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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.

IREN Soars 30% After Inking $9.7B AI Cloud Deal With Tech Giant Microsoft
The deal is indicative of how miners’ once-volatile hardware fleets are increasingly viewed as strategic compute assets, bridging the gap between blockchain and AI.

'Bitcoin's Silent IPO': Analyst Addresses BTC's Lame Price Action in Viral Weekend Essay
Wildly successful ETFs, accelerating institutional adoption and friendly regulatory policy, yet bitcoin watches from the sidelines as other assets surge. What gives?

Satoshi's Bitcoin Whitepaper Turns 17: From Cypherpunk Rebellion to Wall Street Staple
Once envisioned as peer-to-peer cash, Bitcoin’s journey reflects both mainstream triumph and existential tension.

Chainlink's LINK Bounces 3.6% From Lows; Stellar Integration Expands RWA Reach
Stellar is integrating Chainlink’s CCIP, Data Feeds, and Streams to enable tokenized asset flow across chains.

Tether Profits Topped $10B in First Nine Months of Year; Starts Share Buyback Program
The stablecoin issuer saw strong growth in the third quarter, reporting a $17 billion increase in circulating USDT and $135 billion exposure to U.S. Treasuries.

