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breakingJul 11, 2026, 10:38 AM GMT+2

EDX Markets just raised $76M. SBI Holdings led the round, and they didn't come just for returns.

EDX runs a clearinghouse model built for institutional compliance. SBI Holdings came in as a strategic investor, not just a financial backer, and that distinction is the story.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 11, 2026, 9:10 AM GMT+2

Robinhood wants AI agents to trade crypto. The rollout is still a promise.

The first number is 70,000-plus stock and options accounts. The missing number is a launch date.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefJul 11, 2026, 8:38 AM GMT+2

XRP is going on Kansas jerseys. Ripple just copied energy drinks with a policy twist.

This is not just a logo buy. It is Ripple putting crypto on college uniforms while wrapping the pitch in financial literacy.

Jade Nakamura·2min·🚀🐂👀

briefJul 11, 2026, 8:29 AM GMT+2

Ostium held a $1.1M euro-dollar bet for 400 days. Crypto-style fees would have killed it.

The win here isn't the trade's profit. It's that Ostium copied FX rollover costs, and that made a year-long on-chain position possible.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 11, 2026, 8:21 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin sat in one range for 307 days. The tape is still stuck.

This is not just a sleepy chart. Glassnode's cost-basis data says a lot of holders are parked near today's price.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 11, 2026, 8:12 AM GMT+2

BlackRock’s tokenized Treasury fund just hit $3.7B. Tether’s float problem got real.

BUIDL’s jump is not just another RWA chart going up. It shows institutional cash picking the safest brand in the room.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 10, 2026, 10:41 PM GMT+2

Empery Digital sold $87M of Bitcoin to fund a data center deal. Corporate Bitcoin reserves are quietly becoming spending accounts.

Empery came to market as a Bitcoin treasury play. It's spending half the stack on a data center instead.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 10, 2026, 10:15 PM GMT+2

BUIDL's $3.7B jump needs a second source. The numbers don't add up.

A real inflow would pressure stablecoin issuers. A data mismatch means the bigger story is verification, not victory laps.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 10, 2026, 11:51 AM GMT+2

SpaceX moved bitcoin for the first time in six months. Three transfers, less than $300 total, and nothing hit an exchange.

SpaceX's June IPO put 18,712 BTC on a public balance sheet for the first time, more than doubling what analysts tracked onchain. When the wallets finally moved, it was fee maintenance.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 10, 2026, 8:14 AM GMT+2

Grayscale's CFO just resigned. The $20B asset drop is still the real story.

Edward McGee's exit is framed as personal. The harder number is how much GBTC has lost since cheaper rivals arrived.

Liv Bergman·2min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 9, 2026, 10:53 PM GMT+2

BitGo just added quantum safety tools for Bitcoin custody. 6.9M coins are already exposed.

The quantum threat is still not here, but exposed public keys are already an inventory problem for custodians.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 9, 2026, 10:43 PM GMT+2

Spot bitcoin ETFs lost nearly $5B in Q2. Private credit just backed up the same warning.

Two asset classes hit the same wall last quarter. This is not a crypto correction in isolation. It is a liquidity signal.

Liv Bergman·2min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 9, 2026, 8:09 PM GMT+2

Tether’s former investment chief plans to sell shares. Now insiders get a real price.

A private Tether stake sale is not just an exit. It is the first public market check on what people close to the company think the stablecoin giant is worth.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 9, 2026, 6:38 PM GMT+2

MARA agreed to buy 1,200 acres in Texas. Shares jumped more than 12%, and the AI story is driving it.

Miners with cheap Texas power are becoming AI infrastructure plays. MARA's latest deal is the clearest signal yet.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 9, 2026, 9:41 AM GMT+2

XRP ETFs lost $7.29M on Tuesday. The whole thing came from one fund.

Bitwise absorbed the full redemption alone while XRP held flat near $1.09. No catalyst is named.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 9, 2026, 9:02 AM GMT+2

Trump's Bitcoin reserve is still stuck. The wish was never the policy.

Sixteen months of agency fighting show the reserve needs Congress, not another announcement from the White House.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 9, 2026, 8:53 AM GMT+2

BNB Chain is building a faster chain for AI trades. The timing is the real bet.

TxStream and 200ms leader rotation are real anti-MEV choices, but the first testnet is still late 2026.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 9, 2026, 8:42 AM GMT+2

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF lost $3.55B in June. US spot ETFs just had their worst month on record.

June wasn't a blip. It was the largest monthly outflow from US spot Bitcoin ETFs since the category launched, and early July isn't looking cleaner.

Liv Bergman·2min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 8, 2026, 10:12 PM GMT+2

Bull Bitcoin challenged France's new crypto tax rule. The data risk is now officially in court.

