The DeFi mullet

cointelegraph.com Opinion by: Merlin Egalite, co-founder at Morpho Labs Fintechs in the front, decentralized finance (DeFi) in the back: the DeFi Mullet. Today’s fintech companies offer…

Solana’s Q1 was all gas

ambcrypto.com None Solana ended Q1 down 34.7% from its $190 opening, undercutting structural support levels. • None Fundamentals alone were not enough to offset profit-taking. Solana…

Quantum Risk: The Dark Scenario Feared by BlackRock Is Taking Shape

cointribune.com Doubts are growing around the famous “Q-Day.” The day when quantum technology would surpass the cryptography protecting Bitcoin. This concern comes from BlackRock, which has…

JPMorgan Just Flipped On Bitcoin

forbes.com Bitcoin has been thrust back into the spotlight by extreme price swings this year, with U.S. president Donald Trump’s assault on the global trade order resulting in wild…

From oil to Bitcoin: Saudi Central Bank stakes big on MicroStrategy

ambcrypto.com In a notable shift signaling rising institutional interest in digital assets, the Saudi Central Bank has revealed its indirect exposure to Bitcoin [BTC] through a…

Abu Dhabi’s Crypto Bet Deepens with $408M Bitcoin ETF Position in BlackRock’s IBIT

bitcoinist.com Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala Investment Company, increased its exposure to crypto during the first quarter of 2025 through additional investment in…

Is BlackRock XRP ETF Coming Soon? Here’s the Truth Behind the $9 Trillion Rumors

coinpedia.org The post Is BlackRock XRP ETF Coming Soon? Here’s the Truth Behind the $9 Trillion Rumors appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Speculation is heating up across social…

Bitcoin ETF allocations drop in Q1

ambcrypto.com None Fund allocation in BlackRock’s IBIT dropped by 15.6% in the past quarter. Several funds trimmed their Bitcoin [BTC] exposure in Q1 2025. Surprisingly, the state of…

Bitcoin Poised For $120,000 Rally As Wyckoff Accumulation Hits Final Phase, Analyst Says

bitcoinist.com trades within striking distance of its all-time high (ATH) of $108,786, recorded earlier this year in January, several indicators suggest that sustained bullish momentum…

Trump Coin Price Analysis: TRUMP Token Pulling All-Time High Traffic as US President Tours Middle East

coingape.com Trump Coin price faces mounting pressure after dipping below $13. Amid Trump’s diplomatic tour in the Middle-East, can bull traders capitalize on rising social media buzz to…

Tokenization makes investing more accessible

cointelegraph.com Tokenization could open new opportunities for retail investors to access traditionally restricted asset classes, according to Johann Kerbrat, senior vice president and…

Solv brings RWA-backed Bitcoin yield to Avalanche blockchain

cointelegraph.com Solv Protocol has launched a yield-bearing Bitcoin token on the Avalanche blockchain, giving institutional investors more exposure to yield opportunities backed by…

$500K Bitcoin Predictions & Institutional Game Theory

swansignalpodcast.com 1. 500K Bitcoin Predictions & Market SentimentThe crew discussed the recent wave of bullish sentiment led by industry voices like Adam Back, Bitfinex analysts, and Vibes…

Bitcoin Price to $120K? Asia’s Largest ETF Investor Raises BlackRock Investment to $691M

coingape.com Bitcoin price eyes prodded above $104,000 on Friday as Asia’s top ETF investor pours $691M into BlackRock’s BTC fund, reinforcing global institutional confidence. Could the…

State of Wisconsin Investment Board No Longer Holds $321M in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Shares

cryptopotato.com The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), an independent agency handling assets for Wisconsin’s retirement and state investment funds, has divested its shares of…

Wisconsin Investment Board Sells Off $350M Stake In Bitcoin ETF

watcher.guru In what is a rather surprising development for the industry as a whole, the Wisconsin State Investment Board has completely sold off its entire $350 million stake in spot…

Fidelity Investments Predicts New Bitcoin All-Time High Incoming

watcher.guru $5 trillion asset manager Fidelity Investments says it expects Bitcoin to reach a new all-time high “before the end of this cycle.” The firm posted an analysis of BTC’s…

Hong Kong’s Avenir Group Boosts BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Holdings to 14.7 Million Shares Worth $691 Million, Asia’s Largest Holder

thedefiant.io Avenir Group, a Hong Kong-based investment firm, has increased its holdings in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) to 14 Avenir Group, a Hong Kong-based investment…

Brace for Bitcoin price surge as $3bn in shorts set for massive squeeze

dlnews.com Bitcoin is approaching a powder keg of shorts that could send its price rocketing to a new all-time high. Data from Coinglass shows a massive $3.1 billion in short interest…

