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Saylor shares Strategy Bitcoin chart showing 849,327 BTC after sell-off
Michael Saylor posted a chart of Strategy's 849,327 BTC holdings, valued at $64.4bn, days after the company disclosed an 811 BTC purchase and a $208m preferred-stock buyback.
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Jameson Lopp says wrench attack archive passes 700 after AI-assisted search
Jameson Lopp's archive of physical attacks on crypto holders has more than doubled to about 702 cases after researcher Pizza Bitcoiner used AI-assisted searches to find hundreds of overlooked reports.
Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo say tokenisation is a growth play
Executives at Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley used third-quarter earnings calls to set out how tokenisation could expand trading, speed cross-border payments and support wealth advice.
Bitcoin and ether ETFs lose $152m as BlackRock drives Friday selling
US crypto funds ended the week with fresh outflows, Bitcoin ETFs shedding $82.4m and ether funds $69.7m, while NEAR was the only category to attract new money.
StepFun launches STEPX Neo phone built around its Amoo AI agent
The Tencent-backed Chinese startup has opened pre-orders for a 3,999-yuan handset running its own Step AOS 1.0, with an AI agent embedded in the operating system rather than an app.
Citrini says tokenisation gives blockchains a role, but profit winners stay unclear
Citrini Research argues in a 79-page report that tokenised real-world assets finally give blockchains a clear financial purpose, though investors still face the question of which companies and network
Polygon Labs says Coinme acquisition opens payments push against Visa and Stripe
Polygon Labs has completed its purchase of the US-regulated crypto payments provider Coinme, and its CEO says the regulated payments business should turn profitable in 2027.
