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Strive has lifted its Bitcoin treasury to 25,000 BTC after buying 469 more coins for about $36.6 million, funded through preferred stock rather than common share dilution. The move shows serious conviction — and a balance sheet strategy with real upside, and real risk.
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S&P Global has led Kaiko’s expanded $110 million Series B as banks, exchanges, and crypto backers pile into tokenized market infrastructure. The deal signals growing institutional interest in onchain finance — and the data, benchmarks, and plumbing that make it work.
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A bipartisan group of 17 state attorneys general is urging the Senate to scrap the CLARITY Act, warning it could weaken state crypto enforcement and hand too much power to federal regulators. The fight now centers on federal preemption, stablecoin rules, and whether Washington is fixing crypto or just smothering honest builders.
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Strategy is said to have repurchased $139 million in preferred stock while keeping its 845,050 BTC stack intact, but the numbers aren’t independently verified from the materials provided. If accurate, it’s a financing move, not a Bitcoin sale — and that distinction matters.
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Sam Bankman-Fried is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his FTX fraud conviction and $11 billion forfeiture order. The Court may ignore it, but the filing revives a brutal legal fight over evidence, excessive fines, and the collapse that shredded crypto trust.
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The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act may soon put crypto wallet makers on the clock: report vulnerabilities within 24 hours or face the consequences. Supporters call it overdue security pressure; critics say the vague rules could become compliance chaos.
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis has released the final 635-page CLARITY Act draft ahead of a make-or-break Senate vote, with major ethics, stablecoin, and developer-protection revisions aimed at winning Democratic support. The outcome could shape whether the U.S. gets real crypto rules or more regulatory fog.
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A source mismatch blows up the claim that Strategy repurchased $139M of STRC preferred shares and kept its Bitcoin holdings unchanged. The provided Bloomberg page is about something else entirely, so the buyback and BTC assertions remain unverified until backed by the right filing or report.
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Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin exposure has reportedly topped $609 million, with steady inflows totaling $62.2 million over 20 trading days. The numbers suggest persistent institutional demand for BTC — even as BlackRock saw outflows on the same day.
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Japan’s central bank has pushed its digital yen pilot to 50,000 operations per second, but the country still hasn’t decided whether it actually wants a CBDC. With stablecoins and tokenized deposits gaining ground, the real question is whether a retail digital yen solves a problem people feel.
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