Zhibao Technology, a Shanghai-based insurance-technology firm listed on the Nasdaq, said Wednesday it has signed a non-binding term sheet for a stock sale that would be paid for in bitcoin — some 3,500 coins, worth near $220 million at current prices.
The deal, a private investment in public equity known as a PIPE, would have a buyer named Joyertech and Information OPC subscribe for Zhibao shares with consideration the company expects to include about 3,500 BTC.
The figure remains subject to final valuation, custody arrangements, an audit, regulatory review, and definitive agreements. Zhibao stressed that the term sheet binds no one, and that the transaction may change or fall through.
The structure hints at a familiar move. Zhibao (NASDAQ: ZBAO), which pioneered a “2B2C” embedded-insurance model in China and launched the country’s first digital insurance brokerage platform in 2020, would keep running its existing business at first.
Yet the buyer would name a majority of the board at closing, a control transition that would hand the newcomers the steering wheel while the current team minds the legacy operation until a later “separation, disposition, or other restructuring.”
$220 million in bitcoin has a new owner
In plain terms, a modest insurance-tech company would become a home for a large pile of bitcoin, with new owners in charge. Rather than raise cash and buy coins on the market, Zhibao would take the bitcoin itself as payment, a swap that seats a treasury on its balance sheet from day one.
Behind ZBAO are employees, insurance clients, and a founding team that built something new in a crowded market, and the term sheet would fold that story into a treasury vehicle shaped by people who may value the shell as much as the business.
For the current staff, the promise is continuity “until the separation” — words that carry their own uncertainty.
The wager holds warning signs. Analysts have called the treasury boom a bubble, and some treasury firms have started selling their coins under market pressure this year.
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Hyperscale Data, Inc. has announced that it’s upped its Bitcoin holdings to over 1,000 digital coins.
The New York Stock Exchange-listed company said Tuesday that it had over 1,087.4527 BTC as of Sunday — or $72.4 million based on today’s prices.
The holdings are split across the company’s wholly owned subsidiaries, Sentinum, Inc. and Ault Capital Group, Inc. (ACG). During the week ended July 19, ACG added roughly 51.5 bitcoin through open-market purchases.
The latest disclosure marks a significant acceleration in Hyperscale Data’s accumulation strategy. The AI data center company held just 627.9 BTC in late March 2026 — meaning it has nearly doubled its position, adding about 460 BTC in under four months.
The buildout is part of the company’s goal of establishing a $100 million digital asset treasury and reaching full parity between its Bitcoin holdings and market capitalization. With a market cap of roughly $63 million, that threshold has now been crossed — the company’s bitcoin alone is worth more than the company itself, before counting cash or its operating businesses.
Executive Chairman Milton “Todd” Ault III leaned into that disconnect, stating, “We now hold more than $70 million in Bitcoin.” He argued the market is assigning zero value to the company’s cash, its Michigan data center, and its portfolio of operating businesses, and said Hyperscale will keep executing while highlighting the widening gap between its market capitalization and underlying value.
At the time of writing, GPUS is trading near $0.13 a share.
Hyperscale is following the Bitcoin treasury strategy playbook
Strategy Inc. (MSTR) has become the flagship case study in the evolution of Bitcoin treasury strategies in the corporate world.
Under the leadership of Michael Saylor, Strategy shifted from a traditional software business to buying Bitcoin and allowing investors to get exposure to the asset via its shares which trade on the Nasdaq.
This model has inspired other corporations like Hyperscale Data to add the leading cryptocurrency to their treasuries — though Hyperscale’s case is unusual in that its holdings now exceed its entire market cap, a situation more commonly seen in deeply discounted treasury plays.
Metaplanet Unit Secures ¥9.66B Financing As Bitcoin Treasury Plan Expands
Metaplanet’s Bitcoin strategy is expanding again, this time through a financing agreement tied to its subsidiary Bitcoin Japan.
The company said Bitcoin Japan signed an agreement with EVO Fund for financing of up to ¥9.66 billion, or roughly $59.5 million. The structure includes zero-coupon convertible bonds and stock acquisition rights, with an initial ¥662 million, or about $4 million, earmarked for immediate Bitcoin acquisition.
That distinction matters.
The full financing facility is not being put into Bitcoin immediately. The initial BTC allocation is much smaller than the total headline figure, while the remaining capital is expected to support broader private equity and operational expansion.
Even so, the deal adds another layer to Metaplanet’s growing role as one of Asia’s most visible Bitcoin treasury companies.
TL;DR
Metaplanet subsidiary Bitcoin Japan secured financing of up to ¥9.66 billion.
An initial ¥662 million is allocated for immediate Bitcoin purchases.
The structure uses zero-coupon convertible bonds and stock acquisition rights.
Metaplanet has become one of the clearest examples of the corporate Bitcoin treasury model outside the United States.
The basic idea is familiar now: raise or allocate capital, buy Bitcoin, hold it as a reserve asset, and turn the company into a public-market proxy for BTC exposure. MicroStrategy made that approach famous in the US. Metaplanet has helped carry the narrative into Japan.
The latest financing agreement shows the strategy becoming more structured.
Rather than simply announcing a spot purchase, Metaplanet is using a subsidiary-level financing arrangement with EVO Fund. That gives the company more flexibility and shows how Bitcoin treasury strategies can evolve into broader capital-market programs.
The immediate Bitcoin allocation is ¥662 million, which is meaningful but much smaller than the full ¥9.66 billion facility. That is an important nuance for investors.
The headline financing capacity is not the same as the amount being deployed into BTC on day one.
Why Convertible Financing Matters
Convertible bonds and stock acquisition rights are common tools for companies trying to raise capital while preserving flexibility.
