Peter Thiel went to zero in ETHZilla, and the ETH treasury company trade just got a lot more real
On Feb. 17, an amended 13G/A posted to ETHZilla’s investor site listed Peter Thiel and Founders Fund-related vehicles at zero shares and 0.0% beneficial ownership.
The filing also stamped a “date of event” of Dec. 31, 2025, which sets the timing frame for what the document captures, a beneficial...
Bitcoin's ongoing price struggles is turning into a market defined less by “bad news” and more by mechanics, the kind that can keep a downtrend alive even when selling looks tired.
According to CryptoSlate's data, the BTC price is down approximately 46% from the record high near $126,000 set in early October 2025 and trading around $67,470 as of press time.
Glassnode has described the post-...
XRP network health scorecard: wallets, trustlines, DEX volume, uptime
Key takeaways
Ripple and Aviva Investors said Feb. 11 they intend to tokenize traditional fund structures onto the XRP Ledger “over 2026 and beyond.”
Messari’s State of XRP Ledger Q4 2025 reported 425,400 total new addresses in Q4 2025 (down 4.9% QoQ) and average daily active addresses of about 49,000, alongside 1.83 million...
An obscure Hong Kong firm has disclosed a $436 million position in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, a revelation that is fueling speculation about Chinese capital flowing into crypto through offshore side doors.
Laurore Ltd, a previously unknown entity, reported the stake in BlackRock Inc.’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The disclosure...
Bitwise's February announcement arrived as two moves packaged as one. The crypto asset manager announced a partnership with Morpho to launch curated yield vaults and simultaneously acquired Chorus One's institutional staking business.
It looks like a deliberate assembly: curation mechanisms to filter protocol risk, infrastructure to deliver returns, and enough operational scaffolding to make the...
BlackRock has sharpened the staking posture for its iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB), outlining a plan to keep most of the fund’s ETH staked and earning rewards rather than held in custody.
In its latest amended filing, the sponsor said that under normal market circumstances, it would seek to keep 70% to 95% of the fund’s ETH staked.
The remainder would sit in what it calls a Liquidity...
Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it produced an awkward result.
Roskomnadzor began throttling Telegram on Feb. 10, citing “non-compliance.” Two days later, authorities fully blocked WhatsApp, removing its domains from Russia's national registry and forcing users toward VPNs or MAX, a state-backed messenger that critics...
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has become the public market’s most widely traded Bitcoin proxy, using equity, convertible notes, and preferred stock to build a balance sheet dominated by the top crypto.
However, as Bitcoin trades near $68,000 and Strategy shares hover below $130, investors are paying closer attention to the mechanisms that allow the company to continue buying BTC without...
The Bitcoin “buy zone” meme just got real again, here’s what it means in the ETF era
A certain kind of Bitcoin post shows up right on schedule. It usually arrives right after price stops feeling fun.
This week it came from PricedinBTC, dressed up as a neat table titled “Forward Returns by Drawdown Level.”
The headline numbers do the heavy lifting, buying at a 50% drawdown supposedly delivers...
A botched home invasion in the Paris suburbs on Feb. 12 marked a tactical shift in crypto's physical-threat or “wrench attack” landscape.
The target, according to French media reports, was the CEO of Binance France. Binance confirmed an employee was targeted and said the employee and family are safe.
Two phones were stolen before the suspects were arrested at Lyon Perrache station. The assailants...