DAC8 was sold as tax reporting. Bull Bitcoin says France just built a map of who owns crypto, where they trade, and who can be targeted.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 8, 2026, 5:45 PM GMT+2

Cantor's $3B Bitcoin deal just paused its vote. The whole structure is now being rewritten.

The shareholder meeting is off, redemptions are being returned, and the bitcoin treasury deal has to show new math.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 8, 2026, 1:10 PM GMT+2

Trump declared the Iran ceasefire over. Crypto fell 2.9%, but the tape tells a different story.

$450 million was wiped in 24 hours, three-quarters of it from altcoins. Bitcoin's options desk is still pricing in $80,000.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 8, 2026, 12:41 PM GMT+2

Fed minutes hit today. Crypto gets ten days of event risk.

The minutes are not the whole trade. CPI, bank earnings, retail sales, and two Deribit expiries now sit in one tight window.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 8, 2026, 9:43 AM GMT+2

AngelList dropped Ripple's crypto payment platform. Eleven months and $200M later, it's switching back to wire transfers.

The most prominent named customer on Rail just reverted to wire transfers. No product complaint. No regulatory issue. No reason at all.

Lucia Moreno·1min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 8, 2026, 9:22 AM GMT+2

A New York lawsuit wants 3.8M Bitcoin. Quiet holders finally have a defense.

A lost-property law built for physical stuff is being aimed at dormant Bitcoin. The court's answer could matter for every old wallet.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 8, 2026, 9:12 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin bounced 11% from its July low. The Fed now owns the rally.

This bounce has one clean pillar: a weaker jobs print. Thursday's Fed minutes either support it or pull it out.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 8, 2026, 8:12 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin dropped to $62,657 as the U.S. and Iran traded strikes. Oil jumped and rate fears are back.

The oil spike is the tell: markets read Tuesday's exchange as an inflation event, not just a geopolitical one.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 7, 2026, 9:50 PM GMT+2

Vanguard is hiring a crypto chief. It's a hedge, not a conversion.

The firm that made abstention its brand now needs a person to study the market it said clients should avoid.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 7, 2026, 8:07 PM GMT+2

Poloniex deposits jumped 35% in one day. The exchange has not said why.

DefiLlama clocked roughly $420M into Poloniex in one day. The exchange hasn't said a word.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefJul 7, 2026, 7:41 PM GMT+2

New Hampshire's $100M Bitcoin bond faces a vote. Moody's already called the risk.

The state says taxpayers are protected, but the Ba2 rating says the collateral problem never went away.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 7, 2026, 6:53 PM GMT+2

Binance just put bitcoin income behind one tap. The 15% cut is the catch.

BTC Yield turns a covered-call strategy into a retail button, but the product sells ease more than edge.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 7, 2026, 4:40 PM GMT+2

SBI just doubled its crypto accounts in Japan. The stablecoin story is bigger.

The weak yen is turning Japanese corporate treasurers into the real demand source, and SBI already owns the regulated rails they need.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 7, 2026, 3:08 PM GMT+2

Coinbase just got its third UK license. UK retail can now trade stocks there, ahead of the full crypto rulebook.

Coinbase now holds three regulated UK layers: crypto registration, e-money, and investment services. The everything-exchange build is happening before UK regulation can catch up.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 7, 2026, 10:11 AM GMT+2

Strategy sold $216 million of bitcoin to cover preferred dividends. The hold-forever plan now has an official exit clause.

Strategy introduced a framework to sell bitcoin for corporate needs and used it immediately. The first sale came in below the company's average purchase price.

Liv Bergman·2min·🐻👀💀

breakingJul 7, 2026, 8:25 AM GMT+2

BitMine bought $73M worth of Ethereum this week. One listed company now holds 4.8% of the total supply.

One company is running the Strategy playbook on Ethereum, and the staking implications haven't been priced in yet.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

briefJul 7, 2026, 8:16 AM GMT+2

The US holds 328,372 Bitcoin. Strategic still means fragile.

A $25 billion Bitcoin reserve sounds permanent until you notice it still lives inside an executive order.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 7, 2026, 12:12 AM GMT+2

Trump's bitcoin reserve is still stuck. Bitcoin's 30% drop makes the delay harder to sell.

The reserve was supposed to turn seized coins into strategy. Sixteen months later, it mostly shows how hard policy gets when agencies fight over the keys.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 6, 2026, 8:17 PM GMT+2

USDC now handles 70% of stablecoin volume. Banks are making Circle harder to catch.

Tether still has the giant balance sheet, but USDC is becoming the rail banks actually plug into.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 6, 2026, 7:13 PM GMT+2

Trump may put Bitcoin in children's savings accounts. That's bigger than the reserve.

