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Memecoins Push Robinhood Chain Past Solana and BNB Chain in Trading Fees

Franklin Crypto executive Chris Perkins defended Robinhood Chain as an “incredible unlock” on Monday’s Bits + Bips, a day before Bernstein told clients the network…
Markets

Strategy Doubles Its Preferred Buyback Authorization to $2 Billion After a $176 Million Week of STRC Repurchases

The company spent $176.3 million buying STRC below par and bought no bitcoin at all, as defending the preferred takes priority over accumulation. The post…
Markets

Robinhood Takes Equity Stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com as It Routes Football Contracts to a New Venue

The brokerage will own a piece of both venues, priced off Crypto.com’s $20 billion valuation, as its prediction markets unit outgrows its crypto business. The…
Markets

Strategy doubles its stock buyback to $2 billion to pull its STRC shares back to $100

Strategy doubled the size of its preferred-stock repurchase program to $2 billion Tuesday as Michael Saylor’s Sept. 8 recovery benchmark arrived with STRC still short…
DeFi

Metaplanet’s Bitcoin boom quietly turned a 46 million-share executive pay plan into a 319 million-share windfall

Metaplanet’s Bitcoin expansion has exposed an executive compensation windfall that shareholders want the company to unwind. The dispute centers on an executive options pool that…
Markets

Polkadot Leads A Rotation Into Old Layer-1s As Hike Odds Widen

Polkadot rose 16.7% on the day and 42.5% on the week, with Cosmos Hub, Decred and Ethereum Classic all up more than 8%, while bitcoin…
Markets

Strategy’s $250 Bitcoin Jordans sold out as Saylor turns 4% of BTC supply into a consumer brand

The store advertises cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, while all nine listed shoe sizes are unavailable. The post Strategy’s $250 Bitcoin Jordans sold out…
Institutional

Tokenized Stocks Traded $1 Billion While The Stock Market Was Shut

The 42 largest tokenized equities turned over $1.01 billion on Saturday and Sunday, roughly matching Friday’s session, and another $398.3 million on Labor Day. Robinhood…
Markets

Franklin Templeton digital asset veteran takes helm at StablecoinX

Former Franklin Templeton digital asset executive Christopher Jensen will lead StablecoinX, the largest corporate holder of Ethena’s ENA token. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →
Markets

$47M Still Missing After Liquid Hack as Blockstream Bargains With 'White Hats'

The hackers have returned 3,400 of the roughly 4,000 BTC drained from the sidechain, but about 600 BTC remains outstanding—and some doubt the actors’ “white…