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Strive purchased 1,800 Bitcoin for $143 million, increasing its holdings to 23,156 BTC. The transaction moved the company into fifth place among publicly traded corporate holders.
Crypto projects spent a record $638 million on token repurchases during 2026, with Hyperliquid and Pump.fun accounting for nearly 90% of the total. More protocols are directing revenue toward buybacks.
Spot XRP exchange-traded funds recorded inflows for nine straight sessions, bringing cumulative net subscriptions since launch to $1.6 billion even as the token's price softened.
Sberbank estimates that regulated Russian exchanges could process about 4 trillion rubles, or $46 billion, of crypto trading in the first year. The bank also plans broader crypto-backed lending after regulatory approval.
