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In brief Early-week inflows hit $1.44B before $829 million in outflows pared weekly total to $619M. Oil surged 60% post-Iran attack to $119 before pulling back to $102. Experts warn higher oil pressures equities, feeding into Bitcoin as risk asset. Bitcoin’s bullish start to the week and the subsequent pullback align with crypto fund flows and escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.Last week, crypto fund inflows reached $1.44 billion in the first three days, coinciding with the U.S. attack on Iran, but eventual outflows toward the end of the week put the cumulative weekly flows at $619 million, according…

In brief Strategy notched its largest Bitcoin purchase in over a month. The firm issued STRC at its fastest rate since the product’s debut last July. The company’s Bitcoin stockpile showed a $5.5 billion loss on paper. Strategy spent $1.28 billion on Bitcoin last week, notching its largest purchase in over a month with funds that partly stemmed from STRC, its variable rate preferred share.The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm now owns roughly 738,750 Bitcoin, according to a press release. With the digital asset changing hands around $68,500 on Monday, the Bitcoin-buying firm’s stockpile was worth $50.5 billion.Last week, Strategy raised…

Nigel Farage has taken a stake in a bitcoin treasury company led by former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, deepening links between the crypto sector and the populist political movement led by Nigel Farage. Farage invested £215,000 in Stack BTC through his media company Thorn In The Side Ltd, according to disclosures tied to a fundraising round for the London-listed firm. The purchase gives the leader of Reform UK a stake of about 6.3% in the company. The investment forms part of a £260,000 capital raise that also included participation from Blockchain.com. Stack issued 5.2 million new shares at 5 pence…

BitMine Immersion Technologies, the top Ethereum treasury firm by total holdings, announced Monday that it added nearly 61,000 more ETH over the last week—right as the asset reclaimed a price of $2,000 per coin after sitting below that mark for the entire weekend.The publicly traded firm now holds 4,534,563 ETH after adding 60,976 ETH—about $123 million worth—over the last week. At a current price of $2,015 per coin, that puts BitMine’s Ethereum treasury at a value of approximately $9.14 billion. The company also holds $1.2 billion in cash, it said Monday, along with about $13.4 million worth of Bitcoin.Ethereum is…

In brief Atlas has launched AI agents that build 3D and other assets for game studios. The platform has moved from closed beta to global availability on Google Cloud Marketplace. CEO Ben James said AI should automate technical tasks rather than replace artists. Vienna-based startup Atlas announced on Monday the launch of a new AI tool to automate the game development process, as game developers increasingly turn to the technology. The new Atlas AI Studio uses multiple AI agents to automate tasks such as generation, texturing, optimization, and engine integration, allowing artists to describe tasks in natural language. At the same…

Bitcoin slid below $70,000 this weekend after a weak US jobs report, and another jump in oil prices revived stagflation concerns and pushed investors out of risk assets.The largest cryptocurrency fell as low as $65,660, according to CryptoSlate’s data, less than a week after reaching a monthly high near $74,000.The move put Bitcoin back below a closely watched price level for spot traders and derivatives markets, reinforcing how quickly macro shocks can spill over into crypto when liquidity conditions tighten. Related Reading161,000 US jobs just disappeared after a revision as Bitcoin navigates increasingly messy macro dataNearly 1 million US jobs…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A resurfaced clip from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s appearance at XRP Australia Sydney 2026 is drawing fresh attention after he linked Ripple’s early battles to material in the latest Epstein document release. The comment matters because it reframes Ripple’s long-running grievance in Washington and in crypto itself as something deeper than routine rivalry: a sign, Garlinghouse suggested, that parts of the industry saw Ripple as a real threat. Speaking on stage in Sydney on Feb. 27, Garlinghouse said Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen had long sounded “a little…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Traders watching Bitcoin climb alongside US software stocks last week may have drawn the wrong conclusion. According to NYDIG, a financial services company focused on Bitcoin, the visual parallel is misleading. Only about 25% of BTC price movement can be traced back to its relationship with equity markets. The remaining 75% is driven by forces that have nothing to do with the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq. Greg Cipolaro, head of research at NYDIG, made the case in a Friday note. His argument: when Bitcoin and software…