Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley said that the recent pullback in the cryptocurrency market is being seen as an “opportunity” by some institutional and wealthy investors. According to information shared by Horsley, a wealth management client the company contacted about two years ago, despite never having invested in crypto assets before, made their first Bitcoin purchase
OKX Ventures, the venture capital arm of the global cryptocurrency exchange, has made a strategic investment in STBL, a next-generation stablecoin and yield infrastructure provider. STBL, co-founded by Reeve Collins, who also co-founded Tether, and tokenization pioneer Avtar Sehra, also announced a partnership with Hamilton Lane (HLNE), an alternative-investment management firm, and Securitize, a regulated
Val Vavilov, an early figure in the cryptocurrency sector, stated that they view the recent sharp drop in Bitcoin as a buying opportunity. The Latvian billionaire, who founded Bitfury 15 years ago and made it one of the largest companies in the sector, stated that they bought Bitcoin at low levels in order to rebalance
Circle’s stablecoin $USDC just powered what organizers call the world’s first hackathon run entirely by autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents — no human judges, no human voters, just code evaluating code. Circle’s $USDC Anchors Experimental AI Agent Hackathon The weeklong event was conducted on Moltbook and Openclaw, with agents handling everything from submissions to evaluation
Humanity Protocol, a blockchain identity infrastructure firm, has integrated with Fireblocks, an institutional digital asset infrastructure entity. The partnership marks a key effort to unveil institutional-level treasury and custody access to Humanity Protocol’s Mainnet. As Humanity Protocol revealed in its official press release, the development permits over 2,400 firms leveraging the infrastructure of Fireblocks to
Nick Szabo, a cryptographer and computer scientist who has occasionally been linked to Satoshi Nakamoto in the cryptocurrency world, compared Bitcoin and gold in terms of cost, storage, and transfer. Szabo argued that Bitcoin has some significant advantages over physical gold, especially for individual investors. According to Szabo, Bitcoin is “slightly cheaper” than physical gold
Investors are now eyeing this week’s release of January’s delayed inflation print, following a hot labor report on Wednesday that showed the economy added 130,000 new jobs for the month. The release of fresh U.S. consumer price index data, pushed out due to the government’s partial shutdown and now expected Friday, is forecast to show
The UK Treasury has selected HSBC Holdings, Europe’s largest bank by assets, and Ashurst, a prominent international law firm, to lead a pilot program for digital gilt, a move that could make the UK the first G7 country to issue sovereign bonds directly on a blockchain. The pilot will take place in the Bank of
Coinbase, the largest publicly traded crypto exchange in the U.S., faces mounting pressure from Wall Street as analysts slash price targets ahead of its quarterly earnings report scheduled for Thursday. Shares of the San Francisco-based firm have dropped 34% since January, trading near $152 after falling 6% today. The decline mirrors a broader pullback in
Stretch (STRC), the perpetual preferred equity issued by Strategy (MSTR) the world’s largest corporate bitcoin holder reclaimed its $100 par value during Wednesday’s U.S. session for the first time since mid-January. STRC trading at or above par enables the company to resume at-the-market (ATM) offerings to fund further bitcoin acquisitions. STRC last hit the $100