Institutional
DeFi

Bitmine Nears Goal of Controlling 5% of Ethereum Supply With $11.8 Billion Treasury

The company says it now holds 5.79 million ETH, equal to 4.8% of the cryptocurrency’s circulating supply, while expanding its…
Infrastructure

Russia’s Sberbank Sets December Deadline for Crypto Buildout: Report

Bitcoin Magazine Russia’s Sberbank Sets December Deadline for Crypto Buildout: Report Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, will build crypto infrastructure by…
Institutional

Cantor is advising crypto bank AMINA on path to potential public listing

The Swiss bank is exploring multiple paths to the public markets, though discussions are ongoing and no final decision has…
Institutional

Strategy Adds $525M to Cash Reserve, Skips Bitcoin Buy for Fifth Week

The Bitcoin treasury firm also tapped its $1 billion preferred buyback for the first time, spending $25 million on STRC.…
Institutional

CLARITY hopes fade, BitMEX shuts as lawsuit looms: Hodler’s Digest, July 26

Despite support from Goldman Sachs, Fidelity and law enforcement bodies, the Clarity Act’s chances dim. BitMEX to close as crypto…
Infrastructure

A $650 million wave of bridge hacks just triggered a $7 billion mass migration to Chainlink

Chainlink drew more than $7 billion of token value onto its cross-chain infrastructure in the second quarter as institutional adoption…
Infrastructure

South Korea’s largest bank to launch payment service on JPMorgan’s Kinexys

South Korea’s largest lender will use JPMorgan’s blockchain platform to support US dollar cross-border payments for import and export businesses…
Institutional

The $25 million Bitcoin glitch hiding inside Wall Street’s clearinghouses

Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep…
DeFi

Optimism Meets Overhead

Shorts have folded, hedges are off, and ETF flows have flipped positive, the strongest positioning shift of the year. The…
Institutional

Samsung Wallet is getting native stablecoins – and it could make one token the default for 800M users

Issuer, chain, custody, redemption, market and launch choices will determine whether Wallet becomes a native transaction route or a narrower…