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Strategy’s Bitcoin War Chest Sat Still While Saylor Defended STRC
The world’s largest bitcoin treasury company, Strategy, announced it has repurchased $139 million worth of its preferred stock STRC. The company did not sell or acquire any bitcoin over the past week and defended the preferred instead.…
XRP Ledger Broke Its Transaction Record, and 20 Wallets Did Most of It
The XRP Ledger crammed a record 3,254 transactions into one ledger on Sept. 13, yet 2,000 of them were identical 1-drop payments fired by just 20 wallets. The Number on the Explorer The record belongs to ledger 106,965,249, which closed on…
Crypto Moguls Pledge £72M to Fund Reform UK Election Campaign
Ben Delo, co-founder of the crypto exchange BitMEX, and Christopher Harborne, a Tether investor, have pledged to donate 72 million pounds ($97.44 million) to Reform UK as Parliament debates a ban on crypto-based political donations. Reform…
Bitcoin’s Price Just Drew an $85M Bet From Last Year’s ETH Top-Caller
An address that sold 50,600 ETH near the top in late 2025 has spent four days converting $85.42 million in stablecoins into 1,075.6 BTC, and it still holds $74.32 million in unspent dry powder. The Trade That Earned the Attention In late…
Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP Burns $3.5M After Eric Trump and Beeple Mentions
Two public mentions, one from Eric Trump and one from digital artist Beeple, resolved the first bets written into Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP memecoin and permanently destroyed 10 million tokens worth about $3.56 million. The Bet Baked Into…
Anchorage Digital, Frgmnt Team Up to Unlock Institutional DeFi Yields
Frgmnt has partnered with Anchorage Digital to give institutions direct access to its fUSD and sfUSD stablecoin infrastructure. Yield Mechanics and Protocol Assets Frgmnt, a stablecoin protocol built on Base, said Sept. 11 that it has…
‘Return the Bitcoin’: Blockstream Draws Line After 4,000 BTC Hack
A group that drained nearly 4,000 BTC from Blockstream’s Liquid Network returned 3,400 BTC, kept about 598.5 BTC, demanded a 10% bounty, and warned L-BTC holders could face a 15% loss. Now Blockstream has answered with an unusually direct…
Up 1,384%: DRW’s Cumberland Is Buying Robinhood Chain’s Meme Star PONS
A wallet linked to Cumberland added 2.7 million PONS on Sept. 11, taking its position in Robinhood Chain’s biggest token launchpad to 11.2 million tokens. Who Is Actually Buying A wallet linked to Cumberland, the crypto trading arm of…
Nasdaq’s Biggest HYPE Holder Just Bought $29M More Tokens at a Loss
Hyperliquid Strategies stacked another 365,000 HYPE worth $29.65 million in 24 hours, at an average cost basis that now sits above the token’s market price. A Look at The Wallet’s Movements An address attributed to Hyperliquid…
Bitcoin Price Has to Fall Just $750 to Erase a Whale’s $70 Million BTC Long
A Hyperliquid trader with a 92.5% win rate is long 911.55 BTC at 40x leverage, and bitcoin’s price now sits less than 1% above the level that wipes the position out entirely. The Position A wallet tagged 0x396d went long 911.55 BTC at…