Adoption
Texas refuses to sell as its $10 million Bitcoin bet sinks to $6.6 million
The state kept all 197,844 BlackRock IBIT shares through the second quarter despite a roughly 34% paper decline.
Sentiment: Neutral
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Staking
Wall Street finally turned staking into a dividend, now Ethereum and Solana want to shrink it
Ethereum and Solana are testing whether investors value lower dilution more than yield as staking products finds path into Wall Street.
Regulation
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation
The OCC’s conditional approval would bring World Liberty’s $4 billion USD1 stablecoin under federal supervision.
ETF
Bitcoin’s $16.3 billion Wall Street stress test splits into four positional patterns
June 30 snapshots separate unchanged sovereign units, JPMorgan share additions, UBS options and a newly reported Morgan Stanley wrapper.
ETF
Institutional investor Paul Tudor Jones adds 109,446 BlackRock Bitcoin ETF shares while cutting calls by 85%
The June 30 snapshot shows a far less call-heavy mix, with reported put equivalents nearly unchanged.
Market
Why a weekend break below $62,500 could unleash a Bitcoin selling wave toward $58,500
Bitcoin faces a weekend liquidity test that could send it toward $60,000 or finally force a break above $65,500.
Technology
Ethereum abandons its 8-year cryptography bet after proof systems flip the tradeoff
Faster binary-field proofs are making SHA and BLAKE practical for a future Ethereum without declaring Poseidon broken.
Analysis
Prediction markets are becoming financial data, but a 63% price does not always mean 63% odds
PredictionBubbles turns prediction markets prices into a live data layer for traders tracking probabilities, volume and market move.
ETF
Bitcoin’s ETF rebound just lost 38% of its gains in four sessions as BTC fell below $63,000
Morgan Stanley and Grayscale’s Mini Trust were the only Bitcoin funds to attract fresh capital in the sector during the latest trading session.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Strategy tells MSCI ‘Bitcoin doesn’t need you’ as $2.8 billion index risk hangs over MSTR
The Bitcoin giant is fighting a new MSCI framework that could remove it from major indexes after an earlier crypto-specific effort failed.
Trading
Bitcoin ETF calls surge 24-fold as puts fall 52.75%, reaching 1.95M IBIT underlying shares
Its Aug. 13 filing covered 1.95 million call underlying-share equivalents at June 30, while account purpose remained unresolved.
Staking
Ethereum’s post-quantum roadmap puts banks on a 2027 deadline nobody is talking about
A 2029 network target leaves little room for institutions that still need to inventory keys, wait on hardware vendors and redesign custody procedures.
