Quick Take Wallet addresses each containing 10,000 BTC woke up for the first time in more than 14 years. The 10,000 BTC in two of the addresses was valued at $7,800 when the initial transfer was made in April 2011. The other wallets received 10,000 BTC when that was worth $33,700 in May 2011, now $1.1 billion.

The Block·2025/07/03 16:00

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Bloomberg ETF Analyst: 75% of IBIT Buyers Are New Clients to BlackRock
According to ChainCatcher, Bloomberg ETF senior analyst Eric Balchunas stated on the X platform that 75% of investors who purchased BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF "IBIT" are new clients to BlackRock. Furthermore, 27% of these investors subsequently purchased other iShares ETFs. This represents a significant success for BlackRock.
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Cryptography Startup TACEO Raises $5.5 Million in Seed Funding with Participation from a16z CSX
According to ChainCatcher, TFN reports that Austrian crypto technology startup TACEO has completed a $5.5 million seed funding round, led by Archetype VC, with participation from a16z CSX, Cyber.Fund, a_capital, and Polymorphic Capital. The new funds will be used to enhance infrastructure performance and developer tool development, with a focus on expanding privacy-compliant applications in finance, AI, and stablecoin sectors. The company’s core technology, “Private Shared State,” enables collaborative computation on encrypted data among multiple parties, and has already successfully supported biometric authentication for 14 million users in Sam Altman’s World ID project. This technology integrates Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and coSNARKs zero-knowledge proofs, allowing for verification of computational accuracy without exposing raw data.
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Deloitte Survey: 99% of Billion-Dollar Company CFOs Plan to Use Cryptocurrency for Business Purposes in the Long Term
According to ChainCatcher, citing a report from Cointelegraph, a Deloitte survey of CFOs for the second quarter of 2025 shows that cryptocurrencies are becoming a priority in corporate financial planning, with 99% of CFOs from billion-dollar enterprises expecting to use them for business scenarios in the long term. The survey covered 200 CFOs from companies with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion, of whom 23% expect their finance departments to use cryptocurrencies for investment or payments within the next two years. Among companies with annual revenues over $10 billion, this proportion is close to 40%. Despite the strong adoption trend, financial executives remain cautious. Price volatility is the primary barrier to adopting non-stablecoins, with 43% of respondents citing it as their main concern. Other major concerns include the complexity of accounting treatment (42%) and regulatory uncertainty (40%), the latter being particularly affected by changes in U.S. policy.