For a Bitcoin treasury company, that kind of financing can be especially useful. It can provide capital for BTC purchases or business expansion without requiring immediate asset sales. But it can also create dilution or future equity issuance depending on how the instruments are structured.
That is why investors need to look past the Bitcoin headline.
A financing facility can support growth, but it also changes the company’s capital structure. Shareholders will want to know how much future issuance may occur, how the proceeds are used, and whether the Bitcoin strategy improves long-term value per share.
Metaplanet’s approach appears designed to balance immediate Bitcoin accumulation with broader business expansion.
The market will judge that balance over time.
Japan’s Bitcoin Treasury Story Is Getting More Serious
The Japanese angle is important.
Bitcoin treasury companies are no longer just a US phenomenon. Public companies in other markets are increasingly exploring BTC as a balance-sheet asset, especially where local currency weakness, capital-market conditions, or investor demand make the strategy attractive.
Metaplanet has been one of the most watched names in that trend.
Its continued financing activity suggests the company is not treating Bitcoin as a short-term trade. It is building a more durable structure around BTC exposure, fundraising, and related operations.
That could encourage other companies in Asia to examine similar models.
But it also raises the bar. Once a company becomes known for a Bitcoin treasury strategy, investors expect disciplined execution. Capital raises, BTC purchases, and reserve management all become closely watched.
The Market Needs Precision
The main thing to avoid is overstating the deal.
Metaplanet did not say the entire ¥9.66 billion facility is immediately being used to buy Bitcoin. The initial direct BTC allocation is ¥662 million. The rest supports a wider financing and operational plan.
That does not weaken the story. It makes it more accurate.
Bitcoin treasury strategies are becoming more complex. They involve financing instruments, subsidiaries, investor relations, dilution risk, and long-term capital planning. The companies that manage those pieces well may become more credible treasury vehicles. Those that rely only on headline purchases may face more scrutiny.
Metaplanet’s latest agreement shows the strategy maturing.
It gives the company new financing capacity, adds an immediate Bitcoin purchase allocation, and reinforces its position as a major non-US corporate BTC treasury name.
The next thing to watch is how quickly that initial allocation is executed and whether Metaplanet expands the BTC portion of the facility over time.
This article is based on Metaplanet company materials and its public statement.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
This report is based on information released in official primary source disclosures at primary source documentation.
Bitcoin’s price jumped Tuesday to its highest in over one month, bringing crypto stocks like Bitcoin treasury’s Strategy with it.
The Bitcoin price was recently priced at $66,886, up nearly 3% in 24 hours. Over the past seven days, the leading cryptocurrency has risen by close to 6%.
Its rise comes as stocks also trade higher — despite tensions in the Middle East flaring up again.
Nasdaq-listed Strategy (MSTR), formerly MicroStrategy, also jumped above $100 per share on Tuesday.
The price jump comes even as the Bitcoin juggernaut on Monday revealed it did not make its usual crypto buy, instead reporting the sale of a $225 million in MSTR shares, which it used for its dollar reserve.
Strategy stock plunged with the price of Bitcoin last year, and is currently well below its November 2024 peak of $473.83.
The software company, which started buying Bitcoin in 2020 as an inflation hedge, holds at 843,775 BTC, a position worth around $56.2 billion at current prices.
Other Nasdaq-listed crypto stocks, including America’s biggest crypto exchange, Coinbase (COIN) and Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital (MARA), also surged on Tuesday. COIN at the time of writing was up 11% and MARA was trading over 6% higher.
Middle East flare up
Bitcoin’s price has taken a hit so far in 2026, and is currently down nearly 24% year-to-date. Since the leading crypto notched a new record of $126,080 in October, it has shed close to 50% of its value.
The asset first got hit hard in October when the biggest crash in the history of the industry liquidated more than $19 billion in crypto bets.
Then, crypto markets got hit harder after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February, driving oil prices higher and deepening uncertainty around global inflation.
Investors are now not expecting the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates anytime soon. More inflation comes less chance of interest rate cuts, which restricts the liquidity that Bitcoin needs to surge.
Iran and the U.S. continue to fight, ending a truce, but Bitcoin seems immune to the latest flare up.
As of July 20–21, the U.S. carried out its 10th straight night of strikes on Iranian military targets, with Trump vowing retaliation for three American service members killed and the Pentagon reporting nearly 100 U.S. troops injured over two weeks.
Oil spiked past $90 on a dead US soldier and two ships burning in Hormuz, then a ten-day ceasefire proposal knocked it back under $88 — and Bitcoin used the relief to finally tag $65K, only to be turned away at the exact number it has chased for a month.
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The Verdict
BTC — Short-term (3–5 months): BTC at $65,503 (+1.55%) did the thing this digest has flagged for weeks — it reached $65K — and then got exactly what a resistance line is supposed to give: rejection. The tape ran straight into a $65,000 wall#1 and stalled there rather than through it. That is not a failure of the thesis; it is the test arriving. For a month the question was whether BTC could even get to the number. Now it has, on a live weekday tape with oil and equities open, and the sellers were waiting for it. The read flips accordingly: $65K is no longer the level that would flip scare to strength — it is the level actively being defended, and a daily close above it is what converts a tag into a breakout. $62K remains the floor a close below turns into a confirmed lower low.
BTC — Long-term (1–3 years): The multi-year case does not care which side of $65K the tape closes tonight. Supply is capped and grinding toward 21 million, exchange floats keep thinning as coins settle into custody, and the corporate treasuries that soaked up float this cycle keep holding it — Strategy alone sits on 843,775 coins. At $65,503, bought from a market still sitting in Fear, you are paying for verifiable scarcity while a regional war and an AI-valuation wobble set the near-term number. Both are live risks to this quarter’s price; neither changes how many coins will ever exist.
