Stories By Ethan Caldwell
Strive Buys 6,182 Bitcoin for $511M in Its Largest Purchase Yet
Strive bought 6,182 bitcoin for about $511.4 million, lifting its treasury to 43,000 BTC after a preferred-stock financi...
Tokenized Stocks vs Traditional Shares: What Do Investors Actually Own?
Tokenized stocks can provide exposure to publicly traded companies through blockchain networks, but owning a stock token...
24X Completes Bitcoin Spot Trade With Standard Chartered and Wintermute
24X completed its second institutional Bitcoin spot trade on October 19, with Standard Chartered as liquidity taker and...
BlackRock’s IBIT Draws $665M, Its Biggest Daily Inflow Since October 2025
BlackRock’s IBIT recorded $665.16 million in net inflows on October 19, 2026, its biggest single-day intake since Octobe...
Blockchain Association Pushes Treasury to Clarify GENIUS Act Rules for DeFi and Foreign Stablecoins
Blockchain Association urges Treasury to narrow GENIUS Act definitions as foreign stablecoin rules and DeFi yield restri...
Nine US Companies Object to Tokenized Share Trading on OKXICE
Nine issuers, including Broadcom and Verizon, objected to OKXICE tokenized-share trading under the SEC’s temporary venue...
Blur Will Close Its Frontend and Stop New Blend Loans in November
Blur will deprecate its blur.io frontend on November 12 and halt new Blend loan matching, while its marketplace protocol...
Franklin Templeton Meets SEC Staff on Tokenized Fund Trading and Liquidity Pools
Franklin Templeton and SEC staff discussed tokenized fund trading pairs, liquidity-provider fees and pool classification...
ESMA Gives EU Crypto Firms Three Months to Wind Down Non-MiCA Stablecoin Services
ESMA has told EU-authorised crypto firms to wind down services involving non-MiCA stablecoins by 8 January 2027, includi...
Russia Admits Sber and VTB to Digital Depository Register and Adds Crypto Exchanges
Bank of Russia registers Sber, VTB and three firms as digital depositories, while VTB joins a crypto-exchange register a...