Crypto Market Cap Rises $60B as Bitcoin Passes 20M Mined; Strategy Buys 17,994 BTC for $1.28B

The total crypto market capitalization rose by $60,000,000,000 over the past 24 hours to $2.32T, while Bitcoin passed 20,000,000 BTC mined with the remaining 1,000,000 BTC projected to take another 114 years. Strategy purchased 17,994 BTC for $1.28B, bringing its holdings to 738,731 BTC, and Nasdaq teamed up with Kraken parent Payward to advance tokenized stock trading. CFTC Chair Michael Selig outlined a multiyear roadmap covering crypto clarity and positioning the US as a leading AI compute hub, Sonic Labs launched its USSD stablecoin reportedly backed 1:1 by US Treasury assets from BlackRock, Superstate and WisdomTree, and insurance brokerage Aon, valued at $86B, ran a stablecoin premium settlement test with Coinbase and Paxos.