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Bitcoin crossed $80,000 for the first time since May, extending a rally traders link to dollar weakness and Treasury bond buybacks — while Solana jumped 8% and the options market flagged overbought signals.
Strategy sold $2 billion of MSTR stock last week and funneled the proceeds into a new USD Cash pool and preferred-stock buybacks, leaving its 840,447 BTC stack untouched for another week as bitcoin pushed toward $80,000.
Stablecoin neobank Fasset raised a $68M Series C led by Japan's SBI Group at a $1B valuation, with plans for a Malaysia digital bank and expanded cross-border stablecoin payments.
XRP surged roughly 50% this week, its best weekly performance since November 2024, as traders tied the move to a US Treasury buyback program and speculation that officials may be engineering lower long-term borrowing costs.
Tether's $120 million bitcoin mining buildout in Uruguay shut down after state utility UTE cut power over a contract dispute, Reuters reported — a rare public setback for the stablecoin issuer's mining push.
Stablecoin-linked card spending crossed $1 billion in July for the first time, with USDC and USDT funding over 70% of transactions as crypto rails reach grocery aisles and ride queues.
US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs pulled in $2.6 billion combined over the past week — their strongest inflow week since October — as weekly trading volume more than tripled to $29 billion alongside a sharp price rally.
BitMart has hired White & Case as restructuring counsel and aims to publish a partial-restart and creditor-payout roadmap by September 9, weeks after announcing its shutdown.
Bitcoin spot ETFs drew $608.3 million on Thursday, pushing August net inflows past $2.07 billion as Ether funds logged their biggest single-day intake in roughly ten months.
BitGo became the first foreign crypto firm to win South Korean VASP registration, building a local entity from scratch rather than acquiring an incumbent — with Hana Financial and SK Telecom holding 25% and 10% stakes.
