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Saylor says share buyback isn’t priority as Strategy builds $4.8 billion cash reserve

Strategy is prioritizing STRC, cash reserves, and its credit business over stock buybacks, Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said Monday.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor addresses Consensus 2026 in Miami.

Policy

Binance handed user data to Russia that led to a Ukrainian donor's arrest

Binance says it cooperates with lawful requests, despite exiting the Russian market in 2023 to improve its compliance strategy.

Binance (Vadim Artyukhin/Unsplash)

Finance

Clarity survives (barely), Strategy sells and the untold story of Mastercard's $1.8 billion deal: Crypto's week in 5 stories

Washington kept crypto’s biggest legislative hope alive, Wall Street pushed deeper into digital assets, and a security scare sent billions of dollars of bitcoin moving between wallets.

Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Harold Mendoza/Unsplash)

Markets

Israel’s largest bank to offer crypto trading with Galaxy

Bank Leumi customers will be able to trade bitcoin, ether and solana through the bank’s investment app from early 2027.

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Tech

Miden bets on privacy stablecoins with introduction of USDCx

USDCx will let users transact without publicly exposing balances, counterparties or transaction histories, while allowing selective disclosure for compliance.

An network of points of light connected by colored rays.

Tech

Solana neared a freeze threshold Wednesday, Marinade Finance says. The Foundation says it held up under stress.

A routing glitch at a major data center provider knocked nearly 29% of Solana’s staked tokens offline, bringing the network within striking distance of a full freeze, while Foundation executives stressed that blocks and transactions never stopped.

Solana neared the network freeze threshold Wednesday. (Marinade)

Tech

Nvidia’s $500 billion AI infrastructure push leaves crypto compute further behind

Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with six major Wall Street firms to establish "AI compute" as a bankable infrastructure asset.

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CoinDesk News

Bitwise's Rasmussen: Circle is mispriced as stablecoins head toward trillions

Bitwise's Ryan Rasmussen says investors are underestimating Circle as stablecoins expand and the company builds out its payments infrastructure.

Ryan Rasmussen

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CoinDesk News

Strategy builds $4.75 billion cash cushion as only bitcoin isn’t enough for investors

Strategy is holding billions in cash after learning that traditional investors don’t necessarily view its massive bitcoin reserves as a substitute for dollars.

Phong Le

Tech

Bitcoin hits block 961,632 as the controversial BIP-110 soft fork attempt begins

The proposal has scant support from bitcoin miners and influential commentators have also voiced their opposition.

Fork in road (Beth MacDonald/Unsplash)