ETH — Short-term: ETH at $1,900.44 (+1.66%) cleared back above $1,900 and led the majors again, extending off the $1,800 weekly-close shelf that anchors its death-cross repair. The repair is intact and adding room. The burden of proof is unchanged from every prior edition: a weekly close holding above $1,800, not an intraday print, is what keeps the recovery alive. The complication under the surface is demand — the treasury bid that carried ETH is easing, with Tom Lee’s Bitmine slowing its ether buys to fund an $86 million stock buyback#2. Price led anyway, which tells you the bid is broader than one buyer.
ETH — Long-term: Ethereum remains the settlement layer regulated finance reaches for when it puts real assets on-chain, and at $1,900 you are buying it in the lower third of its multi-year range. Stablecoin float, tokenized funds and staking yield are forms of demand that compound on usage rather than on price, and that plumbing keeps getting laid whether one treasury buyer is accumulating or on pause. Over a multi-year horizon it is the usage curve, not this quarter’s corporate flow, that has historically set direction.
ADA — Short-term: ADA at $0.1666 (+0.42%) was the laggard of the majors, ticking up a fraction while the rest of the board moved harder — but it has a genuine catalyst on the clock for once. Cardano’s Van Rossum hard fork#3 is a real protocol upgrade, not a decentralization press release. The lesson from last week still stands, though: a Cardano upgrade headline tends to fade inside 48 hours because the market prices ADA on throughput, not on roadmap events. Watch whether this one converts to sustained on-chain activity — an upgrade that lifts usage is a re-rate; one that just ships is a footnote.
ADA — Long-term: Over a multi-year horizon ADA remains a bet that the gap between what the network runs and what its roughly $6.2 billion market cap implies eventually closes. Do the arithmetic yourself: set on-chain transaction counts, fee revenue and stablecoin float against the cap, and decide whether the market is pricing execution risk or ignoring delivery. Van Rossum is the kind of event that could start narrowing that gap if it lifts activity — but the delivery has to show up in the numbers, not the announcement. Size the position to the answer you can defend.
SOL / BNB / XRP: The tail led the tape today rather than trailing it. SOL at $77.62 (+2.04%) was the strongest major, clearing the $75 shelf it reclaimed over the weekend and adding to it. XRP at $1.11 (+1.56%) pushed firmly above $1.08. BNB at $574.11 (+0.78%) reclaimed $570 after Friday’s slip. When the highest-beta names lead green on a live weekday book, that is a cleaner risk-on signal than the same move on a thin weekend — but it stalled into the same $65K ceiling that capped BTC, so read it as appetite meeting resistance, not appetite breaking through.
Then diplomacy vented the premium. The barrel gave it all back. A reported ten-day US–Iran ceasefire proposal knocked oil back below $87 a barrel#7, and Brent closed the window at $87.96 (−0.16%) — below where it sat before the weekend’s casualties. The frozen barrel this digest kept calling “the tell” got its reopen, spiked on the war, and then faded on the prospect of a pause. That is the whole arc in one session: the oil market decided a ceasefire proposal outweighs a dead soldier and two burning ships. The premium was vented by a headline, not resolved by facts on the ground — which means it can snap back the moment the proposal stalls.
Crypto took the relief and ran at its ceiling. With the war’s oil premium draining, the 24/7 tape did what a relief bid does — every major printed green and BTC used the room to finally tag $65K. But the same session that let it reach the number is the session that rejected it there, because the macro backdrop under the relief is not clean: US equities stayed heavy, with the S&P −0.53% and Nasdaq −0.50% grinding lower on a “record” institutional tech sell-off#1. Crypto rallied into a resistance line while the tech complex it correlates with bled. Something has to give.
Fear didn’t buy the relief. The tell today is sentiment that refused to move. The Fear & Greed Index ticked from 28 to just 29 — still Fear#8, a single point, on a day the whole board rallied and oil collapsed off $90. Price took the relief; the crowd did not. That gap — green tape, flat fear — is the opposite of a market convinced the danger has passed. It is a bounce that positioning does not yet trust, which is precisely the kind of setup that rejects at resistance.
Institutional Pulse
The sharpest institutional signal this window is what the biggest holder didn’t do. For the second consecutive week, Strategy sold $263.5 million in MSTR shares and bought no bitcoin#9, lifting its cash reserve to a record $3.225 billion while leaving its 843,775-coin stack untouched. Read it straight: the most reflexive corporate buyer of this cycle is raising dollars, not coins, into a market sitting under $65K. That is not selling — the BTC didn’t move — but it is a conspicuous pause from the name whose buying set the tone, and it lands in the same week Bitmine slowed its ether purchases to fund a buyback. The two loudest treasury bids in crypto both eased off the accelerator at once.
The bid that is accelerating sits one layer out, in the miner-to-AI pivot. Hut 8 and IREN landed billions in fresh AI data-center contracts#10, with IREN raising its AI cloud revenue target above $4 billion. It is worth naming what that means for the space: the companies built to mine Bitcoin are increasingly valued for renting compute to AI, not for the coins they produce. That is capital rotating through the crypto complex toward the AI trade — the same AI trade whose “record” sell-off is capping equities. The miners are hedged into the thing that is simultaneously the market’s biggest risk.
On flow mechanics, the reminder that fits a session like this: when a relief rally tags a known resistance line intraday and stalls, the exchange tape shows you the retail reflex, not the desks. The size that decides whether $65K breaks or holds clears through OTC and dark venues that don’t print on the live feed. A green candle into the wall tells you appetite exists; it doesn’t tell you the institutions are the ones supplying it.
