Crypto & Fintech
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…
AmeriTrust Financial Technologies Expands Into Texas as SEC Proposes First-Ever Crypto Asset Offering Rules
A Toronto-based auto-lease fintech company just picked up two new licenses in one of the largest car markets in the country. The same week, the SEC proposed the first regulatory framework written specifically for crypto asset offerings in the agency’s history. One company expanding into Texas. One regulator finally writing down rules an entire industry…
Strategy Faces MSCI Index Exclusion Again, This Time Asset-Neutral
Strategy has been here before. In October 2025, MSCI proposed excluding bitcoin treasury companies from its indexes and the market wiped out $190 billion in leveraged positions inside 48 hours before the index provider backed down in January. This month MSCI came back with a different rule that reaches the same companies anyway. MSCI’s New…
Securitize Stock Falls 20% After First Earnings Report as Public Company
A tokenization company just posted its first earnings report as a public company, and Wall Street didn’t like the math. Shares fell more than 20% in a single after-hours session, erasing a solid gain from earlier the same day. The same week, U.S. regulators quietly cleared the path for one of the world’s largest asset…
Thune Files Cloture on Clarity Act, Sets September 15 Senate Vote
Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the Clarity Act at 4:52 AM ET on Saturday, the tail end of an overnight session that ran past the chamber’s scheduled Friday departure for August recess. It is the first time in the bill’s history that it has an actual date on the Senate’s formal calendar.…
Neptune Digital Assets Sells Free Ionic Digital Shares for $234,000
A Vancouver crypto holding company just turned a free stock windfall into over two hundred thousand dollars without spending a cent to acquire it. In Toronto, a fintech company that posted its first-ever profitable quarter this spring just raised its own revenue forecast by up to $30 million, based on a single month of sales.…
