The three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, as well as for companies' leu-denominated loans, remained flat and started the week at 6.75% on Monday (July 14), the same as on Friday (July 11).
Biotech firm Sonnet is merging with Rorschach to form Hyperliquid Strategies, which aims to become HYPE token’s largest United States-listed holder. Nasdaq-listed biotech company Sonnet BioTherapeutics announced a strategic pivot into crypto, unveiling an $888 million entity to launch a Hyperliquid (HYPE) digital asset treasury. On Monday, Sonnet said it formed a business combination with the newly created Rorschach to launch a treasury strategy focused on the HYPE token, the native crypto token of the fast-growing Hyperliquid ecosystem. The deal includes transforming Sonnet into Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (HSI), which is expected to be the largest United States-listed public company holding the HYPE token on its balance sheet. The company aimed to hold 12.6 million HYPE tokens, worth about $583 million when the agreement was made. Read more
Michael Saylor’s Strategy made a fresh $472.5 million investment in Bitcoin to see total holdings cross 600,000 BTC as the cryptocurrency surged past new highs. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public holder of Bitcoin, made another major investment in the asset during the past week as BTC surged to new historic highs of $118,000. Strategy acquired 4,225 Bitcoin (BTC) for $472.5 million last week, the company announced in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. Strategy’s new Bitcoin buy averaged $111,827 per coin, with BTC surging from about $108,000 on July 7 to $118,000 by the end of the week, according to CoinGecko. Read more
Montecristo Retail RO SRL, which operates the Kenvelo, Lee Cooper and Timeout store chain in Romania, has gone insolvent, as decided by the Ilfov Court of Law.