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GameStop's Fundraising Surges to $2.7 Billion, Bitcoin Buys on the Horizon?

06/27/2025

GameStop's Fundraising Surges to $2.7 Billion, Bitcoin Buys on the Horizon?

GameStop's recent fundraising efforts have culminated in a substantial $2.7 billion war chest, reigniting speculation about the company's potential Bitcoin investments. The gaming retailer’s publicly available investment policy explicitly allows for the purchase of Bitcoin. In reality, the company has already purchased and acquired billions worth of the cryptocurrency. This...

GameStop's $2.7B: Will GME Double Down on Bitcoin?

06/27/2025

GameStop's $2.7B: Will GME Double Down on Bitcoin?

GameStop, a company once synonymous with brick-and-mortar video game retail, has made a bold move into the world of cryptocurrency. With a recent fundraise of $2.7 billion, the question on everyone's mind is: will GameStop double down on Bitcoin? Anjali Mehra, a DeFi opinion columnist known for blending innovation with...

GameStop's Bitcoin Gamble: Genius Play or Meme Stock Suicide?

06/27/2025

GameStop's Bitcoin Gamble: Genius Play or Meme Stock Suicide?

Okay, let's be real. GameStop. Bitcoin. Together again? After the NFT faceplant, you’d hope they’d gotten hip to the gooey allure of shiny new objects. Nope, they’re back for more, perhaps with that boatload of newly raised cash to continue purchasing more Bitcoin. Is this the mother of all 4D...

GameStop's $2.7B Bitcoin Bet: DeFi Revolution or Centralized Hypocrisy?

06/27/2025

GameStop's $2.7B Bitcoin Bet: DeFi Revolution or Centralized Hypocrisy?

So, GameStop's raked in another $2.7 billion. And the whispers are getting louder: are they about to go full MicroStrategy and load up on Bitcoin? You remember GameStop, right? The short squeezed meme stock darling, the little guy taking down the man on Wall Street. But this Bitcoin move? It...

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Let's be brutally honest. Showing up with an XRP-themed TikTok short to an NFT party is sort of like showing up to a Discord event with a fax machine. Sure, you’ll receive some understated smiles, but inside everyone is thinking, bless your heart. The struggle is real.XRP: DeFi's Wallflower No...

Bitcoin DeFi. Let that sink in. It’s as jarring as when you see your grandpa trying to learn TikTok dances. Hilarious, slightly awkward, but potentially revolutionary. Torramp’s $3 million challenge to port non-ETH native dApps to Bitcoin L1? Call it what you will, but it is more than a stopgap,...

Torram is throwing down the gauntlet: Bring DeFi to Bitcoin Layer 1, natively. No more bridge, no more wrapped tokens, just Bitcoin DeFi in its natural state. Our 3 million Torram token developer challenge is meant to spark a dApp revolution right on Bitcoin’s base layer. It is all a...

Now, with the greatest revolution of our time knocking at the door, the Bitcoin ecosystem is primed and prepared. Torram’s $3 million challenge is the stuff that will really stoke the fire! Through this new initiative, we hope to get Bitcoin’s full potential unlocked. It’ll take a closer look at...

Right now, is Ripple opening the floodgates for institutional adoption? Or is it undermining the core principles of DeFi merely to earn a seat at the regulatory table? That’s the question we should all be answering ourselves. Put aside the hype and come with us as we break down this...

Ripple has been making a big push to get the XRP Ledger (XRPL) deeper into institutional finance. To power this initiative, they have recently launched a new permissioned Decentralized Exchange (DEX). This action addresses an important public safety need for regulatory certainty. It has been a major obstacle for institutions...

Production Wormhole is a major player in the nascent and wildly lucrative blockchain interoperability space, featuring tremendous growth prospects. It poses many dangers that investors should weigh carefully. For anyone in Web3 that prefers to be ahead of the curve, it’s important to understand the arguments on both sides. This...

Okay, fam, let's talk Wormhole. As it stands though, it’s pretty much creating awkward middle school dance vibes. It’s like it wants to be hip and edgy but it’s really just kind of… doing it wrong. The jury's still out.Let’s face it, without memes, crypto would just be a boring...