Peter Thiel goes big on Bitmine stock: should you invest in Tom Lee’s firm too?

Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc (BMNR) opened nearly 20% up on Wednesday after Peter Thiel revealed a 9.1% stake in the Ether treasury company. The billionaire investor has built a sizable stake in the Tom Lee-chaired business at a time when ETH-linked assets are rallying hard on optimism tied to the Senate’s recent approval of the […]

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SharpLink bets big on ETH with $463M treasury pivot

SharpLink, a Nasdaq-listed firm now holds more ETH than any public company, staking 95% to generate passive yield for shareholders and boost Ethereum’s security. SharpLink Gaming announced on June 13 that it has acquired 176,270.69 Ether (ETH) tokens for $462,947,816,…

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Blockchain firm BTCS Inc. buys 1,000 ETH via Crypto.com

U.S.-based blockchain firm BTCS Inc. has increased its Ethereum holdings with the acquisition of 1,000 more Ether tokens worth $2.63 million via Crypto.com. BTCS Inc., a Nasdaq-listed blockchain company betting big on Ethereum (ETH), added another 1,000 ETH to its…

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Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin discusses new Ether treasury strategy, cites Michael Saylor’s influence

Joe Lubin, a prominent long-time advocate for cryptocurrency and a co-founder of Ethereum, has revealed that a pivotal dinner conversation with Michael Saylor, significantly influenced his decision to launch a firm dedicated to investing in Ethereum’s native currency, Ether (ETH).

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21Shares to Liquidate Two Bitcoin and Ether Futures ETFs Amid Market Downturn

The firm is liquidating its ARK 21Shares Active On-Chain Bitcoin Strategy ETF and ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF amid the downturn.

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Real Estate Firm Propy Is Rolling Out Crypto-Backed Loans to Buy Houses

Bitcoin and ether holders can get loans to acquire tokenized properties — and use their crypto as collateral.

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Michael Sonnenshein, Ex-Grayscale CEO, Joins Tokenization Firm Securitize as COO

Sonnenshein left asset management firm Grayscale, issuer of spot bitcoin and ether ETFs, earlier this year.

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Grayscale Tips Solana Adoption as SOL Outperforms Ether This Year

Assets management firm Grayscale expects Solana’s (SOL) rise to continue as it outperforms major crypto assets. In a recent market report, the firm noted that Solana trumped Ethereum this year due to meme coin trading on the network.

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Hong Kong gaming firm swaps $49M Ether in treasury for Bitcoin

With the latest acquisition, Boyaa Interactive has 3,183 Bitcoin in its stash, up from 2,635 at the end of September.

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Major Institutional Adoption Boost As Australia’s First Spot Ether ETF Set To Launch On Tuesday

Australia-based asset management firm Monochrome is set to launch the nation’s first spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund on the global listing exchange Cboe following Ether’s much-awaited arrival on American exchanges.

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Australia’s First Spot Ether ETF to Go Live on Tuesday

The launch of Monochrome Ethereum ETF follows the crypto investment firm's spot bitcoin ETF, which went live in August.

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Monochrome’s First Spot Ether ETF to Go Live on Tuesday

The launch of Monochrome Ethereum ETF follows the crypto investment firm's spot bitcoin ETF, which went live in August.

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Crypto law firm loses appeal to force SEC’s hand on Ether classification

Hodl Law sued the SEC in 2022, claiming it could face the regulator’s ire for using Ethereum and wanted a court to force it to decide if ETH is a security.

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Wallet Linked to Nomad Bridge Hack Transfers $36M of Ether to Tornado Cash

A wallet linked to the $200 million hack of the Nomad bridge in 2022 transferred 14,500 ETH to sanctioned coin-mixing service Tornado Cash, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield.

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Ethereum price will be ‘sensitive’ to ETF inflows in the coming days — Kaiko

Another firm estimates that Ether’s price will rise no more than 24% by the end of 2024 due to underwhelming demand for the spot ETFs.

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Mega Whale Transfers $50 Million Worth Of Ethereum As Spot ETH ETFs Inch Closer To Listing

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Fidelity discloses $4.7 million seed investment for its spot Ether ETF

Fidelity has amended its S-1 filing for a spot Ethereum ETF, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday. The asset management firm is the first to file an amended S-1 Registration Statement with…

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Is Standard Chartered setting up a Bitcoin, Ether trading desk?