Coinbase user Data Hacked, FTX Repayments Coming, Bond Yields soar

decrypt.co Coinbase user Data Hacked, FTX Repayments Coming, Bond Yields soar FOMO HOUR EP359 Hackers demand $20m after Coinbase data hacked. SEC probes Coinbase on inflating user…

Stablecoins Are Eating Crypto on Bankless

bankless.com Stablecoins have been slowly building to become the largest use case in crypto. It has felt like slow progress, but things are accelerating and it feels as though we’re at…

From debanking to a banking arms race

cointelegraph.com Opinion by: Megan Knab, CEO, Franklin Payroll There are few historical examples of such a massive about-face for an industry, from banks debanking crypto businesses to now…

Breakthrough in Lab-Made Gold Could Drive Bitcoin Demand

beincrypto.com Welcome to the US Crypto News Morning Briefing—your essential rundown of the most important developments in crypto for the day ahead. Grab a coffee for an intriguing read of…

Investors urged to pile more crypto into portfolios: ‘5% is the new 1%’

dlnews.com The days of minimal exposure to Bitcoin are over. That’s the message coming from a swathe of institutional players who are now rethinking how much crypto they should fit…

Bitcoin Price Consolidates Around $103,000-Here’s What May Happen if it Rises & Secures above $105,000

coinpedia.org A passionate cryptocurrency and blockchain author qualified to cover every event in the crypto space. Researching minute occurrences and bringing new insights lie within the…

Wisconsin Sells Entire $350M Spot Bitcoin ETF Stake

coindesk.com The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), one of the first U.S. state pension funds to invest in a spot bitcoin BTC $ 103,658.23 exchange-traded fund, exited its…

Saudi Arabia and China Sign 57 Deals Worth Over $3.73 Billion USD

watcher.guru Saudi Arabia and China sign 57 deals worth over $3.73 Billion USD just recently, and the agreements mark a major advancement in local currency cooperation and also…

Blackrock Powers Bitcoin ETF Gains Despite Big Outflows From Rivals

news.bitcoin.com Bitcoin ETFs secured another net inflow of $115 million on Thursday, May 15, driven entirely by a massive injection of $409.72 million into Blackrock’s IBIT. Ether ETFs…

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Soars as Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong Investors Pump Over $1 Billion

watcher.guru BlackRock Bitcoin ETF has, in recent weeks, attracted well over $1 billion from institutional investments, with major players such as Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund and…

This Week in Crypto: BlackRock’s Quantum Threat, Pi Network’s $100 Million Fund, Coinbase Data Leak, and More

beincrypto.com This week in crypto marked days of reckoning and revelation. BlackRock raised eyebrows with its cautionary stance on quantum computing’s potential to crack Bitcoin.…

Adam Back Predicts Bitcoin Price Will Hit $500K-$1M This Cycle, Here’s Why

cryptonews.com Adam Back, a prominent figure in the Bitcoin community and CEO of Blockstream, believes that Bitcoin is significantly undervalued and could surge to between $500,000 and $1…

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund raised BlackRock Bitcoin ETF exposure to 8.7 million shares in Q1, valued at $408.5 million

theblock.co Mubadala Investment Company added an extra 491,439 shares in BlackRock's IBIT Bitcoin ETF in Q1, currently worth $28.8 million.

Why Is Crypto Up Today

cryptonews.com The crypto market has seen another shift today: though the market cap is down, most coins have seen their prices increase in a spot-driven rally. The cryptocurrency market…

95% of Bitcoin Is Gone, Institutions Still Waiting: Bitwise’s Matt Hougan Warns of Supply Shock

coinpedia.org The post 95% of Bitcoin Is Gone, Institutions Still Waiting: Bitwise’s Matt Hougan Warns of Supply Shock appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan…

MicroStrategy Effect Spreads Worldwide as TradFi Companies Build Bitcoin (BTC) War Chests

beincrypto.com companies and institutions are accelerating the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies, with significant investments in Bitcoin (BTC). Following Michael Saylor’s lead,…

BlackRock’s IBIT Tops Inflows as Bitcoin ETFs See Mixed Sentiment

beincrypto.com On Thursday, institutional investors continued to pour capital into US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs, signaling persistent interest in crypto exposure among institutional…

State of Wisconsin Investment Board Exits $321 Million BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Position

thedefiant.io The State of Wisconsin Investment Board has exited its entire position in BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF, as disclosed in recent SEC filings The State of Wisconsin Investment…

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Quietly Bets $408M on Bitcoin via BlackRock

99bitcoins.com While most of the crypto world was busy watching charts and memecoins, one of the biggest sovereign wealth funds on the planet made a serious move. We’re not talking about…

