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$BTC Acquired: 24,869 $BTC Total Cost: Approximately $2.01 billion Average Price: Approximately $80,985 per $BTC Total Holdings: 843,738 $BTC Total Cost Basis: Approximately $63.87 billion Average Acquisition Price: Approximately $75,700 per $BTC Latest Bitcoin Purchase Details Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR), formerly known as MicroStrategy, has announced the acquisition of an additional 24,869 Bitcoin for approximately $2.01 billion, at an average purchase price of roughly $80,985 per $BTC, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The purchase was disclosed through a Form 8-K filing and highlights the company’s continued commitment to Bitcoin as its primary treasury…

Intel just had the kind of day most companies dream about. Shares of the chipmaker surged between 10% and 19% on May 8, 2026, after reports surfaced that Intel Foundry had reached a preliminary agreement to manufacture processors for Apple devices. The rally wasn’t contained to a single ticker. Intel’s explosive move helped push both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to fresh record highs, with robust earnings from AI chip makers providing additional fuel for the broader market’s climb. The deal that changed everything (maybe) This isn’t a done deal in the traditional sense. The agreement between Intel and Apple…

The Cardano Foundation presented its proposal evaluation framework for the 2026 governance budget cycle. The system incorporates structured scoring by strategic pillars, dual independent review, and tracking of 2025 delivery history. Proposals surpassing 67% off-chain approval will advance to on-chain voting through Cardano network Treasury withdrawal actions. The Cardano Foundation published the details of its new budget proposal review framework for 2026, a system designed to organize and bring transparency to the governance process that defines how funds are allocated from the network’s Treasury. The document outlines the criteria, the voting logic, and the lessons learned from the previous cycle.…

Solana Institute CEO Kristin Smith is urging the US Senate to pass the CLARITY crypto market structure bill with developer protections intact, arguing that open-source developers and blockchain infrastructure providers should not be regulated as financial intermediaries. In a thread on the X social media platform, Smith said the market structure legislation “has a real shot at passing the Senate,” making it critical for lawmakers to preserve protections for software developers. Source: Kristin Smith on X.com Smith said more than 60 crypto CEOs and founders, including Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, signed an open letter urging the Senate to maintain robust…

Japanese publicly traded company Remixpoint has announced it will expand its Bitcoin lending operation to approximately 1,496 $BTC, effective May 18. The move deepens the firm’s commitment to generating yield on its digital asset holdings through a partnership with SBI Digital Finance, a subsidiary of major financial group SBI Holdings. From holdings to income: how Remixpoint is leveraging its Bitcoin Remixpoint first revealed its lending strategy in February, when it stated it would lend its entire 1,411 $BTC holdings to a crypto lending service offered by SBI Digital Finance. The newly announced figure of 1,496 $BTC represents an increase of…

Goldman Sachs has delayed its Federal Reserve rate cut forecast by one quarter. The bank now expects the first cut in December 2026 and the second in March 2027. Energy cost passthrough is keeping core PCE inflation closer to 3% than the Fed’s 2% target, pushing back the timeline for any policy easing. April’s nonfarm payrolls came in at 115,000. Stable enough to remove pressure on the Fed to act. With the labour market no longer the concern, the Fed’s focus has shifted entirely to containing inflation. “The Fed will shift its focus to containing upside inflation risks now that…

A package of several crypto tax bills may not be ready yet for prime time, as a U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing revealed potentially significant questions from lawmakers that suggested the panel hasn’t achieved a bipartisan embrace of the bills that would tailor a clearer tax code for digital asset gains. The latest legislative drafts are meant to address tax-filing burdens from crypto users and investors, though House lawmakers — especially Democrats — raised pointed questions about the proposed tax treatments during a Tuesday hearing to discuss the bills, and some key members reportedly objected in advance of…

Bitcoin trades at $77,033 on May 18, sliding back below levels it spent two weeks reclaiming, as the 30-year Treasury yield closes at its highest since before the 2008 financial crisis and traders fully price out any chance of a Fed rate cut this year. Why Bitcoin Is Falling While Stocks Look Calm Bitcoin Daily Price Action (Source: TradingView) $BTC lost the 0.618 Fib at $79,249 and the 0.705 Fib at $81,958 in quick succession after the bond market repriced sharply higher. The dotted trendline channel that guided price higher from the April lows is also broken. Three FVG zones…

Astarter, a well-known AI agent infrastructure platform, has partnered with Kuant, an AI-driven GameFi entity. The partnership underscores a strategic move to establish an AI-enhanced cutting-edge derivatives layer on-chain. As Astarter revealed in its official X announcement, the development attempts to integrate AI-based infrastructure into the robust perpetual trading networks. Hence, the initiative is set to expand the rapidly evolving DeFi derivatives and GameFi sector. From research to landing, from Meme to permanent–We are honored to be a strategic partner of @Kuant_exchange to jointly build an AI-enhanced next-generation on-chain derivatives layer.More information about the integration of [cooperation function name] will…

Think of it like a water balloon. Squeeze one side, the other side bulges. That, in essence, is what Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman told attendees at the Hoover Institution on May 8: a decade of post-crisis banking rules has squeezed corporate lending out of regulated banks and into the hands of private credit funds and other nonbank lenders. The numbers tell the story cleanly. Banks held 48% of the corporate lending market in 2015. By 2025, that figure had fallen to 29%. The difference didn’t evaporate. It migrated to entities that operate with far less regulatory…