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Palo Alto, United States, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire
Toss users can now contribute real-world data to train AI and get paid for it, in a first-of-its-kind model launching in Korea ahead of global expansion.
Poseidon, the data infrastructure built to source and license real-world data for AI, today announced a partnership with Toss, the mobile financial platform operated by Viva Republica, to let everyday users contribute to AI training and be paid for what they provide. It is Toss's first move into AI data, and it opens that market to its roughly 30 million users.
Frontier AI has run out of internet to scrape. The next generation of models depends on real-world data, the kind that captures how people actually speak, move, and react, which does not exist on the open web and has never had a clean way to be sourced, licensed, or paid for. Poseidon is building the infrastructure to change that, and Toss brings the reach to do it at scale.
Through the partnership, Poseidon's contributor app, Numo, launches inside the Toss app. Toss users can help build Korean-language training data across voice, image, and video, and receive payment tied directly to what they contribute. Poseidon provides the infrastructure that tracks each contribution and its value, while Toss provides the user base and the financial experience that turns participation into payment. Together they offer a working answer to a question the AI industry has struggled with, which is how to compensate the people whose data makes models better.
Every contribution made through Numo is registered on DATA, the AI data network that Poseidon refines data for. DATA gives each record a verifiable provenance trail through Trace, its public audit layer, so a buyer can see where a piece of training data came from and a contributor can see that their work was counted and paid. DATA Foundation, which launched this week from the rebrand of Story, is building this layer alongside integration partners including the human data marketplace Kled, and Poseidon is one of the largest sources of refined data flowing into it.
What Numo collects is first-person data, recorded by real people in real environments, which is among the hardest and most valuable categories to obtain. It is the raw material for physical intelligence, the AI that has to operate in the physical world across robotics, autonomous vehicles, and other applications. Demand from global AI labs for this kind of data is climbing, and Korea is positioned to supply it, with its dense real-life data and Toss's user base. Poseidon and Toss intend to prove the model in Korea, then expand to global markets.
Changhoon Seo, Executive Director of New Business at Toss, said: "As the AI industry grows, demand for high-quality data is rising just as fast. Toss plans to build an environment where users can take part in the data economy more easily and naturally, and to expand a structure in which the value they contribute is rewarded transparently."
SY Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of Poseidon, said: "Korea is one of the few markets where the strategic importance of AI data, a mature financial system, and world-class mobile experience all exist at once. Toss is the right partner to turn user-contributed AI data from an early idea into a standard the rest of the world can adopt." Lee previously founded the web-novel platform Radish and sold it to Kakao Entertainment, co-founded Story, the IP infrastructure that recently rebranded as DATA Foundation, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum this year.
About Poseidon
Poseidon is the data infrastructure for AI, built to source, refine, and license the real-world data that frontier models need and the open internet cannot supply. Incubated by the team behind The DATA Network, Poseidon bridges the gap between data supply and AI demand by enabling access to high-quality, IP-safe, and composable training datasets. Poseidon raised a $15 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Poseidon's contributor app, Numo, has recorded more than 711,000 data registrations worldwide and is available and is now available on the Toss app.
ContactHVhenri.vies@piplabs.xyz
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Palo Alto, United States, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire
Story rebrands as The DATA Foundation, launches DATA Network with flagship Kled AI integration, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records on the platform
The Foundation also introduces Trace, the first public audit layer for consent, licensing, and data provenance at scale
Today, Story announces a strategic transition to become The DATA Foundation (“DATA”) and launches Trace, an onchain registry for AI training data provenance and licensing. The launch includes a flagship integration with Kled, the world’s largest opt-in human data marketplace, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records on the Network. Andrea Muttoni becomes CEO of The DATA Foundation, and Kled’s founder, Avi Patel, joins in an advisor position as the Chief Data Officer.
AI’s Training Data Has Hit a Bottleneck
The shift to DATA reflects where the market is pulling hardest. AI training data has emerged as the most valuable and least solved category of IP. Frontier AI labs have hit a multi-billion-dollar data bottleneck, where the internet has been effectively exhausted for scraping. The remaining supply is either expensive and bespoke or legally undocumented, leaving labs without a way to source data at scale, prove its provenance, or guarantee its quality.
