JPMorgan says Strategy's Bitcoin sales are a short-term concern, but the bigger long-term risk is that banks and institutions adopt private blockchains over public networks, reducing activity and capital flows across the broader crypto ecosystem.
Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson said traditional finance resists public blockchains because they threaten fee-based revenue, as the firm expands aggressively into tokenization, bitcoin products, and on-chain finance.
An unknown actor etched the full text of the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin blockchain in a $83 transaction, permanently embedding it within the network.
Blockchain.com, one of the industry’s oldest firms, has confidentially filed a draft Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a planned initial public offering.
Rhode Island lawmakers reintroduced a bill to study blockchain and work on crypto innovation. Earlier this month, Rhode Island introduced a bill to temporarily exempt small Bitcoin transactions from state taxes.
El Salvador’s Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Environment now register official records on the Bitcoin blockchain using Simple Proof and OpenTimestamps, making verified documents publicly accessible.