Tudor Investment, founded by billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, increased its direct stake in BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF in the second quarter while cutting its reported call option position in the fund by 85%. The firm held 688,529 shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT), valued at $22.9 million as of June 30, according
In the first six months of 2026, the crypto industry raised $11.2 billion. Not one dollar of it went to the permissionless, ungoverned experiments that digital assets were supposed to be built on. “There is an irony at the heart of crypto, and it took an $11.2 billion dataset to make it obvious,” said Dubai-based
Tudor Investment reported 18.9% more direct shares in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF at June 30 than it held three months earlier, even as its reported call-equivalent quantity fell 85.2%. Together, those moves complicate a straightforward reading that the manager simply increased its Bitcoin ETF exposure. Tudor Investment listed 688,529 direct IBIT shares in its
US stocks have been charging higher with remarkably little resistance in 2026, repeatedly shrugging off inflation worries, geopolitical risks and elevated borrowing costs. The benchmark S&P 500 index climbed above 7,800 for the first time intraday on Thursday before finishing at a record 7,798.99, extending a rally that has pushed the benchmark roughly 14% higher
Jane Street has reportedly suffered a $15 billion loss in July, driven by its exposure to the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness and other stocks. While this fall has caught the attention of Wall Street, it has also raised equal concerns in the crypto market. As Jane Street is one of the major liquidity providers
Recent filings with the SEC show that Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness AI hedge fund had almost fifty percent of its US equity portfolio invested in SanDisk and Micron before a liquidation event that occurred in July, wiping out 67% of the fund’s value in just one month. To the overall AI sector, the reveal indicates
The Bitcoin price prediction right now comes down to a single chart level, with $BTC trading at $62,983 directly on the lower boundary of an ascending channel that’s held every pullback since June, and $52,000 as the target if that boundary fails. $BTC Price Analysis: Channel Floor or $52,000 — That Is the Only Question
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said on X that Bitcoin’s cumulative mined supply has surpassed 20.07 million as of August 2026, reaching 95.6% of its maximum supply of 21 million. Zhao noted that only 4.4% of the total supply remains to be mined, and he estimated that 10% to 20% of existing $BTC has been
Robinhood Ventures Fund II has raised $225.5 million and opened at $22.50 on the New York Stock Exchange, 10% below its $25 initial public offering price. Reuters reported that Robinhood’s second publicly traded venture fund debuted on Thursday, giving individual investors access to early-stage companies usually available only to venture firms and wealthy investors. The
Bitcoin trades near $62,900 heading into the weekend, having touched an intraday low of $62,538 on Aug. 14. That low effectively tested the $62,500 to $62,560 zone that has held as the floor of a five-week trading range between roughly $62,000 and $66,000. Bitfinex found Bitcoin tested the $65,000 to $65,500 region six times between