{"id":23377,"date":"2025-04-23T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23377"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:31:52","slug":"brandon-lutnick-tether-softbank-back-3-billion-bitcoin-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23377","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Lutnick, Tether, SoftBank Back $3 Billion Bitcoin Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new cryptocurrency investment push is underway, with <strong>Brandon Lutnick<\/strong>, son of U.S. Commerce Secretary <strong>Howard Lutnick<\/strong>, partnering with crypto powerhouses <strong>Tether <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>), <strong>Bitfinex<\/strong> and Japanese investment giant <strong>SoftBank <\/strong>to launch a multibillion-dollar <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>)-focused venture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Quoting sources familiar with the initiative, the Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/501210ad-d39b-4d7b-b649-bbd08ceffe6f\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday that the group aims to create a massive Bitcoin acquisition vehicle modeled after the playbook of <strong>Strategy <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSTR#NASDAQ\">MSTR<\/a>), the tech firm-turned-Bitcoin heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy gained widespread attention for turning its corporate reserves into a Bitcoin treasury strategy, eventually amassing a position worth tens of billions of dollars and reaching a public valuation north of $90 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Lutnick&#8217;s new venture, named <strong>21 Capital<\/strong>, is being formed through <strong>Cantor Equity Partners<\/strong>, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44948500\/brandon-lutnick-tether-softbank-back-3-billion-bitcoin-venture\" alt=\"Brandon\" lutnick tether softbank back billion bitcoin venture>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cryptocurrency investment push is underway, with Brandon Lutnick, son of U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, partnering with crypto powerhouses Tether (CRYPTO: USDT), Bitfinex and Japanese investment giant SoftBank to launch a multibillion-dollar Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)-focused venture. What Happened: Quoting sources familiar with the initiative, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday that the group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-23377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}