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…
Apple sold more iPhones even as the global smartphone market moved sharply in the opposite direction. The iPhone 17 was the world’s best-selling smartphone in the second quarter of 2026, accounting for 6% of global smartphone unit sales, according to Counterpoint Research’s Global Handset Model Sales Tracker. The result marks the second straight quarter in…
Key Takeaways California holds $15.485B across 84M unclaimed properties for nearly 39M residents. Texas holds $10.5B as estimates show 1 in 10 Americans may have unclaimed property. California returned $534M in 2024/25 as Malia Cohen urges residents to search for funds. California is sitting on $15,485,000,000 in lost assets and money, according to the California…
Strong ETF demand is supporting the rally, but fading short covering and lingering macro risks could slow its momentum. Bitcoin’s latest rally appears to be driven partly by short covering rather than fresh leveraged positions, according to QCP Research. Open interest has fallen as BTC advanced, while strong spot ETF inflows have provided additional…
For years, spotting a scam was supposed to be a cinch. The email came from a suspicious address, the spelling was primary school level, the promise was hilariously unlikely, and somewhere in the middle sat a link that was an alphanumeric stew. Ignore it, delete that, and carry on. Right? That advice still has some…