Signals Worth Watching
$65K is now a tested ceiling, not a target. The level this digest chased for a month has been reached and rejected once, on a live tape. That changes what to watch: a daily close above $65K converts the tag into a breakout and opens room higher; a rejection that rolls back toward $62K puts the lower-low risk back on the table. The number is no longer aspirational — it is the battle line.
The ceasefire proposal is the whole oil trade now. Brent gave back a $90 spike on a proposed ten-day pause, not a signed one. If the proposal firms into an actual ceasefire, the war premium keeps draining and the risk bid has room. If it stalls — and two ships just exploded in Hormuz — crude snaps back and drags the relief rally with it. Watch the headline, not the barrel; the barrel is only echoing it.
Green tape, flat fear — the disagreement favors caution. Sentiment moving one point while the board rallies is the market telling you positioning doesn’t believe the bounce. Either fear catches up to price and the rally has legs, or price rolls back to meet fear. On a relief bid stalling at resistance with equities bleeding, the second path is the one with more evidence behind it.
The invalidation levels. $65K for BTC is the reclaim a daily close confirms; $62K is the floor a close below turns into a confirmed lower low; $1,800 for ETH is the weekly-close shelf holding the death-cross repair. Today bought the tag, not the close.
If I Had $100 This Month
The setup is a relief rally that reached its ceiling and got turned away, on a day the war’s oil premium drained into a ceasefire proposal that isn’t signed and a fear gauge that refused to budge. That is neither a breakout to chase nor a break to flee. It is a mark-down being tested at resistance, priced by a market that doesn’t yet believe its own bounce. Keep buying on schedule, keep it small, and let a close above $65K — not a tag — confirm before adding size.
$60 → BTC. Buying capped supply near $65.5K from a market still in Fear, right at the ceiling it’s been chasing, is the accumulation case at its clearest test.
$25 → ETH. Holding above its $1,800 repair shelf and leading green even as one big treasury buyer eases off — bought in the lower third of its range.
$15 → ADA. The laggard with a real upgrade on the clock — size it to the throughput the hard fork actually delivers, not to the headline it just made.
Hold actual coins. Not ETF shares, not equity proxies.
This is how I’d think about it. Make your own call.
Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying As Cash Reserve Hits $3.225B
Strategy has paused its weekly Bitcoin buying while building a $3.225 billion cash reserve, giving the market a clearer look at how the company is balancing its aggressive BTC treasury strategy with debt and preferred dividend obligations.
The company’s latest Form 8-K shows that Strategy held 843,775 BTC as of the filing, acquired for a total cost of $63.69 billion at an average price of $75,476 per Bitcoin. But the key update is what did not happen: Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases during the week of July 13–19.
Instead, the company raised $263.5 million by selling 2.73 million Class A shares, with the cash reserve now positioned to support preferred stock dividends and debt commitments.
That matters because Strategy has become the dominant corporate Bitcoin treasury story. Investors watch not only how much BTC it owns, but also how it funds purchases, manages obligations, and avoids being forced into unwanted sales.
TL;DR
Strategy held 843,775 BTC in its latest filing.
The company made no Bitcoin purchases during the week of July 13–19.
Its USD cash reserve rose to $3.225 billion to support preferred stock dividends and debt obligations.
Why The Pause Matters
Strategy pausing Bitcoin purchases does not mean the company has stepped away from its BTC strategy.
It means the balance-sheet mechanics are becoming more important.
For years, the market has focused on the headline number: how much Bitcoin Strategy owns. That number is still enormous. A treasury of 843,775 BTC makes Strategy one of the most important corporate holders in the world, and its decisions can influence sentiment far beyond its own stock.
But the company is not simply buying Bitcoin in a vacuum.
It raises capital, manages equity issuance, services obligations, and maintains reserves. The latest filing shows that Strategy is still operating inside that capital-markets framework. Building a $3.225 billion cash reserve gives the company flexibility and helps reassure investors that its obligations are being managed without needing to sell Bitcoin.
That is the key distinction.
The company did not sell BTC. It sold shares and raised cash.
A Bitcoin Treasury Needs Liquidity Too
One of the risks with any aggressive treasury strategy is liquidity.
A company can hold a large amount of Bitcoin and still need dollars for operating costs, financing obligations, preferred dividends, or debt service. If the company does not plan ahead, it may risk selling assets at unattractive times.
Strategy appears to be addressing that risk by building a cash reserve.
That may look less exciting than another Bitcoin purchase, but it is important for the long-term structure of the strategy. Investors need to know that Strategy can keep holding BTC without being pressured by short-term cash needs.
This is especially relevant because preferred stock and debt obligations create recurring claims on the company. A cash reserve gives management room to meet those claims while leaving the Bitcoin position intact.
For Bitcoin bulls, that is arguably constructive. A pause in purchases is less important if the company is strengthening its ability to hold.
Share Issuance Remains Part Of The Model
The company raised $263.5 million by selling 2.73 million Class A shares.
That detail matters because Strategy’s Bitcoin model relies heavily on capital markets. Equity issuance can help the company raise cash without selling BTC, but it also creates dilution considerations for shareholders.
Investors therefore have to weigh two sides of the strategy.
On one side, Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings give shareholders exposure to a huge BTC position. On the other, raising cash through stock sales changes the equity base and can affect how investors value the company relative to its Bitcoin holdings.
That tension is not new, but it becomes more visible as the company’s structure gets larger and more complex.
Strategy is no longer just a company with Bitcoin on its balance sheet. It is a corporate treasury platform built around Bitcoin, capital issuance, preferred stock, debt, and reserve management.
That is why even a week with no Bitcoin purchases can still be newsworthy.