A seized-coin stockpile is symbolism. A federal savings account for kids would tell households Bitcoin belongs in long-term savings.

Lucia Moreno·1min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJul 6, 2026, 5:39 PM GMT+2

TeraWulf just signed a $19 billion lease with Anthropic. Bitcoin miners are officially becoming AI infrastructure companies.

A Bitcoin miner just locked in a 20-year deal with an AI company. The whole mining sector moved on the news, and the $19 billion figure hasn't been confirmed yet.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefJul 6, 2026, 3:18 PM GMT+2

BlackRock capped Bitcoin at 2% in model portfolios. Rally selling is now part of the setup.

The buy signal came with a sell rule, and IBIT is now big enough for that rule to matter.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 6, 2026, 12:37 PM GMT+2

Babylon's Bitcoin deposits fell 15.3% in 24 hours. The cause is still unknown.

Babylon's Bitcoin staking pool shows a $490M drop in USD terms. Whether BTC actually left or the price just moved is still unresolved.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJul 6, 2026, 12:08 PM GMT+2

Coinbase sent a fake World Cup result five hours early. Its own prediction page disagreed.

Coinbase's AI sent a result wrong on the score, wrong on the time, and contradicted by its own prediction market.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

briefJul 6, 2026, 10:10 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin sat near $63,000. Saylor says the four-year cycle is over now.

The bull-case speaker just moved the risk from halvings to intermediaries. That changes what traders should watch next.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 6, 2026, 8:13 AM GMT+2

Cardano added 14,783 wallets. The rebound still has a $0.20 test.

ADA's bounce now has three catalysts: new wallets, a treasury vote, and a hard fork that is nearly ready.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚀🐂👀

briefJul 5, 2026, 7:12 PM GMT+2

Dave Portnoy says he'll hold Bitcoin to zero. That's not conviction, it's the signal.

Retail's favorite wrong-way crypto celebrity is back, and this time the trade is less interesting than the psychology around it.

Jade Nakamura·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJul 5, 2026, 4:12 PM GMT+2

Strategy's preferred stock fell to $88. The liquidation panic looks early.

Bitwise says the STRC break looks like borrowed bets getting cut, not a forced sale signal. The catch is Strategy now has a real bitcoin-sale policy.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

briefJul 5, 2026, 2:10 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin ran 689% this cycle on $697 billion. The next run needs $1 trillion, and ETFs say no.

Ki Young Ju's cycle math says Bitcoin gets harder to move with every dollar in. The ETF data is making that case for him.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJul 5, 2026, 11:08 AM GMT+2

$1.23B left Binance this week. Ethereum withdrawals just hit a three-year high.

The three-year Ethereum high is the headline. The 207% jump in aggregate outflows is the number that still needs explaining.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

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The stream

EDX Markets just raised $76M. SBI Holdings led the round, and they didn't come just for returns.

Robinhood wants AI agents to trade crypto. The rollout is still a promise.

XRP is going on Kansas jerseys. Ripple just copied energy drinks with a policy twist.

Ostium held a $1.1M euro-dollar bet for 400 days. Crypto-style fees would have killed it.

Bitcoin sat in one range for 307 days. The tape is still stuck.

BlackRock’s tokenized Treasury fund just hit $3.7B. Tether’s float problem got real.

Empery Digital sold $87M of Bitcoin to fund a data center deal. Corporate Bitcoin reserves are quietly becoming spending accounts.

BUIDL's $3.7B jump needs a second source. The numbers don't add up.

SpaceX moved bitcoin for the first time in six months. Three transfers, less than $300 total, and nothing hit an exchange.

Grayscale's CFO just resigned. The $20B asset drop is still the real story.

BitGo just added quantum safety tools for Bitcoin custody. 6.9M coins are already exposed.

Spot bitcoin ETFs lost nearly $5B in Q2. Private credit just backed up the same warning.

Tether’s former investment chief plans to sell shares. Now insiders get a real price.

MARA agreed to buy 1,200 acres in Texas. Shares jumped more than 12%, and the AI story is driving it.

XRP ETFs lost $7.29M on Tuesday. The whole thing came from one fund.

Trump's Bitcoin reserve is still stuck. The wish was never the policy.

BNB Chain is building a faster chain for AI trades. The timing is the real bet.

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF lost $3.55B in June. US spot ETFs just had their worst month on record.

Bull Bitcoin challenged France's new crypto tax rule. The data risk is now officially in court.

Cantor's $3B Bitcoin deal just paused its vote. The whole structure is now being rewritten.

Trump declared the Iran ceasefire over. Crypto fell 2.9%, but the tape tells a different story.

Fed minutes hit today. Crypto gets ten days of event risk.

AngelList dropped Ripple's crypto payment platform. Eleven months and $200M later, it's switching back to wire transfers.

