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Public companies that invest in cryptocurrencies are entering a more competitive phase, according to a report from Coinbase on September 10.

The period when firms could benefit just by holding digital assets appears to be over. Instead, companies need stronger strategies to stand out and attract investor interest.

In the report, Coinbase



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researchers David Duong and Colin Basco explained that earlier adopters of crypto treasury strategies, like Strategy, once received high market valuations for holding large amounts of Bitcoin. However, those advantages have faded.

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The researchers noted that success in this new phase will depend less on following past examples and more on how well a company can differentiate itself. Timing, operational choices, and differences from others will be key factors.

The report also touched on Bitcoin’s
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performance in September. Between 2017 and 2022, Bitcoin experienced a decline during that month, which led some investors to believe it was a bad time to buy.

However, Duong and Basco noted that this pattern did not persist in 2023 or 2024.

Furthermore, the researchers expect the US Federal Reserve to lower interest rates soon, possibly at its next two meetings. Bitcoin, in particular, may benefit from current economic conditions, including ongoing inflation and liquidity.

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]]> https://earlybirdsinvest.com/crypto-treasuries-enter-survival-mode-says-coinbase/feed/ 0 58369 Billionaire Mike Novogratz Says Ethereum Will Enter Price Discovery If It Takes Out This Level https://earlybirdsinvest.com/billionaire-mike-novogratz-says-ethereum-will-enter-price-discovery-if-it-takes-out-this-level/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/billionaire-mike-novogratz-says-ethereum-will-enter-price-discovery-if-it-takes-out-this-level/#respond Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:06:32 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/billionaire-mike-novogratz-says-ethereum-will-enter-price-discovery-if-it-takes-out-this-level/

Ethereum has been gaining ground in recent times, especially among institutional investors, as they believe that the leading altcoin is set to outperform Bitcoin. This is evidenced by the large buys that have dominated ETH as Ethereum treasury companies become a major player in the space. Amid this, billionaire and CEO of Galaxy Digital Investments, Mike Novogratz, has revealed the important level for Ethereum to beat to enter price discovery.

Ethereum Price Needs To Cross $4,000

În an interview with SquawkBox, Novogratz points to the recent strength of Ethereum amid rapid accumulation as a reason for it being a better bet than Bitcoin. The major reason outlined for why ETH was a better bet than BTC at this point is the fact that Ethereum treasury companies are now becoming a staple, with two ETH treasury companies, such as SharpLink and GameSquare Holdings, among others, already established and more on the way.

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As these companies continue to accumulate ETH, the billionaire explains that with not much supply, the Ethereum price is likely to rise. He also brings up the fact that Ethereum has a very powerful narrative, and the market reaching record short levels has also aided its bullishness.

Given these, Novogratz explained that the Ethereum price is at least destined to knock on the $4,000 level a few times. Also, once the altcoin is able to take out $4,000, then the billionaire believes that the ETH price will enter into price discovery, which could drive it higher.

As Ethereum continues to look like the better bet, he also believes that the altcoin could end up outperforming the Bitcoin price over the next 3-6 months. This gives a short timeframe, especially as Bitcoin has already hit multiple new all-time highs over the past year, and Ethereum is yet to beat its highs from 2021.

ETH Is Already Outperforming Bitcoin

So far, in the month of July, the Ethereum price has greatly outperformed that of Bitcoin in terms of gains, lending credence to Novogratz’s expectations that the altcoin will outperform the pioneer cryptocurrency. According to data from CryptoRank, ETH is up more than 45% this month already compared to the less than 8% on record for Bitcoin.

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Over the last 90 days, as well, the Ethereum price has doubled to put in more than 100% in gains. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s gains still sit just above 22% for the same time period. Nevertheless, Bitcoin continues to dominate the market, with BTC dominance sitting above 61% and holding altcoin season at bay.

Ethereum price chart from TradingView.com
ETH price moves toward $3,800 | Source: ETHUSDT on TradingView.com

Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com

]]> https://earlybirdsinvest.com/billionaire-mike-novogratz-says-ethereum-will-enter-price-discovery-if-it-takes-out-this-level/feed/ 0 49757 Azuki’s Enter The Garden Capsule Collection Merch Lands July 8 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/azukis-enter-the-garden-capsule-collection-merch-lands-july-8/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/azukis-enter-the-garden-capsule-collection-merch-lands-july-8/#respond Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:33:47 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/azukis-enter-the-garden-capsule-collection-merch-lands-july-8/

Popular NFT collection Azuki has announced that a capsule merch collection for their Enter The Garden anime anthology series will debut on July 8.

Expected to be available via the Azuki website, this marks the first time that an official line of merch has been released in connection with the Enter The Garden anime. Previous Azuki merchandise releases have been both very popular and limited in number – and this release is also hotly-anticipated within the Azuki community and beyond.

