UBS Group's latest 13F listed 1.95 million BlackRock IBIT call-option shares at June 30, up from 80,000 three months earlier.
Tudor Investment increased its disclosed BlackRock IBIT holding to 688,529 shares in Q2 while cutting the reported size of its IBIT call-option position.
Harvard Management kept 3.04 million BlackRock IBIT shares unchanged in Q2, an SEC filing shows, after cutting the position in each of the prior two quarters.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $329 million in net withdrawals from Aug. 10 through Aug. 13, extending a reversal from the prior week's $865 million inflow as Fidelity's FBTC led redemptions.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $197.9 million of net outflows across Aug. 10 to Aug. 12, reversing part of the prior week's $865.3 million inflow as Fidelity's FBTC led redemptions.
CFTC data showed leveraged funds held a net short of 36,200 BTC in standard CME Bitcoin futures as of Aug. 4, up 1,835 BTC from a week earlier.
A volunteer Bitcoin Red Team says its AI-assisted review scanned 150 repositories and made more than a dozen vulnerability disclosures, without naming affected projects or reporting new thefts.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $865.3 million of net inflows from Aug. 3 through Aug. 7, with BlackRock's IBIT accounting for $693.5 million.
Bitcoin's BIP-110-enforcing branch remained at block 961,633 after two blocks, while the standard chain reached 961,744, according to a live node monitor.
Bitcoin crossed BIP-110's mandatory-signaling height, but the first three observed main-chain blocks did not carry the proposal's bit-4 signal.
Tesla reported a $112 million Q2 unrealized digital-assets loss while holding 11,509 BTC, carried at $674 million on June 30.
Kraken has launched USD-settled Bitcoin and Ether options for eligible professional and institutional clients, with portfolio margin and more than 30 collateral currencies.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a $197.4 million weekly net inflow after eight losing weeks, led by $291.9 million into BlackRock's IBIT.
CryptoQuant says bitcoin exchange deposits hit nearly 49,000 BTC, with ether and altcoin inflows also rising as traders watch the $60K support zone.
CryptoQuant says sub-0.01 BTC transfers now make up about 80% of Bitcoin transactions, pushing network activity near a record without a fee spike.