Tokyo-listed bitcoin BTC$63,878.12 holder Metaplanet isn’t dumping its bitcoin BTC$63,878.12 bags. Company CEO Simon Gerovich moved quickly to dismiss reports of a massive sale, clarifying that Wednesday’s large BTC transfer, flagged by blockchain trackers, was merely a “routine custody transfer” and not a liquidation. “We transferred 5,014 BTC between Metaplanet custodial addresses over the past […]
Archives for August 12, 2026
Bitcoin firms ask AI labs for same tools attackers already have
More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies have asked the largest AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access to their most capable models, arguing that the people defending a trillion dollars of infrastructure are working with weaker tools than those attacking it. The letter, organised by the Bitcoin Policy Institute and published […]
Speculation on dogecoin is back to October 2025 levels. The price is down 70%
Dogecoin DOGE$0.07024 traders are putting more money behind leveraged bets even as DOGE struggles near 7 cents, creating a growing mismatch between weak prices and rising risk-taking in the futures market. Open interest, the value of futures contracts still outstanding, has climbed to about $1.21 billion from roughly $930 million in late June, according to […]
Bitcoin slips near $63,500 as traders look past CPI to Fed’s next tests
Gabe Selby, head of research at CF Benchmarks, told CoinDesk that bitcoin moves hardest when inflation data forces a rethink on rates, gaining an average 3.25% across the three occasions in the past nine releases when inflation came in below expectations. A downside surprise on July 14 was followed by a 4.24% rally. “An in-line […]
Prediction markets should dial back faulty filings for incentives to boost trading: CFTC
Like any regulated trading platform under authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, prediction markets firms try to encourage heavy traders and for firms to act as market makers in ways that can deepen participation and trading volume. But the CFTC is concerned about how they’re doing it, according to guidance issued on Wednesday. The […]
Securitize falls 20% after earnings miss as tokenization revenue falls short
Securitize (SECZ) shares plunged 20% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the tokenization firm fell short of Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations in its first earnings report since going public last month. The company, best known for issuing and managing BlackRock’s BUIDL tokenized money-market fund, reported revenue of $14.4 million, down 5% from a year earlier and […]
Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure partner Zerohash rebuffed in pitch to be U.S. trust bank
Unlike denials (as received by Wise and Bunq) a return doesn’t come with a detailed explanation. The company didn’t publicly disclose the development when it happened, as it had with the submission of its application. And Zerohash hadn’t voluntarily withdrawn the filing, as was its option. A spokesperson for the OCC didn’t immediately respond to […]
Goldman Sachs leaps into bitcoin income ETFs with $2.25 billion NEOS buyout
On April 14, Goldman registered the Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Premium Income ETF with the SEC, proposing a structurally similar covered-call product. Balchunas was blunt about what Wednesday’s deal means for that filing. “Nowww I get why GS never launched the BTC covered call product they filed months ago,” Balchunas wrote. “Better to leapfrog BlackRock’s $BITA […]
Wintermute plans $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg
Crypto market maker Wintermute plans to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence data-center infrastructure over five years as it expands into stocks, commodities and foreign exchange. The London-based firm wants non-crypto markets to generate more than 50% of revenue by the end of 2027, up from 10% now, according to a […]
Solana platform taps prediction market Kalshi for Wall Street-style high-speed data feed
The growing presence of financial institutions in cryptocurrency brings with it increasing demand for Wall-Street style systems in digital asset markets, such as servers that offer split-second advantages when executing trades. Kalshi is looking to meet that demand by adding Solana-based DoubleZero’s low-latency market data feed to its prediction market order book. The DoubleZero Foundation […]
