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Broadridge Financial Solutions announced a strategic partnership and minority investment in CENTRL, a leading provider of AI-powered due diligence solutions for financial institutions. The partnership enhances Broadridge's data and analytics solutions for the asset management and retirement advisory industries with leading due diligence technology and expands its AI-enabled capabilities, helping modernize counterparty due diligence and RFP processes through data-driven, innovative technology. Through the partnership, Broadridge will integrate CENTRL's AI-powered workflow and automation capabilities across solutions serving asset managers, retirement recordkeepers, and retirement advisors. The collaboration includes modernizing Broadridge's Fi360 RFP Director, embedding Broadridge data into CENTRL's workflows, and expanding access to AI-driven tools that automate due diligence, RFP responses, and counterparty oversight processes. Broadridge's data and analytics business is focused on transforming complex data into actionable insights across the asset management lifecycle-from distribution and investor behavior to operational performance.

The collapse of U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks pushed oil prices back up and has been keeping bitcoin(BTC-USD)pinned near the $70,500 support level. Meanwhile, a Polkadot(DOT-USD)bridge exploit added further headwinds for cross-chain infrastructure investors. Stay current on the crypto news that matters with "Crypto Currents," daily from The Fly. Join us at 2 PM ET for your essential briefing on the fast-moving world of cryptocurrency on FlyCast radio.STRATEGY EXTENDS BITCOIN ACCUMULATION WITH $1B BUY, BITMINE REACHES ETHER HOLDINGS OVER 4% OF CIRCULATING SUPPLY:Strategy(MSTR)disclosed in afiling this morningthat it acquired 13,927 bitcoin for roughly $1B during the week of April 6-12, at an average price of $71,902 per coin, lifting its total treasury to 780,897 bitcoin at an aggregate cost of approximately $59.02B, or $75,577 average. The purchase was funded entirely by selling 10.03M shares of its STRC preferred stock for net proceeds of about $1.001B, with no dilution to MSTR common shares this cycle. Founder Michael Saylor, noting a 5.6% bitcoin yield year-to-date in 2026 and a breakeven annual return rate of about 2.05%.On the ether(ETH-USD)side, treasury giant Bitmine Immersion Technologies(BMNR)disclosed in aregulatory filingthat its total ether holdings stand at 4.875M ether, roughly 4.04% of total circulating supply, valued near $10.75B at $2,206 per token. 3.33M of their owned ether valued at $7.4B is actively staked. The company also holds 198 bitcoin, $719M in cash, and $85M in Eightco Holdings(ORBS)shares, and announced that its NYSE uplisting from NYSE American became effective April 9, a development that broadens its index-eligibility and institutional accessibility. The scale of Bitmine's staking position makes it one of the largest single publicly traded concentrations of staked ether on U.S. exchanges, a defining concentration for any portfolio with Ethereum infrastructure exposure.CANGO LAUNCHES HPC/AI SUBSIDIARY AS MINERS PIVOT FROM PURE PROOF-OF-WORK:Cango(CANG)announcedthat EcoHash, its high-performance computing and AI inference subsidiary, has begun commercial operations at its owned 50-megawatt facility in Georgia, deploying plug-and-play compute modules via its proprietary EcoLink Orchestration Platform. LM Funding America(LMFA)disclosed in an8-Ka more constrained operational picture for March 2026. The company mined 9.6 bitcoin at a record hashrate of 0.79 EH/s but sold 23.1 bitcoin, leaving a 341.2 bitcoin treasury valued at nearly $22.9M. It also extended an $11M Galaxy Digital credit facility to June 26, 2026, signaling continued reliance on debt financing amid compressed mining economics. Meanwhile, BGIN Blockchain(BGIN)resolved a prolonged hosting dispute,the company said, recovering all 5,325 seized mining machines from Mawson Hosting and Krypton Technologies under a confidential settlement, an event that removes a material operational drag from BGIN's U.S. subsidiary, BGIN Infrastructure.BROADRIDGE AND MARTI EXPAND DIGITAL ASSET INFRASTRUCTURE FOOTPRINTS:Broadridge Financial Solutions(BR)launched a unified digital asset platform for Canadian wealth managers,per the firm's announcement, covering crypto trading, tokenized real-world assets, integrated custody via Galaxy Digitaland Anchorage/Tetra, and on-chain proxy voting, building on infrastructure that already tokenizes more than $8T in assets monthly. The launch is a telling signal that institutional-grade digital asset tooling is moving into mainstream North American