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breakingAug 8, 2026, 8:03 AM GMT+2

Trump Media killed its $105M Crypto.com coin plan. The pullback is now bigger than one deal.

The CRO treasury plan is dead, and the Truth Social crypto push is getting smaller before it even proves demand.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingAug 7, 2026, 10:03 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin funds pulled in $790.6M this week. BlackRock still owns the flow story.

The bad news stack was real. The ETF bid was bigger, for now.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

breakingAug 7, 2026, 3:32 PM GMT+2

MARA says it sold 23,093 Bitcoin. The miner is funding growth with its pile.

The balance-sheet story changed fast: MARA is no longer only mining Bitcoin, it's spending it.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

briefAug 6, 2026, 8:32 PM GMT+2

CASHCAT jumped 120% in a week. The launchpad died, but the trade didn't.

The first Robinhood Chain memecoin cycle is already past the easy-launch phase, and CASHCAT is still holding attention.

Jade Nakamura·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingAug 5, 2026, 9:35 PM GMT+2

Strategy's STRC bounced 30% from June lows. The rebound came with bitcoin sales.

Strategy did not just wait for confidence to return. It sold BTC, built cash, and bought back its own preferred stock.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefAug 5, 2026, 9:32 PM GMT+2

Circle's USDC supply grew 19%. Its interest machine looks fragile again.

USDC adoption is still moving, but Circle's quarter shows how exposed the business remains to falling reserve returns.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefAug 5, 2026, 4:32 PM GMT+2

Crypto just got a two-week economy test. The Fed split makes every number louder.

No exchange listing or protocol launch is setting the next trade. Jobs, inflation, and Fed minutes are.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingAug 4, 2026, 12:04 PM GMT+2

Hashdex will close its $14.7M Bitcoin fund. BlackRock is still taking the flows.

The first U.S. spot bitcoin ETF closure is not a bitcoin story. It's a scale story.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

briefAug 3, 2026, 9:33 PM GMT+2

BlackRock just launched reserve funds for stablecoins. Tether's free money is getting crowded.

The reserve business is moving from offshore balance sheets into regulated cash products with transfer agents, whitelisted wallets, and BlackRock distribution.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingAug 3, 2026, 4:38 PM GMT+2

Strategy just sold 1,638 bitcoin. The buyer story now has a cash problem.

The sale helped fund dividends, a bigger dollar reserve, and an STRC buyback. That is not the old one-way Bitcoin pitch.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingAug 1, 2026, 9:02 PM GMT+2

SEC paused Nasdaq's bitcoin options plan. CME says the wrong regulator approved it.

QBTC is now less about bitcoin demand and more about who gets to police the trade.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefAug 1, 2026, 5:34 PM GMT+2

Wall Street must show its Bitcoin ETF books by August 14. The loss number is ugly.

The next Bitcoin ETF story is not another launch. It's whether big managers held through the May-June pain.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 31, 2026, 3:03 PM GMT+2

Coldcard wallets reportedly lost $38M in bitcoin. The setup flaw is now the story.

This is not an exchange hack. It is a wallet safety story, and the affected-version list is still moving.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefJul 30, 2026, 11:07 PM GMT+2

Kraken just listed uranium you can trade like crypto. The wrapper is not the whole story.

xU3O8 puts tokenized commodities in front of regular crypto traders, but the real question is who holds the asset and what buyers can claim.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 30, 2026, 11:04 PM GMT+2

Strategy lost $8.2B in Q2. The bitcoin treasury trade just changed.

The loss was accounting. The bitcoin sale was the signal.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

breakingJul 30, 2026, 3:33 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin ETFs are down to $205M in July inflows. The demand signal just got weaker.

Three months ago, spot bitcoin ETFs were the clean institutional bid. July says that bid is now thin, for now.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

breakingJul 29, 2026, 1:33 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin fell below $64,000 before the Fed decision. The surprise hike risk is officially real.

The market is not trading a crypto story today. It's trading whether Kevin Warsh wants to break the Fed's old signaling habit.

Lucia Moreno·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 28, 2026, 5:09 PM GMT+2

Morgan Stanley just launched cheap ether and solana funds. The fee war is officially on.

The bank is using price and distribution at the same time, which is exactly how boring wrappers become real market structure.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 28, 2026, 5:05 PM GMT+2

Zcash just sealed $1.7B in private funds. Ironwood is a quarantine, not a cleanup.

The upgrade admits the old Orchard pool can't stay open while still trying to preserve private money.

Dev Patel·1min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 27, 2026, 11:05 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin ETFs took in $33.8M last week. BlackRock’s late exits changed the story.

