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Strategy, the world’s largest Bitcoin treasury company, has submitted a formal response to MSCI’s consultation on digital asset treasury companies (DATs), urging the index provider not to exclude companies whose digital asset holdings exceed 50% of total assets. In its detailed letter to the MSCI Equity Index Committee, Strategy argued that the proposed threshold is “misguided” and would have “profoundly harmful consequences” for both investors and the broader digital asset industry. Founded in 1989, the company operates as a corporate treasury and capital markets business with significant Bitcoin holdings, offering investors a range of equity and fixed-income securities backed by…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Торговая активность вокруг Dogecoin в этом цикле все заметнее смещается от крупных институциональных продуктов к более спекулятивным и «игровым» форматам. Падение объемов в биржевом фонде на Dogecoin показывает: интерес розницы к пассивному экспозиционному инструменту уходит, тогда как тяга к риску никуда не делась. Для многих трейдеров Dogecoin давно превратился из мема в «голубую фишку» среди шуточных токенов, но именно это со временем убивает адреналин. Если ETF показывает минимальные объемы с момента запуска, значит, трейдерам становится скучно просто держать DOGE через традиционный фонд. Им нужен драйв, плечо и…

PNC Bank, a US banking giant with more than $569 billion in assets under management (AUM), has embedded spot Bitcoin trading into its private banking platform, marking a distinct pivot in the institutional adoption cycle.This makes it the first top-10 US lender to allow clients to buy, sell, and hold digital assets directly alongside their checking accounts.The integration, powered by a partnership with Coinbase, arrives nearly two years after the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs fundamentally altered the market’s structure.Since early 2024, products from BlackRock and Fidelity have dominated flows by offering low-fee, liquid exposure wrapped in a familiar brokerage…

The Samourai Wallet matter raises a fundamental question about how the United States treats non-custodial software and the developers who create it. Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill did not operate a financial service or handle customer assets. They wrote and maintained software that allowed users to construct collaborative Bitcoin transactions in a privacy-preserving way. Throughout the tool’s entire lifecycle, users controlled their own keys, initiated their own transactions, and never relied on Samourai or its developers to transmit or safeguard value. The distinction between a custodial service and a non-custodial tool is not a technicality; it is the core…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure At Bitcoin MENA 2025 in Abu Dhabi, Michael Saylor used his keynote to deliver a clear message: major US banks have quietly pivoted from excluding Bitcoin to actively building products on top of it – and they are now coming directly to him. “In the past six months I have noted and been approached by BNY Mellon, by Wells Fargo, by Bank of America, by Charles Schwab, by JP Morgan, by Citi,” the Strategy (MSTR) executive chairman said. “They are all starting to issue credit against either…

In brief Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood believes that Bitcoin’s historic four-year cycle will be “disrupted.” She argues this is due to the increased presence of institutional investors compared to previous Bitcoin halvings. Other commentators, such as multinational bank Standard Chartered, have expressed similar views on the four-year cycle. Famed tech investor Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, has argued that Bitcoin’s historic four-year cycle will be “disrupted” as institutions have increasingly piled into the asset.Where Bitcoin “regularly dropped 75-90% in its early days,” Wood said in an interview with Fox Business Tuesday, more recently, “The volatility’s going down.”“We think…

In brief Spot Ethereum ETFs attracted $177.6 million on Tuesday, their largest single-day inflow in six weeks. The divergence shows a structural rotation as institutions that entered via Bitcoin broaden their exposure, Decrypt was told. The recent opening of major U.S. wirehouses gives “trillions of dollars” new access to crypto ETFs, according to Bitwise CIO. U.S. spot exchange-traded funds are starting to note inflows as Bitcoin embarks on a choppy yet upsloping move, ending weeks of corrections.Spot Ethereum ETFs attracted $177.64 million on Tuesday, hitting a six-week high, according to SoSoValue data—more than the $151.74 million that flowed into spot…

Strive, a publicly traded bitcoin treasury and asset-management firm, said it has arranged a $500 million at-the-market offering to help fund more bitcoin purchases. The company plans to sell Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, known as SATA. The offering allows Strive to issue shares into the market at prevailing prices rather than through a single sale. The structure gives the firm flexibility to raise capital as demand allows. SATA carries a 12% dividend and an effective yield near 13%. The preferred stock is modeled on Strategy’s STRC perpetual preferred equity, which has been used as a funding tool…