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Historical liabilities, preferred claims, restricted crypto and prospective dilution stand between the gross asset value and common holders. The post Hyperscale Data sits on $71 million in Bitcoin with a $56 million market cap – Here is why its not a bargain appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Despite being down today, ETH has clawed back from the worst levels of the year. Now it's waiting on the Fed.

New commodity options let traders gain exposure to gold and silver prices through Binance’s Abu Dhabi-regulated exchange. Binance will launch USDT-settled options on gold and silver through its Abu Dhabi-regulated exchange, expanding its lineup of traditional financial products alongside cryptocurrencies. The contracts will be listed through Nest Exchange Limited, Binance’s Abu Dhabi Global Market-regulated Recognized Investment Exchange (ADGM). The options allow traders to gain exposure to movements in gold and silver prices without taking delivery of the underlying metals.  Retail users will only be able to buy options, while eligible institutional users and liquidity providers can also write contracts. According to Binance, restricting retail users to buying options limits downside risk to the premium paid, while eligible institutional participants can write options to collect premiums. Read more

Bitcoin traders weathered an oil-price surge and ongoing Asia chip-stock sell-off into the Federal Reserve interest-rate decision. Bitcoin (BTC) whipsawed around $64,000 on Wednesday as geopolitical and macroeconomic tensions pressured US stocks. Key points: Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD halting a local rebound at the Wall Street open, having hit 11-day lows of $62,700 the day prior. Read more

A rise to $160 or a double-digit collapse: what comes next for SOL?

Morgan Stanley’s new Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products generated roughly $38 million in combined trading volume on their first day, giving the Wall Street firm an immediate presence in two crypto fund markets dominated by earlier entrants. The Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) recorded 933,715 shares traded Tuesday and attracted $5.15 million of net inflows. […] The post Morgan Stanley is using $7.4 trillion in client assets and rock-bottom fees to hijack Wall Street’s crypto boom appeared first on CryptoSlate.

AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and discarding the originals.

MoonPay’s PayBox vault lets ChatGPT and Claude users authorize crypto purchases, token swaps and crosschain transactions while retaining custody of their assets. MoonPay has launched PayBox, a payment vault that lets ChatGPT and Claude users authorize AI to buy crypto, swap tokens and bridge assets from within a conversation while keeping control of their funds. Users connect a crypto wallet and payment methods to ChatGPT or Claude, which prepare transactions such as token swaps, crosschain transfers and DeFi interactions using natural-language prompts. Users can approve each transaction with a passkey or set spending limits that allow the AI to execute certain actions automatically, according to MoonPay. MoonPay said PayBox uses multi-party computation and trusted execution environments to protect wallet keys, preventing either the AI assistant or MoonPay from independently accessing user funds. The platform also lets users require approval for every transaction or allow AI to act autonomously within predefi...

OpenAI quietly updated its breach disclosure to confirm its agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face. Only one has been named so far.

Passed by the House a year ago, the bill cleared Senate Banking in May and still awaits a floor vote.

Tokenization and 24/7 markets are reshaping finance, making always-on banking a reality.

Seoul’s historic two-day crash and widening hyperscaler credit spreads suggest the AI trade’s leverage is starting to bite — in equities and in bonds. Key points: Korean equities saw the second day of a historic sell-off on Wednesday with market-wide circuit breakers again halting trading. Combined with Tuesday’s drop, the KOSPI has now shed nearly 17%, wiping out $620 billion in market capitalization. This has prompted the government to convene an emergency meeting of its financial authorities. The initial trigger for the sell-off was SK Hynix’s Q2 earnings miss. The stock was down another 4% today, extending Tuesday’s 15% drop. Taken together with Samsung Electronics, the company makes up nearly half of the Korean index.  Read more

The Q2 split favored colocation, although management did not say conversion had become compulsory. The post Core Scientific lost 56% on Bitcoin mining but $80M in profit from its pivot to AI hosting appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Saylor said that protocol changes on the Bitcoin network must be rare, conservative, and driven by necessity, not ambition.

Today's bridge model won't scale as hundreds of companies issue their own stablecoins, fragmenting liquidity, Brale CEO Ben Milne said in an interview.

Wall Street expects a sluggish second quarter from Coinbase as crypto trading activity cools, putting all eyes on and pending U.S. crypto legislation.

In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Immunefi's Mitchell Amador writes that most of 2026's stolen crypto is leaving through keys, signers and governance, not contract bugs, and explains why “we were audited” was never the same as “we are safe.”

Bitcoin remains trapped below key higher-timeframe resistance despite managing to stabilize above an important support region. While the broader trend is still bearish, the latest recovery attempt is accompanied by a notable uptick in the Exchange Whale Ratio, suggesting larger players are becoming increasingly active. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, […]

The filing shows 79 more BTC, 430,000 more effective common shares and an unresolved funding link. The post One Bitcoin treasury just hit 20,000 BTC, but rapid share dilution meant investors ended up owning less of it appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP has come under renewed selling pressure after failing to sustain its previous rebound, sending the price back toward a key support region. Although buyers have stepped in to defend the latest decline, the broader technical picture still favors caution as the asset trades below major resistance levels. XRP Price Analysis: The Daily Chart The […]