BitMine Chairman Tom Lee said the company may slow the pace of its Ethereum purchases as it moves closer to its goal of holding 5% of the total ETH supply. Lee made the comments Thursday at Consensus 2026 in Miami, saying BitMine is evaluating whether it wants to keep accumulating ETH at its current pace….
Kraken’s $600 million acquisition of Reap folds a Hong Kong stablecoin business‑payments specialist into its stack, with Payward issuing stock at a $20 billion valuation to anchor its IPO‑era M&A currency. Summary Kraken parent Payward will buy Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies for $600 million in cash and stock. The deal values Payward’s stock at $20…
Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy Inc., posted six words on X on Thursday: buy more Bitcoin than you sell. Buy more bitcoin than you sell. — Michael Saylor (@saylor) May 7, 2026 The post came days after Saylor spent a chunk of the company’s May 5 earnings call explaining how Strategy might periodically sell…
Morgan Stanley holds $269.9 million in Spot Bitcoin ETF positions, with the bulk of that exposure sitting in GBTC – the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust – according to recent 13F filings submitted to the SEC. The bank’s own Spot Bitcoin ETF, trading under the ticker MSBT, pulled in over $200 million in assets within weeks of…
A sustained move above realized price could shift market behavior by returning a large portion of holders to profit. Ethereum (ETH) is sitting at a crossroads that, according to a popular analyst, could define the next major chapter for the second-largest cryptocurrency. That call landed as the asset slipped almost 4% in 24 hours,…
On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has accused the founder of LAB of running centralized exchange manipulation schemes that he says “harm retail investors,” after a private warning DM was read and ignored Summary On-chain investigator ZachXBT has accused the founder of LAB of participating in centralized exchange (CEX) market manipulation that he says hurts retail traders. ZachXBT…
Payward, the company behind crypto exchange Kraken, is buying Reap Technologies for $600 million using cash and stock valued at $20 billion. Reap Technologies is a Hong Kong fintech firm specializing in stablecoin-powered payment rails and tools that support global business-to-business money movement. The acquisition is its first infrastructure deal in Asia and will support…
Three signals are converging on a single Bitcoin price analysis target of $85,000, and for once, they are not pointing in different directions. Research firm Glassnode has identified what analysts are calling a ‘triple threat’ setup: Bitcoin has broken above critical cost basis levels on-chain, futures funding rates have flipped from negative to neutral, and…
Crypto-friendly gift card platforms are designed to make it very easy to convert digital assets into real purchases. Now more than ever, users are buying gift cards with crypto on CoinsBee to shop online, access global brands, and spend their cryptocurrencies without having to trely on traditional payment methods. It’s one thing to own crypto,…
Grayscale Investments completed its Q1 2026 review of the Grayscale Decentralized Finance Fund and the Grayscale Smart Contract Fund. Summary Grayscale added ENA to its DeFi Fund after removing AERO in the latest quarterly rebalance. UNI and AAVE remain the fund’s largest holdings, while ENA entered as fourth-largest component overall. Smart Contract Fund kept ETH…
