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- 3 Things Investors Should Know as the Crypto Treasury Trend Continues There's a new kind of company in town, and it's built around the premise that stock prices sometimes go up when you buy and hold a ton of crypto on the balance sheet. These so-called crypto treasury companies then raise more capital to buy more coins, and, if the coin's price goes up, the shareholders get the returns they're looking for. In practice, this approach is both ingenious and risky. Before assuming these businesses are interchangeable with the underlying coins, it is worth being clear about what they are, how they work, and where the edge actually is today. So let's look at three things that investors need to know about them. 1. One company sparked the...

- 1 Reason Every Investor Should Know About Solana (SOL) By dint of its speed and cheapness, Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) is forcing the crypto sector to grapple with a chain that's capable of making brand-new market segments viable. That means it's a coin that investors absolutely need to know about. So let's dive in and get up to speed with its place in the crypto ecosystem. Scaling is this chain's superpower For capturing value from everyday users and creating useful automated systems with smart contracts, even small values of time and money matter. When faced with choosing between two decentralized finance (DeFi) applications that do the same thing, people are going to go with the cheaper and faster version almost every time...

- For more than three decades, investors have typically had a game-changing innovation or next-big-thing technology to captivate their attention and wallet. Perhaps the best example is the advent and proliferation of the internet in the mid-1990s, which sent the benchmark S&P 500, iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average, and growth-focused Nasdaq Composite soaring. The internet paved the way for businesses to move beyond their traditional storefronts. It also revolutionized investing and broke down information barriers that had previously existed between Wall Street and Main Street. Having instant access to income statements, balance sheets, management commentary, and corporate presentations made investors more willing to accept valuation...

- Is the stock market open on Labor Day 2025? What we call the stock market in the United States is actually two different stock exchanges: the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq. Luckily for American investors, both exchanges keep the same hours and observe the same holidays and half days. Typically, the stock market is open for trading every Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, although it closes in observance of 10 different stock market holidays each year. The stock market will be closed on Monday, September 1st, 2025, in observance of Labor Day. This means that investors should plan to execute any important trades before the 4:00 p.m. closing bell on Friday, August 29th, or plan to delay them until...

- El Salvador to transfer Bitcoin reserves to multiple addresses SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador, the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, will move its reserves of the popular cryptocurrency to multiple new addresses from the single address it previously used in order to improve security, it said on Friday. The country's National Bitcoin Office said on X each address would hold up to 500 Bitcoin (around $54 million as of recent prices), and that a public dashboard would make the full balance across these addresses transparent to the public. The Central American nation has for years been consolidating its Bitcoin position. As of Friday, it held around $682 million worth in the volatile cryptocurrency. Oceaneering’s...

- Bitcoin transaction fees have collapsed to near-historic lows even as its price sits close to all-time highs, creating an unusual situation that challenges conventional wisdom. Will Owens from Galaxy Digital Research authored a comprehensive report analyzing this, examining everything from the rise of custodians to quantum computing implications for different Bitcoin address types. He joined Bitcoin Season 2’s Writer’s Room to discuss the findings and what they mean for miners struggling with the economics and users enjoying temporarily cheap transactions. The following is an edited transcript of the conversation between hosts Charlie Spears and Colin Harper and Galaxy Digital’s Will Owens. Bitcoin’s On-Chain Dynamics Charlie...

- Trump challenges Fed independence, crypto firms see an opening When Donald Trump ordered the removal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, the move reignited debate over the central bank’s independence and raised questions about what this means for both traditional finance and the crypto sector. A lack of oversight at the Fed Steven McClurg, CEO at Canary Capital, highlighted concerns about the Federal Reserve’s unchecked power. “They literally control the economy in the U.S.,” McClurg said, emphasizing the importance of oversight. McClurg noted that the Fed’s influence extends directly into banking access, citing the denied membership of Custodia Bank in the Federal Reserve system. “For crypto firms, the consequences have...

