Vanguard now allows ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold select cryptocurrencies, like BTC, to be traded on its platform, reversing a longstanding position
opens $9.3T platform to crypto ETFs Zabi / The Crypto Basic : $11 Trillion Vanguard Finally Enables Bitcoin and Crypto ETFs for Clients Bogdan Patru / Bitcoinist.com : Vanguard Expands to Bitcoin ETFs...
Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B+ in bitcoin
What's the Best Crypto to Buy Right Now? Bloomberg : Cantor Preps Second Bitcoin Treasury Company With 25,000 Tokens Kamina Bashir / BeInCrypto : Brandon Lutnick Leads $4 Billion Bitcoin Initiative Th...
Kalshi raised $185M led by Paradigm at a $2B valuation; sources: Polymarket is completing a $200M+ investment led by Founders Fund at a ~$1B pre-money valuation
Prediction-Market Unicorn Hits $2 Billion Valuation Bogdan Patru / Bitcoin Insider : Prediction Market Kalshi Achieves Unicorn Status with $185 Raised at its $2B Evaluation, as BTC Bull Token Predicts...
Chainlink and Mastercard announce a partnership to enable credit card holders to buy crypto assets “directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion”
Is Best Wallet Token the Big Winner? Lele Jima / The Crypto Basic : Chainlink and Mastercard Team Up to Let Three Billion Cardholders Buy Crypto On-Chain Shrishesh Tanksalkar / Coinpedia Fintech News ...
Anthropic adds “thinking summaries” to both Claude 4 models and is making its Claude Code agentic command-line tool generally available
Yesterday at Anthropic's first “Code with Claude” … Databricks : Introducing new Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models on Databricks Kahekashan / The Hans India : Anthropic Launches Claude 4 Sonnet and Op...
President Trump names Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano as assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, causing significant price surges
XRP, ADA, SOL post double-digit losses Molly White / Citation Needed : Issue 78 - President on brink of bailout for bitcoin CoinDesk : Here Is What Crypto Leaders Are Saying About Trump's Crypto Reser...
President Trump names Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano as assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, causing significant price surges
Crypto Braced For Another Trump Shock After Bitcoin, XRP, Solana And Cardano Price Boom CoinDesk : Here Is What Crypto Leaders Are Saying About Trump's Crypto Reserve Plans Matthew Gault / Gizmodo : C...
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”
Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Michael Anthony Bitoon / ...
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin shuts down and plans to move accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March 2025, after a $300M+ hack in May 2024
Details Callan Quinn / CoinDesk : Japanese Crypto Exchange DMM Bitcoin to Shut Down After $305M Hack Oluwapelumi Adejumo / CryptoSlate : Japanese SBI supports DMM Bitcoin amid closure as Metaplanet pa...
Kamala Harris is courting crypto investors and pro-crypto Democrats in Congress, as some prominent Democrats temper their initial skepticism of crypto assets
For Now Yves Smith / naked capitalism : Progressives Sound Alarm as Harris Courts Crypto Industry David Dayen / American Prospect : Not Enjoying the Mark Cuban for President Campaign Jasper Goodman / ...