wealth management, with custody integration through regulated counterparties rather than self-managed wallets. Marti Technologies(MRT)reported FY25 results, posting revenue of $39.2M, up 110% year over year and 15% above guidance, with gross margin swinging from -15% to +61%. The Turkey-based mobility platform maintains a policy of holding 20–50% of cash reserves in bitcoin and guided for FY26 revenue of $70M with positive adjusted EBITDA.CLARITY ACT AND SEC ROUNDTABLE SET THE WEEK'S REGULATORY TONE:The U.S. Senate returned from Easter recess Monday, reopening the window for a potential CLARITY Act markup vote this week, with an SEC digital assets roundtable scheduled for April 16 as the immediate near-term catalyst. CoinbaseCEO Brian Armstrong publicly endorsed the CLARITY Act on April 9 following White House pressure, and passage of the bill would be a significant positive for Coinbase's regulatory standing and product roadmap. The legislative outcome also carries direct implications for miner and exchange-adjacent equities whose compliance overhead and product offerings are sensitive to jurisdictional clarity on digital asset classification.On the corporate side, BitGo(BTGO)that BitGo Prime has added tradias, a regulated European crypto-asset services provider currently merging with Boerse Stuttgart Digital, to its institutional liquidity network, expanding execution quality and market access for its institutional client base. Bitcoin Depot(BTM), the largest North American bitcoin ATM operator with over 9,000 kiosk locations, named Tony Gagliardi as its new chief compliance officer effective April 8,the company disclosed. Gagliardi previously held global compliance roles at Coinbase, OKX, and Paxos, a résumé that reflects the rising anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulatory bar across the digital asset kiosk sector.PRICE ACTION:As of time of writing, bitcoin(BTC-USD)was trading near $71,797.97, and ether(ETH-USD)was trading near $2,206.60,according to price data from TipRanks.

Digital asset strategies are dominating Monday's tape, with a wave of SEC filings, exchange uplistings, and infrastructure pivots hitting simultaneously as bitcoin climbs toward $70,000 on Iran ceasefire optimism. Strategyremains the gravitational center of the bitcointreasury universe, but a growing field of smaller public companies is executing its own accumulation and pivot plays, from etherconcentration to solanastaking infrastructure and quantum-resistant protocol development. Stay up on the crypto news that matters with "Crypto Currents," daily from The Fly. Join us at 2 PM ET for your essential briefing on the fast-moving world of cryptocurrency on FlyCast radio.STRATEGY RESUMES BITCOIN BUYS DESPITE $14.46B UNREALIZED LOSS:Strategy returned to the bitcoin market after a one-week pause,, at an average price of roughly $67,718 per coin.: a $14.46B unrealized loss on digital assets, a $2.42B deferred tax benefit, and a $1.73B valuation allowance established against deferred tax assets. These are disclosures that equity analysts are expected to scrutinize ahead of the formal 10-Q. Strategy's total holdings now stand at 766,970 BTC, carried at $51.65B on the balance sheet against an aggregate cost basis of $58.02B, representing an average of $75,644 per coin. The company's ATM machinery continues to operate at scale, with preferred stock series STRC generating $227.3M in net proceeds over just two days at the end of March, and new $21B capacity facilities announced March 23 providing material forward purchasing power.Strivealso disclosed a bitcoin treasury of 13,741 BTC as of April 2, alongside $86.9M in cash and $50.5M in Strategy's STRC preferred stock, according to its SEC filing. Separately, Empery Digital, while retaining 2,989 BTC in treasury.BITMINE APPROACHES 4% OF ALL ETHER SUPPLY AHEAD OF NYSE UPLISTING:Bitmine Immersion Technologies, approximately $10.2B at current prices, representing 3.98% of total ETH supply and putting the company within striking distance of its stated 5% "Alchemy" target achieved in roughly nine months of accumulation. Total combined crypto, cash, and "moonshot" holdings stand at $11.4B, including $864M in cash. The company also received board approval to uplist from NYSE American to the NYSE, effective April 9, a market-structure catalyst that widens the eligible institutional investor base. Theinstitutional backing from ARK's Cathie Wood, Pantera, Founders Fund, Kraken, DCG, and Galaxy Digital.KEEL INFRASTRUCTURE DEBUTS AS FORMER BITFARMS PIVOTS TO AI:Former bitcoin miner Bitfarms began trading today under the new ticker Keel Infrastructureon both the Nasdaq and Toronto Stock Exchange, following its completion of a U.S. domiciliation