Key Takeaways Empery sold 1,635 BTC for $102.2M, cutting holdings to 1,279 BTC and shrinking liquidity. Empery’s 954 BTC pledge against $35M debt highlights growing crypto-treasury collateral risk. Empery may face a $62.1M EMHU call, with only 325 BTC unrestricted for future liquidity needs. Empery Cuts Bitcoin Holdings to 1,279 BTC Empery Digital is drawing…
Key Takeaways Bitcoin dropped 0.7% to $63,394 on Aug. 11 after Strategy sold 1,690 BTC to fund stock repurchases. Coinglass reported $34.4 million in long liquidations as hundreds of millions of dollars flowed into spot bitcoin ETFs. Bitfinex sees bitcoin bound between $62,000 and $65,000 due to 1.79 million BTC in overhead supply. Volatility and…
Key Takeaways Coinbase won an Aug. 11 ADGM license to arrange and custody tokenized securities. Apple’s 1st Coinbase certificate shows how regulated stocks could move onchain. Coinbase targets non-U.S. markets as its 2 UAE hubs expand stocks and derivatives. The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market, or ADGM, granted Coinbase a Financial…
Key Takeaways Cryptoquant analysts estimate Strategy’s cumulative realized losses from 2026 bitcoin sales have topped $102 million. The company still holds roughly 840,000 BTC, with unrealized losses near $10.6 billion. Strategy’s preferred-stock dividend obligations have nearly quadrupled to $1.2 billion annually. A Pattern of Selling Below Cost Strategy has sold bitcoin at least four times…
Key Takeaways Luke Dashjr took an Ocean sabbatical as BIP-110’s fork remained stalled after 2 blocks. BIP-110 developers listed 6 PoW candidates as they prepare a minority-chain hard fork. Bitcoin Knots developers assigned 3 core workstreams as the fork targets a PoW reset. “I am taking a sabbatical from OCEAN as Chairman and CTO and…
Key Takeaways XRP slipped over 3% to $1 on Bitstamp, hitting a year-to-date low. XRP ranked 6th in market cap at $62.8B despite new Ripple expansions. Analyst Vincent Van Code warned low $68M volume on Binance could spark a drop to $0.95. Market Cap Drops as XRP Hits YTD Lows On Tuesday, XRP led an…
Key Takeaways Arthur Hayes published his “Yen-quake” essay on Substack on August 10. Japan and the GPIF pension fund hold a combined $1.373 trillion in U.S. Treasuries as leverage. The Fed’s FIMA repo facility caps each counterparty at $60 billion, a limit Hayes expects to rise. Three Ways to Strengthen the Yen Hayes, the BitMEX…
Key Takeaways FCA talks could bring tokenized gold into U.K. collateral markets as London handles 70% of global trading. HSBC’s $2.2B tokenized gold volume shows blockchain products could reshape bullion settlement. The FCA may issue rules within months as London faces competition from Shanghai and Hong Kong. London Pushes Tokenized Gold as China Challenges Its…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. The Philippine stock market is on the verge of a long-awaited fintech wave, but digital banking titan Maya is letting its biggest competitor take the stage first. Maya is now targeting an initial public offering…
XRP prices surged to $3.04 the previous day, but subsequently retreated to $2.94, encountering short-term resistance. The recent surge was primarily driven by rising expectations for an ETF and active institutional investors in the derivatives market. XRP futures contracts listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) have reached 386 million XRP, a 74% increase from…
