Michael Saylor teases more bitcoin buying even as Strategy stock continues to fall
The crypto bull shrugged off market skepticism by sharing a chart of the company’s $50 billion stash and teasing that they are going to need more data points.
The crypto bull shrugged off market skepticism by sharing a chart of the company’s $50 billion stash and teasing that they are going to need more data points.
The investment bank said the purchase of Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank is a bet on regulated scale as sweeping reforms reshape the country’s digital asset market.
Blockchain is becoming the financial layer for capital-intensive industries rather than just crypto-native speculation, Michael Anderson, the crypto venture firm’s cofounder, said.
The token is down nearly 7% on the week with the altcoins falling harder. Bitcoin and ether are both ending the second quarter in the red, a back-to-back losing first half that runs against the usual pattern.
Bitcoin has long been lumped in with precious metals as a hedge against a weakening dollar. That trade is unwinding on a hawkish Fed, and bitcoin is falling alongside the metals it was supposed to rival.
Despite the trading platform’s restructuring and the wave of crypto companies making cuts, signaling a late bear market, Altcoin Pro’s Horst, Anderson and Zhuleku explain there’s no reason to panic.
The stablecoin issuer is extending its tokenized gold strategy by allowing holders of XAUT to borrow against their bullion, mirroring bitcoin-backed lending without selling the underlying asset.
The prediction markets giant is under investigation in connection with false or deceptive marketing practices, according to news reports.
Brian Armstrong of Coinbase and Star Xu of OKX offered new users sign up bonuses of up to 8% of their deposits or transfers from other accounts.
There is no single cause for the crypto market’s 50% decline over the past year, the Binance founder told CoinDesk.
For years, investors had valued the firm well above its bitcoin holdings, giving Strategy massive flexibility to raise capital as needed — a situation Michael Saylor and team took full advantage of.
Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy’s preferred-stock funding model “financial engineering” that distracted the market, pointing to STRC’s slide to a record low as the evidence. He runs the company behind XRP, a bitcoin rival.
A rotation out of chipmakers lifted much of the stock market, with the equal-weight S&P 500 at a record. Crypto was not part of it. Ether fell 8% on the week and the memecoins dropped harder.
Tokenized stock trading fueled fresh momentum across the Solana ecosystem, while Aave founder hinted at token buybacks coming under new framework.
Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on House Financial Services, asked the chief of the Department of Labor to withdraw its proposal on alternative assets.
A former Ethereum Foundation member says the network must quickly build new funding institutions as the Foundation steps back.
An anti-human trafficking advocate said a Clarity Act provision could weaken accountability despite existing criminal laws.
The next phase of AI agents may be less about chat and more about earning, spending and coordinating.
The BlackRock-backed tokenization specialist expects to close its SPAC merger next week and start trading on the NYSE, pending shareholder approval.
Solana (SOL) gained 4.5%, joining Aave (AAVE) as a top performer.
U.S. IPO issuance has rebounded sharply in 2026, but the bank said the current surge lacks the deal volume and speculative excess that defined the dot-com era.
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BTC touched its lowest level since September 2024 before rebounding to $59,770, while ETH slipped further and another $1 billion in futures positions were wiped out.
Investors are watching the preferred stock’s ex-dividend date and monthly dividend rate reset closely.
A day after withdrawing its MiCA license application in Greece and saying it is ‘not leaving Europe,’ Binance notified users across the European Union that it will suspend some services.
The second-largest corporate ether holder received 5,000 ETH worth about $7.85 million on Thursday, its first inflow since October, even as it sits on a paper loss of roughly $1.8 billion.
SBI said the purchase of the crypto exchange is set to close in October.
The real estate investor pitched his model as a treasury company backed by cash-flowing property rather than stock sales, framing the slide in bitcoin as a chance to accumulate.
Strategy’s paper loss exceeds the market caps of hundreds of tokens, highlighting the extreme concentration of risk in the crypto market right now.
Bitcoin slipped near $58,000 before recovering, and CF Benchmarks says the $50,000 to $60,000 zone is where buyers have always stepped in.