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View More NewsIn brief Bitmine holds 5,815,164 ETH, worth roughly $11 billion, with total crypto, cash, and other holdings of $11.4 billion. The company has staked 5,067,309 ETH through its MAVAN validator network, worth about $9.6 billion. Bitmine repurchased 1.7 million shares over the past week, bringing total buybacks since July to 20.8 million shares. Bitmine Immersion Technologies has purchased another 9,926 Ethereum tokens, worth roughly $19 million, bringing its total holdings to 5.82 million ETH. The company’s Ethereum treasury is now worth about $11 billion, putting the crypto treasury firm within striking distance of its goal to own 5% of ETH’s circulating…
In brief Treasury proposed rules defining when stablecoins are issued, offered, or sold in the US under the GENIUS Act. Beginning January 18, 2027, issuers generally must obtain a federal or state license to issue payment stablecoins in the US. Starting July 18, 2028, crypto platforms generally cannot sell stablecoins to US customers unless they come from an approved issuer. The U.S. Department of the Treasury proposed rules Monday defining which stablecoins can be issued or sold in the United States under the GENIUS Act.The proposal implements Section 3 of the GENIUS Act, signed into law last summer. According to…
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The blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has led to a massive spike in demand for Homer’s original text. At one Brooklyn book store visited by a Guardian reporter, more than a dozen different editions of the Odyssey were on prominent display. Over the last month, a staffer said, sales had multiplied “several thousand per cent.”I fear many of these new readers will come away disappointed, as the ruthless 2,800-year-old version of Odysseus whom Homer conjured is quite unlike the more modern, guilt-addled protagonist that reviewers have found in Matt Damon’s performance. As Charlotte Allen argued in this space…
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In brief The SEC abruptly canceled a Friday open meeting that would have launched formal rulemaking on Regulation Crypto Assets, a new framework for…
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OpenAI is opening its first applied AI lab outside the US in Singapore through a multiyear partnership with the Ministry of Digital Development and…
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Margin longs on Bitfinex have climbed to a two-and-a-half year high as bitcoin struggles below key technical resistance near $78,000. Read the full article…
Qivalis, a European banking consortium developing a regulated euro stablecoin, expanded to 37 member institutions on Wednesday after adding 25 new banks across 15…
In brief Trump Media & Technology Group has withdrawn its Bitcoin and Bitcoin-Ethereum ETF applications. Sponsor and investment advisor Yorkville America said that it…
Qivalis, a stablecoin initiative backed by a group of European banks, aims to issue a stablecoin later this year to deepen the euro’s role…
Crypto asset manager Bitwise has called Hyperliquid “one of the most mispriced assets in crypto today,” despite its outperformance so far this year.“Hyperliquid is…