Friday, July 31, was the final trading day for six Bitwise option-income ETFs. Shareholders still holding shares as of Aug. 3 face automatic cash redemption rather than an exchange sale. The Bitwise Funds Trust board voted June 30 to liquidate ICOI, IMRA, IMST, IGME, ICRC, and IETH, according to an SEC prospectus supplement. The products…
Customarily, Michael Saylor and team have lifted the STRC dividend when it trades sizably below par, but not this month. Source: www.coindesk.com Read Full Story
That cover art is almost certainly AI, too. | Image: Fenix Flexin Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he’s recently found solo success with the track “Rubberz,” which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were…
Former Pump.fun employees say they were dismissed two months before their PUMP tokens vested. Weeks after those dates passed, the team unlocked 50 billion tokens of its own. An anonymous X (Twitter) account claiming to speak for more than 40 ex-staff began publishing termination emails this week. Pump.fun has not addressed the allegations publicly. April…
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Fintech brokerage Clear Street is launching a private markets platform, beginning with Databricks stakes, to give investors more access to late-stage startups. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story
If you ask an AI coding agent to write a standalone Python script to parse a single JSON file, it will likely give you a perfect answer in seconds. But the same agent often breaks if you ask it to build a systematic data processing pipeline, like ingesting thousands of messy documents, chunking text, scoring…
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…
The exchange reported lower quarterly revenue and a net loss as crypto trading activity declined, while subscription, stablecoin, and lending businesses continued to grow. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
Scott Bessent urged the Senate to immediately vote on the crypto market structure bill, accusing Democrats of delaying the legislation for political reasons. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story