President Donald Trump is expected to be in attendance when the administration’s new innovation committee — a crowd of crypto CEOs and leaders of prediction market and AI companies — sits for a White House meeting on Wednesday, said people briefed on the planning. The chief executives of companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood,
Edelman Financial Engines has disclosed a $34 million position in spot Bitcoin ETFs — a stake that now exceeds some of the firm’s other holdings in major tech companies. While the position is still tiny in the investment advisor’s portfolio, it is still larger than its $25 million position in Amazon. The position — held
Bitmine now has 4.2% of Ethereum supply staked after adding $289.4 million. The company also bought $14.25 million in ETH, raising total holdings to 4.8%. Growing corporate staking could influence Ethereum’s supply and institutional demand. Bitmine has expanded its Ethereum treasury strategy, staking $289.4 million worth of ETH during the past week. The move brings
Shifting physical assets onto the blockchain eases collateral frictions, argues crypto expert. By Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations, Bitfinex Securities This article was originally published in Risk.net. Tokenised commodities are no longer a niche experiment. They are an example of how real-world assets are being rebuilt digitally on the blockchain. In a market where commodities like oil and
A federal bank regulator has granted World Liberty Trust Co. a conditional bank charter, it announced Friday. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the U.S. banking agency that grants federal charters, said in a letter posted to its website that World Liberty could operate fiduciary and other trust company-related activities as a national
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser has said that while some improvements need to be made to the crypto Clarity Act, the bank wants a “good bill to go through.” The banking executive said that the bank was a “leader in digital assets” so wanted “safe adoption” of the technology. Lawmakers were trying to get a vote
(NYSE: BMNR; BMNP) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (“Bitmine” or the “Company”) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared seventeen cash dividends on the Company’s 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “BMNP” The dividends will be
XRP Ledger launched version 3.3.0, introducing 6 amendments for voting. The fixCleanup package delivers essential bug fixes for mainnet stability. The update cuts node RAM usage by over 15% and accelerates overall sync. The XRP Ledger ecosystem reached a key milestone as institutional momentum builds around its latest software release. Version 3.3.0 is now in
Ethereum pays validators to secure the network: creating a reference rate for an entire on-chain financial economy. A proposal to taper it to zero ignited a debate among core developers, DeFi founders and investors this month, showing how much now hangs on that yield. Ethereum buys its security. Validators lock up Ether (ETH) as collateral,
In XRP news today, Evernorth is changing the number of shares issuable to investors in connection with its proposed business combination with Armada Acquisition Corp. II. The amended subscription agreements tie the share count to XRP’s value at closing, measured by its volume-weighted average price, rather than the $2.36 XRP price used when the business
