Sam Bankman-Fried, serving a 25-year sentence for the FTX fraud, officially filed a clemency petition with the White House on Monday seeking a presidential pardon from Trump — even after the president had previously told him not to count on one.
Strategy's late-May 8-K filing shows the firm sold 32 BTC at an average $77,135 to fund preferred-stock dividends, breaking from its 'never sell' stance as Bitcoin slid to $72,000.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon blasted Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong over the CLARITY Act's stablecoin-rewards provision, warning 'the banks will not accept it' as the bank-versus-crypto lobbying fight enters its public phase.
JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon said the bank would fight the crypto market-structure Clarity Act and attacked Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong's support for it, sharpening a Wall Street–crypto clash over the bill.
CNBC report says Musk has discussed combining the two companies; their joint 30,221 BTC stash would be worth about $3.3bn, behind only Strategy, Twenty One Capital, Mallers's firm and one other.
Donald Trump said it is 'critically important' for the CFTC to retain 'exclusive authority' over prediction markets and attacked state officials suing platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket as 'scum,' siding with CFTC Chair Michael Selig's federal-pre-emption push.
British financial institutions are barred from dealing with HTX and may have to freeze on-chain transactions that passed through it; foreign secretary Yvette Cooper says Kremlin cannot 'hide behind crypto networks'.
Vitalik Buterin defended the Ethereum Foundation as 'one node' rather than the center of the ecosystem, pushed back at critics calling for ETH price support, and said the EF will sell less ETH amid researcher departures.
Executive order titled 'Integrating Financial Technology Innovation into Regulatory Frameworks' gives regulators three months to audit barriers and six months to act.
In a Monday blog post, Ethereum's co-founder argued AI-assisted formal verification of code could be 'far more secure than the way programming has been done before.'
An 8-K filing shows Strategy acquired 24,869 BTC for $2.01bn between May 11 and 17, funded almost entirely by STRC preferred-stock sales.
Strategy's chairman ran a weekend campaign for proxy votes ahead of a June 8 deadline while flagging a likely BTC purchase this week.
The bipartisan leaders of the House Agriculture Committee asked Trump to nominate a full panel of CFTC commissioners, citing the rulemaking the CLARITY Act would require.
Strategy entered an agreement Friday to retire $1.5bn of its 2029 convertible notes for about $1.38bn, listing bitcoin sales among the funding options as it pares an $8.2bn debt stack.
The Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act advanced Thursday on a bipartisan vote, sending the crypto market-structure bill toward a full Senate floor test after a contentious markup.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly backed the CLARITY Act before a Thursday Senate Banking Committee markup, calling the digital-asset market-structure bill the closest crypto has come to comprehensive US rules.
Treasury firm adds 535 BTC after last week's pause; Saylor says Strategy will buy 30 BTC for every one sold.
Michael Saylor's Strategy purchased 535 bitcoin for $43 million, lifting total holdings to 818,869 BTC and pairing the buy with his framing that the firm would acquire 10 to 20 coins for every one it sells.
