Day: August 16, 2026

A pair of financial institutions managing more than $1 trillion each approved crypto products this summer, a shift Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says shows large firms are expanding crypto access even during a bear market. “This year everyone just put on the crypto jersey,” Horsley said during an interview with CoinDesk. “Everyone works for crypto

Mark Cuban is convinced that the next major investment craze may have little to do with Bitcoin or blockchain. The billionaire entrepreneur took to X to predict that chips as an asset class will be the new crypto. Chips as an asset class will be the new crypto — Mark Cuban (@mcuban) August 15, 2026

Bitcoin [$BTC] was flowing into exchanges even as the leading crypto’s price threatened to fall below $62k. Major platforms such as Binance, Kraken, and Bitstamp have seen sizeable coin inflows. Source: CryptoQuant The Binance reserve rose from 662k to 671.6k $BTC, a 1.45% increase in a week. Kraken saw a 3.48% weekly increase in exchange

Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor published an annual performance report on digital credit instruments under the Strategy brand on his social media accounts, showing investors a striking divergence between the performance of the company’s structured products and the price action of the leading cryptocurrency. According to the infographic, while “raw” Bitcoin plunged 47% over the past

Saylor Frames Bitcoin as a Technology for Preserving Economic Value Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor on Aug. 15 described bitcoin as an engineering solution for storing and transferring economic value, extending his long-running argument that the asset should be understood as monetary technology rather than only a cryptocurrency. In his “What Is

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