Metaplanet Denies Selling $320M in Bitcoin After BTC Transfer Sparks Rumors
Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said a 5,014 BTC custodial transfer was routine and no bitcoin was sold, as investors watch bitcoin-treasury firms for concentration risk.
Mara Velasquez covers markets and DeFi for NFT Signals, reporting on price action, liquidity and the listed companies with crypto on their balance sheets. She also tracks exploits and stolen-funds recovery.
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Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said a 5,014 BTC custodial transfer was routine and no bitcoin was sold, as investors watch bitcoin-treasury firms for concentration risk.
BitGo swung to a $19 million net loss in Q2 as an $18.8 million unrealized digital asset loss and weaker trading margins offset 80% revenue growth to $4.3 billion.
Goldman Sachs is buying NEOS Investments for up to $2.25 billion, acquiring a $1 billion bitcoin covered-call ETF and a ready-made crypto income shelf.
An apparent exploit minted about 4 billion ONE tokens, sending the price down 26% and prompting rollback discussions.
A Coldcard firmware exploit drained 1,816 BTC and sparked a migration of 233,000 BTC to safer setups as new Bitcoin address creation jumped from 260,000 to over 330,000 per day.
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms struck a reported $9.1 billion, 20-year compute deal with AI firm Anthropic, sending its shares sharply higher and extending the bitcoin-mining sector's pivot toward AI infrastructure revenue.
Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms struck a reported $9.1 billion, 20-year compute deal with AI firm Anthropic, sending its shares sharply higher and extending the bitcoin-mining sector's pivot toward AI infrastructure revenue.
Strategy sold 1,690 BTC for $108.6M to fund a STRC preferred-share buyback while raising $653.1M from new MSTR stock sales, lifting its USD reserve to $4.65B.
Robinhood has folded no-fee crypto trading into its main UK app via Bitstamp, adding 50-plus tokens alongside stocks, ISAs, options and futures, and pairing the launch with an AI news-analysis widget.
A breakaway Bitcoin fork built around the BIP-110 anti-spam proposal mined just two blocks before stalling, drawing only about 2.53% of network hashpower and exposing divisions among miners over how to handle non-financial transactions.