Ether, XRP and Solana Record Weekly Gains as Bitcoin ETFs Lose $463M
U.S. crypto ETFs ended the holiday-shortened week with roughly $263 million in combined net outflows, as heavy bitcoin redemptions overwhelmed...
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Strategy’s Bitcoin War Chest Sat Still While Saylor Defended STRC
The world’s largest bitcoin treasury company, Strategy, announced it has repurchased $139 million worth of its preferred stock STRC. The...
Nvidia Eyes $10B of Anthropic’s IPO While Polymarket Bets on a $2T Pop
Polymarket traders give Anthropic a 66% chance of closing its first trading day above a $2 trillion market cap, even...
XRP Ledger Broke Its Transaction Record, and 20 Wallets Did Most of It
The XRP Ledger crammed a record 3,254 transactions into one ledger on Sept. 13, yet 2,000 of them were identical...
DNA From a 42,000-Year-Old ‘Last Neanderthal’ Points to 50,000 Years of Isolation
Researchers led by Ludovic Slimak at the University of Toulouse sequenced DNA from a tooth belonging to Thorin, a Neanderthal...
Big AI’s Regulatory Capture Play May Have Backfired Spectacularly
Before the crypto exchange FTX collapsed, the company and several senior executives, including Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), poured tens of millions...
Senate Republicans Update CLARITY Act With Strict Ethics Rules
On Sunday night, Senate Republicans released an updated draft of the CLARITY Act with changes to the ethics and other...
Russia Launches Digital Ruble Nationwide With 87K New Accounts
Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina stated that the digital ruble launch had progressed smoothly and that the number of...
The Oil Escape Route Went Dark, and Markets Are Feeling It
According to a myriad of reports, a drone strike reportedly launched from Iraq paralyzed Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, also known...
Caroline Ellison’s New Charity Job Comes With an Awkward FTX Link
According to a Substack post written by Manifund co-founder and CEO Austin Chen, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison has...
Strategy’s Bitcoin Guide Makes the Case for a Global Reserve Asset
Michael Saylor promoted Strategy’s bitcoin investor guide, advancing its case for BTC as a global reserve asset. The document examines...
Tom Lee Says a 2% Bitcoin Bet Quietly Became an 85% Portfolio
More than a decade ago, Fundstrat told clients willing to venture into crypto to put just 2% of their portfolio...
Schumer Calls Senate Caucus to Decide Fate of CLARITY Bill
The meeting, slated for Sunday evening, might seal the fate of the CLARITY bill if Democrats convene to vote against...
LAPTOP Enters Memecoin Frenzy, $245 Million Crypto Heist Sees Guilty Pleas, And More – Weekly Recap
This week’s stories highlighted crypto’s widening reach — and its risks. Pump.fun paired memecoins with tokenized stocks, while Hunter Biden’s...
McGlone Warns SPX Pullback Could Send Bitcoin Price to $10K
Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, stressed that high stock prices and upcoming interest rate hikes suggest bitcoin’s...