Japan's corporate Bitcoin treasury playbook just got its second draft, and this time the math is more cautious. Bitcoin Japan Corporation plans to raise $60M through bond issuance, reviving its Bitcoin treasury strategy with a measured $4.08M allocated for BTC purchases
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The world's most valuable company changed hands twice before lunch, and the most interesting part happened on a blockchain most people don't know exists.
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Robinhood just proved you can launch a Layer 2 without a token airdrop or VC hype cycle and still pull half a billion in value. Robinhood Chain hit $400M in total value locked within two weeks of its July 1 launch, with $170M in ETH bridged from Ethereum in just the first week
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Bitcoin's culture war over what counts as "spam" just got a client fork with teeth. Runestone co-founder launches DOG Mode, an alternative Bitcoin client that removes Bitcoin Core's transaction size limits to enable Ordinals and Runes activity
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The fight over what belongs on Bitcoin's blockchain just went from committee meeting to code fork. BIP 110 proposes restricting arbitrary data on Bitcoin through a consensus change, but has almost no miner support
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Eight weeks of bleeding $8 billion just stopped, and the biggest money manager on Earth turned the faucet back on. BlackRock's IBIT brought in $79.15M on July 16, leading U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs to snap an eight-week outflow streak that drained over $8 billion from the category
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The most interesting part isn't the size of the check, it's who wrote it. Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing the exchange at $20 billion Traditional finance's largest market maker is now betting big on crypto infrastructure, signaling institutional capital is back
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Coinbase just handed the keys to its consumer app to a pseudonymous trader after its bet on creator coins and social features collapsed, pivoting hard to trading, payments, and AI agents instead.
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Japan just proved that real-world asset tokenization isn't vaporware—it's happening at billion-dollar scale, with yen-backed rails, and the infrastructure is already live.
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The first TradFi giant to admit Bitcoin spot ETFs were just the opening act. T. Rowe Price launched the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, breaking from the single-asset Bitcoin and Ethereum products that dominated 2024's ETF wave
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The stablecoin that promised to be "unstoppable" just proved it has an off switch, and the US Treasury knows exactly where to find it.
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Ken Griffin's market-making empire just wrote a nine-figure check to prove that crypto exchanges aren't just casinos anymore — they're infrastructure for the next generation of capital markets.
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The brokerage that automated retail stock trading just raised a nine-figure round to let AI agents trade everything—and they're building the pipes for a market where your software buys assets while you sleep.
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The company that made digital payments boring just became the most interesting asset in fintech. Stripe and private equity firm Advent International bid over $53 billion to take PayPal private, sending PYPL shares up sharply
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The last time a Wall Street giant put crypto in front of millions of retail clients, it was ETFs that custody your coins for you. This time, you hold the keys.
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The boring brokerage your parents use just made it easier to buy Solana than to buy a municipal bond.
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The pipes just got programmable, and 200 million merchants didn't even know they were waiting.
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Institutional money doesn't bet on vibes—Pascal just raised $9M to prove prediction markets can run on rails Wall Street actually trusts.
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The first infrastructure company built for human traders just raised $135 million to serve machines instead. Alpaca, the BNP-backed brokerage infrastructure provider, closed a $135M round to expand into tokenized markets and AI-native financial services
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While the rest of crypto was nursing losses and watching volumes contract, prediction markets just recorded the biggest quarter in their history.
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