Alongside this new merch drop, Azuki have also released the beta for Anime.com. This site gives users a social media-esque experience that allows them to create a tailored anime feed to get the latest news on the shows, characters and creators they care about.

Key Insights

  • Azuki have announced that a capsule merch collection for Enter The Garden will drop on July 8
  • This is the first official merch line to release for Enter The Garden
  • The drop is expected to take place via the Azuki website
  • Exact details on the items available or prices have yet to be shared
  • Earlier this week, Azuki released the beta for social media-esque fan website Anime.com
Azuki Merch - Enter The Garden Capsule Collection
Source: Azuki

What is Azuki’s Enter The Garden?

Enter The Garden is Azuki‘s flagship anime anthology series, announced in January 2024, and debuted in April 2024.

Created as a partnership between Azuki and Dentsu, and with contributions from multiple anime heavyweights, Enter The Garden explores the Azuki universe, telling a gripping story that revolves around its characters, locations and lore. The series has been praised for its high-level is visual fidelity, voice acting and storytelling, with each episode release being a hotly-anticipated event.

To date, two episodes of Azuki’s Enter The Garden have been released via YouTube. Both episodes have over 2 million viewers – outstanding figures for a debuting original anime franchise – with Episode 3 expected to release soon.

Azuki Merch - Anime.com
Source: Anime.com

What’s in the Enter The Garden capsule collection?

As of writing, no details have been shared about the exact contents of the Enter The Garden capsule collection, the prices, or the availability of the merchandise within.

In announcing the capsule collection, Azuki included an image that appears to tease a few of the available items. This includes a Fractured Reflections t-shirt, a blue Azuki tee, an oversized black hoodie, and perhaps an Azuki skate deck and stickers/patches for Beanz – one of Azuki’s companion NFT collections.

The Enter The Garden capsule collection will become available on July 18 at 18 UTC. Further details are expected to be shared via Azuki’s socials once the merch is live.

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Looking at the charts shared by Alex Clay, we see that he has identified the best breaks of his previous history and views the latest price action as a re-accumulation. To catch up with the context behind my drawings, please revisit the previous article here.

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Binance Coins Looks Good on Charts: Technical Insights

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Starting this analysis again on the weekly chart, we can see that the BNB is pushed upward from the shape of this diamond (ISH). Often such a diamond pattern is called a diamond top, but its clean breakout is a real indicator of where the price is heading. Still, it is important to note that this is a rather rare pattern. Therefore, its accuracy is not as high as, for example, a rectangle.

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Binance Coin looks good again from a technical standpoint. The BNB team continues to build and improve the chain.

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Going into the daily time frame, you will see that the price has three clean touches and rebounds from the bottom trend line, breaking above the top trend line. BNB also broke the lower downtrend at the bottom. In other words, we broke the market structure by printing higher and higher and lower ones. The portion that adds a few percent to the bullish continuation is the retrieval and retest of the MA200.

If you were to enter a long position here, you would place the stop at $630 under the MA200 level.

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Finishing your analysis with the 4H time frame chart, you will see another powerful upward momentum movement begins. Binance Coin has been working well with Bitcoin over the past few weeks, and as Bitcoin heads for a new ATH, it is possible that BNB will do the same for $940-950 as its potential next target. Stay safe there!

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BNB Coin Showing Strength: Enter New ATH

  • BNB price hover below the last resistance

  • Bullish emanation in RSI 1D

  • The weekly time frame shows the strength of the RSI building, with the diamond pattern broken upwards

  • A potential breakout for the new ATH, attracting $950 attention.

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The competition for stablecoin dominance is entering a third phase and companies such as Tether, issuer of the largest token, and Circle, the No. 2, are setting up their positions as the industry faces increased regulation in the form of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regime and U.S. legislation that is working its way through Congress, according to digital asset cryptography and custody specialists Fireblocks.

This latest stage will feature banks, large and small, as well as incumbent payment firms that are weighing up the best way to integrate the tokens into their existing businesses, according to Ran Goldi, SVP of payments at Fireblocks.

Stablecoins, blockchain-based tokens that mimic U.S. dollars for the most part, have become big business. Tether’s USDT is the clear leader, with a market cap close to $145 billion. Circle’s USDC has over $60 billion in circulation and the company is considering a public listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The stablecoin market could grow to $2 trillion by the end of 2028, Standard Chartered said in a Tuesday note.

“We are going to see banks issuing stablecoins, as they are under MiCA,” Goldi said in an interview. “You are seeing financial institutions that are fintechs entering such as Robinhood, Ripple and Revolut. By the end of this year, you are going to see maybe 50 more stablecoins.”