A Standard Chartered representative told Cointelegraph that the firm has been working with regulators to support institutional clients’ demand for trading BTC and ETH.

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Payrolls-Led Bitcoin, Ether Price Swoon Is 'Buy the Dip' Opportunity, Crypto Trading Firm Says

Markets will increasingly price in at least one Fed interest-rate cut for 2024, QCP Capital said.

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Bitcoin, Ether Little Changed Over Weekend After $400M Liquidation Rout

The week ahead could boost market volatility with the CPI release on Wednesday, the FOMC meeting on Thursday, and a speech from Janet Yellen on Friday, one firm said.

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Ethereum Co-Founder Predicts Supply Crunch From ETFs, This Is The Price Target

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of blockchain technology firm Consensys, has expressed that the potential approval of spot Ethereum ETFs by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could lead to significant supply constraints for Ether.

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Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute to Provide Liquidity for Hong Kong Bitcoin and Ether ETFs

Looking to strengthen its market share in the Asia region, Wintermute will become a liquidity provider to the recently launched Hong Kong-listed spot bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds.

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XRP, Ether, Cardano, SOL, Shiba Inu to Activate New Price Explosions as Key Metrics Suggest Crypto Winter is Over

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Grayscale Submits Revised Application For Ethereum Spot ETF – What’s New?

Asset management firm Grayscale Investments has updated its application for an Ethereum spot ETF (exchange-traded fund) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Ethereum Spot ETF Case Just As Solid As Bitcoin’s, Grayscale Argues According to a recent post on X by Craig Salm, Grayscale’s chief legal officer, the asset management firm has revised its 19b-4 form for an Ether spot ETF.

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Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Fund Queitly Made A Monster Bet On Bitcoin, Ether Before Price Jump

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Celsius elicits mixed signals as it announces plans to unstake $468 ETH

Crypto lender Celsius wants to unstake its Ether holdings to meet the costs of its restructuring plan. The embattled crypto firm says the funds raised will be used to pay its creditors. Celsius’s move comes after the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court approved its restructuring plan in November. The plan included the creation […]

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Santander Selects Crypto Custody Firm Taurus for Safeguarding: Source

Santander Private Bank last week said it was offering bitcoin and ether trading for clients with accounts in Switzerland.

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Cboe to launch margined futures for Bitcoin and Ether

Cboe plans to launch margined futures for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), according to details in a press release published on Monday. The company has earmarked the products launch for January 11, 2024, with these going live on Cboe Digital, the firm’s crypto arm.

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Poor Week for Ether Prompts Research Firm to Reverse Outlook, Advise Favoring Bitcoin Instead

Ether's price dropped to its lowest price compared to bitcoin since July 2022 as the launch of futures-based ETH ETFs attracted meager interest from investors.

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Grayscale Applies For New Ether Futures ETF After Big Court Win

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Ether Trading at 27% Discount to Fair Value, New Research Shows

Ether is trading at a 27% discount to its fair value, according to research firm RXR's blended Metcalfe law-centric valuation model, which incorporates active user adoption of layer 2 scaling networks.

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Ethereum’s potential rebound as unique addresses hit historic highs

Market intelligence firm Santiment has examined Ethereum’s on-chain activity. It’s latest post on X (former Tweeter) shows Ether’s daily active addresses climbed to historic peaks of approximately 1,089,993 on 13 September.

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Buy Ether Instead of Bitcoin to Ride ETF Momentum, Crypto Research Firm Says

There’s a high probability of approval on or before the SEC’s final deadline in mid-October for a decision on the first ether futures ETF in the U.S.

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Valkyrie charts new territory, files for Ethereum futures ETF with SEC

Valkyrie sought SEC approval for an Ether futures ETF, aiming to broaden its investment options. The Asset management firm joins prominent players like Grayscale, VanEck, and ProShares in pursuThe post Valkyrie charts new territory, files for Ethereum futures ETF with SEC appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Crypto Long Trades Account for 90% of Total Liquidations as Bitcoin, Ether Slump

One trading firm has a price target of as low as $24,000 in the coming months in the absence of immediate market catalysts.