The Market Will Watch The Next Filing
The next thing investors will watch is whether this pause continues.
A single week without Bitcoin buying may simply reflect timing. Strategy may be managing cash, waiting for market conditions, or prioritizing obligations before making another allocation. But if pauses become more frequent, traders may start asking whether the company is shifting from pure accumulation toward treasury maintenance.
That would not necessarily be negative. Mature treasury strategies often involve periods of accumulation, consolidation, and reserve-building.
The important point is that Strategy’s Bitcoin position remains intact in the current filing. The company has not sold BTC. It has raised cash through equity issuance and built a reserve.
For Bitcoin markets, that sends a different message from forced selling.
Strategy is still one of the market’s most important corporate Bitcoin holders. The latest update simply shows that the company is managing the financial infrastructure around that position more carefully.
That may be less dramatic than another purchase announcement, but it is exactly the kind of discipline large treasury strategies eventually need.
This article is based on Strategy’s SEC filing and investor relations materials.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
This report is based on information released in official primary source disclosures at primary source documentation.
Bitcoin Japan, a subsidiary of Asia’s answer to Strategy, Metaplanet, has announced it entered into a financing agreement to start buying the leading cryptocurrency for its treasury.
The Tokyo-based, publicly-listed company said Thursday that it had approved a convertible bond deal with EVO Fund to raise 9.66 billion yen ($59.5 million). The deal will see the company spend over 662 million yen — or over $4 million — on its first Bitcoin transaction.
Bitcoin Japan works on Bitcoin-related media, data platforms and events to promote the understanding of the leading cryptocurrency in Japan and “contribute to the development of its ecosystem globally,” according to its website.
Its parent company, Metaplanet, is a publicly-traded company following in the footsteps of Nasdaq-listed Strategy — formerly MicroStrategy — by buying and holding Bitcoin on its balance sheet. It first started buying the asset in 2024.
Metaplanet is one of the biggest Bitcoin treasuries in the world, with 43,000 digital coins worth over $2.8 billion in its coffers. Its stock is currently down over 50% year-to-date.
JUST IN: Japan Public company Bitcoin Japan Corporation has raised $60 million through convertible bonds, allocating $4.08 million to make its first buy for their BTC treasury
Bitcoin Japan’s announcement comes as treasury companies see their stock slide. Last year, the business model of buying and holding Bitcoin and other digital assets with spare cash suffered with a plunge in crypto prices.
Strategy, the biggest and oldest Bitcoin treasury, has seen its Nasdaq-listed stock nosedive by nearly 80% over the past year.
Little known publicly traded companies in 2025 rushed to announce they were buying digital assets in a hope to boost their stock prices. The strategy worked but since the market downturn, a number of firms in the space have had to sell a portion of their holdings as the price of Bitcoin has slumped.
But companies are still accumulating during the downturn — and firms like Bitcoin Japan are seeing the current market price of the leading asset as an opportunity to start a crypto treasury.
Regulatory push
While Japan has long been a hub for crypto enthusiasts — former major Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox was based in Tokyo before a 2014 hack and its subsequent closure — lawmakers are now working on regulating the asset class.
Japan’s parliament last week passed a law amendment to designate cryptocurrency assets as “financial assets,” making the assets subject to stricter regulations, eventually paving the way for products like Bitcoin exchange-traded funds to debut in the Asian nation.
The regulation is likely to come into effect within a year, Reuters reported, citing NHK news.
Bitcoin BIP-361 Draft Puts Quantum Security Back On The Agenda
Bitcoin developers have introduced BIP-361, a draft proposal designed to prepare the network for a future migration away from legacy signature schemes that could become vulnerable in a post-quantum environment.
The proposal, titled “Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset,” was authored by Jameson Lopp and others. It lays out a phased approach for moving Bitcoin users away from older cryptographic signature types and toward quantum-resistant alternatives.
This is not a panic signal. Quantum computers are not suddenly breaking Bitcoin tomorrow. But BIP-361 matters because Bitcoin moves slowly by design, and cryptographic migrations can take years to plan, debate, test, and adopt.
If the network ever needs to retire vulnerable signature schemes, the planning has to start long before the emergency arrives.
TL;DR
BIP-361 proposes a phased migration away from legacy Bitcoin signatures.
The goal is to prepare for possible quantum-computing threats.
The proposal is a draft and has not been scheduled for activation.
Why Quantum Risk Matters For Bitcoin
Bitcoin relies on cryptographic signatures to prove ownership of coins.
Today, that system is secure against known practical attacks. But a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could threaten some widely used public-key cryptography. That is why researchers and developers across the technology sector have been preparing for post-quantum security.
For Bitcoin, the challenge is especially complicated.
A bank can update internal systems. A software company can push patches. Bitcoin is a decentralized network with users, wallets, miners, developers, exchanges, custodians, and old addresses spread across the world.
Changing cryptographic assumptions is not simple.
Coins sit in different address types. Some coins have not moved in years. Some users may no longer have access to their keys. Some wallets may be slow to upgrade. Exchanges and custodians need time to support new formats. Any migration plan has to balance security, usability, and social consensus.
That is why BIP-361 is important even though it is only a draft.
It starts mapping the problem.
What The Proposal Tries To Solve
BIP-361 focuses on a phased sunset for legacy signatures.
The idea is not to suddenly invalidate large parts of Bitcoin. Instead, the proposal looks at how the network might gradually move away from signature schemes that could become risky in a quantum future.
A phased approach matters because Bitcoin cannot afford chaos around address formats and wallet compatibility. Users need time to migrate. Infrastructure providers need time to support new tools. The ecosystem needs clear milestones.
That kind of transition would be one of the most sensitive upgrades Bitcoin has ever considered.
