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Digital Asset Treasuries
BitMine’s Ethereum buying spree could end in six weeks
The latest disclosed holdings leave roughly 88,600 ETH to reach 5%, or about six weeks at the most recent buying pace.
Analysis
Bitcoin’s failed breakout reveals a dangerous mix of thin volume and easy profits
With 92% of short-term holders in profit and recent buyers clustered at $81,900, the next move could decide whether the pullback deepens.
Wallets
Vitalik Buterin urges calm as AI raises new fears over Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography security
Buterin says crypto holders can use fresh addresses where practical, but warns that botched migrations may be more dangerous than the current threat
AI
OpenAI math breakthroughs raise ‘bunker mode’ alarm from Bitcoin researcher Justin Drake
Justin Drake urges large crypto holders to plan a calm move into addresses with hidden public keys, citing a speculative AI threat to elliptic-curve cryptography.
Analysis
Ethereum falls 6%, leaving $1.35 billion in long bets at risk of liquidation
More than $220 million of long bets have already been wiped out while a $112 million liquidation cluster sits near $2,511.
Digital Asset Treasuries
XRP treasury SPAC drops 50% in a day ahead of Evernorth’s Nasdaq debut
The selloff followed a near-quadrupling in XRPN’s closing price ahead of Evernorth’s planned Nasdaq debut.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Robinhood adds $25 million of Bitcoin to its own balance sheet
The brokerage is putting BTC on its own balance sheet after previously questioning whether shareholders needed that exposure.
Lending
S&P brings ratings-style scrutiny to $10 billion crypto vault market as $6 million Base incident exposes risks
S&P’s new framework assesses curators, liquidity and smart-contract security as managed onchain products attract more capital.
Exchanges
Ripple and Circle backs OKX as it targets the next wave of stablecoin users
OKX kept its $25 billion valuation while launching a stablecoin app aimed at savings, payments and cross-border spending.
ETF
Ethereum bears keep selling but ETH price stays near $2,700 as US spot ETFs record $206M in outflows
ETF investors have pulled $206 million in five sessions while Binance taker volume turns sharply negative, setting up a test of price resilience.
Lending
Aave and Pendle may have found a way to keep yield capital from ever leaving DeFi
A $67 million AUSD maturity will test whether users keep rolling fixed-yield collateral instead of cashing out when each term ends.
Technology
Cardano just added the kind of token controls Wall Street wants and DeFi may hate
CIP-113 enables freezes and transfer restrictions, but those rules can spill into other assets held alongside them.
