Grayscale Says Bitcoin Adoption Can Outlast the Bear Market Bitcoin adoption can continue rising even if short-term prices remain unsettled, Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl said on Aug. 12, identifying three forces driving bitcoin adoption over the medium and longer term. Pandl pointed to government deficits, blockchain adoption, and generational changes in portfolio construction
For a company that runs a corporate treasury around bitcoin, the most important gatekeeper is no longer a bank or a securities regulator. It may be the committee that decides which public companies belong in benchmarks watched by trillions of dollars in passive capital. Strategy, the bitcoin treasury company, is now pressing that point in
Edelman Financial Engines has disclosed a $34 million position in spot Bitcoin ETFs — a stake that now exceeds some of the firm’s other holdings in major tech companies. While the position is still tiny in the investment advisor’s portfolio, it is still larger than its $25 million position in Amazon. The position — held
On Friday, August 14, Bitcoin [$BTC] briefly fell below the $63k mark, falling as low as $62,535. Incidentally, earlier in August, the same $62.5k area set up a Bitcoin price rebound up to $65.5k. The $BTC average production cost, or mining cost, stood at $76.5k. Despite a 17% drawdown from this price level, miners remained
Gen Z traders on Binance are allocating a growing share of their equity activity to exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with the products accounting for 25% of the cohort’s trading volume in early August, according to Binance Research. ETFs accounted for 21.9% of Gen Z net equity inflows in July, up from 18.5% in June, while the
Crypto is trading broadly lower in a quiet weekend session on August 15, 2026, extending a pullback that has been building since this week’s inflation report. Bitcoin sits at $62,812.32, down 0.92% over the past 24 hours and 3.34% over the past week, with the broader market drifting toward the lower end of the range
Bitcoin treasury holder CIMG Inc. said in its Aug. 13 quarterly filing that it needs to raise capital immediately, even though it held 1,145.4 $BTC valued at $67.19 million on June 30. CIMG had just $5,397 in cash and $1.87 million in current assets against $9.25 million in current liabilities, leaving a $7.38 million working-capital
Bitcoin is the most important asset in two of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds, according to regulatory filings. Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company disclosed Friday that it held a $490 million stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust — the second-largest single holding across its entire 13F portfolio. And a Thursday filing from the Abu Dhabi
A federal bank regulator has granted World Liberty Trust Co. a conditional bank charter, it announced Friday. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the U.S. banking agency that grants federal charters, said in a letter posted to its website that World Liberty could operate fiduciary and other trust company-related activities as a national
Tokenization-linked stocks have fallen as much as 11.2% after legal and market concerns reportedly delayed the SEC’s planned innovation exemption for blockchain-based securities. According to fresh reports on Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission was preparing to delay its innovation exemption again after the White House and Wall Street firms raised concerns about its legal