
Empery Sells 1,635 BTC in Weeks as Its 'Never Sell' Reserve Drops 76%
Empery offloaded 1,635 BTC for $102.2M in just over a month, cutting its unrestricted Bitcoin to 325 coins and testing the limits of the never-sell treasury model.
Listen to narrated articles from the SpendNode Journal. The feed covers crypto policy, payment rails, stablecoins, market structure, and crypto cards, with each episode linking back to the full written analysis. The full RSS feed lives at /audio.xml if you want to pull it into an app that accepts external feeds.


Empery offloaded 1,635 BTC for $102.2M in just over a month, cutting its unrestricted Bitcoin to 325 coins and testing the limits of the never-sell treasury model.

More than 100 crypto projects have shut down in 2026 in a dot-com-style washout. Here is what the failures mean for anyone holding funds on a platform.

BTCPay Server cut off remote Lightning access after attackers exploited a vulnerability to drain funds from LND nodes. Here is what merchants need to check now.

Marathon Digital pledged 18,750 BTC to secure $600M in new loans for energy and AI infrastructure, keeping its Bitcoin stack while raising growth capital.

Two weeks into BIP-110's mandatory signaling window, miner support sits near 0%. Here is what that number means for how Bitcoin upgrades actually pass.

BitMEX's roughly $1 billion sale process fell apart after potential buyers backed out, leaving one of crypto's oldest derivatives venues without a deal.

A fresh exploit is draining merchant Lightning nodes on Bitcoin's payment layer, the latest hit to the infrastructure that settles instant BTC transactions.

Backpack has added GTA6 publisher Take-Two Interactive to its tokenized stock lineup on Solana via Sunrise, months before the game's November release.

A Michigan federal judge refused to shield Coinbase from state action over its sports event contracts, ruling federal law does not override state jurisdiction.

A US court granted Bybit expedited discovery to trace funds from the $1.5B North Korea hack, opening account identities, balances, and transaction records.