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Double Impact: Valkyrie Files To Convert BTF To Bitcoin And Ether ETF

Asset management firm Valkyrie has moved to convert its Bitcoin Strategy exchange-traded fund (BTF) into a Bitcoin and Ether Strategy ETF. According to the firm’s website, BTF is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) available through Nasdaq.

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Gemini's Cameron Winklevoss Tweets $1.5B 'Final Offer' in Debt Talks Over Crypto Firm Genesis

Creditors of the crypto financial firm Genesis call for $1.5 billion of forbearance payments and loans denominated in dollars, bitcoin and ether, according to a term sheet posted on Twitter by the Gemini co-founder.

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Chibi Finance Rug Pulls Users for $1M, CHIBI Falls 98%

Over 555 stolen ether were swapped from Arbitrum from Ethereum, a security firm said.

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Bitcoin, Ether and Stablecoins Total 80% of $1T Crypto Market Cap as Investors Flee Altcoins

The combined market capitalization of BTC, ETH and stablecoins reached the highest since February 2021, digital asset research firm K33 Research noted.

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Wallet drainer moves funds to Tornado Cash

Crypto security firm CertiK has warned that a known wallet drainer has moved funds into sanctioned crypto tumbler Tornado Cash. In a May 27 alert, CertiK stated that two externally owned addresses (EOAs), 0x546 and 0x108, deposited 20 ether (ETH)…

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1 quadrillion yUSDT minted in Yearn Finance exploit

The hack was detected by blockchain security firm PeckShield. The hacker swapped the yUSDT to other stablecoins. The hacker has also transferred 1,000 Ether to Tornado Cash. Blockchain Security firm PeckShield recently detected an exploit on the lending platform Yearn Finance that resulted in an irregular minting of over 1 quadrillion Yearn Tether (yUSDT) using […] The post 1 quadrillion yUSDT minted in Yearn Finance exploit appeared first on CoinJournal.

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First Mover Asia: Crypto Liquidity Providers Can Be Profitable by Considering Trade Volume, Volatility and Other Factors, Data Firm Says

ALSO: Ether falls but still outperforms bitcoin for another day as investors look hopefully at the Shanghai upgrade.

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‘Ethereum and Stablecoins Are Commodities’: CFTC Clashes With the SEC

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)’s hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee Wednesday was dominated by the discussion around digital assets. The commission took a firm stance against the SEC regarding the classification of Ether and Stablecoins.

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CFTC Charges California Firm and CEO With Fraud, Misappropriation of Digital Assets

The commission alleges the defendants fraudulently solicited over $7 million worth of bitcoin and ether and misappropriated a portion of the funds in a Ponzi-like scheme.

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Flirts With $23.4K as Fed's Powell Repeats Comment About Waning Inflation; Market Weighs DCG-Genesis Deal With Creditors

ALSO: Stakeholders in the venture capital industry explain why embattled crypto trading firm Alameda Research will not be missed. Bitcoin and ether rise.

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Bitcoin, Ether Slip as Audit Firm Mazars Pauses Work for Crypto Clients; S&P Futures Drop

Bitcoin outperformed ether and BNB as Mazar's decision to suspend crypto audit work and Binance fears weighed over the crypto market.

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Cryptocurrency firm Auros Global misses DeFi payment, thanks to FTX

Cryptocurrency trading firm Auros Global has missed a loan repayment of 2,400 Wrapped Ether (wETH) worth $3 million. The update was shared by the institutional credit underwriter M11 Credit which manaThe post Cryptocurrency firm Auros Global misses DeFi payment, thanks to FTX appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Wrapped Ether (WETH) Design Bugs Unveiled by Analyst

Stephen Tong, co-founder of blockchain security firm Zellic, found bugs in most popular smart contract ever

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Ethereum Merge Had ‘All the Ingredients of a Scammer’s Dream,’ Chainalysis Exec Says

Eric Jardin, cybercrime research lead at blockchain firm Chainalysis, discusses how scammers were able to capitalize on the second biggest blockchain’s transition and how $2 million in Ether was swindled from the blockchain’s ecosystem.

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