🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🚨 Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiating investment deal, with Microsoft potentially giving up a portion of its equity for continued OpenAI model access beyond 2030, per FT.
🔥 Conor McGregor to meet El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to discuss building a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in Ireland.
⚡️ Coinbase considered adopting a Saylor-like Bitcoin investment strategy multiple times since 2012 but opted out each time, according to Bloomberg.
🔥Metaplanet bought 1,241 $BTC worth $126.7M, totalling to 6,796 $BTC on its balance sheet.
🇺🇸The SEC Crypto Task Force roundtable will discuss tokenization at 1.00 PM ET with panelists from BlackRock, Fidelity, Nasdaq and more.
🚨US cuts tariffs from 145% to 30% on Chinese imports, while China reduces duties from 125% to 10% on US goods. Both countries announce 90-day temporary reduction to cool trade tensions.
🚨BlackRock’s $IBIT bought 10,572 Bitcoin this week while only 3,150 were mined on average.
🇺🇸 Northern Mariana Islands Senate overrides governor's veto of stablecoin bill, giving it a second chance.
🇺🇸 US Treasury Secretary Bessent says “we want a decoupling with China for strategic necessities” in a CNBC interview.
🚨 BlackRock files to allow in-kind redemptions for its Ethereum Trust, enabling direct $ETH buybacks.
🔥Strategy acquires 13,390 $BTC for $1.34B, raising total holdings to 568,840 $BTC worth $39.41B at an average of $69,287 per coin.
🚨 SEC Chair Paul Atkins calls it a “new day” at the agency, ending enforcement-first tactics and pledging fit-for-purpose crypto rules.
🇺🇸 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce makes the case for better crypto regulation: “Tokenization cannot reach its full potential without legal clarity."
🚨 Over $215,000,000 has been liquidated from the crypto market in the last 60 minutes.
🇺🇸 ADIN ROSS: “I think Ethereum is going to hit 5k.” Adin Ross has previously claimed he put $10,000,000 into $ETH.
🚨 American Bitcoin announces go-public merger with Nasdaq-listed Gryphon Digital Mining, aiming to become a leading vehicle for large-scale $BTC accumulation under the ticker ABTC.
🚨 Coinbase ($COIN) is set to join the S&P 500.
🔥 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong declares “Coinbase just became the first and only crypto company to join the S&P 500.”
@Cointelegraph
