The JAN3 Bitcoin index positioned the United Kingdom third in its 2025 B20 after weighing coverage advances and greater than 60,000 BTC in law-enforcement custody. UK information classify the cash as seized felony property topic to court proceedings. A March 2026 Treasury reply mentioned central authorities held no cryptoassets. JAN3 promoted the UK result this…
Twenty One Capital’s new CEO opened his first shareholder letter by agreeing together with his harshest critics. Rapha Zagury admitted the market values XXI at lower than the Bitcoin it owns, and mentioned administration sees it the identical method. The confession landed Tuesday subsequent to a painful quantity. The firm misplaced $413.5 million in the…
Empery Digital has disclosed the sale of 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million, utilizing the proceeds to help debt reimbursement and share buybacks as its unrestricted Bitcoin buffer narrows. The firm’s Form 10-Q filed on August 7 exhibits complete holdings fell to 1,279 BTC. Of that, 954 BTC was pledged as collateral, leaving 325 BTC unrestricted….
The Bitcoin carry commerce now pays greater than US authorities debt. On August 7, annualized Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Bitcoin (BTC) futures carry reached 5.69% to 7.89%, properly above the 4.19% two-year Treasury yield recorded the identical day. The flip lands at an ungainly second for bonds. Long-term Treasury yields sit at their highest ranges…
Institutional traders accounted for 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC buying and selling quantity within the first half of 2026, up from 59% a yr earlier, exhibiting how skilled capital is changing into a bigger a part of crypto buying and selling circulation. The figures come from Wintermute’s personal OTC circulation report, so they need to…
Coinbase, Blockstream and Strategy are backing a push to provide certified crypto defenders larger access to frontier AI cybersecurity fashions. The Bitcoin Policy Institute-led initiative was announced Aug. 10 with assist from greater than 40 organizations throughout the digital-asset and open-source ecosystem. It asks main AI labs to offer early access to superior fashions the…
The main cryptocurrencies, together with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), skilled substantial volatility over the previous week, finally posting minor features. ICP – the utility token of Internet Computer – outperformed all prime 10 digital belongings inside that interval, and some imagine it could possibly be gearing up for a way more substantial rally. The…
Tether will shut down Alloy, its gold-backed lending platform, on September 17. Five clients nonetheless owe 399,088.74 aUSDT in opposition to 194.41 Tether Gold (XAUT) in collateral, and the clock now reads 37 days. But there’s a much bigger concern. For each $10,000 in Tether Gold, about $3 sits in Alloy. The different 99.97% of…
An attacker drained almost 200,000 XRP tokens from the Coreum bridge in 97 minutes on August 9, exploiting a validation hole within the relayer software program quite than any weak point within the XRP Ledger. The bridge halted operations as XRP slid under $1 amid broader market warning. $XRP simply dropped under $1 for the…
Luke Dashjr has been eliminated as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor after a dispute round BIP-110, marking a uncommon governance flashpoint inside Bitcoin’s often slow-moving technical course of. The change was merged by means of Pull Request 2248 within the bitcoin/bips repository, eradicating Dashjr from the editor checklist in BIP 3. The transfer adopted controversy…