The legal stakes are rising, as frontier labs stake out market-defining products on data sourced through opaque networks, often without clear records of consent or jurisdiction. Scraped and undocumented data is no longer an option for enterprise-grade AI.
“The challenge in AI has shifted from compute and architecture to sourcing and provenance. As the scrapable web fractures, the question for labs now is who is keeping the receipts,” said Andrea Muttoni, CEO of The DATA Foundation. “With Kled, we combine full data transparency and auditability with the largest pool of AI training data on the planet.”
Building the Infrastructure for Trusted AI Data
DATA builds on the original mission to deliver a data and intellectual property (IP) layer for the internet, recognizing that the form of data and IP that is most critical in this era is AI training data. DATA Network brings essential infrastructure for training AI, anchored by a flagship integration with Kled. Starting today, Kled's licensing rails and contributor receipts run on DATA Network with added support for stable coin payouts, which involves registering a staggering 1.5 billion user-contributed records with programmatic legal safeguards.
“Frontier labs have exhausted the supply of high-quality, human-generated public text available on the open web. Suppliers showing data-sourcing provenance will win the next decade of deals, and that’s our bet,” said Avi Patel, CEO and founder of Kled and part-time advisory CDO of The DATA Foundation. “Instead of sourcing data blindly, Kled’s data marketplace and DATA’s auditable chain of custody converge on what labs actually need to license data with confidence and transparency.”
Trace Launches as the Public Audit Layer for AI Training Data
Trace, The DATA Foundation's public audit and search platform, also launches today alongside the Kled integration. Trace generates immutable, confidential receipts for every contribution, allowing labs to verify the legitimacy of datasets in seconds. For every single record uploaded by users worldwide, a receipt on DATA will be generated, enabling upstream compensation for contributors' data and intellectual property. This addresses an urgent need for a verifiable and compliant AI training data market, which has become a legal and operational minefield.
A Wider Contributor Network
DATA's thesis was validated by Poseidon, the AI data processing project incubated by Story, which cleans, normalizes, and scores raw human data for authenticity and quality, ensuring every record that reaches a buyer is model-ready. Poseidon’s early traction with frontier labs proved the AI training data opportunity. Backed by a16z and now running entirely on DATA, its contributor app Numo is live today, bringing thousands of contributors into the AI economy in exchange for real-time payouts.
"We started Story to build an IP layer for the internet, and the most important IP of this era is the data you can't scrape: how a surgeon's hands move, how a robot grips, how people speak, drive, and work in the real world," said SY Lee, CEO of PIP Labs and strategic adviser to The DATA Foundation. "DATA is where that conviction goes next: an end-to-end network that proves real-world data's origin, licenses it, and pays the people who made it. "
Token Migration and Ecosystem Continuity
The $IP token migrates to $DATA one-to-one with no action required from existing holders. Migration guidance, exchange timing, and an FAQ are available here.
About The DATA Foundation
Data is the biggest bottleneck in frontier AI. The data models need most either sits siloed with people and companies, or doesn't exist yet, and won't, until incentives are aligned to create it. DATA Network is the world’s AI audit rails built to answer the three questions every lab asks: can you source data at scale, prove where it came from, and guarantee its quality? Contributor apps including Numo and Kled supply opt-in human data; Trace gives every record a public, tamper-proof receipt; Poseidon turns it into model-ready datasets, so frontier AI can keep advancing on a foundation it can trust. $IP is now $DATA. More information available at datafdn.org.
ContactHVhenri.vies@piplabs.xyz
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London, United Arab Emirates, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire
Solstice to launch aiUSX, a yield-bearing asset that lets companies help finance the buildout with the capital they already hold for AI.
TensorX and Solstice today announced a partnership to finance European sovereign AI infrastructure. TensorX and Solstice will work together to create a facility with up to $1 billion in capacity to finance AI hardware and data-center build-out to meet rising demand for sovereign compute across the EU. Solstice will provide the onchain financing for that buildout and will launch aiUSX, a potential yield asset that opens the same infrastructure lending to companies holding capital for AI.