The streak survived, but the money did not look strong by Friday.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 26, 2026, 9:32 AM GMT+2

BitMart is shutting down its trading platform. Users have one month to get out.

The exchange gave dates, not a clear cause. That is the part users should actually price in.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

$Strategy just changed its bitcoin math. The old headline number hid $22.3B.$

briefJul 24, 2026, 9:33 PM GMT+2

Strategy just changed its bitcoin math. The old headline number hid $22.3B.

The bear market forced Strategy to show what gets paid before common shareholders, not just how much bitcoin it owns.

Liv Bergman·2min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 24, 2026, 1:11 PM GMT+2

Nine Bitcoin firms pledged $15M for quantum defense. Bitcoin still has to choose the upgrade.

Separate checks avoid the capture problem. They don't solve the part where Bitcoin users, miners, wallets, and developers must actually move together.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 24, 2026, 8:10 AM GMT+2

BitMEX closes September 23. The exchange that invented 100x leveraged bets is officially done.

It tried to sell. The sale didn't close. Now the positions are closing instead.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

breakingJul 23, 2026, 10:41 AM GMT+2

Tesla kept 11,509 Bitcoin. The $112M hit says the trade still matters.

Tesla did nothing with its bitcoin for another quarter, but accounting still pulled the coin into earnings.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 23, 2026, 9:42 AM GMT+2

Zhibao just agreed to take 3,500 bitcoin for new shares. The buyer gets the board.

Joyertech would pay in bitcoin, get majority board control, and inherit an insurance shell. This isn't a fundraise.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 23, 2026, 8:13 AM GMT+2

$237M hit Figure Markets Exchange in 24 hours. No catalyst is confirmed.

Deposits at Figure Markets Exchange jumped 15.2% in one day with no named driver. The move is confirmed. The reason is not.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 22, 2026, 3:43 PM GMT+2

Multicoin Capital just unstaked $120M of HYPE. Another $241M is already queued to follow.

A VC moving $23.78M to Coinbase Prime after a two-month lock looks like profit-taking. The $241M queue behind it has not cleared yet.

Liv Bergman·2min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 22, 2026, 3:21 PM GMT+2

S&P launched a crypto index without Bitcoin. Revenue is officially the filter.

The new benchmark says the quiet part out loud: activity and fees now beat pure brand size.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 22, 2026, 3:12 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin climbed 15% off July lows. It's heading toward $68,000, which is where June's rally stopped.

The bounce is real. The volume behind it isn't, and the level ahead has already turned this market around once.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 22, 2026, 10:38 AM GMT+2

Satsuma's shareholders just approved selling all 668 Bitcoin. The London corporate treasury model is officially done.

A 90%-plus shareholder vote to liquidate and delist is not a close call. It's a verdict on what the 2025 corporate Bitcoin treasury trade was always worth.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 22, 2026, 9:38 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin just pulled $700M into ETFs. This rally finally has buyers.

The move is not just price chasing. Funds, whales, and options desks are all showing up at once.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚀🐂👀

briefJul 22, 2026, 1:20 AM GMT+2

CoinShares just opened a new door for European funds. Bitcoin exposure now fits the paperwork.

The product is less interesting than the wrapper. UCITS is the format that lets cautious institutions say yes.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 21, 2026, 2:43 PM GMT+2

Jack Mallers left Twenty One Capital seven months after its NYSE debut. The Bitcoin-only story is officially over.

Mallers built the Bitcoin-native story, the merger plan is dead, and the company just hired a Goldman VP to run something different.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 21, 2026, 1:09 PM GMT+2

XRP jumped 4.6% today. The real test is borrowed money.

Spot selling looks lighter, but leveraged buyers are now louder. That makes this move cleaner on supply and messier on risk.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 21, 2026, 12:43 PM GMT+2

Grayscale filed for a Worldcoin ETF. The SEC now owns the weirdest altcoin test.

Bitcoin and Ether already got the wrapper. WLD asks whether a biometric identity token belongs in the same aisle.

Lucia Moreno·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 21, 2026, 10:07 AM GMT+2

BitMine bought $73 million in ETH this week. The company says it now holds nearly 5% of all coins in circulation.

Tom Lee's NYSE-listed Ethereum treasury company keeps buying. The supply concentration claim, if confirmed, puts one balance sheet in control of a serious slice of the market.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 21, 2026, 9:10 AM GMT+2

Capital B just announced a 10-for-1 reverse stock split. That is not usually what a winning stock does.

