Institutional crypto ETF filings for the first quarter showed a split between buyers and sellers. Summary Harvard fully exited BlackRock’s Ether ETF while cutting its IBIT position another 43% in Q1. Mubadala added two million IBIT shares, keeping Abu Dhabi’s Bitcoin ETF exposure above $500 million. Dartmouth kept Bitcoin exposure flat but added Solana staking…
The world’s wealthiest democracies just spent a weekend in the Canadian Rockies talking about one country without actually naming it. G-7 finance ministers wrapped up meetings in Banff, Canada, with a communiqué pledging to address “unsustainable global imbalances” and “non-market policies” in global trade. The target of that language is about as subtle as a…
The major streak that began at the beginning of the month for the spot XRP ETFs continued in the past week, as investors poured in over $60 million in net inflows for the first time in several months. At the same time, the underlying asset tried to break out again, only to be stopped at…
The Trump ethics fight over crypto is now the biggest obstacle to the CLARITY Act reaching 60 Senate votes. Summary The CLARITY Act needs 60 Senate votes to overcome a filibuster, requiring at least seven Democrats to cross the aisle. An ethics provision barring government officials from crypto dealings is missing from the current text…
A Washington Post analysis of financial disclosure documents found that nominees and officials in the Trump administration held no less than $193 million in crypto and blockchain-linked assets. The figure spans nearly 70 individuals, with holdings ranging from small investments to at least $120 million for a single appointee. President Donald Trump, who reversed his…
Broader tech allocations in the same filing show a parallel bet on AI and infrastructure alongside crypto-linked assets. A federal financial disclosure filed by Donald Trump on May 14 shows his portfolio purchased shares of MARA Holdings, Coinbase, and Strategy between January and March 2026. Out of more than 3,600 transactions listed across 113…
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India spent years climbing the global equity rankings, reaching the fourth-largest stock market in the world with a market capitalization of roughly $4.3 trillion in early 2024. Now that position is under threat, and the culprit is one India knows intimately but from the wrong side: artificial intelligence. Taiwan and South Korea, home to the…
Christopher Harborne entered the Sunday Times Rich List in sixth place, as Parliament opened a probe into Farage. Summary Christopher Harborne debuted sixth on the Sunday Times Rich List 2026 with an estimated £18.2bn fortune, largely tied to his Tether stake. The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner opened a formal inquiry into whether Farage should have declared…
India just made it significantly harder to bring silver into the country. A May 16 notification from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade moved most silver imports from “free” to “restricted” status, meaning importers now need a government license to bring bullion across the border. The move came just days after customs duties on precious…
