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View More NewsIn brief Metaplanet bought 2,823 Bitcoin in the second quarter for about $222 million, lifting its total holdings to 43,000 BTC. It was the company’s smallest quarterly purchase in a year, down from 17,473 BTC in the third quarter of 2025. The firm funded most of the quarter through debt and Bitcoin options income rather than issuing new shares. Japanese investment firm Metaplanet added 2,823 Bitcoin during the second quarter, it said in a Thursday disclosure, spending just shy of ¥35.9 billion ($222 million) to lift its total stash to 43,000 BTC.That works out to around $78,608 per Bitcoin, and…
An Ethereum founder and some of its biggest treasury holders are behind a new independent nonprofit launched to coordinate the blockchain’s institutional outreach, underscoring the ecosystem’s push to attract more banks, asset managers and financial institutions as competition from rival blockchains intensifies.The nonprofit, Ethereum Institutional, was introduced on Wednesday with backing from Ether (ETH) treasury companies BitMine Immersion Technologies and SharpLink, as well as blockchain co-founder Joe Lubin and other contributors. It plans to expand beyond New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore into additional financial hubs while offering education, standards development, industry research and institutional events.In a social media…
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A review of The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals by various authors; 208 pages; Simon & Schuster (May 2026)As the semiquincentennial of the American founding neared, a number of excellent books on the watershed events of 1776 were loosed upon the world. Titles like Michael Auslin’s National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America, Sarah M.S. Pearsall’s Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution, and H.W. Brands’s American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington filled bookstores while their authors toured the podcast circuit. But one book in this recent glut stood out…
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In brief Securitize President Brett Redfearn argues that tokenizing real-world assets will bring crypto’s core benefit of disintermediation directly to retail investors. Tokenization aims…
Crédit Agricole (ACA), France’s second-largest bank by assets, unveiled a euro-pegged stablecoin, a rival to offerings from smaller peer Société Générale (GLE) and Circle…
Bitcoin (BTC) has delivered a key trend change setup in the latest sign that the macro downtrend could soon reverse.Key points:Bitcoin is seeing its…
In brief Ethereum Institutional, a new nonprofit, will help Wall Street firms adopt Ethereum-based infrastructure. The group follows last week’s launch of Ethlabs, another…
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That transition has also reshaped the Ethereum Foundation itself.Earlier this year, the foundation published a renewed mandate emphasizing Ethereum’s core values: including credible neutrality,…
Bitcoin (BTC) traded as high as $60,200 on Wednesday, up about 2.7% over the past 24 hours after falling to a 21-month low of…
In brief Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, revealing it as the model behind “Owl Alpha.” The anonymous Model had ranked first on…
from the phew dept While we’ve been discussing a bunch of other Supreme Court end-of-term decisions this week, we should also call out two…
Almost all American students (84 percent) use AI at least “a few times a year,” while two-thirds use it monthly, according to a recent…
To support its case, the report highlighted Ethereum’s technical track record, noting that the network has maintained uninterrupted uptime since launching in 2015. Citing…
Manny Rutinel, a Democratic candidate running to represent Colorado’s 8th congressional district, has won his party’s primary and will head to the November election…