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Adam Back’s Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR), the bitcoin treasury company backed by the Blockstream CEO and bitcoin pioneer, is renegotiating the terms of its planned public listing through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners I (CEPO), with the parties abandoning the original structure agreed last year in an effort to better reflect current market conditions. The companies said Wednesday they will not complete the transaction under the terms of the July 2025 business combination agreement. Instead, they are discussing a revised structure, with further details expected in future filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As part of the changes, the previously announced private placement financing tied to the merger will no longer be required to close. CEPO also indefinitely postponed its shareholder meeting, which had been scheduled for July 10. Any redempti
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A high-profile business combination in the crypto sector has hit an unexpected wall. Cantor Equity Partners I and Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co., the company associated with prominent Bitcoin advocate Adam Back, have confirmed they will not complete their proposed business combination under the originally agreed terms — and the shareholder meeting set for July 10 has been indefinitely postponed. Key takeaways Cantor Equity Partners I and Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co. will not proceed with their business combination under the original terms. Both parties are now pursuing a revised transaction structure, though no details have been disclosed. The shareholder meeting originally scheduled for July 10 has been postponed indefinitely. Adam Back, a well-known figure in the Bitcoin community, is associated with Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co. Postponement of the July 10 Shareholder Meeting The s
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Cantor Equity Partners I (Nasdaq: CEPO), a special purpose acquisition company backed by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, and BSTR Holdings said today that they will not complete their proposed bitcoin business combination on the terms set in their July 2025 agreement. The parties plan to negotiate a revised structure and amended terms that reflect market conditions. The companies said the private placements tied to the original deal will not need to close. A shareholder meeting for CEPO, set for July 10, moved to a postponed date with no fixed timeline. Public shares submitted for redemption will return to holders, the note said. The announcement marks a reversal for one of the largest bitcoin treasury deals to reach public markets. When the two firms unveiled the merger in July 2025, they framed a plan to take Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company, led
Adam Backs Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company and Cantor Equity Partners are revising their SPAC merger after abandoning the original deal terms.
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The renegotiation highlights the challenges of aligning traditional finance with volatile crypto assets, impacting future SPAC-crypto ventures.
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Key highlights: Ethereum researchers are mulling the introduction of native UTXOs for payments on the network Charles Hoskinson slams Ethereum for failing to credit Cardano for rolling out EUTXO Ethereum is bracing for a raft of network changes over the next four years As Ethereum tries to reinvent itself, a new proposal from an Ethereum Foundation researcher to introduce native UTXOs for payments has sparked criticism from prominent ecosystem players. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and cryptographer Adam Back argue that the idea rehashes concepts pioneered years ago by Bitcoin and Cardano. Ethereum proposes native UTXOs for payments In a post, Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstatter proposed a plan to reduce Ethereum’s long-term state growth by making simple payments “one-shot objects.” According to the proposal, the objects will be removed after
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The bankruptcy filing lands. User funds get frozen. Lawyers start arguing over who owns what. For anyone who has followed crypto since 2014, the choreography is depressingly predictable. At BTC Prague 2026, Blockstream CEO Adam Back told the audience that Bitcoin markets keep replaying a script that should have been retired years ago. He pointed to the FTX collapse and, before it, Mt. Gox as evidence that the industry still refuses to adopt the basic structural safeguards that traditional finance built over centuries. Back’s remarks, first highlighted in the original report, did not just blame bad actors. He argued that the deeper flaw is an architectural one: exchanges that commingle custody with trading, creating a single point of failure that sweeps up customer assets whenever a platform implodes. This model has no equivalent in mature capital markets, where brok
BSTR's conservative strategy could redefine Bitcoin's role in institutional portfolios, emphasizing stability over high-risk, high-reward tactics.
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