Catering to the short attention span of retail investors in Michael Saylor’s bitcoin (BTC) treasury company MicroStrategy (MSTR), a new fund manager is advertising weekly payouts plus extra leverage. Although monthly payouts have been available in YieldMax’s ETF MSTY since February 2024, Roundhill wants to increase that cadence 4X with its upcoming fund, MSTW. In
Welcome to the Asia Pacific Morning Brief—your essential digest of overnight crypto developments shaping regional markets and global sentiment. Grab a green tea and watch this space. Institutional crypto adoption accelerates as Fidelity backs MetaPlanet’s Bitcoin strategy, Henry Chang wins WEMIX legal vindication, and SharpLink amasses the world’s largest corporate Ethereum treasury position. Fidelity Subsidiary
Financial Times (FT) reports that Brandon Lutnick is in late-stage talks with Blockstream founder Adam Back on a roughly $4 billion deal to acquire bitcoin using a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Unnamed Sources Tell FT $4B Bitcoin SPAC Deal in Works Between Lutnick, Adam Back Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has acquired a 9.1% stake in BitMine Immersion Technologies, a crypto infrastructure firm led by Tom Lee, founder and CIO of Fundstrat, according to a new SEC filing. Thiel, who reported shared voting and dispositive power over 5,094,000 shares, joins a growing list of institutional backers eyeing crypto-native companies not
“No member bank shall, directly or indirectly by any device whatsoever, pay any interest on any deposit which is payable on demand.” — Section 11(b) of the Banking Act of 1933 Money market funds — the world’s most boring financial product — terrified bankers as soon as they started to catch on in the 1970s.
The US housing sector may be moving toward recognizing crypto in mortgage underwriting, but Redfin’s chief economist urges caution. Daryl Fairweather warned that crypto poses risks traditional finance models may not fully capture, pointing to volatility, custody concerns, and cyber threats. “There are unknown risks in crypto that maybe will not be fully accounted for,”
The crypto market is maturing and diversifying thanks to improved regulatory clarity and increasing demand from traditional financial institutions, says trading firm and over-the-counter (OTC) desk Wintermute. In its 1H 2025 OTC Market Report, the firm detailed the changes in the crypto trading market. The report highlighted a growing divergence between institutional investors and retail
US President Donald Trump and Fed official Thomas Barkin simultaneously made critical statements on both domestic and foreign policy. While calling on the Fed to cut interest rates, Trump made striking warnings about the Ukraine-Russia war and shared developments regarding a series of trade agreements. Trump argued that the Fed should cut interest rates and