Auteur/autrice : Alberto

Venture capital investment in crypto rebounded in the second quarter of 2025, with companies raising $10.03 billion over the three-month period ending June. It was the strongest quarter since Q1 2022, at $16.64 billion.June accounted for the lion’s share, pulling in $5.14 billion, the highest monthly figure since January 2022, according to data from CryptoRank. The surge followed months of relative stagnation, suggesting that the appetite for crypto is recovering.Leading the pack, Strive Funds, an asset manager founded by American entrepreneur and politician Vivek Ramaswamy, secured $750 million in May to establish “alpha-generating” strategies through Bitcoin (BTC)-related purchases.TwentyOneCapital secured $585…

Despite the Bitcoin price holding up quite nicely above $100,000 and remaining very close to its all-time high levels, there continues to be expectations of a massive crash that would rock the market. Pseudonymous crypto analyst FriendlyRox points to a number of indicators for this, going from volume to momentum, all pointing to a possible price crash. What is the expected result of this? Losing the $100,000 psychological level and then falling to previous peaks. Bitcoin Price At Risk With Dwindling Volume And Momentum In the analysis, FriendlyRox highlighted the decline in major metrics such as momentum and volume as…

Once it was logged by the MPC, it was Farnocchia’s job to try to plot out 2024 YR4’s possible paths through space, checking to see if any of them overlapped with our planet’s. He works at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) in California, where he’s partly responsible for keeping track of all the known asteroids and comets in the solar system. “We have 1.4 million objects to deal with,” he says, matter-of-factly.  In the past, astronomers would have had to stitch together multiple images of this asteroid and plot out its possible trajectories. Today, fortunately, Farnocchia has some…

The TON Foundation stated that this program resulted from an independent collaboration with a licensed partner, explaining that the UAE government had no direct involvement. “Application alone does not guarantee visa issuance,” the foundation emphasized, following the denials of involvement from government institutions regarding this initiative. TON Foundation Explains Status of Its 10-Year UAE Golden […]

Singapore-based cloud Bitcoin miner BitFuFu has logged its most significant production month for the year, attributed to an expanded mining fleet. BitFuFu said on Monday it mined 445 Bitcoin in June, representing an 11.3% month-over-month increase for the firm. It said that 387 Bitcoin (BTC) came from cloud mining and 58 from self-mining.Leo Lu, chairman and CEO of BitFuFu, said June has been its “most productive month of 2025,” which he attributes to the “continued expansion of our mining fleet.”In January, BitFuFu said it had signed a two-year agreement with mining hardware giant Bitmain to purchase up to 80,000 Bitcoin miners. BitFuFu…

A lot of criticism has been circulating after the recent announcement that Wallet of Satoshi will be returning to the United States shortly thanks to the integration of Lightspark’s recent “Spark” system, specifically focusing around the issue of trust models and whether the new version of Wallet of Satoshi constitutes a noncustodial wallet or not.  Spark is a system based on statechains (explainer article there). Statechains don’t have the most clear cut trust model. Spark is essentially the channel factory version of statechains, with numerous statechains nested inside of a transaction tree built on a single on-chain UTXO.  Statechains are…

Image credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games The Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) 2025 has eliminated another contestant as Chinese team, Anyone’s Legend (AL) defeats Asia-Pacific representative, CTBC Flying Oyster (CFO). After taking T1 to five games and sending home KOI, the LCP Mid Season winner ultimately suffered a 1-3 loss in today’s Bracket Stage series. Keep Reading LEC is the first region eliminated from MSI 2025 T1 dominates over Bilibili Gaming, CTBC Flying Oyster eliminates Movistar KOI from MSI 2025 Anyone’s Legend secures FlyQuest victory in MSI 2025 debut CTBC Flying Oyster Gets Out-Drafted by Anyone’s Legend In the first game, CFO was…

Strategy (previously MicroStrategy), the Bitcoin proxy firm co-founded by Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor, has made headlines once again on Monday, but not for its usual Bitcoin acquisitions, but for its notable absence of purchases during the week of June 30 to July 6.  This marks the first time since late March that the largest corporate holder of BTC has not added to its impressive treasury, which currently stands at 597,325 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $64.71 billion. Strategy Bitcoin Investment Hits A Pause The lack of activity in Bitcoin acquisitions is surprising, especially given Strategy’s aggressive purchases over the past few…

The Blockchain Group (Euronext Paris: ALTBG) has confirmed the acquisition of 116 bitcoin for approximately €10.7 million (about $12,5M), bringing its total holdings to 1,904 BTC, valued at around €172 million (approximately $202M). This announcement follows the final completion of a capital increase as part of the “ATM-type” capital increase program with TOBAM, which raised […]

Bit Digital has officially pivoted to a fully Ethereum-based treasury strategy, dumping its remaining Bitcoin holdings in favor of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. According to a press release on July 7, the Nasdaq-listed company has sold about 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and now has about 100,603 Ethereum (ETH), making it one of the biggest institutional Ethereum holders in the world. The strategic pivot follows Bit Digital’s $172 million public offering in June, the proceeds of which were used exclusively to purchase Ethereum. The company already held 24,434 ETH as of March 31, 2025. With its recent acquisitions, it has now quadrupled…