A second corporate accumulator of cryptocurrency is starting to look a lot like the first. Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the treasury firm chaired by Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, bought 101,901 ether (ETH) worth roughly $234 million last week. That’s close to the regular weekly purchases from Strategy (MSTR), the Michael Saylor-led bitcoin BTC$76,820.39 digital treasury company,…
Ondo Finance is bringing tokenized equities closer to their traditional counterparts, offering investors a way to participate in corporate governance. The feature, built with Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), allows holders of more than 250 tokenized securities on Ondo’s platform to review company filings and submit voting preferences through Broadridge’s ProxyVote system. Investors can log in…
The Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) monetary policy decision on Tuesday boosted expectations of a hike in borrowing costs by the end of the second quarter. The yen is loving it, while bitcoin remains under pressure. The central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.75% as widely expected. The decision, however, wasn’t unanimous, as…
XRP finally gave way at $1.40, and the way it broke matters more than the move itself. This wasn’t a slow drift lower. It was a high-volume push that cleared a level buyers had defended for weeks. Once that kind of support goes, it usually doesn’t snap back quickly. It tends to flip, and that’s…
Canada’s proposed ban on crypto political donations moved a step closer to becoming law on Friday, advancing through Parliament with cross-party support and little opposition. Bill C-25, the Strong and Free Elections Act, passed second reading in the House of Commons and was referred to committee for further review. In Canada’s system, that vote signals…
The digital assets market entered the second quarter in consolidation mode, but Fidelity Digital Assets said underlying data points to early signs of stabilization beneath the surface. In its Q2 2026 Signals Report published Monday, the crypto trading firm highlighted improving conditions across a number of key metrics, including unrealized profitability, momentum and network usage….
Bitcoin’s BTC$77,115.13 recent climb toward $80,000 is showing signs of strain, with low trading volume and muted derivatives activity raising questions about how durable the rally may be. In a weekly report, 10x Research head Markus Thielen pointed to a disconnect between price action and underlying market participation. “Bitcoin rallied 4.7% over the past week,…
The Solana Foundation says it has a plan for dealing with future quantum computing risks, outlining in a new blog post how its developers are already aligned on a potential solution. The foundation said on Monday two of the network’s core developer teams, Anza and Jump Crypto’s Firedancer, have independently landed on the same solution,…
Western Union (WU) is preparing to roll out a stablecoin strategy that could reshape how the 175-year-old money-transfer company settles payments across its global network. CEO Devin McGranahan said on the company’s first-quarter earnings call that Western Union’s U.S. dollar stablecoin (USDPT) is in the final stages of readiness and is expected to launch next…
In the often-fractured world of decentralized finance, crises tend to expose fault lines. This time, they’re also revealing an unusual level of coordination. Aave, one of DeFi’s largest lending protocols, is at the center of a broad recovery effort following losses tied to the Kelp DAO exploit, drawing in capital and credit commitments from across…