It would involve not just technical safety, but also fairness. What happens to coins in old address types? How long should users have to move? What about dormant wallets? What about coins believed to be lost? At what point does protecting the network outweigh preserving indefinite spendability from legacy formats?
Those are difficult questions.
BIP-361 does not make them easy, but it gives the community a structured starting point.
Bitcoin Is Slow For A Reason
Some people will see the proposal and ask why Bitcoin needs to discuss quantum security now.
The answer is that Bitcoin’s upgrade process is slow because it has to be.
A controversial protocol change can take years to reach consensus, and many never do. That can frustrate developers who want faster progress, but it is also part of why Bitcoin has remained stable. The network avoids rushed changes that could damage trust.
Quantum migration would require even more caution.
It touches the deepest layer of Bitcoin ownership: signatures. A mistake could be catastrophic. A rushed proposal could divide the community. A poorly communicated migration could leave users confused or exposed.
That is why early discussion is healthy.
The proposal does not mean activation is near. It does not mean quantum computers are already a practical threat to Bitcoin. It means some developers believe the community should begin preparing before the pressure becomes urgent.
That is a reasonable position for a system designed to last for decades.
The Market Should Not Overreact
For traders, BIP-361 should not be read as a short-term price event.
Bitcoin is not suddenly insecure because a quantum-migration proposal exists. In fact, the opposite reading may be more useful: serious networks plan for long-term threats before they become immediate crises.
The draft shows that Bitcoin’s developer community is thinking about future-proofing the protocol.
The market should also remember that draft proposals can change, stall, or fail to gain consensus. BIP status does not equal activation. A proposal must be reviewed, debated, implemented, tested, and accepted by a broad set of stakeholders before it becomes part of Bitcoin’s rules.
Still, the topic is worth watching.
Bitcoin’s long-term credibility depends on its ability to handle risks without compromising its core values. Quantum migration may eventually test that ability. The network will need to balance security upgrades with decentralization, user sovereignty, and conservative governance.
BIP-361 puts that conversation back on the table.
Not because Bitcoin is broken, but because Bitcoin is important enough that its hardest problems need to be discussed early.
This article is based on the BIP-361 draft in the Bitcoin BIPs repository.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
This report is based on information released by GitHub. at GitHub
A new research report from bitcoin custody firm Onramp argues that the recent market slump is a reason to buy, and that owners should hold the asset itself rather than a paper claim on its price.
The report, titled “Back to Basics” and published in July 2026, opens on a market puzzle: bitcoin trades at about half its late-2025 high, while equities and gold sit at or near records of their own. For a different asset, the report says, that divergence would read as a warning. For a fixed-supply asset with adoption at an early stage, it reads as an opening.
Onramp splits its case into three parts — the fundamentals of bitcoin, the gap between owning the asset and owning a wrapper, and the data behind its claim that the moment favors accumulation.
Bitcoin’s fixed supply
The first section runs through ten ideas. Money, the firm writes, is a technology for storing value across time, a test that cash fails over long horizons.
Fiat currencies lose purchasing power by design, since a money supply built to expand hands the first use of new units to governments and the institutions nearest them, while it charges holders of existing balances through a weaker currency.
Against that backdrop, the report frames scarcity as the source of monetary integrity, and it casts bitcoin’s 21 million cap as a limit that any participant can verify rather than one that rests on trust.
Other points cover bitcoin’s fixed issuance schedule, the halving, and the role of decentralization in making the rules credible. Authority rests with users who run full nodes, the report says, not with miners or firms, a structure that has held through past attempts to change the protocol’s core rules.
It defends proof of work as a productive use of energy, with a nod to miners that consume flared gas and surplus renewable output, and it presents bitcoin as gold’s successor — scarce and durable, yet able to move across the world in minutes and to be audited by any holder.
On volatility, Onramp treats sharp drawdowns as a feature of an asset in the middle of monetization. Declines of fifty percent or more have occurred several times, the report notes, and each prior drop gave way to a recovery beyond the former peak.
The firm favors a mechanical approach over market timing, a nod to dollar cost averaging that some view as a growing strategy and one that analysts have urged during recent dips.
‘Paper Bitcoin’
The report’s sharpest argument sits in its second part, on “paper bitcoin.” A large share of what changes hands under bitcoin’s name, Onramp writes, is not bitcoin but a claim on it — a fund share, an exchange balance, or a structured product that stands as the obligation of a counterparty.
Such wrappers can track the price, the firm allows, and many run as described under capable managers. The trouble is structural: each layer adds a custodian, an administrator, or a counterparty that the asset itself does not carry, and any of them can fail for reasons apart from bitcoin. The report ties the point to strain among bitcoin-linked credit products.
Direct ownership, by contrast, preserves what the firm calls bitcoin’s bearer quality — control of the keys as ownership in full, with no account to approve and no party able to freeze or reclaim the holding.
That framing echoes the case that bitcoin removes counterparty risk from a balance sheet. From there, Onramp makes its commercial pitch. Owners can pursue self-custody, the firm writes, or turn to multi-institution custody, a model that splits keys across independent institutions so that no single party can move the coins and no single failure can lose them.
The third part turns to timing. Onramp lists four observations: a drawdown that is shallow by bitcoin’s own history, a pattern of recoveries after comparable declines, the record of steady accumulation against other assets, and the odd sight of bitcoin at a discount while most markets sit at highs.
The present cycle stands about seven months past its peak and near half below it, the report says, an earlier and shallower stage than equivalent points in past cycles.
The conclusion returns to the title. Onramp says it is getting back to the basics this summer, and it frames the message without a forecast: buy on a schedule while prices are low, and hold what you accumulate in custody you control, spread across independent institutions.
