Market
Digital Asset Treasuries
Twenty One’s $2.8 billion Bitcoin pile is worth far more than its stock, but there’s a catch
The market values XXI at about $1.6 billion while 16,116 BTC remain pledged against nearly $487 million of convertible debt.
ETF
This spot Bitcoin ETF only logged six inflow days ever – now investors have until August 17 before forced cash liquidation
DEFI has lost 25% of its shares since Aug. 7 despite a broader rebound that brought $865 million into US spot Bitcoin ETFs last week.
AI
Coinbase, Strategy, and Blockstream back AI access push after vetted Bitcoin researcher gets blocked
More than 40 organizations are pressing frontier labs to widen trusted cyber access before offensive AI widens the security gap.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Trump Media’s 14,139 Bitcoin stash faces options exposure and a looming $1 billion debt test
The Truth Social parent increased its Bitcoin holdings 22% while deploying coins for yield, pledging thousands more to derivatives and financing.
Legal
South Korea puts crypto exchanges on a seven-day clock under new seizure rules
Courts could force platforms to identify and freeze debtor holdings within a week as an Aug. 11 consultation deadline approaches.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Strategy has $785 million left to close STRC’s final $5 gap after selling $213 million in Bitcoin
The company sold another 1,690 BTC to fund preferred-stock buybacks while its USD reserve climbed to a record $4.65 billion.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Nasdaq puts $675 million Avalanche Treasury on the clock over two listing failures
AVAT’s stock needs to more than triple to clear the $1 bid-price test, while a separate $35 million market-value hurdle remains.
Mining
Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork is back, but its backers want to replace the miners and change PoW
Roughnecks is restarting the stalled branch while supporters push a more radical change to Bitcoin’s mining rules.
Regulation
US sanctions exposed a $6.3 billion crypto pipeline linking Iran and Russia
Blockchain data shows Shelbit processed billions through rotating wallets and had $318 million in transactions involving Russia’s sanctioned A7 network.
Legislation
White House warns CLARITY Act will die Sept 15 unless 7 Democrats vote yes
Patrick Witt says lawmakers cannot keep delaying as Republicans declare 11 months of negotiations finished.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Michael Saylor reveals how ChatGPT helped Strategy unlock $15 billion for its Bitcoin machine
Strategy turned to artificial intelligence to help design unconventional preferred stocks like STRC and STRK.
ETF
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs break $1B in their best week since April and BlackRock brought in 80% of the cash
US crypto ETFs pulled in more than $1 billion, with IBIT and ETHA absorbing roughly $896 million combined.