- Elon Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro set to chair $200 million Dogecoin treasury company, say sources Another cryptocurrency play is set to enter the public markets—with the help of Elon Musk’s personal lawyer. Investors are receiving pitches for a Dogecoin treasury company that will invest in the token, according to six sources, who declined to be named while talking about private business dealings. Three of the sources were pitched directly, and three heard about the deal from parties involved. The company plans to raise at least $200 million, according to two of the sources. Details about the structure of the public vehicle or when it would launch were not immediately available. House of Doge, the official corporate entity behind the...

- NVIDIA-linked crypto stock jumps 30% after record earnings The Bitcoin mining and AI cloud firm IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) posted its annual earnings on Aug. 28. Notably, the firm's Bitcoin mining capacity increased to 50 EH/s, up 400% YoY. The firm mined 728 BTC in July. For the uninitiated, Bitcoin mining is the process of validating and adding transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain network by solving cryptographic problems called hashes. During the last quarter, the firm earned $1 billion in annualized revenue from Bitcoin mining and secured the NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) "Preferred Partner" status. IREN's 'breakout year' IREN co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Roberts said, Roberts added, “We expanded our contracted, grid-connected...

- California quietly became the biggest holder of MicroStrategy: Here's how At a time when state pensions are quietly betting more on digital assets, the State Board of Administration of the Florida Retirement System has significantly increased its holdings in MicroStrategy (MSTR), increasing its indirect exposure to Bitcoin. Florida owns 221,860 MicroStrategy shares, valued at $88 million at market price, according to its latest SEC filing. The fund added 61,390 shares, representing a 38% increase from the previous quarter. The move comes as MicroStrategy, now Strategy, remains the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin with over 629,000 BTC worth tens of billions of dollars. For Florida's pension managers, this investment...

- Tron Network Fees Slashed After Vote—Here's What to Expect Tron has become cheaper to use after the crypto network's community of token holders voted to slash fees by 60%, according to the blockchain's founder Justin Sun. Writing on X overnight, billionaire crypto entrepreneur Sun—who has a number of digital asset ventures—said the proposal would ultimately benefit users. The change took effect Friday, per the time noted in Sun's post. Tron is the blockchain behind TRX, the 10th biggest digital coin by total value, which has a current market cap of $31.9 billion. The Tron network is popular in particular with stablecoin users. "For users, this fee reduction is a real benefit," Sun said. "Cutting fees by 60% is bold and rare for...

- Bitcoin Mining Updates Colin: Welcome back to The Mining Pod. Let’s start with the difficulty update. Matt: The mempool is dry as can be. There’s nothing to talk about on the fee front. But looking more broadly at difficulty, we had a very small increase last time around. We’re now 44% through this adjustment period and looking at a pretty steep rise. We’re set to go up 4.98% next adjustment, according to Hashrate Index. Bitcoin price is down from all-time highs a couple weeks ago when we touched $124,000. We’re down about 10% to $112,000. Hash price touched $60 on that all-time high day but went down to about $53. Now we’re back up closer to $55, but we’re set to have a difficulty increase of about 5% in about a week’s time...

- Why Opendoor Technologies Stock Is on the Move Today Shares of Opendoor Technologies (NASDAQ: OPEN) are moving higher on Friday, up 2.2% as of 1:56 p.m. ET, but were up as much as 15.5% earlier in the day. The jump comes as the S&P 500 has lost 0.7% and the Nasdaq Composite has lost 1.3%. Though most of the gain didn't stick, the meme stock flew upward following the appearance of EMJ Capital's Eric Jackson on Yahoo! Finance's show "Opening Bid." Eric Jackson once again sends Opendoor stock higher Mr. Jackson is largely responsible for initiating Opendoor's rally this year, propelling it to become one of the hottest meme stocks on the market. He's been a strong proponent of the stock, believing that the company is sitting on a...

