Prevailing crypto market trends suggest an ongoing decoupling of the ecosystem from its original FOMO-based speculative undertone. The influx of institutional investors via spot ETFs seems to have adjusted Bitcoin’s price patterns and those of top cryptocurrencies. It is now common to find experts and market analysts combining Bitcoin and mainstream assets such as the
Jump Capital has closed its eighth institutional fund with $350 million in capital commitments, with the new vehicle dedicated to backing founders building AI applications, enterprise infrastructure, and cybersecurity technologies. In an official announcement, the venture firm said its latest investment strategy is built around three developments shaping enterprise AI adoption: software applications being rebuilt
UK Firms Plan 59% New Digital Asset Funding as Rules Take Shape European and United Kingdom financial institutions are moving toward the same digital asset economy, but they are not starting from the same place. Fireblocks’ 2026 Financial Grid survey, based on responses from more than 600 senior executives, found near-unanimous confidence in the regulatory
Jupiter Sees 360% Jump in Off-Hours Tokenized Stock Trading Tokenized stocks are moving from a blockchain experiment toward a broader trading market, with the number of addresses holding onchain equities approaching 1 million. The count stood at a record 759,000 in late July, up 92% over 30 days and 522% since the start of 2026,
Strategy’s variable-rate preferred stock, STRC, closed above $90 for the first time in seven weeks, extending its recovery from a June selloff that raised concerns about the Bitcoin treasury company’s financial resilience. STRC closed at $92.32 on Monday, up 3.2% from Friday’s $89.46 close, according to Yahoo Finance data. It was the first close above
President Donald Trump called on ExxonMobil and Chevron to cut US fuel prices after the oil majors earned roughly $26.5 billion combined during the second quarter. Trump demands lower fuel prices Trump criticized ExxonMobil and Chevron at the White House on Monday, arguing that supply pressure linked to the Iran war had allowed the companies
Robinhood opened the order window on Monday for Robinhood Ventures Fund II, a closed-end fund that will give retail investors exposure to seed-stage startups from the Y Combinator ecosystem,at an expected $25 per share. The fund extends Robinhood’s private-markets push from late-stage names like OpenAI into the riskiest end of venture capital — seed-stage companies,
Italy’s largest banking group, Intesa Sanpaolo, significantly reduced its exposure to BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) through call options in the second quarter, while simultaneously increasing its holdings in BlackRock’s Ethereum staking ETF. The moves were disclosed in a 13F filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 31, covering positions as of
BlackRock (BLK), the world’s largest asset manager, is building on its recent expansion of tokenized cash offerings in the U.S. by tapping into a combined $311 billion of assets under management in European money market funds in a sign of the growing appeal of holding real-world assets on blockchain technology. BlockRock unveiled 12 new tokenized