Bitcoin Price Slides Below $115,000 As Strategy Buys Additional Bitcoin

Strategy has announced the acquisition of an additional 525 Bitcoin (BTC) for $60.2 million, even as Bitcoin’s price retreated from its recent high of $116,700. The purchase, disclosed in an SEC filing Monday, brings the company’s total holdings to 638,985 BTC, further cementing its position as the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin.

The latest acquisition was executed at an average Bitcoin price of $114,562 per BTC, lifting the company’s overall average purchase price to $73,913.

Strategy’s consistent accumulation strategy emerges amid growing institutional interest in Bitcoin, with corporate treasury holdings now exceeding 1 million BTC, representing roughly 5% of the…

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MoonPay acquires Meso to expand global payments push

MoonPay announced that it has acquired Meso, a startup specializing in bridging traditional finance and crypto, in a move designed to accelerate its transformation into a regulated global payments network.

The deal adds experienced leadership to MoonPay’s executive team while expanding its infrastructure to connect banks, card networks, stablecoins and blockchains under a unified compliance framework.

Meso, founded in 2022, was built by payments veterans Ali Aghareza and Ben Mills, whose prior roles at Braintree, Venmo and PayPal gave them experience in scaling consumer and enterprise financial systems.

MoonPay will integrate Meso’s leadership team, with CTO Aghareza…

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JUST IN: Michael Saylor’s Strategy Adds 525 Bitcoin Worth $60.2 Million Purchase

Michael Saylor has confirmed that Strategy acquired an additional 525 BTC for approximately $60.2 million, paying an average of $114,562 per bitcoin. This move underscores the company’s strong conviction in Bitcoin, further strengthening its crypto portfolio.

The acquisition pushes Strategy’s total holdings to a massive 638,985 BTC as of September 14, 2025. Purchased at an average cost of $73,913 per coin, the total stash is valued at around $47.23 billion. With Bitcoin’s remarkable performance this year, the company has achieved a year-to-date BTC yield of 25.9% in 2025.

This aggressive accumulation highlights Strategy’s continued leadership in institutional Bitcoin adoption. The company’s growing reserves not only signal confidence in BTC’s long-term value but also reinforce its role in mainstreaming crypto as a store of wealth and hedge against inflation. Investors view this as a bullish indicator, further fueling optimism across the cryptocurrency market.

How Arkham Insights is redefining onchain alpha for serious crypto traders

Everyone wants an edge. 

But many traders still rely on Crypto Twitter sentiment, Telegram alerts, and fragmented dashboards to navigate markets, meaning by the time they move to execute a trade, they’re already behind. Rather than more data, these traders need faster, focused, and clearer insights.

That’s where Arkham, trusted by leading trading firms, exchanges, protocols, media organizations, government entities, and over three million users, comes in. With its launch of Arkham Insights, Arkham is now the crypto equivalent of a Bloomberg Terminal, powered by AI. It’s a command center where traders can monitor markets, follow institutional positioning, and quickly absorb…

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LATEST: Crypto Investment Products Record $3.3B Inflows, AUM Reaches $239B

Digital asset investment products bounced back strongly last week, attracting $3.3 billion in inflows. The rally came after weaker-than-expected U.S. macroeconomic data, while late-week price gains pushed total assets under management to $239 billion, close to the all-time high of $244 billion set in August.

The U.S. led the charge with $3.2 billion in inflows, followed by Germany with $160 million. Friday marked Germany’s second-largest daily inflows on record, though Switzerland saw $92 million in outflows. Bitcoin was the standout performer, drawing $2.4 billion in its largest weekly inflows since July, while short-bitcoin products recorded modest outflows.

Ethereum reversed its recent losing streak with $646 million in inflows across four days. Solana posted its biggest single-day inflow ever at US$145 million, bringing its weekly total to $198 million. Meanwhile, Aave and Avalanche saw minor outflows of $1.08 million and $0.66 million, respectively.

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A Circular Economy And The Four Archetypes Of Bitcoiners

A few years ago, I made an unlikely bet: to build a Bitcoin circular economy in the heart of a fishing village in Brazil’s Northeast. No venture capitalists, no “crypto,” no empty promises. Only nodes, satoshis, in‑person education and plenty of sidewalk conversations. 

That is how Praia Bitcoin Jericoacoara was born: a radical experiment in financial sovereignty built with open source tools and feet in the sand.

In four years at Praia Bitcoin Jericoacoara, we turned a beach town into a living Bitcoin classroom: We onboarded families, shopkeepers and street vendors; taught self‑custody in small groups; installed reliable Lightning routes and point‑of‑sale tools; ran…

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Industries, Senators clash over crypto market structure legislation

The White House wants Congress to move quickly on cryptocurrency market structure legislation. When it comes to ironing out the details, though, lawmakers and industry stakeholders have their work cut out for them. 

Speaking at an industry event in Washington, D.C. Thursday, Patrick Witt — the newly-appointed executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Digital Assets — said getting the bill over the finish line is a top priority. 

Senate Republicans last week unveiled an updated draft of their crypto market structure bill, the Responsible Financial Innovation Act of 2025. The legislation is notably different from the CLARITY Act, which the House passed in…

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Weighing Figure’s growth potential after Nasdaq debut

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Figure went public yesterday, and Gemini was set to follow suit today. Somewhat related (you’ll see), we were reminded of how the biggest asset managers could help fuel a tokenization boom. 

Let’s hone in on Figure, which just debuted on the Nasdaq. Shares of FIGR opened at $36 on Thursday — 44% above its $25 IPO price. The stock was trading around $33.20 at 1:30 p.m. ET. 

Making another appearance in this newsletter (after I cited his COIN vs. HOOD report) is Blockworks Research’s Marc Arjoon. His latest write-up points out a regulatory edge Figure has over certain…

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Ethereum’s paradox: Usage at all-time highs as fees plummet

Ethereum is scaling into its role as the neutral settlement layer. Value accrues across L2s and applications — not from squeezing L1 fees. The paradox is, on a usage versus revenue basis, Ethereum appears to be both winning and losing.

Consider this:

Throughput up: monthly transactions and unique active addresses are at, or near, highs.

Cost down: median and average tx fees sit near cycle lows; base-fee gwei is low and steady.

Mix shift: rollups are stuffing blobs at record levels; users trade more, especially stables, without pushing L1 fees up.

Revenue craters: base-fee burn + tips are far below 2021–22; net issuance is low but generally positive.

The…

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Parabolic Bitcoin Rally Is Coming—Here’s What To Watch

One of the dominant narratives this cycle has been that “this time is different.” With institutional adoption reshaping Bitcoin’s supply and demand dynamics, many argue that we won’t see the kind of euphoric blowoff top that defined past cycles. Instead, the idea is that smart money and ETFs will smooth out volatility, replacing mania with maturity. But is that really the case?

Sentiment Drives Markets, Even for Institutions

Skeptics often dismiss tools like the Fear and Greed Index as too simplistic, arguing that they can’t capture the nuance of institutional flows. But writing off sentiment ignores a fundamental truth that institutions are still run by people, and people…

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