Crypto & Fintech
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Bitmine Raises $273.8M for ETH as Sezzle Jumps on Fragile Iran Deal
Sezzle jumped 10.1% on June 15 because a deal in Switzerland promised to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. By June 18, Iran had closed it again. Bitmine Raises $273.8 Million in Preferred Stock to Buy More Ethereum While Diluting Shareholders 213-Fold Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) announced on June 15 that its total crypto, cash,…
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Kevin Warsh’s First Fed Meeting Gave Crypto Nothing and the Market Noticed
There is a kind of financial product whose entire selling point is that it does not do anything interesting. A preferred stock priced at $100 par, paying a steady dividend, designed to sit there and throw off income while the people who bought it go about their lives. On June 18, one of these instruments…
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Hut 8 Closes $4.25B AI Bond and Coinbase Launches Crypto Agents
Bitcoin mining companies used to fund themselves by selling the coins they dug up. Hut 8 just raised $4.25 billion in bonds. These are not the same business model. Hut 8 Closes $4.25 Billion Texas AI Data Center Bond and Appoints Stanley O’Neal as Chairman On June 10, Hut 8 Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) closed a…
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SpaceX IPO Absorbed $75 Billion and the S-1 Revealed 18,712 BTC in Corporate Treasury
Bitcoin opened Monday at $63,310, up 4% from Sunday after spending the prior week touching $59,227. The recovery was tentative. RSI sitting below 35. ETF flows still negative. The Fear and Greed Index had not moved. What had moved was everything around the asset: the regulatory picture, the institutional sentiment, and the capital allocation landscape.…
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DMG Signs AI Tenant LOI, Robinhood Launches AI Trading
Bitcoin broke $60,000 on June 5, hitting its lowest level since October 2024. Down more than 30% year to date. Coinbase Q1 revenue fell 30.5% year over year. The crypto market is in a drawdown. The infrastructure being built underneath it is not slowing down. A Canadian blockchain company signed its first AI data center…
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DTCC Chose Stellar for Wall Street Securities Tokenization and XLM Surged 95%
Bitcoin opened Monday at $73,568. It closed the week having touched $59,227, a drop of nearly 20% in six days. The trendline that had held through every Iran headline since February broke on Tuesday when Iran halted ceasefire talks and threatened to fully close the Strait of Hormuz. Oil jumped 7%. Bitcoin followed in the…
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Three Crypto Fintech Stories That Changed the Market This Week
Three developments in four days made the US crypto and fintech landscape structurally different. On May 27, SoFi put a bank-issued stablecoin in 14.7 million people’s banking apps — the first time a federally chartered US bank has done that. On May 29, the CFTC opened regulated perpetual futures to US traders for the first…
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Half the Year’s Inflows Are Gone. Here Is Where the Money Went
Bitcoin closed Friday at $73,381. That is its lowest level of the week, its lowest since early May, and roughly 42% below the all-time high it set back in October. The week started soft and got softer. Ethereum broke through $2,000 on Friday for the first time in weeks, heading the wrong direction. Fear and…
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Crypto Weekly: DMG Blockchain Targets Sovereign AI While Sol Strategies Expands
Canadian blockchain companies spent the last two years mining Bitcoin and staking Solana. Now they are repurposing that infrastructure for something else entirely. One is building cross-chain privacy routing on top of its validator network. One is converting its British Columbia mining facility into a government-grade AI data center. A third is quietly accumulating Bitcoin…
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GENIUS Act Deadline, CLARITY Act Vote: Crypto’s Big Week Unpacked
$2.26 billion left the crypto market in two weeks and it didn’t leave quietly. A bond market repricing, Iranian escalation pushing oil past $110, and a legislative milestone that the market decided to sell — all of it landing in the same seven-day window. Bitcoin ended the week around $76,400, down roughly 6% from the…