- SEC to Clarify Which Digital Tokens Are Securities The US Securities and Exchange Commission has a lot of work to do on crypto regulation and will make clear which digital tokens are considered securities, according to SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda. Uyeda joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." This article has been published in bloomberg.com via Yahoo News. https://finance.yahoo.com/video/sec-clarify-digital-tokens-securities-194219159.html

- Ethereum must solve its privacy woes, says Ernst & Young crypto chief With Ethereum hitting new record highs, US regulations enshrining stablecoins into law, what’s the next major hurdle for the second-largest blockchain? Privacy, according to Paul Brody, consulting giant Ernst & Young’s blockchain director. “Large companies don’t want to disclose the details and the nature of their business relationship,” Brody said. “Without privacy, it’s very easy to reverse engineer who’s buying what, from whom and how much they’re spending. That’s considered very sensitive, non-public information.” Enterprise Ethereum? Privacy, or lack thereof, has long been a contested issue for public blockchains. That’s because every transaction, swap...

- Bitcoin Whale Sitting on $5 Billion Dumps More BTC to Buy Ethereum A major Bitcoin holder deposited 2,000 Bitcoin—worth more than $216 million—to Hyperliquid’s exchange and methodically sold it into Ethereum, according to data from network block explorer Hypurrscan. The address ending in “eCb43” first received 1,000 BTC worth around $108 million across two transactions around 10:57 a.m. ET this morning. Shortly thereafter, the account began selling small batches of Bitcoin for Ethereum, often selling 1-1.5 BTC at a time and purchasing the corresponding amount in ETH until its Bitcoin was exhausted. It later re-upped with another 1,000 deposit, following the same playbook before ultimately transferring all of the Ethereum—more than...

- Mark up your Polkadot calendar Several big trends and technical upgrades are coming together right now. Now (mid-2025) Web3 is transitioning from hype to practicality. This isn't a theoretical concept anymore. Major technical upgrades like Elastic Scaling and JAM (an advanced virtual machine system called the Joint-Accumulate Machine) are rolling out on Polkadot. At the same time, new initiatives like the Polkadot Capital Group are attracting institutional investment into the Polkadot ecosystem. The foundation for a mainstream breakthrough is being laid, centered around the all-important Polkadot cryptocurrency. Late 2025 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to approve a spot-price exchange-traded fund...

- There Are Now More Than 90 Crypto ETFs Pending SEC Approval, Led by XRP and Solana There is a growing stack of applications for exchange-traded funds that offer investors exposure to cryptocurrencies on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s desk, totaling 92 filings. This year, asset managers have jockeyed to offer ETFs in the U.S. for cryptocurrencies beyond the ones approved for Bitcoin and Ethereum last year. They range from major altcoins like XRP and Solana—the most popular new targets, based on the list—to relatively obscure meme coins like Bonk and Donald Trump’s official token. Although the SEC has delayed decisions on applications for several products this year, the regulator faces a final deadline on at least a...

- Is bitcoin privacy a lost cause? Bitcoin’s reputation as anonymous money couldn’t be further from the truth. The public nature of the chain means that without proper precautions, transaction histories can be traced and linked to real-world identities with surprising ease. While Bitcoin does offer pseudonymity, achieving genuine privacy requires deliberate effort and technical knowledge that most users lack. What’s more, with privacy-focused Samourai Wallet’s developers pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitter and Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm convicted of the same, privacy tools are under pressure by authorities like never before. Satsie, a board member of the recently formed Payjoin Foundation and contributor to...

- If You'd Invested $1,000 In Solana (SOL) 5 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today Key Points If you catch an asset early in its adoption curve, you don't need to be perfect to do really well. On that note, five years ago, Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) was a fledgling smart contract network with more ambition than market share. Had you invested $1,000 then, it would be worth roughly $55,000 on August 27, 2025, or around 5,620% more than what you started with. That kind of growth, despite skepticism and severe setbacks, is why investors pay attention to the Solana blockchain today. Let's break down its path and examine its future prospects. The last five years were amazing for investors -- but extremely difficult too Today, Solana...