A number of public companies may be about to build hoards of altcoins in an attempt to pump their share prices. Such companies are attempting to replicate the model mastered by Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) which has now accumulated 2.9% of all the bitcoin BTC$116,623.03 that will ever exist. Since it embarked on its BTC
Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this article owns shares in Strategy. Strategy (MSTR), under the leadership of Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, may have just finalized its largest preferred stock issuance to date with an STRC (Stretch) offering joining the STRD, STRF and STRK preferred shares to build out the company’s credit yield curve. Among these,
By James Van Straten (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin BTC$116,758.05 has dropped 3% in the past 24 hours and is currently some 7% below its June 14 all-time high. This raises the question of how much further it might drop. In the context of a continuing bull market, double-digit corrections are not unusual,
US investors poured more into spot Ether exchange-traded funds than their Bitcoin counterparts over the last six trading days, as institutional interest in Ethereum surged this week. Spot Ether ETFs recorded a net inflow of nearly $2.4 billion in the past six trading days, far above spot Bitcoin ETFs, which recorded only $827 million during
Trump Media and Technology Group announced that it had acquired $2 billion worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related securities on July 21, 2025. This was just three days after President Trump signed the GENIUS Act. The fact that this massive Bitcoin investment was kept hidden until after the law passed appeared to be part of a
Ark Invest, the investment firm led by Cathie Wood, offloaded $12 million worth of Coinbase (COIN) on Thursday, continuing the trend of taking profit from its investment in the crypto exchange. Recently, Ark has been selling its Coinbase stake and diversifying into other crypto plays. Last week, the firm invested $116 million into the Peter
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. This morning, I had the good fortune of interviewing Jens Nordvig. The interview will be out tomorrow, but I wanted to give a teaser around something incredibly important: Fed independence. Nordvig is the founder of Exante Data and was previously managing
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:GENIUS Act drives $4 billion stablecoin inflows. Christie’s launches crypto real estate division while Korean asset managers retreat from Bitcoin ETF plans amid regulatory concerns. Meanwhile, Injective tokenizes equity
The ink on the GENIUS Act is barely dry, but its ripple effects are already visible across the crypto industry. In just seven days, the sector added nearly $4 billion, pushing the stablecoin market cap above $264 billion and fueling corporate interest in related ventures. The surge is no surprise. The landmark legislation provides banks,