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A Small Bitcoin Transfer Exposed the Fine Print in the 'Never Sell' Reserve
Trump said Bitcoin was now a permanent Treasury asset. The order's sale ban is narrower than that.
Bitfinex Securities Raises $50m Against Seven Million Metres of Nickel Wire
The platform's largest tokenized raise to date, backed by a partnership holding assets independently valued at $1.64bn.
Bitcoin Reached $80,000 and the Treasury Company Premiums Did Not Come Back
Strategy, Twenty One Capital and Metaplanet all trade below the gross value of their holdings. The discounts are not what they look like.
An Oracle's API Change Threatened to Freeze Contracts Across 300 Protocols
Pyth missed its own cutover deadline. Developers calling its price service directly now need an API key.
Dallas Fed Economists Warn Tokenized Deposits Could Raise Credit Costs
If deposits become 10% more rate-sensitive, banks' capacity to hold long-term loans could fall by around $700bn.
A Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Transaction Just Confirmed on Mainnet
No fork required. It also cost up to $200 and had to be handed directly to a miner.
The SHRINCS Proposal Would Make Bitcoin Quantum-Secure. It Has a Catch.
Blockstream has published a BIP for a post-quantum signature scheme already running in production on Liquid.
You Can Now Pledge Bitcoin for a Mortgage Down Payment
Better and Coinbase pair a Fannie Mae-backed loan with a second loan secured by BTC. Borrowers must pledge 250% of the amount.
Galaxy Opens Crypto-Backed Credit Lines to Retail Clients
Borrow against Bitcoin, Ethereum and staked Solana at 8.99% without selling. The collateral is not rehypothecated.
Thirty-Nine State Banking Groups Are Building Their Own Blockchain
The BankChain Alliance wants tokenized deposits and programmable payments for community banks by 2027 — with no technology partner named yet.
Six Wallets Dormant Since 2011 Moved $40m in a Single Week
553.59 BTC that had not moved in over a decade. One holder's coins cost about $14 each — a 461,981% gain.
A Solana Treasury Company Wants You to Look Past the Price of SOL
DeFi Development Corp has launched a free public dashboard of network, staking and ecosystem metrics. It also holds a lot of SOL.