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Despite the crypto market’s weakness, STRK is up more than 20% today.Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet’s STRK token is surging today while the broader crypto market bleeds out, ahead of STRK investor and team unlocks slated to begin in less than three weeks.STRK has performed poorly since its token generation event (TGE) in February 2024, when STRK opened at roughly $2. STRK is now down more than 96% from its opening price, and changes hands at $0.17, with a $770 million market capitalization.The token has been relatively flat in 2025 but has had a strong month, up 40% over the…

Harvard University increased its holdings of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) by 257% compared to its June position, with a reported 6,813,612 shares valued at $442.9 million as of September 30. The allocation rose from 1,906,000 shares worth about $116 million earlier this year.The same SEC filing revealed that Harvard has doubled down on gold as well, growing its GLD ETF stake by 99% to 661,391 shares valued at $235 million.Harvard University’s massive Bitcoin playAs one of the world’s largest and most closely watched university endowments, Harvard’s asset management techniques often reveal emerging trends for other institutional investors. Bloomberg ETF…

Gold investor Peter Schiff called Strategy’s business model, which hatched the biggest Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company in the world, a “fraud” on Sunday and challenged the company’s founder, Michael Saylor, to a debate. Schiff, who is one of crypto and Bitcoin’s harshest critics and a staunch gold advocate, challenged Saylor to a debate at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), in December. In a separate X post, Schiff argued:“MSTR’s business model relies on income-oriented funds buying its ‘high-yield’ preferred shares. But those published yields will never actually be paid. Once fund managers realize this, they’ll dump the preferreds.”…

SharpLink’s total revenue jumped 1,100% year over year in the third quarter of 2025. SharpLink Gaming’s Ethereum (ETH) bet appears to have paid off, as the company reported a sharp turnaround in its third-quarter 2025 results following strong treasury performance. The company’s total revenue surged to $10.8 million for the third quarter of 2025, which ended September 30. This is a 1,100% year-over-year increase from the $0.9 million reported in the same period last year. The sharp rise was primarily attributed to the strong performance of SharpLink’s ETH holdings and its strategic deployment within the Ethereum ecosystem. Q3 Results Show…

The debate between the Bitcoin (BTC) and Zcash (ZEC) communities intensified on Sunday as the price of Zcash recovered to over $700, after falling to a low of $598 on Saturday.“The ‘Bitcoin only, everything else is a scam’ crowd is going to get really twisted trying to figure out what to say about Zcash,” the CEO of investment firm Bitwise, Hunter Horsley, said in an X post, which ignited a firestorm of responses.“No, we’re pretty comfortable calling this obviously coordinated pump and dump of a VC coin a scam,” Bit Paine said in response, referencing Zcash’s 1,500% rally since October.…

Harvard University’s endowment has disclosed a $443 million stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), making the fund’s largest known equity position a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund.According to the university’s latest 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the investment fund held 6.8 million shares of IBIT as of the third quarter of 2025. The position accounts for just over 20% of its reported U.S.-listed public equity holdings.Institutional investors, such as Harvard, typically avoid exchange-traded funds, instead favoring private equity, real estate, and direct investments. That makes this move into IBIT especially notable. For context, Harvard’s entire endowment…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On-chain data shows Ethereum investors with a holding time greater than three years have ramped up their selling to levels not seen since 2021. Seasoned Ethereum Holders Are Increasing Their Distribution As explained by on-chain analytics firm Glassnode in a new post on X, the 3 to 10 years old Ethereum holders have notably raised their spending recently. These investors belong to a broader group known as the long-term holder (LTH) cohort, which has a holding time cutoff of 155 days. Statistically, the longer an investor holds…

In a world of fast-advancing technology, we are told to trust in our own research. But as the crypto space matures, scams and exploits remain a constant presence. When your assets are gone, they are gone forever, with a near-zero chance of recovery. The old mantra of “Do Your Own Research” falls short against sophisticated threats like address poisoning, advanced malware, and convincing AI deepfakes. How, then, do we build a safer Web3 without sacrificing the decentralized ideals at its core?🎙️ Listen to Interview📺 Watch VideoEpisode DescriptionIn a world of fast-advancing technology, we are told to trust in our own…

Four days after Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation proposed merging their operations and activating the long-awaited fee switch, a X spat between the protocol’s founder and Gary Gensler’s former chief of staff reopened wounds that the crypto industry thought had healed.The exchange wasn’t just about a governance vote, it was a proxy war for how Washington and Web3 remember 2022, and whether decentralization was ever more than regulatory theater.Amanda Fischer, now at Better Markets after serving as SEC chief of staff under Gensler, fired first.On Nov. 14, she posted that Uniswap’s proposal of consolidating Foundation operations into the for-profit…

On Nov. 14, Kevin McCordic of Monad and investor Nic Carter offered opposing reads on crypto’s 2025 slump, splitting over whether it’s routine consolidation or a catalyst-light grind.McCordic, director of growth at Monad Foundation who goes by “intern” on X, argued that today’s jitters are modest compared with 2022, when credit lenders failed, exchanges imploded and cascading liquidations hit tokens. He cast the drawdown as uncomfortable but typical consolidation after crisis and said crypto is embedded in global finance and “things are going to be ok.”Carter, a general partner at Castle Island Ventures and cofounder of Coin Metrics, countered that…