TensorX owns and operates a fleet of NVIDIA GPUs and delivers AI models in EU data centres with zero data retention, predictable pricing with best-in-class performance. The company works with AI startups and enterprises across the EU block with plans to expand into other global jurisdictions.
"Europe wants AI that can run on its own terms, on its own soil, without handing its data to someone else's cloud on the world stage," said Tim Grant, Executive Chairman of TensorX. "Meeting that accelerating demand takes hardware, and a lot of it. The billion dollars going into GPUs and data center capacity is the first step, and we expect to keep buying as demand grows. Solstice gives us a financing partner that can keep pace with this incredibly fast moving market."
aiUSX: Financing the AI Buildout With Capital Companies Already Hold
Companies hold growing piles of cash and stable assets for their AI spend while inference bills climb. These two pools sit apart, and the cash earns nothing while it waits. aiUSX closes that gap. The capital a company sets aside for AI goes into aiUSX, which opens access to the AI-infrastructure lending Solstice finances, the same deals large institutions fund. The company takes the position of an infrastructure lender without becoming one or underwriting anything itself; for example, USD.ai has brought capital to AI hardware across the wider buildout. At launch, aiUSX will be capped at $5 million, with yield generated by the lending it gives access to. The capital stays liquid and redeemable, and what it earns goes toward the cost of inference later.
"Every company is turning into an AI company, and every one of them watches its inference bill climb," said Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solstice. "aiUSX puts the money they set aside for AI to work in the meantime. They get access to the kind of AI-infrastructure lending that used to sit with large institutions, the capital stays liquid, and what it earns goes toward inference later. It is treasury management for the AI era."
"Sovereign AI is one of the biggest infrastructure buildouts of this decade, and it runs on capital as much as it runs on chips," said Stuart Connolly, CIO of Deus X Capital. "TensorX builds the compute, Solstice brings the financing, and aiUSX lets more companies take part in funding it. Both companies are in the Deus X Capital ecosystem, which is why we’re uniquely positioned to deliver this to the market."
About Solstice
Solstice is an onchain settlement and yield protocol and part of the Deus X Capital ecosystem. Its dollar-denominated asset, USX, and its treasury products provide institutions and businesses with capital that remains liquid and productive. Solstice has a three-year audited track record and more than $500 million in total value locked.
https://solstice.finance/
About TensorX
TensorX is a sovereign AI infrastructure company based in Dublin. It buys and operates AI hardware and data-center capacity across the EU, connects clients to private compute, and keeps prompts and data on European infrastructure with full data residency and zero retention.
https://tensorx.ai/
ContactLauraConquista Ventureslaura@conquista.co
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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, announced continued growth across its ecosystem as cumulative trading volume approached $1 billion, reaching $946.29 million alongside $20.71 million in Total Value Locked (TVL), according to on-chain data from DefiLlama.
This surge is directly driven by the protocol's native VIP Program, which aligns active traders with ecosystem success by distributing 30% to 50% of platform fee revenue back to high-volume users. With annualized protocol revenue currently tracked at $1.07 million, the VIP reward pool distributes hard USDC yield directly back to participants, offering a sustainable, real-yield alternative to traditional inflationary token emission models.
The VIP program features tiered fee discounts scaling down to 0.001% Maker and 0.035% Taker at VIP 5, qualified via rolling 30-day volumes that consolidate master and sub-accounts. Operating natively on AFX's sovereign L1 architecture, the program enables sub-100ms, zero-gas execution. Active traders can monitor their aggregated volume, tier status, and real-time reward pool allocations via the AFX VIP dashboard.
"The parabolic curves prove that capital and volume migrate to where incentives are structurally aligned," said Ken C, Head of Growth at AFX. "Unlike exchanges that view customers to monetize, AFX treats them as growth partners and stakeholders in the ecosystem. By returning up to 50% of our real, annualized fee revenue back to our VIPs, we have created a self-reinforcing flywheel. Combined with our 45x capital velocity, we are proving that sovereign L1 orderbooks can deliver both institutional performance and true decentralized yield."
