{"id":37247,"date":"2025-07-16T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37247"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:52:25","slug":"btcs-joins-russell-microcap-index-as-ether-treasury-firms-continue-to-post-big-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37247","title":{"rendered":"BTCS Joins Russell Microcap Index as Ether Treasury Firms Continue to Post Big Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nasdaq-listed Blockchain Technology Consensus Solutions (BTCS) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2025\/07\/16\/3116257\/0\/en\/BTCS-Inc-Announces-Inclusion-in-Russell-Microcap-Index.html\">joining the Russell Microcap Index<\/a>, giving the Ethereum-focused firm greater exposure among investors who track the benchmark for smaller U.S. companies.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland-based firm announced earlier this month a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/07\/08\/ether-treasury-firm-btcs-surges-100-on-100m-eth-buying-plan\">$100 million funding plan <\/a>to acquire more ETH for its balance sheet. The firm says it runs blockchain operations like staking and block building, with a tilt toward the Ethereum ecosystem. It also develops tools such as ChainQ, an analytics platform designed to help users sift through blockchain data.<\/p>\n<p>Index inclusion means BTCS could appear in portfolios run by mutual funds and institutional managers who follow the Russell indexes, which are used to build funds and benchmark performance.<\/p>\n<p>That might translate into increased trading volume or new shareholders. BTCS shares are up more than 22% in pre-market trading, and over 100% in the past month.<\/p>\n<p>Several companies have over the last few weeks turned to an ether treasury reserve. In doing so, their share prices have surged, with GameSquare (GAME) being the latest example.<\/p>\n<p>The firm announced it <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/gamesquare-schedules-conference-call-review-200500482.html\">scheduled<\/a> a conference call to review its $100 million ether treasury strategy. Its shares are up 45% in pre-market trading, seemingly based on that announcement.<\/p>\n<p>SharpLink Gaming (SBET), the largest corporate holder of ETH <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/07\/15\/sharplink-gaming-overtakes-ethereum-foundation-as-largest-corporate-holder-of-eth\">after surpassing the Ethereum Foundation<\/a>, is similarly up 16.6% in pre-market trading after rising 21.3% in yesterday\u2019s trading session. In the past 30 days it\u2019s up 122%.<\/p>\n<p>Ether itself is up around 20% over the past month as corporate adoption grows. Year-to-date, it\u2019s still down 5%. Bitcoin, in comparison, is up more than 25.7% so far this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasdaq-listed Blockchain Technology Consensus Solutions (BTCS) is joining the Russell Microcap Index, giving the Ethereum-focused firm greater exposure among investors who track the benchmark for smaller U.S. companies. The Maryland-based firm announced earlier this month a $100 million funding plan to acquire more ETH for its balance sheet. The firm says it runs blockchain operations [&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-37247","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\/37247","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=37247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}