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The world’s largest Bitcoin treasury and business intelligence firm, Strategy, has revealed its total Bitcoin purchase of 2026, scooping up all Bitcoin mined this year and more. This has followed several weeks and months of steady Bitcoin accumulation as the firm continued to show strong conviction in the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Strategy acquires 171,238 Bitcoin since 2026 began On Wednesday, May 27, Strategy revealed that it had bought more Bitcoin than miners on the network had produced so far in 2026. The company further shared data that shows that it has acquired a total of 171,238 $BTC in 2026 YTD,…

Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) recovered from early losses Tuesday as investors positioned ahead of the chipmaker’s closely watched earnings report later this week. The stock initially fell as much as 2% before trimming losses and trading roughly flat by midday. Wall Street remains broadly optimistic that Nvidia’s earnings could reignite the stock’s rally and reinforce its position at the centre of the artificial intelligence boom. Nvidia is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday after the bell. Analysts surveyed by LSEG expect the company’s earnings to more than double from a year earlier, while revenue is projected to surge nearly…

Latest developments: 21Shares says its new Hyperliquid ETF saw strong early traction after launching in the U.S. Eli Ndinga, global head of research at 21Shares, told Jennifer Sanasie on CoinDesk’s Public Keys that the product recorded more than $5 million in inflows within days of launch. The ETF also generated roughly $8 million in trading volume on Thursday alone, according to Ndinga. He said the firm previously launched a Hyperliquid product in Europe and viewed bringing the strategy to U.S. investors as a priority. The launch comes as asset managers race to roll out crypto-linked ETFs tied to newer blockchain…

Crypto-backed political groups supported several winning candidates in Texas primary runoffs Tuesday, highlighting the digital asset industry’s growing role in US elections as Congress debates new rules for crypto markets. Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican US Senate runoff against four-term Senator John Cornyn by a wide margin, according to Texas primary runoff results, and will face Democratic state Representative James Talarico in November. In Houston’s 18th Congressional District, Democrat Christian Menefee unseated fellow Democrat representative Al Green in a decisive win after Republican-led redistricting forced the two incumbents into the same district, ousting one of the state’s most…

Crypto markets increasingly blur the line between speculative trading and private-equity exposure as decentralized exchanges tokenize previously inaccessible venture-backed narratives. Market participants also increasingly test whether perpetual infrastructure can sustain liquidity around valuation-driven hype cycles. Aster [$ASTER] DEX is in the news now after it launched leveraged OpenAI pre-IPO perpetuals, allowing traders to speculate on implied valuations using up to 5x leverage. Source: X This structure has increasingly transformed private-market pricing into a continuously tradable on-chain instrument beneath broader DeFi expansion trends. Meanwhile, OpenAI-linked synthetic valuations also climbed towards roughly $1,600 per share-equivalent, reflecting aggressive optimism around trillion-dollar growth expectations.…

The much-hyped copper-to-gold breakout says more about how capital is shifting between defense and growth than it does about bitcoin’s destiny on its own. Ethereum (ETH) charts and Bitcoin (BTC) flows might grab more headlines, but the signal embedded in the copper-to-gold ratio is about global liquidity and risk appetite across the entire market complex. As ALCUM COO Vytautas Mackonis puts it, “gold performs better when capital is in preservation mode: elevated aversion, higher uncertainty, and dominant defensive positioning.” By contrast, “copper performs well when capital is moving into industrial activity: manufacturing orders pick up, infrastructure investment accelerates, and cyclical…

Around 10 foreign firms have filed for listing in Hong Kong this year, covering everything from biotech to blockchain infrastructure, according to an executive at HKEX. Should all the transactions go through, 2026 will mark the best year for foreign listings in Hong Kong since at least 2020, reports say. We feel that this is the start of a structural change in the next phase of international companies listing in Hong Kong. – Johnson Chui, head of global issuer services at HKEX Companies had been coming to Hong Kong in order to reach mainland consumers or develop a Greater China…

AEON, an AI-focused blockchain settlement infrastructure platform, announced the completion of an $8 million pre-seed funding round led by YZi Labs. The round also included participation from IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, Oak Grove Ventures, and several other investors. The company said the funding will support the development of infrastructure designed for an agentic economy, where AI systems interact and transact independently. AEON is building a settlement layer aimed at allowing AI agents to complete financial actions without direct human involvement. The company focuses on connecting Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interactions with real-world payment systems and merchant settlements. Its…

The crypto industry is turning its attention to June, a month many see as crucial for advancing the proposed crypto market structure legislation known as the Clarity Act. According to Kristin Smith, Solana Policy Institute president, the bill has already cleared a major hurdle by passing through the Senate Banking Committee with bipartisan support. However, she stressed that the most difficult stage is still ahead: building enough support to bring the legislation to the Senate floor and secure final approval. The Road to the President’s Desk Smith outlined several steps that remain before the bill can become law. These include:…

Wallet of Satoshi, a widely used Bitcoin Lightning Network wallet, has announced it will transition its point-of-sale (POS) service for merchants to a self-custody model. The company cited increasing government reporting requirements for custodial crypto services as the primary driver behind the change, a move that will require business operators to manage their own private keys. What the Transition Means for Merchants In a post on X, Wallet of Satoshi explained that support for existing custodial POS addresses will be phased out. Merchants currently using the service will need to generate new self-custody addresses to continue processing Bitcoin Lightning payments.…