cap basket and a trend-managed sleeve part ways and why the way you hold bitcoin can matter as much as how much you hold.
Bitcoin sales, what is now a $4 billion cash reserve, and a $975 million repurchase program, have supported STRC’s recovery.
Laser’s investment in ZIGChain is understood to be in the high single-digit millions.
Galaxy Digital reported an $85 million net loss driven by falling digital asset prices and $8.7 billion in revenue that missed Wall Street estimates.
The tokenized-assets firm appointed ex-Blockchain.com and Monashee executive as finance chief as it expands its onchain capital markets business.
Mastercard and Borderless are exploring ways to bring more trust into cross-border stablecoin transfers through the payment processing giant’s Crypto Credential framework.
The more institutional crypto becomes, the more it prices on headlines. The edge now is reading the positioning data underneath, not reacting to the narrative on top.
Helios produced data-center revenue for the first time with Phase I expected to generate about $80 million quarterly from Q3.
Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters said the ELIZAOS foundation is closing and that holders should sell, ending the token that replaced AI16Z after a lawsuit, a rebrand and a 97% crash.
The company reported no BTC sales in the second quarter, but shares fell before the open as investors focused on capital spending, free cash flow pressure and a looming insider lockup expiry.
The funds bring Yellow Card’s total financing to more than $120 million since being founded 10 years ago.
Binance-linked companies sued RedotPay, accusing it of diverting more than 470,000 Binance Card users under a commercial deal and seeking nearly $473 million in damages.
Stablecoin issuer Circle reported $701 million in Q2 revenue, missing Wall Street estimates of about $713 million.
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Shares initially jumped 10% but later fell 3% in pre-market trading as the stablecoin issuer revealed institutional adoption for its layer 1 blockchain Arc but missed on revenue.
Derivatives data show subdued activity in bitcoin and ether but aggressive positioning in select altcoins.
The rating recognizes the fund’s ability to maintain a stable net asset value, while S&P separately reaffirmed USDT among the lowest-rated stablecoins under its existing assessment framework.
The attack exposed a five-year-old firmware flaw. The industry’s rapid response is accelerating the adoption of collaborative multisig security.
The a16z-backed studio will open-source Pirate Nation assets, while an independent foundation continues supporting the PIRATE token.
For 14 years, one ratio only moved in bitcoin's favor. Now it has decisively turned the other way and bulls may not like what it means.
The defendants allegedly traveled from Missouri to Connecticut to kidnap a Bitcoin holder and force him to transfer cryptocurrency before abandoning the plan.
Cloudflare introduced programmable Wallets for AI agents and said payment features using stablecoins will launch in a future update.
The EIP-8361 draft proposal calls for burning a rising share of validator rewards as the staking ratio climbs.
A wallet holding $36 million in stolen bitcoin has become an unlikely public message board, as hack victims and opportunists pay to leave permanent notes for the thief.
