Bitwise has launched BAVA, an exchange-traded fund holding Avalanche (AVAX crypto) tokens directly and staking a portion of those holdings to generate yield for investors. It is the first Avalanche ETF to market with a staking component built in from day one, beating competing filings from VanEck and Grayscale to the launch. The detail most

Leading bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR) has filed a proxy that, if approved, would allow for semi-monthly dividends on its STRC “Stretch” series of preferred stock. The move would have no effect on STRC’s annual dividend obligations or dividend rate (currently 11.5%), noted Executive Chairman Michael Saylor. Instead, he said, “[the] proposed changes are intended

Bitcoin’s quantum debate keeps slipping sideways because people keep arguing about two different things at once. One question is technical: if quantum computing gets good enough to break Bitcoin’s signature scheme, the protocol can respond. New address types, migration rules, soft forks, deprecations, key rotation. That is a real engineering problem, but it is still

Bitnomial’s full CFTC stack gives Kraken instant entry into U.S. derivatives without years of regulatory buildup. Kraken’s parent company, Payward, is moving deeper into regulated U.S. derivatives with a major acquisition. The firm has agreed to buy Bitnomial in a deal valued at up to $550 million. Approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission remains

AI trading agents now execute a growing share of crypto order flow with little or no human input — but the safeguards around them have not kept pace. The result is a new kind of market risk that shows up both in individual account security and in the collective behaviour of autonomous systems at scale.

Roughly $13 million in user funds vanished from Russia crypto exchange Grinex in April 2026, and by the time the exchange suspended trading, the money was already moving fast across blockchain networks toward a single destination wallet. The halt left users unable to access their funds, withdraw balances, or execute trades, with no timeline given

The price of bitcoin BTC$76,183.76 has again pushed above $76,000 alongside about a 10% plunge in the price of crude oil on an apparent reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. “The passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed

Citi analysts say holding both gold and bitcoin can improve portfolio performance compared with traditional bond-and-equity mixes. In a new report cited by CNBC, analyst Alex Saunders said a 5% allocation to gold enhances portfolio efficiency, while splitting that exposure between gold and bitcoin produces stronger results.  The analysis found the mixed allocation improves returns

The cryptocurrency market is now in a new cycle, and after some sideways action, the capital flow is quietly going back to the projects with established ecosystems and those with early potential gains. Interestingly enough, six names keep popping up in conversations among investors: ETH, SOL, XRP, SHIB, DOGE, and one relatively new name that

Bitcoin’s slide to the $60,000 handle marks the deepest drawdown of the current cycle, with losses now exceeding 52 percent from the October 2025 all-time high and January registering its weakest performance since 2022. The market has decisively lost multiple structural supports, including the short-term holder cost basis, the yearly open, and the True Market