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.
Minnesota's crypto kiosk ban and its bank custody law took effect on the same August 1 date, and the two statutes point in opposite directions.
Ethereum's exit queue emptied, but 2.4 million ETH is stuck in a 42 day entry line for a 2.66% yield the Federal Reserve currently beats.
Kalshi's annualized revenue crossed $2 billion, triple its November mark, and it is in early talks with banks about an IPO. The catch: the regulated status driving the bull case is the same one under attack in court.
Three funding rounds in seven months. Annualized volume tripled to $178 billion. Five states are suing it. Coatue, Sequoia, and Morgan Stanley all wrote checks anyway.
Revenue down 31%. Stock down 5%. 700 employees gone. And the company added Bitcoin to its treasury the same quarter it posted a $482 million unrealized crypto loss.
88 trades over nine months. Average price: $350. The stock is at $170 now. The sales stopped in January. The losses started in Q1.
BTC clawed back above $67,000 on March 30, posting a 1.1% daily gain. But zoom out: this is the sixth consecutive red monthly close, matching the worst streak in Bitcoin's entire history. The last time this happened, a 300% rally followed. The market is watching whether history repeats or rewrites itself.
In March 2026, Solana briefly surpassed Ethereum in the number of wallets holding tokenized real-world assets — a milestone the Solana Foundation announced publicly. The lead lasted hours. Ethereum holds roughly $15.4 billion in RWAs. Solana holds approximately $1.7 billion. The two chains are winning on different dimensions of the same race — and neither lead is as clean as the headline suggests.
70% in seven days. DTCC working group, JPMorgan pilot, and whale accumulation all landed at once. The token absorbed a 1.94 billion unlock and kept climbing.
The largest IPO in history just disclosed the fourth-largest corporate Bitcoin position. SpaceX is targeting a $2 trillion valuation, a June Nasdaq debut under ticker SPCX, and up to $75 billion in capital raised. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are running the books.
Thursday's inflows ended a brief period of net outflows across the 12 US spot Bitcoin ETFs, with the total category recording $358.1 million on the day. Morgan Stanley's newly launched MSBT also contributed on its second trading day.
MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca on April 8, 2026 with the lowest fee in the spot Bitcoin ETF category at 0.14%, backed by a $9.3 trillion wealth management network. The question is not whether day one was strong — it was. The question is what happens when 16,000 financial advisors start routing client capital.
The once-largest US miner is now under 1,000 BTC and building six AI data centers leased to CoreWeave for 12 years. The bond sale is the clearest sign yet of where compute capital is actually going.
Cross-border, cross-bank, near real-time. The transaction ran on XRP Ledger while most banks were closed. DTCC picked Ondo for its 50-firm tokenization working group the same week.
The Binance founder told Consensus Miami that American crypto traders get worse prices than everyone else. He floated reviving Binance.US as one fix. The other option is bolder.
Morgan Stanley is one of the clearest signals of traditional finance moving into crypto, offering Bitcoin ETF access to wealth-management clients and expanding digital-asset services across its platform. This tag tracks the bank’s crypto product rollouts, its research and allocation guidance, the institutional and high-net-worth demand it channels into ETFs, and the broader Wall Street shift toward treating digital assets as a legitimate allocation. Coinliva covers the announcements, the flows, and what a major investment bank’s participation means for institutional adoption.