Bitmine adds 9,926 ETH, taking total holdings to roughly $11 billion
Bitmine added 9,926 ETH last week, taking holdings to 5.82 million tokens while buybacks reached 20.8 million shares since July.
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Austria’s FMA fines crypto broker Bitpanda $81,000 in first published MiCA penalty
Austria's FMA fined Bitpanda €70,000 in its first published MiCA penalty, citing white paper and marketing disclosure failures.
Strategy sells $334 million in MSTR shares, makes no bitcoin purchases or sales as USD reserve hits $4.8 billion
Strategy's total holdings account for around 4% of the 21 million bitcoin supply cap — worth roughly $53.4 billion.
Bitcoin miner HIVE inks five-year $350 million AI cloud contract, adds $70 million in annualized revenue
HIVE's BUZZ HPC signed a five-year, $350M GPU cloud deal, adding $70M in ARR, its second large NVIDIA cluster deal in two months.
Prediction market Novig sues Wisconsin AG in latest spat over sports contracts
Novig, which recently announced a partnership with the New York Mets, has sued officials in five states including Wisconsin since Aug. 4.
Wallet provider SafePal says data breach exposed personal info of nearly 40,000 customers
SafePal said it found the root cause of the breach recently, though customers had posted online about being targeted by phishing attempts as early as July.
Hackers exploited macOS Screen Sharing flaw to install Monero miners, Dutch cyber agency says
U.S. officials rated the severity of the vulnerability a critical 9.8/10 on the CVSS scale, and experts are warning users to update their devices.
JPMorgan cut Polymarket’s banking ties in October but still wants a role in a potential IPO: FT
Polymarket has moved its accounts to a lender the report could not identify but says it still maintains a "close, active relationship" with JPMorgan.
Harvard leaves bitcoin ETF stake untouched in Q2 after cutting it 43% in the prior quarter
UAE-based Mubadala Investment Company and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council also retained their combined 22.9 million IBIT shares.
Trump, CFTC Chair Selig expected at Wednesday White House meeting with crypto and prediction market executives
The session is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday and is intended as a kickoff for the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting the next day.
OCC grants conditional approval for Trump-backed World Liberty National Trust bank
President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial secured preliminary approval to become a national trust bank on Friday.
Mizuho cuts BitGo price target to $11, but says Clarity Act delays could prove advantageous
Mizuho views the company as a "high-growth/recurring revenue business," citing a 27% year-over-year increase in the customer base.