Tag: Breaking

Quick Take Harvard Management Company held 6,813,612 shares of BlackRock’s IBIT worth $442.8 million as of Sept. 30, 2025. This represents a 257% increase from 1.9 million shares valued at approximately $116 million in Q2. IBIT became Harvard’s largest disclosed U.S. equity position, surpassing stakes in tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. The university also nearly doubled its gold ETF holdings to $235...

Quick Take Cloudflare’s global outage struck early December 5, 2025, causing widespread 500 errors and downtime for crypto platforms. Centralized exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, and Upbit were inaccessible, halting trading for users worldwide. DeFi user interfaces for protocols like Uniswap and analytics tools such as DeFiLlama faced disruptions, though blockchains remained operational. The incident, resolved within an hour,...

S&P Global Ratings downgrades Tether’s USDT stability assessment to 5, the weakest score on its 1-7 scale. The move stems from increased holdings in volatile assets like bitcoin, now comprising 24% of reserves, up from 17% a year ago. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino dismisses the rating as outdated, emphasizing USDT’s overcapitalization and $10B+ profits in 2025. Community reaction mixes concern over depegging risks with defense of...

Quick Take Bitcoin Recovery: BTC climbs 12% from last week’s $80,000 bottom, trading near $91,000 as of November 29, 2025. Macro Drivers: Rising odds of a December Fed rate cut bolster sentiment, countering mixed U.S. labor and growth signals. Market Caution: Analysts warn of potential resistance at $93,000–$96,000, with broader risks from deflationary pressures. Bitcoin has staged a notable rebound, gaining approximately 12% from...

JPMorgan views crypto, particularly Bitcoin, as an emerging macro asset class, with volatility aligning closer to traditional stores of value like gold. Bitcoin’s market cap requires a 13% uplift to $126,000 per coin to parity with gold on risk-adjusted terms, signaling undervaluation. Institutional adoption, including corporate treasuries holding over 6% of BTC supply, is dampening volatility and boosting portfolio integration. ...