Ben-Sasson also welcomed Buterin’s decision to make privacy and quantum-resistant cryptography top priorities. “Quantum security – excellent,” he wrote on X. “Happy to see this as a high priority.” But he argued that Ethereum should not wait three to four years to get there. “‘3-4 years’ as the timeline is way too long,” Ben-Sasson said. […]
Interestingly, after a series of buys and sells over the past few weeks, the company is left with a net gain of just 69 bitcoin despite having invested approx. $20 million in additional capital, a crypto trader, KALEO, said on X. Because the company sold coins below the prices it had recently paid, the implied
Circle’s USDC stablecoin widened its lead over competitor Tether’s USDT by transaction volume during the first half of 2026, according to fresh data from Visa’s onchain dashboard. In June alone, stablecoin activity rose to a record $1.79 trillion in adjusted transaction volume, up 63% from May’s $1.1 trillion and 125% from around $795 billion in
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Bitmine Immersion (BMNR), the largest Ethereum (ETH) financial firm, increased its buying pace last week, buying 42,197 ether (ETH) as chairman Thomas Lee pointed to improving prospects for US crypto legislation as a catalyst for the asset. The latest purchase, worth about $74 million based on ether’s current price of about $1,750, lifted the company’s
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The firm is not interested in buying rivals, Domingo said. “They’re not going to bring anything to me that I don’t have in terms of technology.” Instead, Domingo said Securitize is looking at companies that complement its institutional tokenization offering, with the goal of building a broader “one-stop shop” for clients. “We’ll look at things
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Decentralized finance protocol Summer.fi has paused its Lazy Summer vaults following an exploit that drained about $6 million from the Ethereum-based dividend platform, according to the project and several blockchain security firms. Lazy Summer is an automated return platform that routes deposits across lending markets such as Aave and Morpho in pursuit of higher returns
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Cantor said Strategy’s ( MSTR ) top priority is restoring its STRC preferred stock to par, arguing that’s key to relaunching the company’s bitcoin BTC$61,496.57 acquisition engine and strengthening of its capital structure. After a meeting with Chairman Michael Saylor, the Wall Street investment bank said it was more confident in management’s plan to stabilize
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Strategy (MSTR) sold 3,588 bitcoins for approximately $216 million last week, reducing its total holdings to 843,775 BTC, according to a Monday SEC filing. The company said the proceeds from the bitcoin sale will be used to fund distributions on its preferred stock and replenish the portion of its U.S. dollar reserve used for those
Strategy reports $8.32B bitcoin loss and sells BTC to fund dividend
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Non-qualified investors will be allowed to trade under test requirements and limits of approx. 300,000 rubles (about $3,800) per year, while market participants have until July 1, 2027 to enter the official register. Russia’s Complicated Crypto History The development follows many years of opposition from the Bank of Russia. In January 2022, the central bank
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