ETF
Crypto ETFs appeared to hit $10B in hours, but filing data exposes where that money really came from
Billions of dollars can appear inside a crypto ETF without investors buying a single new coin on launch day.
Andjela Radmilac 8 min read
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Governance
Kraken and Galaxy flipped late as Solana approved a major supply cut
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Capital B’s €21 million Bitcoin raise comes with heavy warrant dilution risk
The planned 270 Bitcoin nearly offsets the placement, while full warrant exercise would cut the displayed ratio by about 24%.
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Trading
Ethena is targeting the $120 trillion Wall Street stock market to hunt yields 5x higher than Bitcoin
The protocol is moving into equity perpetual basis trades as it tries to rebuild USDe and reach the $7.5 billion threshold for ENA buybacks.
Hacks
Cosmos misjudged a critical bug for 4 months before hackers stole nearly $6 million across 6 chains
The vulnerability was patched in the main codebase in May but later proved broader than engineers initially believed.
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After selling all its Bitcoin to pay off debt, AI firm tries to rebuild $827 million treasury from scratch
The proposed preferred raise covers just 1.51% of the Bitcoin target before any allocation to AI investments and the 18-month dividend reserve.
Market
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh triggers a $488 million crypto liquidation cascade as rate-hike expectations rise
Bitcoin dropped from around $80,000 to below $77,000 as the Fed chair reopened the door to higher interest rates.
DeFi
Ripple moves to shrink XRP Ledger attack surface as AI audit tests lending push
More than 10,000 lines of dormant bridge code could disappear as an AI-only audit probes Lending Protocol V1.1.
ETF
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF regains key weekly options expiries after rule overhaul
A new Tier 2 framework lowered qualifying gates to $25 billion in AUM and 5 million monthly options sides, bringing IBIT back during Q3.
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JPMorgan’s IBIT Bitcoin ETF bet just missed its escape hatch to avoid 6% deduction
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