The industry has already passed through two stages, Goldi said. The first occurred when USDC went up against U.S. regulated trading firm Paxos, which had partnered with crypto exchange Binance to issue BUSD. For regulatory reasons Paxos had to drop BUSD and so Circle won that round, Goldi said, adding that Paxos’ new USDG consortium is growing in stature and likely to play a major role in the future.

The second stage was between Circle and Tether.

“USDC was trying to be bigger than USDT, but then USDC tumbled a bit with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank etc. It was harder for people to accept that product, especially people outside the U.S. Meanwhile USDT has really grown tremendously. I think USDT will remain the dominant dollar stablecoin outside of the U.S. I believe Circle will have to put up a really good fight, which they’ve done in the past and are very good at doing.”

It’s worth noting, though, that USDC is licensed under MiCA, giving it access to 27 EU nations with a total population of about 450 million people. USDT is not.

Growth in international payments

Stablecoins grew to prominence as an essential way of moving money between volatile cryptocurrencies, meeting a particular need given the industry’s shortage of fiat on and off ramps. Dollar-pegged coins of various sorts blossomed further with the explosion of decentralized finance (DeFi).

Looking further back, the early days of crypto show an evolution of payment service providers (PSPs), starting with those who wanted to use cryptocurrencies to settle their bills. This was followed by a second wave of business-to-business PSPs like Bridge, recently acquired by Stripe, and Zero Hash, Alfred Pay, Conduit and others.

“Some of these PSPs are firms you may not have heard much about, but they are actually moving billions in stablecoins, servicing businesses to pay to other businesses most of the time,” Goldi said. He pointed out that less than 20% of Fireblocks’ total transaction volume was stablecoins in 2020, increasing to some 54% last year.

For a typical use case, consider an importer in Brazil that wants to bring in a container and pay someone in Turkey or in Singapore. It takes the Brazilian reals, converts them to a stablecoin, and either sends the funds directly to the exporter or changes them to the destination currency and pays with that, Goldi said.

Some banks have already caught on to the cross-border payments use case, with the likes of Braza Bank in Brazil, BTG Bank and DBS in Singapore catering to business clients with accounts that support stablecoins. Others are still weighing the best use case for them.

“We have been approached by dozens of banks,” Goldi said. “They are asking whether they should be on/off ramps, or holding reserves, or perhaps they are thinking about issuing a stablecoin. There are several things banks can do to make money out of stablecoins, from credit to on/off ramps to FX.”

Based on those conversations, Goldi said he believes most of the banks are writing strategic plans that will probably be submitted by the end of this quarter.

“It will be interesting to see if banks build something on their own, or use BNY Mellon, for instance, that serves banks, or a vendor like Fireblocks. I think the large tier-1 banks like JPMorgan, Citi and Morgan Stanley will build their own tech, while the tier-2 banks will want to use some hosted tech provider,” Goldi said. “Of course they are banks and they move slowly, so I think they would be looking to approve those plans by the end of this year and perhaps do something in 2026.

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Traditional financial giants Bank of America and PayPal are making bold moves in the stablecoin sector, signaling the rising institutional interest in the sector, which is worth over $200 billion.

On Feb. 26, reports emerged that the Bank of America would introduce a stablecoin once the US regulatory landscape became apparent.

At the same time, PayPal revealed that it was working to expand the role of its PYUSD stablecoin within its payment ecosystem.

Bank of America’s stablecoin ambitions

Brian Moynihan, President of Bank of America, has hinted at the bank’s potential entry into the stablecoin market.

He acknowledged that stablecoins function similarly to money market funds or bank accounts with check access. According to Moynihan, regulatory approval remains the primary barrier to launching a USD-pegged stablecoin.

He reportedly said:

“If they make that legal, we will go into that business.”

His statement reflects the bank’s readiness to enter the sector once regulations permit. He also suggested that a future “BofA coin” could be tied to dollar deposit accounts, though he questioned its broader utility.

Moynihan’s statement is unsurprising, considering he had previously said that the US banking industry would embrace cryptocurrencies for payments if regulators allow it.

Bank of America is the second-largest bank in the United States, with total assets of $2.57 trillion.

PayPal’s PYUSD expansion

On the other hand, PayPal is actively working to integrate PYUSD into its payment ecosystem to boost its adoption.

Michelle Gill, a PayPal executive, detailed plans to embed the stablecoin deeper into its platform by enabling merchants to use PYUSD for vendor payments through PayPal’s network.

Beyond that, the company would also focus on incorporating PYUSD for international payments.

The executive explained that PayPal aims to eliminate currency conversion complexities and reduce transaction delays that plague the traditional system by integrating PYUSD into its cross-border payment system.

