Metaplanet (3350) announced the purchase of an additional 2,823 BTC ($170.7 million), bringing its total treasury to 43,000 BTC ($2.6 billion). The acquisition cements the Tokyo listed firm as the third largest publicly traded company holding bitcoin, trailing only Strategy MSTR) and Twenty One Capital… Read More
Ark Invest has a tendency to load up on shares in cryptocurrency companies when their prices are depressed, and June was no exception. Bitcoin BTC$58,471.34, the largest cryptocurrency, recorded its worst month in four years, and digital asset firms’ share prices suffered accordingly, which Ark… Read More
Traditional securitization markets struggle to package individual servers or computing equipment into investable products, Anderson said. Stablecoins — with more than $300 billion circulating onchain — create a new source of capital for asset-backed lending. “We have the capital onchain to finance this industry,” he… Read More
The setup was built over several weeks, where the attacker deployed dozens of fake token contracts and fake liquidity pools – a term for a pile of tokens locked on a decentralized exchange – that looked like profitable trades. Some mimicked familiar assets such as… Read More
Blockchain-based lending protocol Morpho said it raised $175 million in a funding round co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit Capital, as investors bet that credit markets will increasingly move onchain. The round also included Apollo Funds, Circle Ventures, VanEck and Ledger Cathay, according to… Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) holder Strategy’s (MSTR) capital trap is getting tighter, according to Ilan Solot, senior global markets strategist, at Marex Solutions, a division of global financial services firm Marex. The company is sitting on a massive bitcoin hoard, accumulated through aggressive buying and stock dilution.… Read More