Capital B holds 3,139 BTC and just cut its share count by 90%. A consolidation that doesn't add bitcoin tells you the story is about the share price, not the treasury.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 21, 2026, 8:25 AM GMT+2

Three Bitcoin companies just changed their share plans. The stock trade is now the story.

The new Bitcoin treasury playbook is less about buying coins and more about fixing the wrapper around them.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 20, 2026, 7:13 PM GMT+2

Strive bought 21 bitcoin last week. It still has $157 million in cash and isn't close to done.

A 21-BTC buy barely moves the needle. The cash balance says Strive has a lot more buying to do.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 20, 2026, 3:11 PM GMT+2

Strategy sold $263.5M in stock. The bitcoin buys are still paused.

The company built a $3.225B cash pile instead of adding BTC, which makes the old accumulation story look different.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

breakingJul 20, 2026, 2:09 PM GMT+2

Grayscale will pay Ethereum and Solana ETF earnings in cash. These products just got a dividend.

Grayscale is turning staking income into quarterly cash for ETHE and GSOL holders. Starting around August 7, these ETFs pay like stocks.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

briefJul 20, 2026, 1:11 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin ETFs posted inflows for a second week. BlackRock took $204M while every other fund bled.

The recovery has a single engine. BlackRock's IBIT took more last week than the entire Bitcoin ETF market netted.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 19, 2026, 11:10 PM GMT+2

Explosions hit Iran near nuclear sites again. In March, global crypto held while Iranian exchanges lost millions.

Three rounds of strikes have hit near Iranian infrastructure in 2026. The March data is the only market playbook available right now.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

briefJul 19, 2026, 6:50 PM GMT+2

Binance Wallet just added Robinhood Chain tokens. Virtuals gets the retail window now.

The agent-token meta just moved from chain-native traders into one of crypto's biggest wallet discovery feeds.

Jade Nakamura·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 19, 2026, 2:40 PM GMT+2

Traders just placed a $2.5B Bitcoin bet. The Fed is the catch.

The trade is big, capped, and timed for two days after the next rate decision. That is not retail impulse buying.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 19, 2026, 12:43 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin reportedly fell below $64,000 after US-Iran strikes. The tape didn't panic.

A $128B crypto drawdown sounds violent, but the reported move was still a 2-3% macro shock, not a crypto-specific break.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefJul 19, 2026, 9:40 AM GMT+2

Ondo jumped 17% on a Wall Street clearing report. If confirmed, the demo era is over.

DTC backing would make tokenized stocks a different product than prior on-chain wrappers. The market moved first. The official confirmation still has to land.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚨👀📊

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The stream

Trump Media killed its $105M Crypto.com coin plan. The pullback is now bigger than one deal.

Bitcoin funds pulled in $790.6M this week. BlackRock still owns the flow story.

MARA says it sold 23,093 Bitcoin. The miner is funding growth with its pile.

CASHCAT jumped 120% in a week. The launchpad died, but the trade didn't.

Strategy's STRC bounced 30% from June lows. The rebound came with bitcoin sales.

Circle's USDC supply grew 19%. Its interest machine looks fragile again.

Crypto just got a two-week economy test. The Fed split makes every number louder.

Hashdex will close its $14.7M Bitcoin fund. BlackRock is still taking the flows.

BlackRock just launched reserve funds for stablecoins. Tether's free money is getting crowded.

Strategy just sold 1,638 bitcoin. The buyer story now has a cash problem.

SEC paused Nasdaq's bitcoin options plan. CME says the wrong regulator approved it.

Wall Street must show its Bitcoin ETF books by August 14. The loss number is ugly.

Coldcard wallets reportedly lost $38M in bitcoin. The setup flaw is now the story.

Kraken just listed uranium you can trade like crypto. The wrapper is not the whole story.

Strategy lost $8.2B in Q2. The bitcoin treasury trade just changed.

Bitcoin ETFs are down to $205M in July inflows. The demand signal just got weaker.

Bitcoin fell below $64,000 before the Fed decision. The surprise hike risk is officially real.

Morgan Stanley just launched cheap ether and solana funds. The fee war is officially on.

Zcash just sealed $1.7B in private funds. Ironwood is a quarantine, not a cleanup.

Bitcoin ETFs took in $33.8M last week. BlackRock’s late exits changed the story.

BitMart is shutting down its trading platform. Users have one month to get out.

Strategy just changed its bitcoin math. The old headline number hid $22.3B.

Nine Bitcoin firms pledged $15M for quantum defense. Bitcoin still has to choose the upgrade.

