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Bitmine Crosses 6 Million ETH, Now Holds 4.9% of Ethereum Supply

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Aster Launches Perpetual Grid Trading 2.0 With 140,000 $ASTER Mining Campaign

Citi Taps Coinbase to Bring Stablecoin Payments to Institutional Clients

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Bitmine Crosses 6 Million ETH, Now Holds 4.9% of Ethereum Supply
Bitmine Immersion Technologies has surpassed 6 million ETH holdings, reaching 4.9% of total Ethereum supply. The Nasdaq-listed company added 17,362 ETH in its latest purchase and has staked 84% of its holdings for projected annual staking rewards of $358 million.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies Crosses 6 Million ETH, Holdings Valued at $17.2 Billion
Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced holdings exceeding 6 million Ether, with total crypto, cash, and marketable securities valued at $17.2 billion. The position represents roughly 5% of Ethereum's circulating supply and signals institutional conviction in ETH's long-term value.

AlgoQuant Asset Management Selects Liquid Mercury for Institutional Trading
AlgoQuant Asset Management has chosen Liquid Mercury as its institutional trading technology provider to expand execution capabilities across global digital asset markets. The partnership aims to scale AlgoQuant's multi-strategy investment platform across multiple asset classes and venues.

Citi Taps Coinbase to Bring Stablecoin Payments to Institutional Clients
Citigroup is expanding its relationship with Coinbase to offer stablecoin payment capabilities to institutional clients, marking a significant shift in how Wall Street views blockchain-based payments.
Regulation

California Bans Public Officials From Launching Memecoins in Broad Crypto Package Signed by Newsom
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2409 on September 27, 2026, prohibiting public officials from issuing memecoins and barring crypto platforms from listing such tokens for California residents starting January 1, 2027. The law uses civil enforcement and is part of a broader regulatory...

Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger Steps Down After CLARITY Act Fails to Advance
Summer Mersinger is leaving her role as CEO of the Blockchain Association shortly after the crypto CLARITY Act stalled in Congress without advancing to a floor vote. Her departure marks a significant setback for the industry's regulatory agenda.

SEC Staff FAQs Clarify Token Buybacks and Staking, Easing Securities Scrutiny
SEC staff published new FAQs on September 25 clarifying token buyback and staking receipt classification under securities law. The guidance provides relief for projects on functional networks while maintaining stricter scrutiny for non-functional systems.

New York Sues Polymarket for Illegal Gambling as State Targets Prediction Markets
New York state has filed a lawsuit against prediction market platform Polymarket, alleging the company operates an illegal gambling business. The action marks the second major enforcement move against a prediction market operator in under three months and signals an accelerating campaign by...
DeFi

Ondo Perps Adds Spot Trading for 12 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs, Waives Fees for 30 Days
Ondo Perps has expanded beyond perpetual futures, adding spot trading for 12 tokenized stocks and ETFs with all spot trading fees waived for the first 30 days after launch.

Aster Launches Perpetual Grid Trading 2.0 With 140,000 $ASTER Mining Campaign
Aster, backed by YZi Labs, launched Perpetual Grid Trading 2.0 today with a four-week liquidity mining campaign offering 140,000 $ASTER tokens. The platform enters a crowded perpetuals market dominated by Hyperliquid and dYdX, betting on privacy-first architecture and grid trading automation to...

Morpho's AI Tool Deletes Post Calling Its Curator Model Unsustainable
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Ethena Backs USDe With Tokenized Stocks in First Equity Basis Trade on Binance
Ethena is extending USDe's collateral framework into tokenized equities through a Binance partnership, marking the stablecoin's first equity basis venue. The strategy holds bStocks as spot collateral while hedging with short equity perpetuals, offering yield diversification beyond crypto funding...
Technology

Nvidia Earnings Beat and $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Push Nasdaq Futures Up 1.1%
Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown
A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.

Quantinuum Surges 13% on Nasdaq IPO Debut, Raising $1.68B
Quantinuum's shares opened at $68 on their first day of trading on Nasdaq, a 13% jump from the $60 IPO price, raising $1.68 billion in total proceeds and valuing the quantum computing company at approximately $17.63 billion market capitalization.
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