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Ripple Acquires Crypto Wallet Firm Palisade to Expand Institutional Payments Business
With the acquisition, Ripple aims to provide quickly-deployable wallets to boost fintech and corporate crypto payments, president Monica Long said in an interview.

Bitcoin Slides Below $106K as Cryptos Tumble, Nearing October Crash Lows
The downturn in prices rippled across derivatives markets, liquidating over $1 billion in leveraged trading positions across all digital assets Monday, CoinGlass data showed.

Strive Proposes High-Yield Preferred Stock to Expand Bitcoin Holdings
The preferred shares, dubbed SATA, are set to carry an initial 12% annual dividend, payable monthly in cash.

Tharimmune Stock Gains 30%, on $540M Capital Raise to Build Canton Coin Treasury Strategy
The nanocap biotech firm is pivoting into digital assets with a $540 million raise to build a canton coin–based treasury, backed by DRW and Liberty City Ventures.

Tom Lee's BitMine Immersion Acquires Additional $300M in Ether, Bringing Holdings to $13.7B
The company's 3.4 million of ETH tokens represents just shy of 3% of the total supply.

Michael Saylor's Strategy Added $45M in Bitcoin to Holdings Last Week
The firm mostly funded the fresh buys with sales of common stock.

RETRACTION: YZi Labs, Animoca, Gate Did Not Take Part in Standard Money Fundraising Round
A company release said Standard Money raised $8 million and named YZi Labs, Animoca, Gate and Crypto.com as participating, claims that three of the four companies denied.

Ripple Expands U.S. Institutional Offering With Introduction of Digital Asset Spot Prime Brokerage
Ripple Prime offers OTC spot trading for major cryptocurrencies including XRP and RLUSD.

Cipher Mining Surges 19% $5.5B Amazon Web Services HPC Deal
The crypto miner is pushing deeper toward AI infrastructure with AWS lease, new West Texas data center plans.

Bernstein Hikes Bitcoin Miner Targets as AI Infrastructure Play Continues to Gain Momentum
Wall Street broker Bernstein said bitcoin miners are fast becoming an essential part of the AI value chain.

