Bitcoin treasury company Strategy reported a loss of $8.22 billion for the second quarter of 2026 thanks to the falling price of the leading cryptocurrency.  In its quarterly report, Nasdaq-listed Strategy (MSTR) — formerly MicroStrategy — put the loss down to the Bitcoin price crash, even as the company continued raising capital, buying more Bitcoin

A year after going live, Performa added a non-custodial layer, fiat settlement and faster self-service onboarding to its finance operations platform, as well as a wider pricing model for businesses operating across digital assets and fiat currencies. This step contributes to Performa’s mission to provide businesses with an accessible all-in-one platform for digital assets and

Our view on bitcoin is cautious heading into Thursday’s, May 29, Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report for April. Spot price has stabilised within a tight $74,000-$80,000 channel following the $766 million liquidation on Saturday, May 23 and the underlying market structure looks to have deteriorated rather than achieved a healthy reset.  Since 15 May,  futures open

In XRP news today, Coinbase Wrapped XRP (cbXRP) just became significantly more useful. Doppler Finance, an institutional-grade yield infrastructure protocol, has expanded to Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 chain, with cbXRP as its first supported asset. XRP holders who have been sitting on the sidelines of EVM-compatible DeFi now have a regulated, exchange-backed route into lending,

Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate bitcoin BTC$64,239.82 holder, reported Thursday an $8.2 billion second-quarter net loss after the cryptocurrency’s price decline erased billions of dollars from the value of its digital asset holdings. The quarterly loss was driven almost entirely by an $8.32 billion unrealized markdown on its bitcoin holdings under fair-value accounting. The

Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis has again attacked the Democrats for holding back the long-awaited crypto Clarity Act.  Speaking on the Crypto in America podcast Thursday, Lummis said that the bill could have been passed months ago but is unfairly being held back.  Lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act gets passed before Congress departs for August

With layer-1 blockchains demonstrating their capacity to process high-frequency real-world data feeds, Sol SyncUp is bringing together all the physical operators behind this expansion. At an upcoming infrastructure summit in Singapore, all global players working to develop the hardware behind the network supporting the global decentralized ecosystem will come under one roof. From data center

30 July, 2026 August will test whether the economy is in a conventional slowdown, a renewed inflation phase, or an uncomfortable mix of both. The key catalysts to watch will be employment (7 August), inflation (12-13 August), the Fed’s reaction function (mid-to-late August), and the Jackson Hole central banker summit (27-29 August.) For crypto, the

Some of the world’s biggest banks have completed real cross-border payments using tokenized money in a test led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), another sign that tokenization is moving into the plumbing of global finance. Project Agorá, which brings together five central banks and 28 commercial lenders including JPMorgan, Citi, UBS, Deutsche Bank