Elon Musk could soon control one of the largest corporate bitcoin holdings in public markets if Tesla and SpaceX ultimately merge, according to reports surrounding ongoing internal discussions about combining the companies. CNBC reported Tuesday that Musk has discussed with colleagues the possibility of folding Tesla and SpaceX together, citing people familiar with the talks.
Jamie Dimon just said the quiet part out loud. The JPMorgan Chase CEO confirmed that his potential successors are already inside the company, and that the board considers succession planning its single most important agenda item right now. The internal horse race Dimon has made clear that the successor pool is drawn from JPMorgan’s current
Alpha Compute Corp., trading on NASDAQ under the ticker ALP, has signed a deal to acquire a 60% controlling stake in GAMEE from Animoca Brands. The enterprise valuation comes in at $18 million, with considerations of up to $11 million tied to how GAMEE performs over the next two years. The deal also creates something
When you own more Bitcoin than any other public company on Earth, a bad day for $BTC is a very bad day for your balance sheet. Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, watched over $690 million in value evaporate from its Bitcoin treasury as the price of $BTC fell below $75,000. Strategy holds hundreds
Fold Holdings just landed $150 million in borrowing power to scale its Bitcoin rewards credit card across the country. The facility comes from Encina Lender Finance and gives Fold a four-year runway to issue cards to a growing waitlist of customers eager to stack sats on everyday purchases. Here’s the thing: this is debt, not
QuickNode has added Aleo to its growing roster of supported networks, rolling out enterprise-grade RPC endpoints and validator-as-a-service for the privacy-centric Layer 1 blockchain. The integration gives developers managed infrastructure for building applications that lean on Aleo’s zero-knowledge cryptography, covering use cases from private payments to decentralized finance and AI. What QuickNode is actually offering
Launched in February 2025 by the Ethereum Foundation in collaboration with Hyperlane and Bootnode, the Open Intents Framework (OIF) is gaining traction as shared infrastructure for building and executing cross-chain intents. With backing from over 30 teams, including heavyweights like Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, ZKsync, and Starknet, the project is positioning itself as a neutral standard
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2035.72, up 0.1% (+2.93) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Twelve of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: ICP (+9.8%) and XLM (+1.7%). Laggards: NEAR (-3.9%) and AAVE
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Wall Street’s clearinghouse, said Wednesday it plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to the Stellar ($XLM) network, expanding a broader effort by Wall Street firms to move traditional financial (TradFi) assets onto blockchain rails. Tokenized assets custodied by DTCC’s Depository Trust Company could become available on Stellar
Jefferies said it expects a new wave of crypto and blockchain-related public listings as institutional adoption of digital asset infrastructure accelerates across Wall Street and the payments industry. In a report published after its first Digital Assets Investor Conference in New York, Jefferies said it expects a surge of crypto-related public listings over the next