Bank of Montreal’s $303.65 billion consolidated securities filing reports $2,970 of XRP fund shares, split between two exchange-traded products. The disclosure traces both positions to a controlled investment adviser without identifying their beneficial owner.

XRP closed near $1 on Aug. 13, about 69% below its January 2025 peak. Daily active addresses rose roughly one-third in August, while new-address creation remained virtually unchanged from July.

Michael Saylor’s framework assigns separate roles to bitcoin, Strategy’s STRC preferred stock, Solstice Finance’s yield-bearing SR-strcUSX token, and USDT. The model shows how financial companies could convert volatile bitcoin capital into credit, savings products, and payment assets.

Solstice Finance has launched a Solana-based product that splits the dividend income and price risk of Strategy’s STRC preferred stock into separate senior and junior tokens. The firm is also extending its USX dollar product into Zebec Network’s payroll platform.

XRP’s price at closing will determine how many Evernorth shares investors receive under the amended transaction. Based on Aug. 13 prices, fewer shares are expected, giving each Armada II share a larger interest in Evernorth’s XRP treasury.

A young French couple in the Somme department endured three home invasions in under a month after their residence was mistakenly targeted by criminals seeking cryptocurrency.

Raymond Johnson of Bunnlevel, North Carolina, had spent Saturday looking at a house with his family. On Sunday, he sat on his front porch with a $10 Triple Red 777 Jackpot scratch-off and won the game’s top prize. He claimed it the next morning and took a $600,000 lump sum over a 20-year annuity.

The goal is to bring easy access to Strategy’s and Strive’s bitcoin-based digital credit options in Brazil. DIGY11 will be traded in Brazilian reais, and the income will be distributed monthly and is estimated to reach the average interbank deposit rate plus up to 5%.

Tether disclosed that KPMG U.S. completed a full audit of its 2025 financial statements and issued an unqualified opinion, the most favorable conclusion an independent auditor can provide.

Wintermute plans to invest about $1 billion over five years in high-frequency trading and AI data-center infrastructure as it expands beyond digital assets. The crypto market maker wants traditional markets to generate more than half of its revenue by the end of 2027.

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Fidelity has filed to add staking to its ethereum ETF, potentially putting nearly all of FETH’s ether to work earning network rewards. Shareholders would receive net staking proceeds through quarterly cash distributions if the changes take effect.

UBS Group AG increased its holdings in Blackrock’s Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) to about $90 million, a sharp rise that shows growing demand for regulated bitcoin exposure among wealthy and institutional clients.

Bitcoin closed lower after a volatile session, dropping to $62,912 before recovering slightly back above $63,000, pushing its market cap to $1.26 trillion.

TRM Labs’ latest report highlights the effects of the full implementation of MiCA on Europe, tightening the existing regulatory patchwork. Only a fifth of all pre-MiCA crypto service providers received an authorization to operate, with the largest number coming from jurisdictions that built licensing capacity early.