Metaplanet crossed the 43,000 BTC threshold on July 2, a milestone that places the Tokyo-listed firm as the world’s third-largest corporate Bitcoin holder. The company now trails Strategy and Twenty One Capital across the global corporate ranking, and its climb underscores Japan’s role in the corporate Bitcoin accumulation race. Metaplanet acquired an additional 2,823 BTC
XRPL approaches one million AI agent transactions through the x402 payment protocol. XRP trades above the daily middle Bollinger Band as bullish momentum improves. Growing AI payment activity strengthens XRP Ledger’s real-world blockchain utility. The XRP Ledger is approaching one million AI agent transactions processed through the x402 payment facilitator, reflecting growing blockchain adoption for
Bitcoin has entered March after one of the most structurally severe corrections in its history, recording five consecutive monthly red closes for only the second time ever and marking a 52 percent drawdown from the October 2025 peak. The January–February “double-red” start to 2026 also stands in stark contrast to historical seasonality with the final
The Solana Foundation launched a fully onchain governance system on July 1, 2026, giving validators and SOL stakers a formal, binding mechanism to vote on protocol-level decisions for the first time in the network’s history. The system, called Solana Governance Proposals, or SGPs, is stake-weighted, Merkle-verified, and live at governance.solana.com, according to the Foundation’s announcement.
Europe has done something important. With MiCA, the EU created the world’s first comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto-assets. That is a significant achievement, not only for the digital asset industry, but for Europe’s wider ambition to lead in responsible financial innovation. MiCA’s promise was clear: a harmonised single-market framework for crypto-asset services across the EU,
FBI Director Kash Patel disclosed a six-figure investment in Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, more than six months past the deadline set by federal ethics law, according to a report from NOTUS. The lapse has reopened a fight over stock trading by senior government officials and raised questions about a potential
Gillibrand renews crypto ethics push after disclosures showed Trump earned over $600M from the $TRUMP memecoin in 2025. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has renewed her call for crypto ethics rules after Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures. The disclosures showed more than $600 million in 2025 income from the $TRUMP memecoin, according to the announcement. Gillibrand wants
There has been considerable discussion about whether Authorised Participants (APs) in the Bitcoin ETF market, such as Jane Street, one of the world’s top liquidity providers and market makers, can suppress the BTC price, for its own advantage. In our view, this is not the case. Indeed, APs, who are designated brokers and banks that
In Trump crypto news today, the President’s family made $2.3Bn from four cryptocurrency ventures as of the end of April 2026 while putting up little to no capital of their own – and outside investors lost an equivalent $2.3 billion in the same projects. That is the central finding of a Reuters investigation published on
“We truly don’t think there is large-scale, authentic usage of A7A5 outside of A7,” Keegan said in an email, referring to the token’s issuer. He added that transaction volumes routinely collapse on weekends because much of the activity appears tied to business-to-business transfers involving the Russia-linked exchange Grinex. Meanwhile, Tom Robinson, co-founder of another blockchain
