ETF
Goldman Sachs drops $2.25 billion to hijack the Bitcoin yield market and leapfrog BlackRock by 19x
The acquisition brings Goldman Sachs the $30 billion NEOS ETF platforms that includes the $1.1 billion BTCI fund.
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Privacy
Zcash is borrowing crypto’s new institutional playbook as privacy goes mainstream
Zcash is building a new distribution layer to expand privacy infrastructure, institutional integrations, and real-world access.
Derivatives
How a wall of 1.79 million Bitcoin is quietly choking every attempt to break above $65,000
Bitcoin’s quiet CPI reaction hides a billion-dollar battle between $60,000 and $70,000.
DeFi
Strategy sold $100M to defend STRC’s $100 stock price as DeFi packages the risk into a 7% ‘safer’ trade
Solstice is packaging Strategy’s STRC Bitcoin-related yield into a Solana-native product targeting 20%+ returns with first-loss exposure.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Cypherpunk secures a $46M Zcash gain and turns a $4.7M operating loss into $39.4M profit
The Zcash treasury company had $7.6 million in cash as its biotech subsidiary began seeking resources for Phase 3.
Stablecoins
Russia picks Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT for public trading as retail faces $58,000 cap
The Bank of Russia’s proposed gate caps non-qualified residents at ₽300,000 per broker, with only Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT eligible.
Regulation
A $36 billion lawsuit just turned Kalshi’s $40 billion valuation race into a federal market emergency
The emergency intervention comes as New York targets Kalshi through gambling law and broader consumer-protection scrutiny.
Deals
As retail crypto trades collapse 73%, eToro drops $231 million to capture active US stock traders
July crypto trades fell to 1.4 million and average ticket size halved, while quarterly profit rose and eToro agreed a deal to add active US stock trading.
Regulation
SEC and CFTC plans to write crypto rules without Congress – but they can’t make them permanent
The SEC and CFTC are advancing crypto rules without Congress, leaving future administrations room to unwind them.
Mining
Even if Bitcoin rises 30% a year this renewable mining model still loses money as hashrate keeps pace
A new mining study finds that even heavily curtailed wind fails to repay a modeled Bitcoin operation within six years at €60,000 BTC.
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.
Staking
TON Strategy earned $15 million staking Gram while operations burned $10.6 million in cash
Fair-value gains supplied 99.1% of Q2 pre-tax profit as continuing operations used $10.6 million of cash in the first half.
