Bitcoin Finance Company (BTCT)the provider of institutional lending and liquidity services said it purchased 292.80 bitcoin.

$43 million ($31.6 million)launches accumulation strategy aimed at building a robust digital assets Ministry of Finance.

The Toronto-based company said it plans to use ownership to support its institutional loan operations, deeming Bitcoin both a long-term reserve asset and an important part of its revenue model.

With the $125 million raised from recently completed intermediary stock offerings and revenues resulting from the purchase of BTC, Bitcoin Treasury aims to provide institutional-grade services related to the digital asset economy. It said it will focus on disciplined risk management and shareholder value creation as it will take on leadership in Bitcoin-backed financial solutions.

The company’s shares are scheduled to begin trading at TSX Venture Exchange on June 30th. Following the reverse acquisition of 2680083Alberta Ltd., shares in the merged entity were listed on C$10 on Thursday and were immediately suspended by the exchange.

Neither BTCT nor 268 shares were previously listed, but the merger is a shortcut for companies that allows BTCT to become a public company without traditional IPOs, using 268 as a private shell vehicle specifically set up for this purpose.

The service included several financial institutions, including Canaccord Genuity, Stifel, National Bank Financial Markets, BMO Capital Markets and CIBC Capital Markets.

BlackRock is preparing to bring blockchain to the back office of one of its largest funds, filing to offer a digital share class of its $150 billion Treasury Trust money market fund through BNY Mellon.

The new “DLT Shares,” short for distributed ledger technology, won’t hold crypto. But BNY Mellon, the fund’s exclusive distributor, intends to use blockchain to mirror share ownership records, an incremental step that could pave the way for broader adoption of tokenized cash, digital assets, or blockchain-based settlement infrastructure in traditional finance.

BlackRock’s Liquidity Treasury Trust Fund is part of the firm’s BlackRock Liquidity Funds suite and manages over $150 billion in assets as of April 29. The DLT share class has a minimum investment requirement of $3 million for institutional buyers, with no minimums on subsequent purchases. The SEC filing is preliminary and subject to approval.

This isn’t BlackRock’s first move into tokenization. Its blockchain-native BUIDL fund, created in partnership with Securitize, now manages over $1.7 billion in assets and recently expanded onto Solana.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has consistently emphasized his belief in the long-term potential of tokenization and decentralized finance. In his 2025 annual letter to shareholders, Fink warned that the U.S. risks ceding its financial dominance if it fails to control its debt – a vulnerability that could accelerate investor interest in alternatives like Bitcoin.

“If the U.S. doesn’t get its debt under control … America risks losing [its reserve currency status] to digital assets like Bitcoin,” Fink wrote. “Decentralized finance is an extraordinary innovation. It makes markets faster, cheaper, and more transparent. Yet that same innovation could undermine America’s economic advantage.”

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TL:DR

• The popular crypto analyst Ali Martinez outlined possible positive scenarios for DOGE and XRP, which could send both assets up by around 25%.
• However, the landscape around Ripple’s cross-border token is somewhat worrisome, according to another indicator.

#Dogecoin $DOGE could be on the verge of a 25% move as it nears a breakout from this symmetrical triangle! pic.twitter.com/Vf5OgIgRBU

— Ali (@ali_charts) February 20, 2025

In terms of the world’s largest meme coin, Martinez noted that it nears a breakout from a symmetrical triangle. The asset has been stuck within it ever since the early February crash when the entire market bled out in hours. DOGE’s price tumbled from over $0.3 to a multi-month low of $0.22.

In the following two and a half weeks, Dogecoin failed to break above it as it was stopped at the upper boundary at $0.28, and then the bulls defended the lower one at $0.244.

With its price currently sitting at around $0.255, a 25% move to the upside will send it to over $0.3.

The landscape around XPR is similar, but the triangle is slightly different – it’s an ascending one. In case the third-largest cryptocurrency manages to break above it, its price could experience a 26% surge, Martinez said, which would mean a price tag of roughly $3.4.

Data from CoinGecko shows that this is the current all-time high, which XRP tested in early January but failed to breach. Ripple’s token certainly has some bullish sentiment going its way, mostly related to ETFs. Brazil is set to launch its first spot one tracking the asset’s performance, while several US-based applications have been officially recognized by the SEC.

Nevertheless, Martinez also warned that another technical indicator suggests that XRP could be headed for a correction. The TD Sequential Indicator, which shows the market’s exhaustion in either direction, flashed a sell signal on the 3-hour chart after the asset’s recent rally.

$XRP could be gearing up for a pullback, as the TD Sequential indicator flashes a sell signal on the 3-hour chart after the recent 11% rebound! pic.twitter.com/k8SetFIQ8F

— Ali (@ali_charts) February 20, 2025