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Franklin Templeton Proposes Dividend-Reinvesting ETFs That Channel Stock Payouts Into Bitcoin

Franklin Templeton Proposes Dividend-Reinvesting ETFs That Channel Stock Payouts Into Bitcoin

| JUAN MENDE |
Franklin Templeton filed with the SEC for the Franklin US Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF and Franklin US Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF, which allocate 95% to large-cap U.S. stocks and 5% to Bitcoin, with dividends reinvested to boost BTC exposure up to a 20% cap. The structure creates steady, indirect demand for Bitcoin funded by corporate dividends, targeting investors seeking passive crypto allocation without direct purchases. Proposed ef…
Ethereum Foundation Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang Resigns Amid Leadership Transition

Ethereum Foundation Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang Resigns Amid Leadership Transition

Hsiao-Wei Wang has resigned as co-executive director and board member of the Ethereum Foundation (EF), effective immediately. The move follows her recent sabbatical and comes after fellow co-executive…
Strategy's STRC Preferred Stock Hits Record Low Below Par, Pausing Key Bitcoin Funding Channel

Strategy’s STRC Preferred Stock Hits Record Low Below Par, Pausing Key Bitcoin Funding Channel

Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC) closed at a record low of $89, 11% below its $100 par value. The discount has paused the company’s at-the-market issuance program, a…

Uniswap Outperforms Dips as Standard Chartered Initiates Coverage With $100 Price Target

Uniswap (UNI) bucked the broader market sell-off, surging into the $3.70 range after trading as low as $2.50 last week. Standard Chartered initiated coverage on UNI with a hyper-bullish target of $100 by the…
June 17, 2026

Coinbase Unveils Ambitious System Update with Tokenized Stocks, AI Advisor, and Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages

Coinbase announced 21 new products and features on June 16, 2026, expanding into tokenized equities, AI-driven advisory, and traditional finance services. Tokenized U.S. stocks launching next month for eligible non-U.S. customers, backed 1:1 with automatic dividends and onchain transferability. New AI-powered Coinbase Advisor (SEC-registered) and Coinbase for Agents platform for autonomous trading, alongside Bitcoin-backed mortgages via partne…
June 17, 2026

Hyperliquid’s HYPE Token Hits All-Time High Over $76 Following SpaceX Contract Inflows and ETF Demand

Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE hit a new all-time high of $76.90 on Tuesday morning, extending its weekly gains to roughly 46%. The rally was driven by short liquidations, after-hours activity in the platform’s SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures (SPCX), and institutional backing from asset managers. Aggregate open interest on HYPE futures surpassed $3 billion as the protocol solidifies its dominance in decentralized derivatives. Hyperliquid’s…
June 17, 2026

SpaceX Solidifies $60 Billion All-Stock Acquisition of AI Coding Startup Anysphere

SpaceX has executed an option to acquire Anysphere, the parent company behind the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor, for $60 billion in Class A common stock. The deal follows just days after SpaceX made its historic Nasdaq debut, positioning Cursor as a core software layer within its vertically integrated AI roadmap. The acquisition aims to bridge the enterprise product gap for xAI and its Grok ecosystem, which has lagged behind dominant t…
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SpaceX Stock Jumps Another 19.6% on Second Day of Public Trading, Market Cap Reaches $2.52 Trillion

SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) surged 19.6% on Monday, closing at $192.50 per share to extend its explosive public market debut. The company’s market capital…
SpaceX IPO Brings Largest Corporate Bitcoin Treasury to Public Markets

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SpaceX disclosed 18,712 BTC purchased for ~$661 million and valued at $1.29 billion as of March 31 in its S-1 filing, positioning it among the larg…
Bitcoin Surges Past ,000 as Trump Declares US-Iran Peace Deal Complete, Reopening Strait of Hormuz

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Bitcoin (BTC) rose over 2% to surpass $65,000, hitting an intraday high of $65,641 following de-escalation signals. President Trump declared the US…
Bitcoin Hits Cycle Low at ,000 as Standard Chartered Declares Crypto Winter Over

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Bitcoin reached a cycle low of approximately $59,375 before recovering to trade near $63,500, a 53% drawdown from its October 2025 all-time high of…

SpaceX Makes Historic Nasdaq Debut, Shares Surge Over 20% to Top $2 Trillion Valuation

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Second Circuit Upholds Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Fraud Conviction

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on June 12, 2026, affirmed Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy tied to FTX’s…

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 Launch Ignites Backlash Over Data Retention and ‘Silent Nerfing’

Anthropic rolled out Claude Fable 5, the first publicly accessible version of its high-powered Mythos-class technology, sparking intense community fr…
Digital Asset Secures 5 Million to Scale Canton Network as Institutional Onchain Infrastructure

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