The latest growth figures highlight increasing demand for decentralized derivatives infrastructure that combines professional trading performance with community-aligned economic incentives. As the protocol continues to expand its ecosystem, AFX remains focused on building a trading environment where active participation is directly rewarded through the value generated by the network itself.
About AFX
AFX is a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives. By synthesizing the rapid execution of a centralized exchange with the immutable sovereignty of blockchain, AFX delivers a professional-grade Perp DEX environment characterized by sub-100ms finality, institutional liquidity, and unmatched capital efficiency.
Product availability varies by jurisdiction.
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Zusammensetzung der Eightco-Treasury per 24. Juni 2026: 90 Mio. USD OpenAI-Beteiligung (indirekt), 18 Mio. USD Beast Industries-Beteiligung, 16.278 ETH, 283 Millionen WLD-Bestände und 149 Mio. USD Barmittel und Äquivalente, insgesamt ca. 436 Mio. USD
Worldcoin-Token (WLD) ist jetzt bei Robinhood gelistet und erweitert den Zugang für Millionen
OpenAI hat kürzlich bekannt gegeben, dass es eine vertrauliche S-1 eingereicht hat und sich damit für einen Börsengang vorbereitet
World bietet eine Lösung für das Problem des „doppelten Menschen“ in einer Welt, in der Deepfakes allgegenwärtig werden
Eightco bietet eine indirekte Beteiligung an einigen der innovativsten Privatunternehmen, darunter OpenAI und Beast Industries

Zug, Switzerland, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire
Anyone can now execute mass payouts across EVM chains and Tron from a single platform and can choose between multiple wallet screening providers.
Just three weeks after releasing major upgrades for crypto payment collection, the Request Network Foundation today announced another expansion of its stablecoin payment platform. The release introduces one-click mass payouts on both EVM and Tron, alongside built-in bridging and token swapping across EVM chains. The update also expands compliance capabilities through the integration of Merkle Science as an additional wallet screening provider.
Together, these capabilities reinforce Request Network's vision of providing businesses with a simpler, more scalable, and more resilient way to operate stablecoin payments globally.
Users Can Now Disburse at Scale in One Click From a Single Wallet Without Bridging or Swapping
Stablecoins are already widely used to disburse salaries, commissions, affiliate rewards, bug bounties, supplier payments, and customer refunds or withdrawals across the world. While settlements are now faster and cheaper in stablecoins compared to fiat, the operational processes needed to send funds remain complex as recipients usually require payments on multiple chains and in multiple currencies. This has forced finance teams to initiate multiple transactions in separate currencies and from multiple wallets.
Request Network now abstracts away this fragmentation, allowing anyone to initiate mass payouts from a single wallet in a single currency to pay recipients across the top 6 EVM chains (Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and BNB Chain) in USDC and USDT.
Through a single signature, a mass payout can now be initiated even if the individual transactions need to be bridged and swapped to reach their recipient. Request Network protocol automatically retrieves and batches bridge and swap quotes in order to funnel every payment of a batch to its correct destination in just one approval.
To simplify the process further, Request Network also allows any recipient to set and update their payment preferences so payments are always routed to where they should go.
This represents one of the biggest breakthroughs in cross-chain and swapping abstraction, bringing payers and recipients closer than ever before, regardless of the blockchain or currency they trust.
Mass Payouts Now Available on Tron
Alongside EVM mass payouts, Request Network also announced the support of mass payouts on Tron, becoming the first protocol to combine both capabilities.
Thanks to this release, anyone can now send USDT to multiple recipients on Tron in a single transaction, unlocking large-scale payouts on one of the most used chains in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
With this release, anyone can now manage all stablecoin payouts globally from the Request Network protocol.
More Choice for Wallet Screening
Alongside mass payouts, Request Network also announced a partnership with Merkle Science to offer additional wallet screening providers on the protocol.
As a reminder, Request Network offers built-in wallet screening to protect its users from high-risk wallet interactions. When enabled, this feature allows payments to be executed only if the payer or recipient satisfies the preset screening policies, helping businesses to avoid exposure to high-risk wallets which may lead to asset freezing or difficulties off-ramping to fiat.
By expanding its integration of Merkle Science, Request Network just became one of the safest ways to receive crypto onchain, while accommodating for recipients’ preferences.