According to Gill:

“A lot of the payments we’re expecting are going to be cross-border because merchants in the US are seeking to pay vendors and suppliers abroad. The thesis was: Can we facilitate that on PYUSD rails so as not to have the currency conversion, the friction, as well as time?”

 

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]]> https://earlybirdsinvest.com/us-financial-giants-bank-of-america-look-to-enter-stablecoin-market-as-paypal-advances-pyusd/feed/ 0 22025 Enter the Garden: Fractured Reflections to Premiere on Anime.com https://earlybirdsinvest.com/enter-the-garden-fractured-reflections-to-premiere-on-anime-com/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/enter-the-garden-fractured-reflections-to-premiere-on-anime-com/#respond Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:20:11 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/enter-the-garden-fractured-reflections-to-premiere-on-anime-com/

Azuki’s latest anime project—Fractured Reflections—will debut on February 27 at 18:00 PT as part of the ongoing Enter The Garden anthology series.

The episode will first be shown on Anime.com before being made available on Azuki’s YouTube channel, marking the second instalment in a planned three-part series.

Azuki, originally recognised for its NFT collection, has been developing animation projects to extend its storytelling beyond digital assets. The latest episode continues this initiative, incorporating themes of mystery and exploration.

Enter the Garden: Fractured Reflections to Premiere on Anime.com
Source: Anime.com

What is Fractured Reflections?

The episode follows Shao and Raizan, two sisters who grow up in the Alley, relying on each other to survive.

When Raizan suddenly disappears, Shao begins searching for her, carrying her sister’s sword as a connection to the past. Her search leads her to a torii gate, an entrance to an unfamiliar place known as the Garden.

The production brings together a team of experienced industry figures, including Gorō Taniguchi as creative producer, Yukio Takatsu as director, and Taku Kishimoto handling series composition. The episode features character designs by Kazuto Nakazawa, known for his work on various anime productions.

Enter the Garden: Fractured Reflections to Premiere on Anime.com
Source: Anime.com

How to watch the premiere?

The premiere will be hosted on Anime.com, where viewers can join a watch party. To participate, users need to create an account on the platform and log in at the scheduled time.

Ahead of the event, blind boxes containing digital stickers and avatar customisation options will be available for purchase. These stickers can be used in the watch party chat, adding an interactive element to the viewing experience.

Following its debut on Anime.com, Fractured Reflections will be uploaded to Azuki’s YouTube channel, where it will be accessible on demand.

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The filings for spot Solana (SOL) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from VanEck, 21shares, Bitwise, and Canary Capital were officially added to the Federal Register on Feb. 18. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) now has 240 days to approve or deny the filings.

Additionally, the register for the Grayscale filing was added on Feb. 12, which would include its Solana ETF in the batch that could be approved until Oct. 16.

The Grayscale Solana ETF amendment was acknowledged by the SEC on Feb. 6, and the four other filings were acknowledged on Feb. 11.

SOL is currently in a spot where the buzz of an ETF approval is a much-needed boost. Following the debacle of the LIBRA memecoin, promoted by Argentinian President Javier Milei, SOL crashed up to 42% year-to-date as of Feb. 18.

According to Bloomberg ETF analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart, spot Solana ETFs have 70% approval odds. 

Notably, the analysts highlighted that these odds could rise if the lawsuits deeming SOL as security are extinguished. This is a likely outcome considering the current SEC stance of halting lawsuits against crypto firms.

Wave of ETF approvals

Seyffart and Balchunas also predicted in late 2024 that a wave of crypto ETFs, including SOL, Hedera (HBAR), Litecoin (LTC), and XRP, would hit the market.

The estimate is related to the changing regulatory landscape in the US following President Donald Trump’s election for a second term.

On Feb. 19, Canary Capital announced an Axelar (AXL) trust, potentially adding another asset to the approval queue.

According to the firm’s announcement, the Canary AXL Trust will provide institutional and accredited investors with secure exposure to AXL, the native crypto of the Axelar Network. Canary has selected Coinbase as the trust’s designated custodian.

The trust is the first investment trust dedicated to a general blockchain interoperability protocol, emphasizing the increasing demand for seamless cross-chain connectivity in the Web3 ecosystem. 

Steven McClurg, CEO of Canary Capital, stated:

“With Axelar driving some of the most advanced interoperability solutions in Web3, we see in AXL a significant opportunity for institutional investors. As demand for crypto exposure grows, we remain committed to providing structured, secure, and forward-thinking investment vehicles that align with blockchain’s future.”

By early 2025, Axelar ranked as the 11th largest blockchain by total value locked (TVL), surpassing $1 billion. 

As interoperability continues to shape the blockchain landscape, Axelar is expected to expand its reach and integrate with networks such as XRP Ledger, Hedera, Stellar, Sui, Solana, and Bitcoin.

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