Crypto & Fintech
Roundtable Launches Real-Time USDC Ad Payments for Journalists
Ad payments on one media platform can take 90 days or more to reach the people who earned them. Roundtable’s version settles in USDC in real time. The next day, the Federal Reserve proposed its first rules for the companies that issue stablecoins. Roundtable Launches USDC Ad Payments for Journalists With Coinbase Roundtable (Nasdaq: RTB)…
Tenet Fintech Sells Chinese Lending Stake for C$10.2 Million
Tenet Fintech Group agreed on September 15 to sell its 51% stake in a Chinese lending subsidiary for C$10.2 million. Three days later, it signed a framework deal routing private equity deal sourcing for a Dubai royal family’s investment arm through the same data platform. One release wound down a regulated lending business built for…
Senate Fails to Advance CLARITY Act on 49-50 Cloture Vote
A microcap crypto infrastructure company just signed its fourth cooperation agreement with the same partner in under a year. The same week, the U.S. Senate killed the crypto industry’s biggest legislative priority in a single procedural vote. One story is about two small companies building something together. The other is about Washington failing to build…
Clarity Act’s New DeFi Rule and the House’s Vanishing Floor Time
The cloture vote we’ve tracked since Thune filed it back in early August finally has a bill text attached. Senate Republicans released a heavily rewritten version of the Clarity Act on Thursday, September 10, five days ahead of the September 15 procedural vote. A 630-Page Rewrite With Over 100 Changes Senate Republicans unveiled a revised,…
SkyAI Shareholders Campaign to Withhold Votes From Entire Board
A Solana treasury company’s own board is under open revolt from two of its largest shareholders, days before an annual meeting that could gut its leadership. The same week, one of Jack Dorsey’s companies applied for a federal bank charter that would let it custody Bitcoin and stablecoins under direct government oversight. Neither outcome is…
Strategy Buys $370M in Bitcoin, But Only 61% of What It Raised
Strategy raised $602.8 million last week. Bitcoin got $369.7 million of it. The rest went to three other places, and that split is the more interesting part of the filing. The First Bitcoin Purchase Since June 22 Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) disclosed in a Form 8-K filed August 31 that it bought 4,603 BTC for…
SEC Proposes First Transfer Agent Rule Overhaul Since the Late 1970s
A tokenization company we’ve covered before just signed a deal with one of the world’s most aggressive crypto regulators. The same week, the SEC proposed rewriting transfer agent rules that predate the fax machine, this time with blockchain recordkeeping built in. Different institutions. Same direction: tokenized securities getting real regulatory plumbing instead of workarounds. Follow-Up:…
Fed Chair Warsh’s Jackson Hole Speech Knocks Bitcoin Off Its High
Bitcoin hit $81,330 on Thursday, August 27, its highest level in three months, riding the same rally we covered last week. By Friday afternoon it was at $77,678, down 3.3 percent, after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh used his first Jackson Hole speech as chair to open the door to a rate hike. Warsh Delivers…
Future FinTech Group Executes Third Reverse Split Since January as Hedgeye Launches Hedged Bitcoin ETF
A Nasdaq-listed fintech company just did something it’s now done three times since January: shrink its own share count to stay above the exchange’s minimum bid price. Bitcoin sits nearly 40% below its October high. A new ETF just launched specifically to help investors stomach swings that size without giving up all the upside. Future…
Bitcoin Jumps 22% as Treasury Bond Move and Clarity Act Push Collide
Bitcoin closed Friday at $76,943.90, up 22 percent for the week, its best five-day run since March 2024. Strategy gained 29 percent. Coinbase gained 25 percent. Circle gained 22 percent. None of that came from a single piece of crypto-specific news. It came from a bond market announcement and a legislative push landing in the…
