Author: Oluwapelumi Adejumo

The two largest crypto treasury companies, Bitcoin-focused Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) and Ethereum-heavy BitMine, executed significant expansions of their digital asset treasuries this week despite their falling premium. On Dec. 8, Strategy revealed that it acquired 10,624 BTC last week for $962.7 million, its largest weekly outlay since July…

Stablecoins were once a minor appendage of crypto markets, a functional parking spot for traders cycling between Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, framing no longer fits. With a circulating supply above $300 billion and annual trading volumes exceeding $23 trillion in 2024, stablecoins have matured into a parallel dollar infrastructure…

The “infinite money glitch” of the corporate Bitcoin treasury has stalled. For much of this market cycle, the trade was simple: stock in companies holding Bitcoin traded at a massive premium to the underlying Net Asset Value (NAV). This allowed firms to issue expensive equity to buy cheaper coins…

Bitcoin’s market structure has entered a new phase as US spot exchange-traded funds now account for more than 5% of cumulative net inflows into the asset. According to Glassnode, the 12 funds have allowed institutions to become a marginal source of demand for the world’s largest digital asset…

Cardano is entering a very important phase in its development, as its founding institutions are attempting to deliver the core infrastructure that every major blockchain already treats as standard. On Nov. 27, a new proposal sought community approval to allocate 70 million ADA tokens (worth about $30 million) to onboard tier-one stablecoins…