Clarity survives (barely), Strategy sells and the untold story of Mastercard's $1.8 billion deal: Crypto's week in 5 stories

Revelation News Editorial DeskAugust 15, 2026

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Washington preserved cryptocurrency's major legislative initiative, Wall Street expanded its involvement in digital assets, and a security incident triggered significant bitcoin transfers between wallets. Mastercard was involved in an $1.8 billion deal.

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The chart totals every SEC-reported transaction by month and share count, separating informative purchases and sales from non-informative awards, vesting, exercises, tax withholding and transfers. Records without a reported price remain included. Only informative purchases and sales affect the conservative sentiment signal.

Recent SEC-reported share and derivative transactions in Mastercard Inc.

Insider activity sentiment

Neutral

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0 discretionary purchases · 0 discretionary sales

Confidence: Low

Informative buyNon-informative buyInformative sellNon-informative sell

Insiders	Activity	Description	Shares	Avg. price / share	Est. value	Trade date
Chief Financial OfficerLing Hai	Non-informative sell	Class A Common StockReported 10b5-1 plan (S)	4,317	$641.00	$2,767,197	Nov 2, 2026
Chief Financial OfficerLing Hai	Non-informative buy	Class A Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	4,317	—	—	Nov 2, 2026
Chief Financial OfficerLing Hai	Non-informative sell	Class A Common StockReported 10b5-1 plan (S)	4,318	$642.43	$2,774,013	Oct 30, 2026
Chief Financial OfficerLing Hai	Non-informative buy	Class A Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	4,318	—	—	Oct 30, 2026
Chief Financial OfficerLing Hai	Non-informative sell	Class A Common StockReported 10b5-1 plan (S)	4,317	$620.00	$2,676,540	Oct 16, 2026

As filed with the SEC. Estimated value is shown only for purchases or sales with a positive reported transaction price; awards, gifts and similar activity are not assigned an assumed market value. Amendments may change the record. This is not investment advice.

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Open short positions reported twice monthly; this is not daily short-sale volume.

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Recent reported earnings per share compared with the analyst consensus available from Nasdaq.

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Owner	Activity	Change	Shares held	Value (thousands)	Reported
Vanguard Group Inc	Buy	466,514 (0.587%)	79,897,854	$52,149,329	12/31/2025
Blackrock, Inc.	Sell	-618,423 (-0.923%)	66,393,565	$43,335,080	6/30/2026
Mastercard Foundation Asset Management Corp	Sell	-2,906,800 (-4.817%)	57,440,974	$37,491,724	9/30/2026
Vanguard Capital Management Llc	Sell	-215,439 (-0.412%)	52,122,015	$34,020,039	6/30/2026
State Street Corp	Buy	486,283 (1.333%)	36,964,305	$24,126,602	6/30/2026
Jpmorgan Chase & Co	Sell	-4,428,474 (-13.561%)	28,228,027	$18,424,433	6/30/2026
Fmr Llc	Sell	-420,428 (-1.733%)	23,843,483	$15,562,641	6/30/2026
Geode Capital Management, Llc	Buy	83,612 (0.389%)	21,595,697	$14,095,511	9/30/2026
Vanguard Portfolio Management Llc	Sell	-270,916 (-1.394%)	19,163,628	$12,508,100	6/30/2026
Price T Rowe Associates Inc /Md/	Sell	-47,683 (-0.257%)	18,527,027	$12,092,591	6/30/2026
Morgan Stanley	Sell	-161,074 (-1.062%)	15,001,503	$9,791,481	6/30/2026
Wellington Management Group Llp	Sell	-302,847 (-2.329%)	12,698,735	$8,288,464	6/30/2026

Settlement date	Short interest	Avg. daily volume	Change vs. previous report	Days to cover
Oct 15, 2026	6,991,998	2,892,929	+10.02%	2.42
Sep 30, 2026	6,355,256	3,168,905	-11.75%	2.01
Sep 15, 2026	7,201,181	2,271,276	-5.14%	3.17
Aug 31, 2026	7,591,013	2,966,626	+5.60%	2.56
Aug 14, 2026	7,188,654	2,784,493	-19.80%	2.58
Jul 31, 2026	8,962,947	3,124,355	-1.08%	2.87
Jul 15, 2026	9,060,825	3,191,741	+16.93%	2.84
Jun 30, 2026	7,749,084	4,754,214	+16.29%	1.63

Fiscal quarter	Reported	EPS	Consensus	Surprise
Sep 2026	Oct 29, 2026	5.31	5.14	+3.31%
Jun 2026	Jul 30, 2026	5.04	4.77	+5.66%
Mar 2026	Apr 30, 2026	4.60	4.4	+4.55%
Dec 2025	Jan 29, 2026	4.76	4.2	+13.33%

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