Institutions Sold Bitcoin ETFs in Q2. The Big Banks Added More.
The Q2 13F filings read like an exit from Bitcoin ETFs. But JPMorgan added 25 percent and Morgan Stanley grew its total position instead.
The Q2 13F filings read like an exit from Bitcoin ETFs. But JPMorgan added 25 percent and Morgan Stanley grew its total position instead.
The OCC gave World Liberty a national trust bank charter on August 14. The win serves its $4 billion USD1 stablecoin, not WLFI, which gained just 0.7%.
Payward, Kraken's parent, grew Q2 revenue 17% to $508M while adjusted EBITDA fell 71% and trading volume dropped 18%. The lift came from client balances.
Akedo's AKE token hit an all-time high on August 14 as a $7.5M short squeeze fired, but a 23% float, a $1B FDV, and a fresh unlock sit days away.
Tether's first full KPMG audit certifies a December 2025 snapshot. Its own June report shows the reserve buffer already down 40 percent.
Capricorn's buyback moved 5.3% of APR supply from early investors to its treasury and burned none of it, yet the token still doubled.
Bitwise says revenue-funded buybacks could double crypto valuations. Aave's buyback is paused and over $23M underwater with AAVE at $87.
StablecoinX holds about 3.029 billion ENA worth near $253 million. Its own Nasdaq stock is valued around $87 million, a third of the coins it sits on.
StablecoinX reports a 20% ENA stake. Against the 9.83B circulating float, its 3 billion tokens are closer to 31%, and already booked at a loss.
US spot Ethereum ETFs beat Bitcoin's again on August 13, but the win was $7.4M of inflow against a $61M Bitcoin outflow. The rotation is thin.
Metaplanet says it moved 5,014 BTC between its own wallets and sold nothing. On-chain trackers logged 3,881 BTC. The 1,133 gap is the story.
Story Protocol, now the DATA Foundation, skipped its August 13 insider unlock a second time in six months and gave no wallet, token count, or new date.
Riot Platforms lost 237M in Q2 and now pays nearly 50,000 dollars to mine one Bitcoin. Its new 9.1B Anthropic AI lease quietly pays more.
A memo-verification bug drained 99.7% of the Coreum bridge, taking 199,916 XRP. The hack was worth about $202,000, not the reason XRP fell under $1.
Bitcoin volume just hit a 2023 low while open interest held above its two-year average. K33 warns the quiet market is primed for liquidation moves.
A consensus bug let invalid Ravencoin blocks slip in on August 7. Days later two mining pools, not the core developers, are rolling the chain back.