The fundamentals, the firm writes, are unaffected by the fall in price. A lower price on an asset of fixed supply and expanding adoption, it argues, is the thesis working in the buyer’s favor.
Michael Saylor Opposes Bitcoin BIP-110 Over Censorship Concerns
Michael Saylor has come out against Bitcoin’s BIP-110 proposal, warning that the planned soft fork could introduce censorship risks into the network.
The debate centres on whether Bitcoin should restrict certain forms of non-monetary data storage, including activity linked to Ordinals and similar uses. Supporters of tighter limits argue that Bitcoin block space should remain focused on monetary transactions. Critics argue that protocol-level restrictions could set a dangerous precedent by deciding which types of data are acceptable.
Saylor’s intervention matters because he is one of the most visible corporate Bitcoin advocates in the world. When the MicroStrategy chairman weighs into a technical governance debate, the discussion moves beyond developer circles and reaches a wider market audience.
This is not just about one proposal. It is about what Bitcoin should be allowed to carry, who gets to decide, and whether efforts to reduce spam could accidentally weaken Bitcoin’s neutrality.
TL;DR
Michael Saylor has opposed Bitcoin’s BIP-110 proposal.
BIP-110 seeks to limit arbitrary data storage on Bitcoin.
Critics argue the proposal could create censorship risk and set a problematic precedent.
https://x.com/saylor/status/2078754106030649740
What BIP-110 Is Trying To Do
BIP-110, also known as the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, is aimed at limiting non-monetary data stored on Bitcoin.
The proposal is connected to a long-running argument inside the Bitcoin community. Some users believe block space should be preserved primarily for financial transactions. Others believe Bitcoin’s rules should remain neutral, even when certain uses are unpopular or expensive.
Ordinals pushed that debate into the open. By using Bitcoin block space for inscriptions and other data-heavy activity, Ordinals created new demand for block space but also frustrated users who saw higher fees and congestion.
BIP-110 is one proposed response.
The proposal attempts to restrict arbitrary data while using miner signaling as the activation route. One of the most controversial details is the proposed 55% activation threshold, which is far lower than the traditional 95% supermajority standard often associated with major Bitcoin soft fork activation.
That lower threshold is part of why critics are uneasy.
If Bitcoin’s rules can be changed with a relatively narrow majority of miner signaling, opponents worry that the network could become more vulnerable to political, commercial, or social pressure over time.
Why Saylor’s Objection Matters
Saylor’s position is important because he has built his public reputation around Bitcoin as neutral, durable monetary infrastructure.
His criticism is not only about Ordinals. It is about whether Bitcoin should start filtering certain kinds of transactions at the protocol level. Once that door opens, the next debate becomes harder: who decides what counts as spam, abuse, or unacceptable data?
That is where censorship concerns enter the picture.
Bitcoin’s value proposition depends heavily on predictability and neutrality. Users may disagree about how the network should be used, but the protocol itself is supposed to enforce rules without caring who is transacting or why.
A rule designed to reduce unwanted data may seem harmless to some users. But to others, it creates a slippery slope. If one category of data can be restricted because enough people dislike it, future changes could target other categories.
That is why the debate has become sharper than a normal technical disagreement.
The Ordinals Fight Is Still Really About Bitcoin’s Identity
The Ordinals debate has always been bigger than JPEGs, inscriptions, or meme activity.
It asks whether Bitcoin is only money, or whether the protocol should remain open to any valid transaction that follows consensus rules. Purists argue that arbitrary data dilutes Bitcoin’s mission and makes monetary use more expensive. Neutrality advocates argue that filtering use cases damages Bitcoin’s permissionless design.
Both sides have a point.
High fees can hurt ordinary users. Spam can make the network harder to use. But protocol-level filtering is not a small fix. It changes the balance between open validation and social preference.
Bitcoin has survived partly because rule changes are difficult. That slowness frustrates people, but it also protects the network from fast-moving political or commercial pressure.
BIP-110 now sits inside that tension.
Activation Is Not Guaranteed
It is important not to overstate where this stands.
BIP-110 is not guaranteed to activate. Community support remains divided, and miner signaling would still have to reach the required threshold. Bitcoin’s governance process is deliberately difficult, and controversial proposals often fail to gain enough momentum.
That is part of the point.
For many Bitcoin supporters, the resistance to quick protocol changes is a feature, not a flaw. It means proposals must survive public scrutiny, technical review, and broad social consensus before becoming part of the network’s rules.
Saylor’s opposition adds weight to the anti-BIP-110 side of the debate, but it does not settle the issue. Developers, miners, node operators, businesses, and users will all continue to shape the outcome.
For now, the story is less about immediate activation and more about Bitcoin’s governance culture.
The network is again being forced to decide how it balances efficiency, neutrality, block space demand, and resistance to censorship. That is a hard debate, but it is also the kind of debate Bitcoin was designed to survive.
This article is based on Michael Saylor’s public statement and the BIP-110 GitHub repository.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
This report is based on publicly available market and on-chain data. at X
Bitcoin price has slipped below $64,000 as renewed US-Iran tensions, volatile oil prices, and a technology-sector sell-off tied to China’s Kimi K3 launch drove investors away from risk assets. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin (BTC) price fell nearly 2%…
Polymarket traders are pricing in a high probability that the Federal Reserve holds rates steady at its July meeting, with odds rising to 94% after softer inflation data improved the market’s macro mood.
That matters for Bitcoin because rate expectations remain one of the most important forces shaping risk appetite. When inflation cools, traders usually become more confident that the Fed can avoid further tightening. That can support equities, crypto, and other risk assets because the market starts looking ahead to easier liquidity conditions.
