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Michael Saylor has teased again with his recent X post amid a flurry of discussion about Strategy. Posting the usual orange dot chart on Strategy’s Bitcoin [$BTC] purchase, Saylor said, Source: Michael Saylor/X Considering the trend, this could indicate that Strategy will buy Bitcoin for the 113th time. Since the last update, Strategy has made 112 purchases, increasing its total Bitcoin holdings to 846,842 $BTC, which is valued at $54.3 billion. Data from BitcoinTreasuries.NET shows that since the 11th of August 2020, there has only been one sell-off in this period. For those unaware, Strategy had sold 32 $BTC on…

Ethereum price rallied 5% to $1,966 on July 27 as surging spot demand, short liquidations, and tighter available supply pushed $ETH toward the key $2,000 barrier. Ethereum price rally targets $2,000 According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price climbed to around $1,966 after trading near $1,870 during the previous session, extending a recovery that began from its June low near $1,512. The latest move brought $ETH within 2% of the psychological $2,000 level. Spot trading volume increased 118.53% over 24 hours to $9.21 billion, according to the supplied market data. Rising volume alongside price suggests buyers supported the advance…

Hashdex plans to put some of the crypto held by its Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF (NCIQ) to work through staking. The sponsor takes the first slice of net income, while common shareholders begin sharing in the rewards after an annual threshold is cleared. The framework is prospective. A July 23 Form 8-K named Coinbase Cloud as the initial provider and said staking was expected to begin promptly, subject to operational readiness. Under the July 23 prospectus supplement, a staking provider first retains its portion of gross rewards. Hashdex then receives all remaining net staking income up to a dollar…

A wallet suspected of belonging to crypto investment firm Dragonfly Capital has deposited 137 million $SKY tokens, valued at approximately $9.05 million, to the Coinbase exchange, according to on-chain analyst EmberCN. The tokens were originally withdrawn from Binance five years ago, when they were pre-rebranding MakerDAO (MKR) tokens worth roughly $20.45 million. Large deposit signals potential sell-off Deposits of this magnitude to centralized exchanges are typically interpreted as an intent to sell. The move has drawn attention from market observers, as the wallet’s activity had remained dormant for years before this transaction. The significant drop in value from the original…

Derivatives account for the vast majority of crypto trading volumes, but options remain a relatively small corner of the market, dominated by a handful of established venues including Deribit, CME Group and Binance. New entrants are increasingly betting that broader adoption of options will follow the institutionalization of digital assets. The move is the latest step in Kraken’s transformation from a crypto exchange into a broader financial platform offering trading, payments and other digital asset services. Growing the market, not just market share Rather than focusing solely on taking market share from incumbent venues, Theodorou believes the larger opportunity is…

StableChain’s product is Tether’s dollar: gas in $USDT, transfers in $USDT, yield in $USDT. Its native token does none of that, and holders own governance and staking rights over a network whose every cash flow is denominated in someone else’s asset. This is crypto’s value-accrual question in its purest form yet, and it deserves a straight answer. Every blockchain token answers one question with its existence: why does this network need me? Bitcoin’s answer is total; the token is the point. Ethereum’s answer is functional: the token is the fuel and the bond. And the new generation of stablecoin chains…

The first event is BIP-110, also known as the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, a draft proposal authored by Dathon Ohm and assigned in December 2025. The measure would impose a temporary one-year consensus soft fork on Bitcoin by restricting certain forms of arbitrary data storage in transactions. Supporters describe the proposal as a response to incentives they say expanded after the Ordinals and inscriptions wave that began in 2022. A Temporary Soft Fork With Permanent Stakes BIP-110 is designed to move into a mandatory signaling phase at block 961,632, with that period running through block 963,647. During that window, nodes…

Short Liquidations and ETF Inflows On Monday, ether ($ETH) closed in on the $2,000 threshold after jumping 4.5% amid rising exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows and staking activity. According to Bitstamp data, $ETH peaked at $1,980, an increase of more than $100 from 24 hours earlier, making it one of the day’s top gainers. The surge effectively erased losses $ETH suffered starting July 22, when it fell below the $1,900 threshold. The jump also lifted its market capitalization to $237 billion and pushed its seven-day gains to nearly 6%. While the digital asset’s year-to-date losses remain in double digits, the July…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that the rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies will not diminish the importance of the cryptocurrency sector; on the contrary, digital assets will play a much more critical role in the new era. Speaking on the social media platform X, Armstrong emphasized that artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies are not competing technologies, but rather complementary infrastructures. Armstrong stated that artificial intelligence has become one of the most important technological trends of our time, yet the value proposition of cryptocurrencies continues to strengthen. According to the Coinbase CEO, cryptocurrency technology is a kind of general-purpose infrastructure, like…

Sui (SUI), the Layer 1 blockchain, has fully restored normal operations following a mainnet outage that temporarily halted transaction processing. The project confirmed the resolution on its official X account, stating that validators applied a patch to address a bug that emerged during a scheduled network upgrade. What Caused the Outage The disruption began yesterday as validators restarted their nodes to deploy a new binary as part of a long-term fix. During this process, a randomness initialization procedure — required at the start of each epoch — failed to complete. The issue arose because this initialization requires a higher quorum…