The university’s endowment kept its $101 million position in BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF unchanged in Q2, following a 43% reduction the quarter before. Harvard’s endowment did not adjust its bitcoin exchange-traded fund holding during the second quarter, according to filings reviewed by The Block and CryptoBriefing. The position, held through BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF, was valued
What Happened? The BIP-110 faction broke from the main Bitcoin network and managed to grind out a microscopic four-block chain tip. That would normally kill a fork cold, but BIP-110 proponents have another escape route: ditch the minority chain’s crushing SHA-256 difficulty by replacing its PoW cryptographic hash function entirely. Word on the street is
An experimental AI stock portfolio managed by Grok has outperformed the S&P 500, turning a $100,000 starting investment into $148,485 in less than nine months. In this line, data from the Rallies Arena competition show that the portfolio has generated a total return of 48.48% since late November 2025. Over the same period, an equivalent
A Long-Term Oversold Signal Fairlead Strategies founder Katie Stockton says the technical damage bitcoin has taken over the past several months may finally be running its course. To bolster her case, Stockton pointed to a rare long-term signal where bitcoin has registered a measurable oversold reading on two of Fairlead’s preferred long-term indicators, a combination
$SRX Global reported a 4.3% EMJX gain that the company labels hypothetical, but its first post-acquisition disclosures still leave the central investor question unanswered: whether the strategy performs with company capital. $SRX completed the acquisition on June 16, two weeks before its fiscal third quarter ended. In its Aug. 13 results release, the company described
Bitcoin has fallen to its lowest valuation region on the Rainbow Chart model, which is based on long-term price trends. Its volatility-adjusted Z-score has also dropped to its lowest level in the last 10 years. CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that Bitcoin is trading in a region that could be described as a “panic
Ondo Stocks has crossed $1 billion in total value, a threshold that carries more weight for on-chain market structure than for the round number itself. The update was included in the original report from Ondo Finance, which also pointed to additional ecosystem milestones tied to its recently launched perpetual products. The move puts tokenized equities
The $16.3 billion in Bitcoin ETF positions that CryptoSlate recently tracked ahead of the Q2 filing deadline resolved into four disclosed position patterns. Two Abu Dhabi filers held their ordinary ETF share counts steady, JPMorgan increased ordinary spot-ETF units, UBS shifted its disclosed long-options mix, and Morgan Stanley reduced external ETF units as a new
The synchronized selloff has shoved major long-term yields to levels unseen for years, and in some cases decades. U.S. 30-year Treasury yields hit about 5.25%, their highest since 2001, while Germany’s 30-year Bund yield neared 3.73%, its highest since 2011. “Good Morning from Germany, where the bond market is sending an unmistakable message: 30y Bund
Markus Thielen, founder of 10x Research, has cast doubt on the widely circulated prediction that Bitcoin could reach $1 million by 2030. Speaking on the Trade Secrets podcast, Thielen stated that such a price target is ‘mathematically impossible’ given current market dynamics and adoption rates. Why Thielen Calls the $1M Target Unrealistic Thielen’s argument centers