A New York lawsuit wants 3.8M Bitcoin. Quiet holders finally have a defense.

Bitcoin bounced 11% from its July low. The Fed now owns the rally.

Bitcoin dropped to $62,657 as the U.S. and Iran traded strikes. Oil jumped and rate fears are back.

Vanguard is hiring a crypto chief. It's a hedge, not a conversion.

Poloniex deposits jumped 35% in one day. The exchange has not said why.

New Hampshire's $100M Bitcoin bond faces a vote. Moody's already called the risk.

Binance just put bitcoin income behind one tap. The 15% cut is the catch.

SBI just doubled its crypto accounts in Japan. The stablecoin story is bigger.

Coinbase just got its third UK license. UK retail can now trade stocks there, ahead of the full crypto rulebook.

Strategy sold $216 million of bitcoin to cover preferred dividends. The hold-forever plan now has an official exit clause.

BitMine bought $73M worth of Ethereum this week. One listed company now holds 4.8% of the total supply.

The US holds 328,372 Bitcoin. Strategic still means fragile.

Trump's bitcoin reserve is still stuck. Bitcoin's 30% drop makes the delay harder to sell.

USDC now handles 70% of stablecoin volume. Banks are making Circle harder to catch.

Trump may put Bitcoin in children's savings accounts. That's bigger than the reserve.

TeraWulf just signed a $19 billion lease with Anthropic. Bitcoin miners are officially becoming AI infrastructure companies.

BlackRock capped Bitcoin at 2% in model portfolios. Rally selling is now part of the setup.

Babylon's Bitcoin deposits fell 15.3% in 24 hours. The cause is still unknown.

Coinbase sent a fake World Cup result five hours early. Its own prediction page disagreed.

Bitcoin sat near $63,000. Saylor says the four-year cycle is over now.

Cardano added 14,783 wallets. The rebound still has a $0.20 test.

Dave Portnoy says he'll hold Bitcoin to zero. That's not conviction, it's the signal.

Strategy's preferred stock fell to $88. The liquidation panic looks early.

Bitcoin ran 689% this cycle on $697 billion. The next run needs $1 trillion, and ETFs say no.

$1.23B left Binance this week. Ethereum withdrawals just hit a three-year high.

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The stream

EDX Markets just raised $76M. SBI Holdings led the round, and they didn't come just for returns.

Robinhood wants AI agents to trade crypto. The rollout is still a promise.

XRP is going on Kansas jerseys. Ripple just copied energy drinks with a policy twist.

Ostium held a $1.1M euro-dollar bet for 400 days. Crypto-style fees would have killed it.

Bitcoin sat in one range for 307 days. The tape is still stuck.

BlackRock’s tokenized Treasury fund just hit $3.7B. Tether’s float problem got real.

Empery Digital sold $87M of Bitcoin to fund a data center deal. Corporate Bitcoin reserves are quietly becoming spending accounts.

BUIDL's $3.7B jump needs a second source. The numbers don't add up.

SpaceX moved bitcoin for the first time in six months. Three transfers, less than $300 total, and nothing hit an exchange.

Grayscale's CFO just resigned. The $20B asset drop is still the real story.

BitGo just added quantum safety tools for Bitcoin custody. 6.9M coins are already exposed.

Spot bitcoin ETFs lost nearly $5B in Q2. Private credit just backed up the same warning.

Tether’s former investment chief plans to sell shares. Now insiders get a real price.

MARA agreed to buy 1,200 acres in Texas. Shares jumped more than 12%, and the AI story is driving it.

XRP ETFs lost $7.29M on Tuesday. The whole thing came from one fund.

Trump's Bitcoin reserve is still stuck. The wish was never the policy.

BNB Chain is building a faster chain for AI trades. The timing is the real bet.

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF lost $3.55B in June. US spot ETFs just had their worst month on record.

Bull Bitcoin challenged France's new crypto tax rule. The data risk is now officially in court.

Cantor's $3B Bitcoin deal just paused its vote. The whole structure is now being rewritten.

Trump declared the Iran ceasefire over. Crypto fell 2.9%, but the tape tells a different story.

Fed minutes hit today. Crypto gets ten days of event risk.

AngelList dropped Ripple's crypto payment platform. Eleven months and $200M later, it's switching back to wire transfers.

A New York lawsuit wants 3.8M Bitcoin. Quiet holders finally have a defense.

Bitcoin bounced 11% from its July low. The Fed now owns the rally.

Bitcoin dropped to $62,657 as the U.S. and Iran traded strikes. Oil jumped and rate fears are back.

Vanguard is hiring a crypto chief. It's a hedge, not a conversion.

Poloniex deposits jumped 35% in one day. The exchange has not said why.

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