Bitcoin treasury Strategy has blasted Morgan Stanley Capital International’s proposal to exclude it from its Global Investable Market Indexes, calling it “misguided” and “flawed.” Writing in a letter to MSCI Monday, the Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin behemoth’s founder, Michael Saylor, and CEO, Phong Le, said that the company was discriminating against digital asset businesses. MSCI said earlier
Polymarket is reportedly raising approximately $1 billion at a $21 billion valuation, with Donald Trump Jr.-linked 1789 Capital planning to contribute about $300 million. The Wall Street Journal reported the financing plans on Aug. 31, citing people familiar with the round. Alexa Henning, a spokesperson for 1789 Capital, separately confirmed the planned investment and valuation
On August 31, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) raised additional $1.75 billion with the help of its fifth growth fund after it had closed its own AI hardware fund at $1.1 billion just a few days prior to that. These two consecutive raises of funds coincide with the recent research made by Goldman Sachs that the investment
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Monday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants investment companies to provide proof that their products actually contain the private stock they claim to offer. In a private market dominated by popular AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic—and where some forms of investment
In a recent revelation, BUIDL, BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund has become the second largest tokenized U.S. Treasury fund. This moment is important because BUILD has narrowly overtaken Circle’s USYC. However, besides the competition, the growing market for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) is what is stealing the spotlight. BUILD vs. USYC According to Token
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) returned to inflows on Monday, led almost entirely by BlackRock, while Ether, $XRP and Solana funds continued attracting capital. SoSoValue data showed that Bitcoin ETFs recorded $216.7 million in net inflows on Monday, reversing the $201.8 million in withdrawals recorded on Friday. The Friday outflows ended a nine-session run
SMBC Chief Economist and former US Treasury Department official Joe Lavorgna argued that the Fed should raise interest rates in September and will take a step in that direction. Appearing on CNBC, Lavorgna made critical statements on current events, evaluating the strong growth momentum in the US economy, the revival in the manufacturing sector, and
Bitcoin ETFs Add $924.48M as Ether Funds Draw $824.42M The money kept coming, and this time it spread further across the field. Bitcoin and ether remained the largest destinations for ETF capital, extending their winning streaks through Thursday. Yet the week’s most striking feature came lower down the crypto market, where solana, $XRP and $HYPE
C1 Fund Inc. (NYSE: CFND), a closed-end fund traded on the New York Stock Exchange, has disclosed its portfolio structure for the second quarter of 2026. According to the official release, Ripple Labs Inc. was recorded as the fund’s largest holding, accounting for 17.5% of net assets, ahead of Kraken’s parent structure, Payward, Inc., which