from Canada to Delaware on a 1:1 share exchange of 602.9M shares,. The company has exited bitcoin mining entirely and is pivoting toward a 2.2-gigawatt pipeline of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence data center infrastructure, part of a broader sector trend also visible in MARA Holdings, which sold 15,133 BTC for approximately $1.1B in March at a $72,689 average to fund a similar compute pivot, the largest single-month corporate bitcoin sale on record.BROADRIDGE AND GALAXY DIGITAL TAKE TOKENIZED EQUITY GOVERNANCE ON-CHAIN:Broadridge Financial Solutions, with the platform currently processing $8T per month in tokenized assets. Galaxy Digital will be the first public company to use the platform for shareholder voting at its May annual meeting, a structural first for institutional digital asset governance that could accelerate adoption across custody, brokerage, and transfer agency workflows. For equity investors, Broadridge's position as a backbone provider of shareholder communications and proxy services gives it a direct monetization path as tokenized equities scale.SOL STRATEGIES BUILDS INSTITUTIONAL VALIDATOR MOMENTUM FOR SOLANA:SOL Strategiestokens, with its Orangefin validator network at 3.81M SOL under delegation. Balance, described as Canada's largest digital asset custodian, integrated the Orangefin validator for its institutional custody clients, citing the validator's 100% uptime record as a key qualification criterion. The company also confirmed new CEO Michael Hubbard and named Steve Ehrlich, co-founder of now-defunct exchange Voyager Digital, as Chief Strategy Officer, bringing direct brokerage and exchange credentials to the firm's institutional push.STABLECOIN, REAL WORLD ASSETS, AND SHELL PIVOTS MULTIPLY ACROSS EXCHANGES:Stablecoin Development Corp., formerly the pharmaceutical company NovaBay, began trading under its new ticker on NYSE American following a full business-model pivot,, native to the Sky/Maker protocol, representing 9.15% of total supply, with approximately 35.3M additional SKY earned via staking rewards through March 31. OFA Groupseparatelyfor a Long Island City, New York mixed-use real estate project, with a $15M technology fee covering smart contract deployment and digital asset registry infrastructure through its Hearth RWA platform. SMXannounced the launch of its Digital Material Passport Platform, enabling blockchain-backed traceability for physical materials including plastics, gold, and rare earth elements across global supply chains,.ProCap Financialalsothe completion of its acquisition of CFO Silvia, an artificial intelligence agent laboratory for finance with over $30B in assets under management on its platform, positioning the Anthony Pompliano-founded firm at the intersection of bitcoin treasury strategy and agentic finance automation.QUANTUM SECURITY BECOMES A CAPITAL ALLOCATION THEME FOR BITCOIN:MicroCloud Hologram, employing hybrid post-quantum cryptographic methods including CRYSTALS-Dilithium and SPHINCS+, targeting a phased soft-fork deployment. The capital commitment is notable relative to the company's approximately $390M in reported cash reserves, suggesting near-total resource allocation to the initiative. BTQ Technologiestook a complementary but distinct stance,establishing the first end-to-end physical cost estimate for using quantum hardware to mine bitcoin, concluding that quantum mining is economically untenable, a finding that reinforces BTQ's focus on its post-quantum signature architecture rather than hash-based compute.PRICE ACTION:As of time of writing, bitcoin was trading at $69,715.17, while ether was trading at $2,162.79,.

Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR) announced the extension of its governance platform to support digital assets. This new capability enables public companies and funds, broker-dealers and wealth managers, and retail and institutional investors to manage proxy voting, corporate actions, and disclosures across both traditional and tokenized securities within their existing platforms and workflows. This new tokenized equity capability complements Broadridge's market-leading tokenization capabilities, which already process $8 trillion in tokenized assets per month. As tokenization gains momentum across financial services, Broadridge is delivering the critical governance infrastructure necessary to support digital asset adoption and growth at scale. Galaxy (GLXY), the first U.S. public company to issue native tokenized equity on a major public blockchain, will utilize Broadridge's platform for its upcoming annual meeting and shareholder vote in May, marking a significant step in the adoption of digital assets within public markets.