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Hyperscale Data launches bitcoin treasury, sending stock soaring

The stock is still down over 90% year to date.

One of the latest entrants to the digital asset treasury scene is Hyperscale Data, which announced the launch of a $100 million bitcoin treasury strategy “as part of its transformation into a pure play artificial intelligence (‘AI’) data center and digital asset company.” Shares jumped 108% at the open upon the announcement, and remain up over 30% in early trading Monday.

The company said it will fund the initiative with proceeds from the sale of its Montana data center assets and its previously announced ATM program.

Hyperscale also said it will expand its Michigan campus, “where customer-installed NVIDIA graphics processing unit servers are enabling advanced AI and high-performance computing workloads.”

In other bitcoin news:

  • Strategy acquired 525 bitcoin for $60.2 million. The company, the largest corporate bitcoin holder, now has 638,985 bitcoin.

  • Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive recently merged with Asset Entities to launch a bitcoin treasury and announced it “started its life as a public company with 69 bitcoin.” The company expects to raise up to $1.5 billion from its PIPE deal if the warrants are exercised.

  • Chinese company Cango mined 141.1 bitcoin last week. The bitcoin mining company holds 5,418.2 tokens.

  • French public company Capital B acquired 48 bitcoin and now holds 2,249 bitcoin.

  • David Beckham-backed Prenetics, a health science company that recently launched a bitcoin treasury, acquired 13 bitcoin, bringing its total to 233.4.

  • Finally, bitcoin ETFs are rebounding, with $2.4 billion in inflows last week, according to CoinShares. This represents the largest weekly inflows since July. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust remains the leader, recording $1.1 billion in weekly inflows.

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XRP ETFs have now crossed $1 billion in assets since the funds launched, according to SoSoValue, which shows total assets of $1.18 billion.

In September, the SEC approved generic listing standards, which paved the way for speedier listings and opened the floodgates for these products, and shortly after, Rex-Osprey launched the first spot XRP ETF available in the US.

Canary followed suit in November, launching an ETF trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker XRPC, which saw a record $58.5 million in trading volume on its first day. It’s the largest XRP ETF in the US, with $342 million in assets.

Grayscale, Bitwise, and Franklin Templeton also launched their own XRP ETFs in November. On December 11, 21Shares joined the XRP fund party.

It’s a noteworthy green shoot in the crypto space, as bitcoin and its ETFs have struggled, and XRP itself is down nearly 15% over the past month.

Jake Hanley, managing director and senior portfolio specialist at Teucrium Investment Advisors — which launched the first-ever XRP-based ETF in April, the 2x Long Daily XRP ETF — told Sherwood News that he is not surprised to see this level of interest in the XRP ETFs.

“We have long held that XRP and the Ripple ecosystem present a unique investment case among crypto assets. Crossing the $1 billion mark is yet another signal of the significant vote of confidence investors have in this increasingly important asset and ecosystem,” Hanley said.

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New bitcoin AfterDark ETF will be bitcoin at night, Treasurys by day

Tidal Trust II submitted form N-1A with the SEC to register a bitcoin ETF designed to systemically capture the cryptocurrency’s overnight return profile, a time window that delivered a significant portion of bitcoin’s upside last year.

The Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries AfterDark ETF provides long bitcoin exposure during US overnight hours, from the closing bell until the following morning’s market open, when the fund intends to unwind its positions, according to a document filed with the SEC on Tuesday. 

To gain that exposure, the ETF may use a number of methods, including bitcoin futures contracts, US-listed ETFs, or exchange-traded options on such bitcoin underlying funds. When the market is open and daytime trading is active, the fund’s portfolio will consist of US Treasury securities and other cash equivalents. 

In 2024, most of bitcoin’s gains occurred after-hours, senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas reported:

The AfterDark ETF filing comes as bitcoin crossed $94,000 on Tuesday, rising 4.5% in the last 24 hours. Even though spot bitcoin ETFs saw nearly $60.5 million in outflows on Monday, the investment vehicles have a cumulative net inflow of $57.6 billion, per SoSoValue.

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