Author: admin

Strategy CEO Phong Le argues that stock market index MSCI’s proposal to exclude companies holding more than 50% of their assets in crypto would be like removing energy giants, such as Chevron, from an index simply for holding oil.The MSCI Index announced in October that it was consulting with the investment community about whether to exclude Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital asset treasury companies (DATs) that have the majority of their balance sheet in crypto. During an interview with the Schwab Network on Wednesday, a streaming and market-analysis channel, Le said that he has “a lot of respect for the indexes,”…

The New York Stock Exchange has just become the sixth home for Valentina Picozzi’s “disappearing” Satoshi Nakamoto statue — a massive contrast to just a few years ago, when crypto was seen as taboo on Wall Street.The NYSE is considered a center of traditional financial institutions, and the inclusion of a Nakamoto statue marks it as “shared ground between emerging systems and established institutions,” the stock exchange said in an X post on Wednesday.The statue was installed by Bitcoin company Twenty One Capital, which launched for trading this week; however, the design is the brainchild of artist Valentina Picozzi, who…

Payments giant Stripe has acquired the team from crypto wallet firm Valora, just a day after launching its testnet for its stablecoin-focused blockchain project Tempo.  According to Valora CEO Jackie Bona, the acquisition will see the Valora team join Stripe and work on the firm’s blockchain initiatives.Valora was founded in mid-2021 after spinning out of Celo development group cLabs and raising $20 million in Series A funding in the process. The Valora app is a mobile wallet that supports stablecoins and other assets across Celo, Ethereum, Base, Optimism and Arbitrum. Apart from the wallet, the team also developed an open protocol launchpad…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum (ETH) is under a pivotal week as traders weigh a mix of macroeconomic expectations, institutional developments, and strengthening technical signals. Related Reading: Midnight Goes Live As Cardano Founder Targets A $10 Billion Ecosystem With the Federal Reserve set to deliver its next rate decision, market participants are watching how Ethereum’s recent momentum interacts with a broader risk-on environment. The second largest cap cryptocurrency has already staged a notable rebound, breaking key resistance levels and drawing renewed interest from both retail and institutional investors. ETH’s price sees…

Ethereum can afford to lose finality from time to time without putting the network at serious risk, according to co-founder Vitalik Buterin, even after a recent client bug came close to disrupting the blockchain’s confirmation mechanism.Following a recent bug in the Prysm Ethereum client, Buterin said in an X post that there is “nothing wrong with losing finalization once in a while.” He added that finalization indicates the network is “really sure” a block will not be reverted.Buterin argued that if finality is occasionally delayed for hours due to a major bug, “that’s fine,” and the blockchain keeps working while…

Surf, an AI platform built for digital-asset analysis, raised $15 million in a round led by Pantera Capital with participation from Coinbase Ventures and DCG, to expand its AI models and enterprise tools.The company offers a domain-specific model used by exchanges and research companies to analyze onchain activity, market behavior and sentiment. The funding will go toward Surf 2.0, which will introduce more advanced models, broader proprietary data sets and additional agents designed to handle multi-step analytical tasks.Surf said its platform has seen rapid uptake since its launch in July, generating more than one million research reports and claiming millions…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has issued a sharp public warning to Elon Musk over how X is being used to direct increasingly aggressive rhetoric at Europe, arguing that the platform is drifting from a free-speech ideal toward orchestrated hostility. Ethereum Founder Calls Out Elon Musk In a series of posts on X, Buterin said that “the attacks on Europe I’ve seen here the last couple of days, including from people I’ve generally considered interesting and sophisticated, have been getting unhinged.” He acknowledged that the European Union has…

The “whale awakening” in numbers In July 2025, analysts watched eight Satoshi-era wallets, each holding 10,000 BTC, move their coins for the first time in 14 years.In total, 80,000 Bitcoin (BTC) (about $8.6 billion at the time) shifted out of long-dormant addresses in a single clustered episode of movement observed onchain. Blockchain sleuths traced these coins back to 2011, when they were acquired for under $210,000 in total, implying a return of nearly 4,000,000%.Two separate wallets, each with 10,000 BTC and inactive since 2011, were also reactivated in July 2025. With Bitcoin around $108,000, each address suddenly controlled more than…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has unveiled a major proposal that could fundamentally reshape how the network handles transaction fees. His new design aims to replace unpredictable costs with a system that lets users plan and budget more effectively, signaling one of the most significant shifts in Ethereum’s economic framework in years. Ethereum Gas Fees As Predictable, Prepaid Resources Buterin’s proposal centers on a new on-chain gas futures market. Today, gas fees rise and fall based on network congestion and users have no way to know in advance what they will pay, which complicates planning for developers, businesses, and high-volume platforms.…

Key takeawaysVanguard’s decision to open access to spot crypto ETFs marks a major shift from its earlier anti-crypto stance and gives more than 50 million clients a regulated path to gain exposure to digital assets.The firm will allow trading of approved third-party ETFs tied to BTC, ETH, XRP and SOL while avoiding memecoins or unregulated tokens and choosing not to launch its own crypto products.The move brings significant institutional legitimacy to crypto and shows that even traditionally conservative asset managers cannot overlook sustained demand for regulated exposure to digital assets.Vanguard’s embrace of crypto reflects a broader institutional trend. Major financial…