Bitcoin has spent much of this cycle trading at the intersection of macro expectations and crypto-native demand. ETF flows, institutional access, and on-chain activity all matter, but inflation and interest-rate expectations still set the tone for how aggressively investors are willing to take risk.
The latest Polymarket move shows how quickly that macro sentiment can shift.
Polymarket odds for a July Fed rate hold climbed to 94%.
The move followed softer US inflation data.
Bitcoin sentiment improved alongside renewed ETF inflows and a better risk backdrop.
Why Fed Odds Matter For Bitcoin
Bitcoin is often described as a hedge against monetary instability, but in practice it also trades like a high-beta liquidity asset.
When traders expect higher rates, the market usually becomes more cautious. Cash yields become more attractive, leverage becomes more expensive, and speculative assets can come under pressure. When traders expect the Fed to pause or eventually cut rates, risk appetite often improves.
That is why prediction-market odds matter.
Polymarket is not the Federal Reserve. It does not decide policy. But it gives a live view of how traders are pricing the probability of different outcomes. A 94% probability of a hold tells the market that traders see further tightening as unlikely in the immediate term.
That can make Bitcoin more attractive, especially if investors believe the worst of the inflation pressure is passing.
The supporting inflation backdrop is important here. The available source material points to July 14 CPI data showing annual inflation falling to 3.5%, down from 4.2% in May. A softer inflation reading gives the Fed more room to stay patient.
ETF Flows Add A Crypto-Native Layer
The macro story becomes more important when it lines up with crypto-specific flows.
The repaired pack notes that spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows of $132.3 million on July 17, led by BlackRock’s IBIT. If that flow picture holds, it suggests Bitcoin is not only benefiting from a better macro tone but also seeing renewed demand through regulated investment products.
That combination is powerful.
Macro improves the environment. ETF flows show whether investors are actually allocating. Bitcoin tends to respond best when both line up. A better inflation print without follow-through buying can fade quickly. ETF inflows during a hostile macro period can still struggle. Together, they give traders a stronger reason to pay attention.
That said, one day of flows is not enough to declare a new trend. ETF data can be volatile, and Polymarket odds can move as new economic data or Fed commentary arrives. The useful point is that the immediate setup has improved from where it was during the outflow-heavy period.
For Bitcoin bulls, the question is whether this becomes a sustained shift or just a short-term relief move.
The Fed Still Has The Final Word
A 94% prediction-market probability is a strong signal, but the Fed still sets policy based on its own data and mandate.
Officials will be watching inflation, labour-market conditions, financial conditions, and whether price pressure is cooling fast enough to justify a more relaxed stance. A single CPI reading helps, but it does not eliminate the risk of sticky inflation or hawkish guidance.
That is why Bitcoin traders need to treat the Polymarket move as a sentiment signal, not a guarantee.
If the Fed holds and its language is softer, Bitcoin could benefit from a cleaner risk-on setup. If the Fed holds but sounds cautious, the market reaction may be more muted. If future inflation data surprises higher, current odds can unwind quickly.
For now, the market is leaning toward a pause, and Bitcoin is reflecting that improved mood.
The bigger takeaway is that prediction markets are becoming part of the crypto macro toolkit. Traders no longer wait only for Fed statements or analyst notes. They watch live odds, ETF flows, CPI data, and price action together.
That creates a more dynamic market, but also a faster-moving one. Bitcoin can reprice quickly when macro probability shifts. Right now, that shift is working in its favour.
This article is based on Polymarket, BLS inflation data, and Bitcoin ETF flow data.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
This report is based on information released by Polymarket. at Polymarket
The Bitcoin bottom may be in — but don’t get your hopes up: It might struggle to go up anytime soon, according to one investment firm.
A Friday report from European asset management firm CoinShares said that investors last week threw fresh cash at Bitcoin — and other crypto — exchange-traded products, indicating a change in sentiment.
But other factors may hold digital asset markets from going higher, James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, wrote.
“We have said for some time that Bitcoin has probably reached, or is close to, its floor,” the report read. “But we see no significant upside potential from here.”
The report added that current macroeconomic headwinds, such as the US bombing Iran and rising oil prices, could see inflation go up again.
Bitcoin’s price was up earlier this week, hitting a seven-day high of $65,501 on news that inflation in the US was softer than expected. It has since erased those gains and was recently trading for $64,010.
The price of Bitcoin has typically done well on news that inflation is coming down because investors expect interest rates to come down. But Butterfill said that “a rate cut does not look probable at this stage.”
Bitcoin’s worst run on record
CoinShares’ data showed that investors pulled a total of $8 billion out of funds giving crypto exposure — “the worst run on record.”
Last week, though, things reversed when $287 million hit crypto funds, CoinShares said, with the data so far showing that this week looks likely to be another positive streak.
The price of Bitcoin has typically done well when US investors — previously excluded from crypto investing — have bought shares in exchange-traded funds approved in 2024.
The products — handled by the likes of BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale — allow more traditional investors or Wall Street institutions to buy positions in Bitcoin via shares that trade on stock exchanges.
Since BTC’s October all-time high of $126,080, crypto markets have faced a battering as those investors have fast cashed out of the funds. Bitcoin has struggled to make gains, especially after the US and Israel started bombing Iran, leading to a surge in the price of oil.
The leading cryptocurrency is now nearly 50% below its record.
“The dominant picture is that the current setup is prompting interest in adding positions, but caution prevails while sentiment remains broadly negative,” CoinShares added.
Bitcoin price fell below $63,000 after fresh US attacks on Iran lifted oil and the dollar, while renewed election claims from President Donald Trump added pressure on risk assets. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin (BTC) dropped 3.5% to an…
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