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Lite Strategy, a Nasdaq-listed company that holds Litecoin as its primary reserve asset, spent about $5.4 million repurchasing roughly 4.9 million shares through July 17. The company funded the purchases with an undisclosed mix of LTC sales and covered-call premiums.The transaction shrank Lite Strategy’s reported Litecoin holdings but appears to have lifted LTC backing per outstanding common share by about 1.7%.In a July 30 filing, the company said it paid an average of $1.11 and retired about 13% of the shares outstanding when the program began, without using debt. It reported 819,070 LTC and 31,882,648 outstanding common shares as of…

Bitcoin and Ethereum edged higher into July 31, while a small shift in market dominance suggested traders were again watching whether capital was rotating toward major altcoins. The validated notes show Bitcoin rising 0.29% to about $64,145.86, while Ethereum traded around the $1,890 to $1,920 range, briefly dipping below $1,900 before recovering. At the same time, BTC and ETH dominance slipped slightly, pointing to a modest move into other crypto assets. That is not enough to declare “altseason,” and it would be lazy to pretend otherwise. But it is enough to say the market is becoming more selective. Bitcoin and…

Holders of Strategy’s (MSTR) high-yielding preferred stock STRC will not see a dividend increase in August.Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy is maintaining the current 12% dividend on the shares.STRC investors may have been expecting as much as a 50-basis-point hike in the dividend as Strategy has customarily raised the payout anytime the stock traded sizably below its par value ($100) for the month.As recently as July 1, Strategy had lifted the dividend 50 basis points following June’s plunge in STRC to as low as $71. While that hike — along with Strategy’s sale of some bitcoin to fund…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 30th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC Ventures today announced its support for the expansion of Alpha Arena, a global esports-inspired live trading tournament, into the APAC region. As part of the partnership, MEXC Ventures will serve as the Main Sponsor of Alpha Arena S03, with TRIV serving as the Co-host. The APAC-focused trading competition will bring participants from online qualification to a live final in Bali, Indonesia, on August 20, 2026. Taking place during Coinfest week, the event will bring together traders, creators, and regional Web3 communities through a season of competition, learning, and community engagement. Updates will be shared…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 30th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, will list Grvt (GRVT) in the Innovation Zone, with the GRVT/USDT pair opening at 12:00 (UTC) and the GRVT/USDC pair opening at 12:20 (UTC) on July 30, 2026. To mark the listing, MEXC has launched the Grvt (GRVT) Airdrop+ event, offering a combined prize pool worth $60,000 in GRVT and 10,000 USDT. Grvt is a self-custodial on-chain wealth platform unifying Earn, Invest, Trade, and Pay within a single, user-controlled balance, built on a custom ZKsync Validium Layer 2 for CEX-grade performance. Since December 2024, Grvt has operated as…

OpenAI told employees that annualized recurring revenue (ARR) in July surpassed the company’s entire second quarter, according to a partial internal transcript reviewed by CNBC. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar shared the figure on Wednesday alongside board chair Bret Taylor. OpenAI Says July Annualized Revenue Outpaced the Entire Second Quarter Friar and Taylor credited the GPT-5.6 model series, enterprise agent ChatGPT Work, and the rising adoption of the Codex coding tool. “And Q2 was no slouch,” she said. Speaking to employees, Taylor said Anthropic entered the year with strong momentum. He conceded that OpenAI had been playing catch-up in coding…

EDX Markets, an institutional-only crypto trading venue with its own central clearinghouse, closed a $76 million Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings, the firm said in a press release. The Tokyo-listed financial group becomes a strategic investor in the U.S. exchange. The capital will fund…EDX Markets, an institutional-only crypto trading venue with its own central clearinghouse, closed a $76 million Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings, the firm said in a press release. The Tokyo-listed financial group becomes a strategic investor in the U.S. exchange.The capital will fund expansion of EDX’s trading, clearing and settlement capabilities,…

Pro-crypto Senator Cynthia Lummis on Wednesday slammed Democrats for holding back the Clarity Act.  Speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Lummis, of Wyoming, spoke of the bipartisan work that had gone into the bill — but questioned why it was stalling.  Lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version.  JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis calls out the Democrats for holding up the Clarity Act:”After nearly 11 months of giving almost everything asked of us, I genuinely don’t…

Major cryptocurrencies are unchanged over 24 hours. But masking the calm are erratic back-and-forth price swings around the Fed meeting that flushed out leveraged futures bets, triggering heavy liquidations.About $286 million in positions were liquidated across 87,294 traders in 24 hours, according to CoinGlass. Longs accounted for $186 million of the damage and shorts $100 million, the signature of a market that moved hard in both directions and settled back where it started.Bitcoin’s data show that both bulls and bears have borne the brunt of liquidations. Roughly $57 million in bitcoin positions were cleared, and the balance was nearly even,…

Hidden trading rules often matter more than profit splits. Compare drawdown and payout rules before buying a challenge. Rulebook transparency helps traders avoid costly surprises. HONG KONG, July 29, 2026 — Velotrade today released its 2026 Prop Firm Transparency Report, a comparative review of the published rulebooks of six proprietary trading firms, Topstep, FTMO, FundingPips, Blue Guardian, HyroTrader and Velotrade. The report examines the terms that determine whether a funded trader is ultimately paid, and concludes that most funded accounts are closed not because of poor trading, but because of rules set out in evaluation guides and help-center pages. According…