Key Takeaways Polish Olympic Committee President Radosław Piesiewicz was detained in a fraud probe. The collapse of Zondacrypto has exposed client losses and ties to high-profile political financing. Polish prosecutors plan to press criminal charges while evaluating broader political connections. Olympic Leader Facing Fraud Probe Radosław Piesiewicz, the president of the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOl),…
DeFi Development Corp. resumed Solana purchases on Aug. 27, acquiring approximately 19,000 SOL at an average price of $98.14. Summary DeFi Development acquired approximately 19,000 SOL at an average price of $98.14 per token Thursday. The purchase expanded DFDV’s treasury to approximately 2.33 million SOL and equivalent holdings combined overall. ZeroStack divestment proceeds partially funded…
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Bitwise’s U.S. crypto exchange-traded products attracted approximately $100 million in net inflows on Aug. 27, led by demand for Solana, Bitcoin and Hyperliquid funds, according to company CEO Hunter Horsley. Summary Bitwise reported approximately $100 million in daily inflows across its U.S. crypto exchange-traded products Thursday. Solana products led with roughly $40 million, followed by…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken another step toward rewriting how investment advisers and funds can hold clients’ crypto assets, sending a new custody proposal to the White House for regulatory review. The proposal, titled “Amendments to the Custody Rules” was submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), part…
The Maytag Man is one of the most enduring characters in American advertising, lonely because no one needs his help repairing a Maytag appliance. The Maytag brand, too, has endured—going back to the days when Frederick Maytag’s washers involved wooden tubs and cranks. Maytag was the first company to put an agitator at the bottom…
Key Takeaways Arthur Hayes says Strategy’s mNAV premium sat near 0.74x on August 27, erasing its old edge. Strategy holds 840,447 BTC but owes about $1.5 billion a year in STRK and STRC dividends. Hayes says Saylor must either issue equity, sell more bitcoin, or trim dividends going forward. The Premium Problem For years, Strategy…
The company’s public-market strategy centers on holding and actively managing XRP as a corporate treasury asset. Evernorth said on August 27 that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had declared its registration statement effective, moving its proposed merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II closer to completion. The development puts the XRP treasury company…
AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and scale it more rapidly than ever before. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups. This…
Virtu Financial, M1X Global and Tradeweb completed an institutional repurchase transaction using a sovereign digital bond on Aug. 27, with the full repo and repurchase cycle settling on the Canton Network in under 10 minutes. Summary Virtu, Tradeweb and M1X completed an onchain repo cycle on Canton within ten minutes total. USDM1 served as collateral…
