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Miami — Bitmine (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury firm, may slow the pace of its ether ($ETH) accumulation as the firm is inching closer to reaching its accumulation goal, Chairman Tom Lee said Thursday at Consensus 2026 in Miami. The company, which holds over 5.1 million $ETH worth around $11.9 billion at current prices, originally expected it would take five years to accumulate 5% of the $ETH supply, Lee said. Instead, the company held 4.29% as of this week, less than a year after launching its strategy. “At our current buying pace of 100,000 $ETH a week, we’re going to…

Meta’s quiet rollout last week of $USDC creator payouts in Colombia and the Philippines, four years after the company sold its failed Diem stablecoin (formerly Libra) assets to Silvergate Bank for $182 million, has revived the old question of whether Big Tech is finally coming for retail finance. The answer in 2026 is yes, but not from Apple, Google or Mark Zuckerberg. Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!) The clearest competitive threats to Robinhood, Trading 212, eToro and Revolut are being assembled inside Walmart’s OnePay app, valued above $4 billion, and Elon…

Kraken on Wednesday launched CFTC-regulated spot margin trading for U.S. retail clients on Kraken Pro, giving customers up to 10x leverage on long and short crypto positions with no accredited investor requirement. Traders can post existing crypto holdings as collateral, view real-time risk metrics including liquidation prices and borrowing costs, and use 24/7 stop-loss functionality. Risk is isolated to the collateral allocated to each position rather than the entire portfolio. Eligibility is gated by state and customer criteria. Kraken framed the rollout as closing a long-running gap in the U.S. market, where regulatory friction had pushed leveraged crypto traders toward…

Zypher Network, a decentralized infrastructure firm, has integrated AIDEN, the AI agent of IQ AI, which created $KRWO, the initial Korean Won stablecoin. In this respect, this denotes a key development toward enhancing the accessibility of blockchain knowledge for consumers. As IQ AI revealed in its official press release, the initiative unveils a unique wiki page, offering organized insights into the blockchain encyclopedia of Zypher Network. Hence, this integration underscores the rising significance of confirmable auditability in AI-led applications. Zypher Network integrates AIDEN 🦾Our AI Agent, AIDEN, is now part of the @Zypher_Network community, making blockchain knowledge more accessible to…

The cryptocurrency world is discussing not so much Bitcoin’s price movements, but rather the intriguing paradox between institutional adoption and regulatory pressures. Appearing on The Wolf Of All Streets, Alex Thorn stated that global banks are facing the “Innovator’s Dilemma,” suggesting they are conducting a strategic “delay” operation. According to Thorn, giant institutions like JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are simultaneously establishing their own crypto custody services and blockchain-based payment systems, while also creating legal obstacles to stifle the industry through their lobbyists in Washington. Thorn summarizes the situation with these words: “Banks are currently both building things and obstructing the…

Crypto analyst Ali Martinez noted that Ethereum whales have exhibited a behavioral shift not seen in the past year. According to Martinez, mid-sized Ethereum whales holding between 1,000 and 10,000 $ETH have entered a strong distribution phase after a prolonged accumulation period. According to the data shared in the analysis, the total amount of Ethereum held by this whale group was approximately 12.95 million $ETH in April 2025. This figure peaked at 15.95 million $ETH on October 6, 2025. However, Martinez stated that a “regime change” occurred in market behavior after this date. Related News According to Market Analyst Samson…

U.S. stocks opened higher in a modest risk-on move, led by AI‑linked storage names like Micron and Western Digital, even as PayPal dropped about 10% on weak profit guidance. U.S. equities opened in the green, with the Dow up 0.45%, the S&P 500 up 0.57%, and the Nasdaq up 0.76%, reflecting a modest risk-on tone across blue chips, large-cap growth, and tech. The move comes after a choppy few weeks in which investors have been trading off between hotter-than-expected inflation prints and strong earnings from mega-cap tech, leaving the major indexes near recent highs but with elevated single-stock dispersion. Indexes…

Bitlayer (BTR) plunged 78% amid heavy selling and liquidations, while trading volume surged over 648%, highlighting extreme volatility and market reaction. BTR may face further downside toward $0.031 short term, as weak sentiment and profit-taking persist despite long-term recovery potential. Bitlayer (BTR), a Bitcoin Layer 2 project built on BitVM, has seen a nearly 78% drop over the past 24 hours, now trading around $0.041. The project, backed by investors such as Polychain, Franklin Templeton, and Framework Ventures, with roughly $25 million in funding, is now facing sudden selling pressure. Despite the sharp decline, trading activity has surged. Daily volume…

Perpetual futures have grown into a market capable of clearing $86 trillion in annual volume on centralized exchanges alone, sparking the interest of South Korea’s top bourse operator. Korea Exchange (KRX) Chairman Jeong Eun-bo announced that the exchange will pursue digital asset derivatives products and transform the port city of Busan into a global hub for crypto-linked futures trading. Which South Korean exchanges offer crypto derivatives? During a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of South Korea’s derivatives market, held at the Lotte Hotel in Busan, the Korea Exchange’s (KRX) Chairman Jeong Eun-bo told attendees that the exchange would “actively push…

As part of efforts to advance the way users access on-chain information with improved availability, scalability, and stability of decentralized applications, Token Terminal, a crypto data analytics platform, today entered into a strategic partnership with Aether Network, a modular blockchain platform that has expertise in easing the processing of decentralized applications. The collaboration enabled Token Terminal to integrate Aether Network’s modular blockchain infrastructure to provide its crypto analytics platform with better executions, secure communication, and strong multichain transaction capabilities. Token Terminal is an established cryptocurrency analytics platform that has expertise in converting raw blockchain data into on-chain intelligence, providing investors…