Bitmine Immersion Technologies said its combined crypto, cash and strategic holdings have climbed to $14.2 billion, underscoring the company’s aggressive push to become the world’s dominant Ethereum treasury. Summary Bitmine, a Bitcoin and Ethereum-focused firm, now holds more than 4.1 million Ether—about 3.4% of the total ETH supply. Bitmine is the largest ETH holder globally
Ethereum Layer-2 network Starknet reportedly suffered fresh mainnet downtime, adding another outage to a growing list of reliability scares in 2025. While Starknet’s token price data stayed limited at press time, the network still secures around $548 million in value, so every hour offline traps real money and freezes real trades. This comes as Ethereum
All eyes on Medalla testnet — genesis in less than 24 hours 👀 tl;dr Medalla testnet launches tomorrow 🏅 The minimum validator deposits (16k+ of them) required to kick off the Medalla testnet were met on Friday, which means the genesis of this testnet is set to happen at 1596546008 Unix time, or 8 seconds
Bitcoin once helped Venezuelans survive hyperinflation—and opposition leader María Corina Machado is hopeful that it one day could help rebuild the country’s economy. Summary Machado once pointed to Bitcoin as both a hedge against state mismanagement and a potential pillar of national recovery. Venezuela’s opposition leader argues that digital assets offered ordinary citizens a rare
Hey Ethereum community! It’s been a few months since our last update so it’s about time we let you know what’s been happening over at ethereum.org. First up, we’re now using Gatsby Under the hood at ethereum.org we’ve switched from Vuepress to Gatsby. Now, this won’t be immediately obvious to anyone visiting the website but
Bitcoin BTC$92,457.12 rose to its highest level since mid-November, gaining more than 3% to $94,400 during Monday’s trading session, the largest percentage advance in more than a month. The rally, which brought the asset closer to $95,000 — seen by some analysts as a key level to gain further momentum — was led, though, by
Housing prices are heading to prediction markets, as real-time data firm Parcl partners with Polymarket to let traders wager on real estate trends. Summary Polymarket will roll out a new suite of real estate-focused prediction markets that settle using Parcl’s daily housing price indices. The partnership gives traders a standardized, data-driven way to take a
Today, we (the Devcon organizing team) are excited to make public a new way to get involved in next year’s event, and one that should make Devcon an experience that better represents Ethereum as a whole. Devcon Improvement Proposals (DIPs) are a new tool to involve collaborative community input from across the ecosystem. They are
It seems that the U.S. Marshall Service (USMS) has sold the $6.3 million worth of bitcoin that Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill paid the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as a fee that was part of their guilty plea. In doing so, it has potentially violated Executive Order (EO) 14233, which
Ethereum has broken bullish from a multi-week triangle near $3,000, but weak volume and nearby resistance raise concerns that the move may be a bull trap. Summary Ethereum broke out of a multi-week triangle but volume failed to confirm strength. Price has stalled at the 0.618 Fibonacci and value area high resistance. Failure to reclaim
