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.
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BitGo Posts $19M Q2 Loss Despite 80% Revenue Surge to $4.3B
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.
SEC Clears Franklin Templeton Funds to Use Onchain BENJI System for Cash Management
The SEC's Division of Investment Management told Franklin Templeton it would not recommend enforcement against its traditional funds for holding shares of the BENJI tokenized money-market fund.
Goldman Sachs Buys NEOS in $2.25B Deal, Gains Ready-Made Bitcoin Income ETF Business
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.
Solana Routing Bug Pushed Network 86% Toward Losing Finality
A misconfigured default route at hosting provider Teraswitch took nearly 29% of staked SOL offline, coming within 20 million tokens of the threshold that would have halted finality.
CFTC Invokes Emergency Powers to Keep Kalshi Trading Amid New York Lawsuit
The CFTC ordered Kalshi to keep its prediction markets running in New York after the state sued to bar them as illegal gambling, invoking emergency authority the agency says protects its exclusive federal jurisdiction over event contracts.
Harmony’s ONE Slides 26% After Apparent Exploit Mints Billions of Tokens
An apparent exploit minted about 4 billion ONE tokens, sending the price down 26% and prompting rollback discussions.
SEC and CFTC sue Goliath Ventures over $397 million crypto Ponzi scheme
Federal regulators filed parallel SEC and CFTC civil actions against Goliath Ventures and CEO Christopher Delgado over an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme that took in at least $397 million from roughly 1,600 customers.
Coldcard Exploit Fallout: 233k BTC Moved to Safety, New Address Creation Spikes
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.
eToro Agrees to Buy TradeZero for Up to $231 Million as Equities Drive Q2 Growth
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.