Why Are IBIT Investors Now Under Pressure? The average investor in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust is now down roughly 40%, a sharp reversal from gains of about 30% as recently as mid-2025, according to Bespoke Investment Group data reported by Bloomberg. The shift shows how quickly the spot bitcoin ETF trade has turned against mainstream
Why Is Strategy’s Bitcoin Reserve Back In Focus? Strategy’s financing model is facing renewed scrutiny after Zach Pandl, head of research at Grayscale, said he hopes the company will sell at least $3 billion in bitcoin to cover most of its cash obligations for the next 2 years. In a Saturday post on X, Pandl
What Happened to Base Mainnet? Base resumed block production on Friday after a brief mainnet stall, marking the second block production disruption for the Coinbase-incubated blockchain in two days. The latest incident began at 15:33 UTC, when an alert said the team was investigating an issue affecting Base Mainnet. The problem was identified shortly afterward,
Why Did Strategy Lose Its Bitcoin Premium? Strategy briefly lost the premium investors had assigned to its bitcoin holdings on Friday, with its enterprise mNAV slipping below 1 as pressure mounted on both the company’s common stock and its preferred share funding structure. The move came as Strategy’s common shares fell to a recent low
Why Is Securitize Going Public Now? Securitize expects to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange next week after securing roughly $400 million through its merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, giving one of the largest tokenization infrastructure firms new public-market visibility as institutional interest in real-world assets continues to grow. The company said
Why Is Ripple’s CEO Criticizing Strategy? Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse criticized Strategy and Chairman Michael Saylor’s approach to funding bitcoin purchases, arguing that the company’s reliance on financial structuring has distracted from the core driver of digital asset value. “Financial engineering does not drive long-term value,” Garlinghouse said in a Friday CNBC interview. “Long-term value
Why Is The European Parliament Looking Beyond MiCA? The European Parliament’s economic affairs committee has urged the European Commission to assess whether crypto lending and borrowing, staking, non-fungible tokens and decentralized finance should be brought under additional regulation. The recommendations were included in a report tabled Friday for a plenary vote expected on July 7.
Zero Hash has launched Staking-as-a-Service for financial institutions, allowing banks, brokerages and fintech platforms to embed cryptocurrency staking directly into their existing applications through a single API integration. Interactive Brokers, Public and BitMart will become the first launch partners, marking another step in the convergence of traditional financial platforms and digital assets. The new infrastructure
Bybit has introduced dedicated AI Subaccounts that allow traders to deploy autonomous trading agents inside isolated environments, reflecting a broader industry shift toward agentic trading while addressing one of artificial intelligence’s biggest operational risks in financial markets: giving AI direct access to customer funds. The feature, announced on June 24, provides segregated accounts specifically designed
Bitcoin Suisse has secured authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, becoming one of a growing number of crypto firms positioning themselves to compete across the European Economic Area through a single regulatory framework. The Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority granted the company’s European subsidiary a Crypto Asset Service Provider licence, allowing it to