Bitmine closes in on 5% ETH supply goal after reaching 97% of target

Bitmine reaches 97% of its 5% ETH goal as Bitcoin nears $80K, Strategy raises $2B in stock sales and CleanCore pivots from DOGE to AI infra.

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Corporate treasuries are becoming crypto battlegrounds.

Some companies are going all in. Others are running for the exits.

Strategy just padded its war chest with $5B in cash reserves.

Meanwhile, a stablecoin neobank quietly crossed the billion-dollar valuation mark.

The playbooks are diverging fast, and today's stories show exactly how.

Bitmine hits 97% of its Ethereum target after latest buy

Bitmine now holds 5.9 million ETH, roughly 4.8% of Ethereum's total supply.

The firm added 32,447 ETH last week alone, inching closer to its 5% ownership goal.

Over 5 million of those tokens are already staked, generating yield.

One company controlling that much of a major network's supply could reshape ETH market dynamics.

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Markets

Treasury's cash pile could flood markets with liquidity

Treasury Secretary Bessent is eyeing the $935B cash buffer to fund expanded debt buybacks.

The move doubled the maximum buyback size to $4B, signaling a more aggressive liquidity push.

Crypto markets responded warmly, with risk assets catching a bid across the board.

BTC climbed near $79K, ETH traded above $2,490, and SOL held steady around $97.

Keep reading →

Strategy buys back 1.4M shares for $136M, grows USD reserves to $5B

Strategy spent $136M repurchasing 1.4 million shares of preferred stock last week.

Its USD reserves climbed to $5.1B, up from $4.8B just seven days earlier.

That cash cushion means the former MicroStrategy won't need to sell Bitcoin in a downturn.

Read the full breakdown →

CleanCore dumps its Dogecoin treasury, pivots to AI data centers

CleanCore Solutions is winding down its Dogecoin treasury and chasing AI instead.

The company is selling 276 million shares at $0.25 each to fund the pivot.

When your meme coin treasury strategy ends in a quarter-dollar stock offering, the market has spoken.

Read the full breakdown →

Stablecoin neobank Fasset hits $1B valuation with SBI backing

Fasset closed a $68M Series C led by Japan's SBI Group, pushing its valuation to $1B.

The company now processes over $40B in annualized transaction volume.

Stablecoin payments infrastructure is attracting the kind of capital once reserved for traditional fintech.

Read the full breakdown →

On Our Radar

The automation question: AI is quietly solving problems companies actually have.*

Goldman's XRP comeback: The bank's quietly restocking after dumping in Q1.

Phantom's exit strategy: The wallet is dropping Sui support next month.

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Bitmine closes in on 5% ETH supply goal after reaching 97% of target

Bitmine reaches 97% of its 5% ETH goal as Bitcoin nears $80K, Strategy raises $2B in stock sales and CleanCore pivots from DOGE to AI infra.

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Corporate treasuries are becoming crypto battlegrounds.

Some companies are going all in. Others are running for the exits.

Strategy just padded its war chest with $5B in cash reserves.

Meanwhile, a stablecoin neobank quietly crossed the billion-dollar valuation mark.

The playbooks are diverging fast, and today's stories show exactly how.

Bitmine hits 97% of its Ethereum target after latest buy

Bitmine now holds 5.9 million ETH, roughly 4.8% of Ethereum's total supply.

The firm added 32,447 ETH last week alone, inching closer to its 5% ownership goal.

Over 5 million of those tokens are already staked, generating yield.

One company controlling that much of a major network's supply could reshape ETH market dynamics.

Get the full story →

Markets

Treasury's cash pile could flood markets with liquidity

Treasury Secretary Bessent is eyeing the $935B cash buffer to fund expanded debt buybacks.

The move doubled the maximum buyback size to $4B, signaling a more aggressive liquidity push.

Crypto markets responded warmly, with risk assets catching a bid across the board.

BTC climbed near $79K, ETH traded above $2,490, and SOL held steady around $97.

Keep reading →

Strategy buys back 1.4M shares for $136M, grows USD reserves to $5B

Strategy spent $136M repurchasing 1.4 million shares of preferred stock last week.

Its USD reserves climbed to $5.1B, up from $4.8B just seven days earlier.

That cash cushion means the former MicroStrategy won't need to sell Bitcoin in a downturn.

Read the full breakdown →

CleanCore dumps its Dogecoin treasury, pivots to AI data centers

CleanCore Solutions is winding down its Dogecoin treasury and chasing AI instead.

The company is selling 276 million shares at $0.25 each to fund the pivot.

When your meme coin treasury strategy ends in a quarter-dollar stock offering, the market has spoken.

Read the full breakdown →

Stablecoin neobank Fasset hits $1B valuation with SBI backing

Fasset closed a $68M Series C led by Japan's SBI Group, pushing its valuation to $1B.

The company now processes over $40B in annualized transaction volume.

Stablecoin payments infrastructure is attracting the kind of capital once reserved for traditional fintech.

Read the full breakdown →

On Our Radar

The automation question: AI is quietly solving problems companies actually have.*

Goldman's XRP comeback: The bank's quietly restocking after dumping in Q1.

Phantom's exit strategy: The wallet is dropping Sui support next month.

*sponsored

ICYMI

Meme of the Day

That’s a wrap.

EstƩfano

Token Metrics Daily PulseDaily crypto news and analysis on what matters
The Defiant NewsletterSubscribe for free to the highest signal-to-noise newsletter in crypto. Read what matters, skip the rest. Join 100k crypto-natives to what the NYT calls "an industry must-read."