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B Treasury Capital AB (BTC AB) is set to make what is being called Europe's first Bitcoin-backed preferred-stock dividend payment, distributing a 10% annual yield from its 172 BTC…
Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments for up to $2.25 billion on August 12, 2026, picking up 19 options-income ETFs including BTCI, a Bitcoin covered-call fund. The deal…
Arthur Hayes published 'Yen-quake' on August 10, arguing the Fed's FIMA Repo Facility is the next tool in the U.S.-Japan currency stabilization playbook, and that any cap expansion…
The SEC posted a Sunshine Act notice scheduling an open meeting for August 14 to vote on proposed rules under Regulation Crypto. A decentralization off-ramp that could let projects…
U.S. household debt fell $13 billion in Q2 2026, the first quarterly contraction since the COVID lockdown quarter. Subprime auto originations hit a record high as 90-day delinquenc…
Nvidia announced MOUs with six major financial institutions to mobilize over $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, using compute hardware as loan collateral. Larry Fink comp…
Block disclosed 9,117 BTC in corporate treasury holdings as of June 30, 2026, per its Q2 8-K. The company held its purchase mandate through more than $260M in H1 paper losses and e…
Bitcoin's BIP editors removed Luke Dashjr on Aug. 10, 2026, just 26 hours after a removal motion landed on the dev mailing list. The fork he championed got 2.6% miner support, stal…
BlackRock's Robbie Mitchnick confirmed IBIT's in-kind conversion minimum dropped 96% to $1 million, opening Bitcoin-to-shares swaps to mid-sized institutions and signaling the firm…
South Korea's Cabinet approved eliminating the 1 million won (~$720) Travel Rule threshold on August 11, 2026, extending information-sharing requirements to every VASP-to-VASP tran…
On-chain data from Santiment show wallets holding at least 10,000 BTC have reached 90, a six-month high, as the Coldcard exploit and Senate delays on the CLARITY Act shake coins lo…
Riot Platforms announced a 20-year, $9.1 billion data center lease with an unnamed frontier AI lab for 191 MW at its Rockdale, Texas campus, bringing total AI capacity under contra…
OpenAI is hiring a dedicated power-trading lead for its Stargate data center portfolio, per Bloomberg, signaling that energy cost is now a first-order P&L variable for AI infrastru…
Meta released Muse Glimmer on August 10, a 30B-parameter open-weight agentic AI model under Apache 2.0 that fits on a consumer GPU and runs without any cloud dependency or usage re…
Sweden's H100 Group acquired 2,455 BTC from Norwegian firms Moonshot AS and PDI AS on August 10 in an all-share, zero-cash transaction, tripling its treasury to 3,506 BTC and claim…
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a Coinbase advisory council member, published an FT op-ed calling the CLARITY Act a national security imperative. A September 15 Senate cloture…
Amazon's GW Ranch plant in Pecos County, Texas holds a TCEQ air permit authorizing up to 33 million tons of CO₂ annually, roughly twice the output of the most-polluting coal plant…
MARA Holdings pledged 18,750 BTC worth approximately $1.2 billion as collateral for $600 million in new debt from Coinbase Credit and Two Prime Lending, using its Bitcoin treasury…
Nvidia agreed to invest an initial $2 billion for roughly 20% of Lancium, the Blackstone-backed Texas power developer hosting Stargate's first operational site, with another $1B co…
A volunteer Bitcoin security team scanned 390 open-source repositories in 27.5 hours using AI, surfacing 85 critical and 635 high-severity findings across wallets, crypto libraries…
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