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, Citadel double down on BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF

cryptobriefing.com New SEC filings reveal that Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company and Citadel Advisors have increased their holdings in BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, the iShares Bitcoin…

Wisconsin Investment Board sold off its Bitcoin ETF stash

cointelegraph.com The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), which oversees the state’s retirement funds, unloaded its shares in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) during the…

Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Boosts Bitcoin ETF Stake to $408.5M, SEC Filing Shows

thedefiant.io Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala, has disclosed an investment of $408 Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala, has disclosed an investment of $408.5 million…

BlackRock’s $3 Billion Tokenized Treasury Fund sBUIDL Integrates With Euler on Avalanche Using Securitize sToken and Chainlink

thedefiant.io BlackRock has launched the first direct decentralized finance (DeFi) integration of its nearly $3 billion tokenized Treasury fund, sBUIDL, with Euler Finance on the…

Crypto's Quadrillion Dollar Endgame? on Bankless

bankless.com Crypto is on a mission to tokenize everything, and there is no bigger prize than traditional markets! With over a quadrillion dollars in value behind the walled gardens of…

Mubadala Invests $408.5 Million in Bitcoin Via BlackRock's $IBIT ETF

thedefiant.io The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala, has disclosed a significant investment in Bitcoin through BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF, holding 8,726,972 shares valued at…

BlackRock’s sBUIDL launches ‘first direct DeFi protocol integration’ with Euler on Avalanche

theblock.co BlackRock’s nearly $3 billion tokenized Treasury fund launched its “first direct DeFi protocol integration” with Euler on Avalanche.

Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Reveals $408 Million Investment In BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF

bitcoinmagazine.com Bitcoin Magazine Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Reveals $408 Million Investment In BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, disclosed a $408.5…

State of Wisconsin unloads over $300 million worth of BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF

theblock.co BlackRock's IBIT recently experienced a 20-day streak of net inflows where it took in more than $5 billion.

Abu Dhabi Reveals $408M Investment in BlackRock’s Spot Bitcoin ETF

watcher.guru Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Wealth Fund has disclosed a $408 million investment in BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, according to a recent SEC filing. The filing has emerged as US…

Hong Kong Investment Firm Loads Up on BlackRock Bitcoin ETF, Shares Grow to $688M

decrypt.co Hong Kong investment group Avenir snapped up another 3.4 million shares of BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) during the first quarter, bringing its holdings of…

Which US cryptocurrency stocks have gone up?

protos.com Coinbase will soon be included in the Standard and Poor’s 500 index, showing how integrated cryptocurrency stocks have become into US financial markets. Public markets now…

Bitcoin’s stunning comeback in six charts

dlnews.com Things are looking good for Bitcoin. It’s a sharp reversal from a few months ago, when Bitcoin was trading around $80,000. JPMorgan examined Bitcoin’s strong price…

Franklin Templeton to Establish Singapore’s First Tokenized Fund for Retail Investors

thecryptobasic.com Franklin Templeton, a $1.5 trillion asset manager, has secured clearance from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to establish the Franklin OnChain U.S. Dollar Short-Term…

Expert Says BlackRock Clearly Wants XRP ETF, But Issues a Warning to Investors

thecryptobasic.com As speculation grows around a potential BlackRock XRP ETF filing, industry expert Vandell Aljarrah suggests the asset manager clearly wants to enter the market. However,…

MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Premium Under Pressure Amid ETF Rise

beincrypto.com Welcome to the US Crypto News Morning Briefing—your essential rundown of the most important developments in crypto for the day ahead. Grab a coffee to hear what experts say…

Stablecoins

coindesk.com Today’s Crypto for Advisor newsletter is coming to you from Consensus Toronto. The energy is high as digital asset policy makers, leaders and influencers gather to talk…

Bitcoin 2025 Price Prediction: $250K in Sight, But Ozak AI’s 300x Path Draws Investors

coinpedia.org The post Bitcoin 2025 Price Prediction: $250K in Sight, But Ozak AI’s 300x Path Draws Investors appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Bitcoin (BTC) remains the undisputed…

Why Is Crypto Down Today

cryptonews.com Crypto is down today, as the total cryptocurrency market capitalization has seen a significant shift, dropping 4.4%, now standing at $3.4 trillion. The total crypto trading…

Trump Opens Saudi Checkbook: 13 U.S. Stocks at Center of $600B Deal

watcher.guru The Trump-Saudi investment deal has, at the time of writing, sent major U.S. stocks climbing as President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met in Riyadh this…

Former Capitol Hill Crypto Expert Joins Wintermute in U.S. Expansion

financemagnates.com Algorithmic trading firm Wintermute has established its U.S. headquarters in New York City and appointed Ron Hammond, former Senior Director at the Blockchain Association,…