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A16z-Linked Wallet Pulls 25,560 ETH From Binance in Apparent Accumulation Move
A wallet attributed to venture firm a16z withdrew $42.62M worth of ETH from Binance on Tuesday, per onchain intelligence tracker Lookonchain, as ETH trades near 30-day lows.

Strategy Stock Falls Below $100 for First Time in Two Years as Analysts Pick Apart Its Bitcoin Bet
The break below $100 puts MSTR at a discount to its roughly $50 billion in Bitcoin and shifts the question from how much more Bitcoin Strategy can buy to which slice of its capital stack — the common stock, the preferreds, the debt or the coins themselves — is still worth owning, according to analysts at Arca and Zero Knowledge.
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A16z-Linked Wallet Pulls 25,560 ETH From Binance in Apparent Accumulation Move
A wallet attributed to venture firm a16z withdrew $42.62M worth of ETH from Binance on Tuesday, per onchain intelligence tracker Lookonchain, as ETH trades near 30-day lows.

Strategy Stock Falls Below $100 for First Time in Two Years as Analysts Pick Apart Its Bitcoin Bet
The break below $100 puts MSTR at a discount to its roughly $50 billion in Bitcoin and shifts the question from how much more Bitcoin Strategy can buy to which slice of its capital stack — the common stock, the preferreds, the debt or the coins themselves — is still worth owning, according to analysts at Arca and Zero Knowledge.

Strategy's STRC Falls to Record Low, Squeezing a Bitcoin Funding Channel
The Stretch preferred fell to about $85 on Thursday, roughly 15% below the $100 it is engineered to hold, extending a record-low close and tightening one of the channels Strategy uses to fund its bitcoin buying.

Litecoin Spot ETF Sits at $9M as Altcoin-ETF Era Tests Its Demand Thesis
The first US spot Litecoin ETF has been trading for nearly eight months, but Canary Capital's LTCC has drawn under $10 million as LTC sits 89% below its all-time high, testing the thesis that altcoin ETF approval automatically translates into institutional inflows.

Bitcoin Tops $67,000 to Two-Week High After Trump Declares US-Iran Deal Complete and Hormuz Reopening
Bitcoin climbed past $67,000, its highest level in roughly two weeks, after President Trump declared the US-Iran deal "complete" and authorized reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Oil fell about 4% and around $150 million in crypto short positions were liquidated.

SpaceX Begins Nasdaq Trading With Tokenized Versions Mirroring Largest IPO in History
SpaceX opened for trading on Nasdaq Friday under SPCX, completing what Nasdaq and Morgan Stanley confirmed as the largest IPO in history at $75 billion pre-greenshoe.

SpaceX Opens for Public Trading Friday With a Live Crypto Tokenized-Equity Stack Behind It
SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq at 9:30 AM ET Friday under SPCX. The same morning, Ondo's SPCXon, Kraken's xStocks SPCXx, a Backpack Securities-issued SPCX token on Solana, and Hyperliquid's pre-IPO perpetual all settle into a single live tokenized-equity stack.

BitMine Buys 126,971 ETH for $207M at $1,630 Average as Prices Hit June Low
BitMine Immersion Technologies acquired 126,971 ETH for approximately $207 million last week at an average of $1,630 per token, its largest weekly purchase of 2026, lifting its total treasury to 5.54 million ETH, equal to 4.59% of Ethereum's circulating supply.

CME CEO Terry Duffy Calls US Crypto Perps 'a Disaster Waiting to Happen'
CME Group CEO Terry Duffy warned that newly approved US-regulated perpetual futures are "a disaster waiting to happen," citing excessive leverage and retail risk — a pointed critique from the incumbent US institutional crypto derivatives exchange.

Spot Bitcoin ETF Outflow Streak Extends to Record 13 Days, $4.4B Cumulative
US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a 13th consecutive day of net outflows on Wednesday, extending the longest withdrawal streak in the products' history to $4.4 billion cumulative since May 15.