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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Strategy, the world’s first and largest Bitcoin Treasury led by its founder Michael Saylor, recently resumed its weekly BTC buying spree after pausing purchases ahead of its earnings call on May 5. With the company now in buying mode, Saylor predicts Bitcoin’s price will rise 30% annually over the next 20 years. If that happens, Strategy’s staggering holdings, which is currently over 800,000 BTC, could see massive profit growth each year.  Strategy’s Bitcoin Value At 30% Yearly Growth Saylor has said that the Bitcoin price could surge…

In brief Gemini reported Q1 2026 revenue of $50.3 million, up 42% year-over-year. The crypto exchange secured a $100 million strategic investment from Winklevoss Capital Fund at $14 per share, paid in Bitcoin. Gemini Olympus, LLC received a Derivatives Clearing Organization license from the CFTC on April 30. Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, the platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss that trades on NASDAQ as GEMI, reported first-quarter revenue of $50.3 million while securing a $100 million Bitcoin investment from Winklevoss Capital Fund at $14 per share, according to a company announcement.GEMI shares spiked in pre-market trading and are currently changing…

Today DMND and RootstockLabs announce a new feature rollout intending to further the decentralization of Bitcoin mining. The new feature uses Stratum V2 to enable miners at the pool engaging in their own block template construction to also handle the selection and inclusion of merge-mined block commitments from the Rootstock (RSK) sidechain as well. Merge-mining is a process by which multiple blockchains can share, or “reuse”, the same POW from the same set of miners. One blockchain, the child chain, structures its block headers to include the headers of the parent chain, i.e. the hash of the child chain’s block…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Dune’s CEO announced Thursday that the crypto data company is cutting a quarter of its staff as part of a broader push to build out data tools for institutional investors — a segment the company sees as a major growth opportunity as more traditional financial assets move onto blockchain networks. Betting On Institutional Demand Fredrik Haga, Dune’s co-founder and chief executive, said the company plans to invest heavily in products and services aimed at institutions, pointing to what he described as a growing shift of currencies, stocks,…

Strategy, the Tysons Corner-based software and Bitcoin treasury firm formerly known as MicroStrategy, filed a Form 8-K on Friday announcing plans to repurchase $1.5 billion of its convertible notes due 2029 — a significant balance sheet move that comes as the company’s preferred stock instrument, STRC, continues to attract record investor demand. The repurchase announcement arrives one day after STRC, Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, recorded an all-time high daily trading volume of $1.53 billion on Thursday, surpassing the prior record of $1.1 billion set on April 13.  Executive Chairman Michael Saylor confirmed the milestone on…

A former employee of a billion-dollar lender faces decades in prison over the disappearance of thousands of dollars from an ailing septuagenarian’s bank account. According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island, former Santander Bank employee Carlos Bras drained over $125,000 starting in or about May of 2023 from the account of a 78-year-old customer who was suffering from dementia. To access and transfer the victim’s funds, Bras secretly enabled online banking for the septuagenarian. Bras also “ordered checks sent to addresses he controlled, and obtained a debit card for personal use.” According to the…

In brief THORChain suspended all trading after security researchers flagged a suspected multi-chain exploit allegedly affecting Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Base networks. Blockchain researcher ZachXBT and security firm PeckShield identified two suspected theft addresses linked to alleged losses exceeding $10 million. The protocol halted operations while investigating the potential security breach. THORChain halted trading operations Friday morning after blockchain security researchers identified a suspected exploit allegedly affecting more than $10 million across multiple blockchain networks.Blockchain researcher ZachXBT and security firm PeckShield traced the suspected breach to two main addresses—one on Bitcoin and another on EVM-compatible chains including Ethereum,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Global crypto exchange OKX is in discussions to acquire approximately a 20% stake in Coinone, one of South Korea’s five licensed crypto exchanges, according to a May 15 report by Yonhap News Agency — a move that would mark OKX’s most significant strategic foothold in one of Asia’s most active digital asset markets. Korea Investment & Securities, one of South Korea’s major brokerage firms, is reportedly pursuing a parallel 20% stake in Coinone under the same framework, per the Yonhap report as cited by Bloomberg’s Bloomingbit. The…

In brief SATA is set to become the first U.S. security to pay cash dividends every business day starting June 16. Strive reported a first-quarter loss of $265.9 million, driven by a decline in the value of its Bitcoin holdings. The firm said that it had eliminated outstanding debt by repurchasing long-term notes. Strive’s preferred stock will soon become the first U.S.-listed security to provide investors with daily cash dividends, the Bitcoin-buying firm declared on Thursday.In a statement, CEO Matt Cole described the shift as a “zero-to-one innovation,” affecting the company’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (SATA) starting…

The founder and CEO of investment management firm Baron Capital, Ron Baron, believes that one firm that is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) could generate massive returns over the coming years. In a new CNBC interview, Baron says that the aerospace and artificial intelligence firm SpaceX, which filed to go public in April, is primed to multiply in value and potentially “become the largest company on the planet.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcZiyBgHiJo [03:52] “So when you go public, I don’t know if it’s going public at $1.5 trillion or $1.75 trillion or maybe a little bit more. But where it goes…

In brief NFL All Day will no longer issue new NFTs, though existing collectibles can still be bought and sold via the marketplace. Dapper Labs said it signed a new licensing deal with the NFL and will reveal plans closer to the start of the next season. All Day marketplace sales volume has picked up as collectors grapple with the news. Dapper Labs, the firm behind licensed digital sports collectibles platform NBA Top Shot and NFL All Day, will no longer create new football collectibles for its licensed NFL platform, it announced on Wednesday. The decision does not affect existing NFTs…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure XRP’s $100 price target is one of the most recurrent projections in the crypto market, but EGRAG CRYPTO’s macro analysis is not built around instant gratification.  The analyst is instead looking at the stages that may come before any move into triple digits, arguing that the altcoin still has to pass through a difficult sequence of corrections and lower target zones before the larger price target. Technical analysis of the 2-month candlestick chart places XRP inside a long-term compression structure, with the current price still 530% below…

In brief NFL All Day will no longer issue new NFTs, though existing collectibles can still be bought and sold via the marketplace. Dapper Labs said it signed a new licensing deal with the NFL and will reveal plans closer to the start of the next season. All Day marketplace sales volume has picked up as collectors grapple with the news. Dapper Labs, the firm behind licensed digital sports collectibles platform NBA Top Shot and NFL All Day, will no longer create new football collectibles for its licensed NFL platform, it announced on Wednesday. The decision does not affect existing NFTs…

In brief A security firm claims it built a working macOS kernel exploit targeting Apple’s M5 chip and Memory Integrity Enforcement system. The company says a preview version of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI helped identify bugs and assist with exploit development. Apple has not yet publicly commented on the claims. Apple devices have long been considered among the hardest consumer systems to hack because of the company’s tightly integrated hardware and software security. Now, a security startup claims a small team of researchers used a preview version of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to build a working exploit against Apple’s new M5…