Bitcoin price dropped 3.6% in the past 24 hours to around $72,882, with Ethereum also declining.
BlackRock’s IBIT experienced its second-largest net outflows since debut.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs saw collective outflows, signaling shifting investor appetite.
The leading U.S. spot bitcoin ETF from BlackRock posted its second-largest single-day net outflows since inception as bitcoin prices fell below $73,000.
...
MicroStrategy Retires $1.5 Billion in Convertible Notes at Discount, Preserving Bitcoin Treasury
Written on .
MicroStrategy has retired $1.5 billion in aggregate principal of its 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029, executing the buyback at an 8% discount to par.The company utilized $1.38 billion from its dedicated USD cash reserve for the transactions, drawing the balance down to $871 million without liquidating any bitcoin.Parallel equity and preferred stock offerings generated enough capital to acquire an additional 24,869 BTC, pushing the total...
Robinhood Launches Beta Support for Third-Party AI Agents to Trade Stocks and Spend Capital
Written on .
Robinhood introduced beta access to “Agentic Trading” and “Agentic Credit Cards,” enabling customers to connect third-party artificial intelligence agents directly to financial accounts.The technical architecture is built on the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic, bypassing standard app-scraping or unofficial API workarounds.The rollout includes strict security guardrails, restricted fund...
Mystery Entity Permanently Burns 107 Bitcoin Worth Over $8 Million From Decade-Old Wallets
Written on .
An unknown entity permanently destroyed 107 BTC, worth approximately $8.2 million, by routing the funds to a historic unspendable burn address.The funds originated from five separate wallets that had been entirely dormant since April 2014, when bitcoin was trading around $442.On-chain analysts have floating theories ranging from accidental exchange cold-storage errors to deliberate tax loss harvesting or a broken dead man’s switch.A...
UK Sanctions Major Crypto Exchange HTX Over Alleged Russia Sanctions Evasion
Written on .
UK sanctions HTX entity for alleged facilitation of Russian fund movements totaling over $1.5 billion.
Part of package targeting 18 entities involved in sanctions evasion networks.
Implications for global exchanges: First major application of certain UK regulations to a prominent crypto platform.
HTX response: Claims misunderstanding, asserts operational continuity.
The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on Huobi...
Crypto regulation, Cryptocurrencies, Front page, News, Regulation



