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Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy7/17/25

Adam Back-led bitcoin treasury company to go public via Cantor SPAC in $1.5 billion PIPE deal

After days of rumors, the Adam Back-led Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination with Cantor Equity Partners via a SPAC, in a $1.5 billion PIPE financing, “the largest ever PIPE announced in conjunction with a Bitcoin Treasury SPAC merger,” according to the press release. CEP was down 7% in early trading on the news.

The new company will trade under the ticker “BSTR” when it launches, with 30,021 bitcoin. This would make it “the 4th largest public Bitcoin treasury,” surpassing Riot Platforms, which holds 19,225 bitcoin.

Adam Back, inventor of Hashcash and cofounder of Blockstream, will be CEO of the company. Back said in a statement, “We are putting unprecedented firepower behind a single mission: maximizing bitcoin ownership per share while accelerating real-world Bitcoin adoption. I’m grateful for the trust of the Bitcoin OG community and for the unwavering support of Cantor Fitzgerald.”

Alexander Blume, CEO of Two Prime, told Sherwood News, “It makes a lot of sense for Adam Back to engage in this. He effectively continues to retain his bitcoin, but now through a public vehicle that can tap into public capital markets.” Blume also warned retail investors “to be cautious about not FOMO trading into the entity and becoming exit liquidity for SPAC sponsors and initial investors.”

Bitcoin treasuries have been on a roll this week, with Strategy, the largest corporate bitcoin holder, crossing the 600,000 bitcoin milestone to hold 601,550 bitcoin. Metaplanet picked up another 1,241 bitcoin to bring its total to 16,352, while Sequans acquired 683 bitcoin, to give it 1,053 bitcoin.

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Ethereum gives up its 2026 gains

As the overall market goes risk-off amid geopolitical tensions, ethereum has decreased 7% in the last 24 hours and is basically flat for 2026.

The cryptocurrency is hovering just below $3,000, a more than 10% pullback from this year’s high of around $3,350. The recent drawdown is the sharpest in the last 24 hours among its peers. Over the same period, bitcoin is down 3.6%, XRP dipped 5.2%, solana slumped 5.6%, and dogecoin tumbled 4%.

Meanwhile, leading ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies, which recently announced a $200 million investment into Beast Industries, acquired an additional 35,268 ethereum tokens worth $108 million last week, bringing its total to 4.2 million tokens worth nearly $12.7 billion at current prices.

The firm also allocated 581,920 tokens for staking, ethereum’s security mechanism. Participation has been on the rise, and the entry queue to start staking is multiple times longer than the exit line.

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Ethereum parent chain sets new record in daily transactions

On Wednesday, the ethereum parent chain logged its highest-ever transaction count at over 2.5 million transactions, a roughly 34% increase from 1.9 million transactions on the first day of the new year, data from blockchain analytics firm Artemis shows.

Artemis research analyst Alex Weseley told Sherwood News the largest drivers of the network’s transaction growth stems from Circle and Tether’s stablecoins, USDC and USDT, as usage of both are up over 200% year over year.

“It has also been interesting to see that the average transaction fee has remained low at < $0.20 per transaction, compared to the $52 average transaction fee paid when transaction counts peaked in 2021,” Weseley added.

The all-time high follows the activation of Pectra and Fusaka last year, two network upgrades aimed at enhancing the scalability of ethereum. “The changes ethereum is making to scale the L1 are starting to pay off, though we are still in the early innings,” Weseley said.

The price of ethereum has increased ~7% in the past seven days, outpacing its peers bitcoin, XRP, solana, and dogecoin. Meanwhile, spot ethereum ETFs trading in the US have seen almost $415.9 million in total inflows during the year so far, with $175 million from Wednesday alone, per SoSoValue.

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Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy1/15/26

When will bitcoin break $100,000 again?

Bitcoin is having a strong start to 2026 that could see it catch up with precious metals’ rally. Bitcoin ETFs are also rallying, and saw their second consecutive day of massive inflows, recording $843.6 million on Wednesday, according to SoSoValue, bringing the total for the week to $1.7 billion.

Jake Kennis, research analyst at Nansen, told Sherwood News that a combination of easing inflation fears, geopolitical safe haven demand, stronger ETF inflows, and a technical breakout above $94,000 to $96,000 resistance are all converging to push BTC toward $100,000.

“The rally has solid institutional and onchain backing, but elevated leverage in futures markets and profit-taking by top traders near the $97K–$100K psychological resistance could trigger volatility,” Kennis said.

While bitcoin has retreated after nearing key resistance levels, Timot Lamarre, director of market research at Unchained, said that despite the asset having been well off all-time highs, it is set up for a sustainable run above $100,000.

“Institutions continue to open up bitcoin buying opportunities to new pools of capital, the macro environment continues to move toward significant monetary easing, and governments, companies, and individuals continue to increase their bitcoin stockpiles,” he said.

The analytics team at B2BINPAY echoed the sentiment, saying that the market structure remains bullish, “with potential to reach $100–105K in the coming weeks, potentially reaching the $120K–140K range later in 2026 if demand stays in place.”

A failure would likely mean a pullback to the $88,000 to $90,000 range, where liquidity is already concentrated, they said.

“Another crucial marker is leverage. Funding rates and open interest are far from extreme, with total OI at around $65B. That’s high. Yet, it’s still below the prior record/near-record zone seen in 2025, around $72B–$75B. So the market isn’t stretched,” the analysts said.

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