Crypto remains a marginal payment option among euro area businesses even as other forms of digital payments gain ground, according to a new European Central Bank (ECB) report. Just 0.2% of companies selling goods and services online accept crypto assets, the ECB said in its survey on companies’ cash use, published Thursday. Cash remains the
Strategy (MSTR) has pushed back against MSCI’s proposed methodology for identifying “non-operating companies,” which could result in the largest bitcoin treasury company being removed from the index provider’s global equity indexes. Strategy said on X, “Digital assets are assets. Index providers should measure markets, not decide which assets companies are allowed to own,” Strategy said.
World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The token was planned to go on sale next year, giving investors a share of revenue from loans financing the Trump-branded resort, but this has been pushed
Top publicly listed bitcoin holding firms, Strategy (MSTR) and Metaplanet (3350), are back in MSCI’s crosshairs, months after dodging the index provider’s crypto-specific exclusion rule. The finance company has opened a new consultation this month, proposing to identify and exclude “non-operating companies” from its Global Investable Market Indexes. The proposed classification would be based on
Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Kaplan stated that the Fed’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged in July was “absolutely correct,” adding that policymakers should approach the data coming in until September with transparency. According to Kaplan, the increasing complexity of the factors influencing the inflation outlook makes it risky for the Fed to adopt rigid
Solstice Lets Investors Split STRC Yield and Price Risk on Solana Solstice Finance is bringing a Wall Street-style credit structure onto Solana, launching tokenized senior and junior claims tied to the dividend stream of Strategy Inc.’s Nasdaq-listed preferred stock. The product, called strcUSX, references Strategy’s Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (STRC), which pays a 12%
Multicoin Capital has exited its disclosed stake in Forward Industries, the largest Solana treasury company, according to SEC filings. The crypto investment firm had been one of the three lead investors, alongside Galaxy Digital and Jump Crypto, behind the $1.65 billion financing that launched Forward’s Solana treasury strategy in September 2025. The three sponsors collectively