While the leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin set new records in 2025, many altcoins, including Ethereum, exhibited more limited upward momentum. In this context, altcoins generally lag behind $BTC, and cryptocurrency research company Blockworks Research has published a comprehensive report examining the performance of the altcoin market in recent years. According to the research, altcoins are lagging
Coinbase director Wilson Frederick sold 35,068 shares of company stock at an average price of $144.32 per share on Aug. 3, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The transaction totaled approximately $5.06 million, reducing Frederick’s direct holdings to 197,389 shares. Insider Transaction Details The sale was disclosed in a Form 4 filing
Regulators Write the Rulebook Early The emirate’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority, or FSRA, has licensed virtual asset activity since 2018 through the Abu Dhabi Global Market, a financial free zone with its own courts built on English common law. That early start gave firms a rulebook years before many other jurisdictions caught up. Not every
Sandisk (SNDK) and Western Digital (WDC), two of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI storage boom, were both 10% lower in pre-market trading Thursday, despite reporting strong quarterly results. Sandisk posted record fourth-quarter revenue of $8.97 billion and non-GAAP EPS of $39.25, comfortably beating expectations. Western Digital also delivered a double beat, reporting revenue of
Marex Group, a Nasdaq-listed financial services firm, has invested an undisclosed amount in institutional crypto infrastructure provider Digital Prime Technologies, underscoring traditional finance’s growing interest in digital asset markets. The companies announced Wednesday that the investment will support the continued development of Tokenet, a digital asset lending and borrowing platform built by Digital Prime in
JPYC Inc. raised 6 billion yen ($38 million) in an extension of its Series B funding round to accelerate the expansion of its yen-pegged stablecoin. The investment brings the company’s total raised to $106 million across seven funding rounds since November 2021, according to venture capital data site Tracxn. New investors in the latest round
The market has handed Strategy a reprieve. STRC shares rebounded roughly 30% from their recent trough, a move that owes less to old-fashioned bitcoin maximalism and more to a deliberate shift toward balance-sheet prudence. The catalyst? A series of bitcoin sales that built a $4 billion cash reserve and a concurrent $975 million repurchase program,
Circle Internet Group said on Aug. 5 that its Coinbase $USDC agreement had renewed on existing terms, keeping the stablecoin at the center of the U.S. exchange’s products. Circle confirmed the renewal during its second quarter 2026 earnings call. The agreement’s initial term began in August 2023. Circle’s collaboration agreement filed with the Securities and