BitMEX closes September 23. The exchange that invented 100x leveraged bets is officially done.

Tesla kept 11,509 Bitcoin. The $112M hit says the trade still matters.

Zhibao just agreed to take 3,500 bitcoin for new shares. The buyer gets the board.

$237M hit Figure Markets Exchange in 24 hours. No catalyst is confirmed.

Multicoin Capital just unstaked $120M of HYPE. Another $241M is already queued to follow.

S&P launched a crypto index without Bitcoin. Revenue is officially the filter.

Bitcoin climbed 15% off July lows. It's heading toward $68,000, which is where June's rally stopped.

Satsuma's shareholders just approved selling all 668 Bitcoin. The London corporate treasury model is officially done.

Bitcoin just pulled $700M into ETFs. This rally finally has buyers.

CoinShares just opened a new door for European funds. Bitcoin exposure now fits the paperwork.

Jack Mallers left Twenty One Capital seven months after its NYSE debut. The Bitcoin-only story is officially over.

XRP jumped 4.6% today. The real test is borrowed money.

Grayscale filed for a Worldcoin ETF. The SEC now owns the weirdest altcoin test.

BitMine bought $73 million in ETH this week. The company says it now holds nearly 5% of all coins in circulation.

Capital B just announced a 10-for-1 reverse stock split. That is not usually what a winning stock does.

Three Bitcoin companies just changed their share plans. The stock trade is now the story.

Strive bought 21 bitcoin last week. It still has $157 million in cash and isn't close to done.

Strategy sold $263.5M in stock. The bitcoin buys are still paused.

Grayscale will pay Ethereum and Solana ETF earnings in cash. These products just got a dividend.

Bitcoin ETFs posted inflows for a second week. BlackRock took $204M while every other fund bled.

Explosions hit Iran near nuclear sites again. In March, global crypto held while Iranian exchanges lost millions.

Binance Wallet just added Robinhood Chain tokens. Virtuals gets the retail window now.

Traders just placed a $2.5B Bitcoin bet. The Fed is the catch.

Bitcoin reportedly fell below $64,000 after US-Iran strikes. The tape didn't panic.

Ondo jumped 17% on a Wall Street clearing report. If confirmed, the demo era is over.

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The stream

Trump Media killed its $105M Crypto.com coin plan. The pullback is now bigger than one deal.

Bitcoin funds pulled in $790.6M this week. BlackRock still owns the flow story.

MARA says it sold 23,093 Bitcoin. The miner is funding growth with its pile.

CASHCAT jumped 120% in a week. The launchpad died, but the trade didn't.

Strategy's STRC bounced 30% from June lows. The rebound came with bitcoin sales.

Circle's USDC supply grew 19%. Its interest machine looks fragile again.

Crypto just got a two-week economy test. The Fed split makes every number louder.

Hashdex will close its $14.7M Bitcoin fund. BlackRock is still taking the flows.

BlackRock just launched reserve funds for stablecoins. Tether's free money is getting crowded.

Strategy just sold 1,638 bitcoin. The buyer story now has a cash problem.

SEC paused Nasdaq's bitcoin options plan. CME says the wrong regulator approved it.

Wall Street must show its Bitcoin ETF books by August 14. The loss number is ugly.

Coldcard wallets reportedly lost $38M in bitcoin. The setup flaw is now the story.

Kraken just listed uranium you can trade like crypto. The wrapper is not the whole story.

Strategy lost $8.2B in Q2. The bitcoin treasury trade just changed.

Bitcoin ETFs are down to $205M in July inflows. The demand signal just got weaker.

Bitcoin fell below $64,000 before the Fed decision. The surprise hike risk is officially real.

Morgan Stanley just launched cheap ether and solana funds. The fee war is officially on.

Zcash just sealed $1.7B in private funds. Ironwood is a quarantine, not a cleanup.

Bitcoin ETFs took in $33.8M last week. BlackRock’s late exits changed the story.

BitMart is shutting down its trading platform. Users have one month to get out.

Strategy just changed its bitcoin math. The old headline number hid $22.3B.

Nine Bitcoin firms pledged $15M for quantum defense. Bitcoin still has to choose the upgrade.

BitMEX closes September 23. The exchange that invented 100x leveraged bets is officially done.

Tesla kept 11,509 Bitcoin. The $112M hit says the trade still matters.

Zhibao just agreed to take 3,500 bitcoin for new shares. The buyer gets the board.

$237M hit Figure Markets Exchange in 24 hours. No catalyst is confirmed.

Multicoin Capital just unstaked $120M of HYPE. Another $241M is already queued to follow.

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