Tristan Wallaert, CEO of the Request Network Foundation, said: "Stablecoins allowed money to move globally without the usual fiat constraints, but executing payments at scale remains a bottleneck and is forcing users to rely on payment service providers. Anyone should be able to pay by himself hundreds of payments across chains in just a single operation.High risk wallets exposure has tarnished the crypto reputation recently, if we want to provide the best protection to blockchain users they need to be able to use the best screening providers. Sending and receiving payments must become intuitive and safe if we want stablecoins to be a real alternative to fiat."
Mriganka Pattnaik, CEO of Merkle Science, said: “As stablecoin payments become more global and cross-chain, compliance needs to become just as seamless as the payment experience itself. Our integration with Request Network helps businesses screen wallets with greater confidence, reduce exposure to high-risk activity, and scale onchain payments without compromising trust or operational efficiency”.
About Request Network
Since 2017, Request Network has developed, educated about, and promoted the use of open-source, decentralized and permissionless protocols that provide infrastructure for on-chain payments and related financial flows.
Request Network allows anyone to send and receive crypto at scale, across chains, without custodial intermediaries. The protocol is developed by a community-funded foundation whose mission is to make crypto payments accessible while protecting its participants.
To date, more than $2 billion has moved thanks to Request Network technology.
Press kit
About Merkle Science
Merkle Science provides blockchain analytics and crypto compliance solutions that help businesses detect, investigate, and prevent financial crime across digital assets. Its platform supports wallet screening, transaction monitoring, risk intelligence, and investigations, enabling crypto platforms, financial institutions, and payment providers to manage onchain risk and meet compliance requirements at scale.
ContactsCEOTristan WallaertRequest Network Foundationpress@request.networkDirector of Business OperationsÁlvaro Garcíaalvaro.garcia@merklescience.com
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Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
Sui aims to transition more of Bitcoin’s $1.2T market cap into verifiable, productive onchain products.
Hashi, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, gains more institutional support ahead of the scheduled launch of its global testnet this July.
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, announced today that Cumberland, Fluid, and SwissBorg have joined the Hashi ecosystem, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, weeks ahead of its scheduled global testnet launch this July. The expanding coalition addresses a critical bottleneck in crypto: solving the persistent capital inefficiency by unlocking over a trillion dollars of immobile BTC into DeFi safely.
Previous market cycles demonstrated the systemic dangers of relying on opaque, centralized credit intermediaries such as Celsius, Voyager, and Genesis to generate utility from dormant assets. Hashi replaces centralized balance-sheet trust with verifiable smart contract logic.
But with a strict separation for safety by design, Bitcoin remains securely on the native Bitcoin blockchain. Sui smart contracts handle the cryptographic and programmatic rights to enable its use as financial collateral.
“Hashi was built to unlock the productive use of Bitcoin at a scale the industry hasn't seen before,” Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui. “We believe Bitcoin will become one of the largest sources of collateral in finance as the world moves onchain, and Hashi provides the foundation to make that possible on Sui.”
Built for Institutional Bitcoin Finance
Hashi is a foundational primitive setting a new standard for how builders can create bespoke, Bitcoin-backed financial products with risk parameters and loan terms that are fully verifiable onchain. In just a few weeks’ time, institutions, custodians, wallet providers, and developers can begin freely testing the infrastructure that will support Bitcoin-backed lending, borrowing, and credit origination on Sui.
Expanded Institutional Support
Three new powerhouses join the growing Hashi ecosystem, broadening support for institutional liquidity providers, market makers, and digital asset platforms:
Cumberland: One of the digital asset industry's largest institutional market makers, Cumberland joins the Hashi ecosystem to evaluate the protocol’s structural frameworks and prepare for eventual onchain liquidity provisioning.
SwissBorg: A European wealth management app with over one million users, is exploring opportunities to connect its network of European high-net-worth Bitcoin holders and liquidity providers to Hashi, creating new pathways for Bitcoin-backed borrowing and lending.
Fluid: A major DeFi lending protocol with a strong record of efficient, safe trades, is now building in preparation for mainnet institutional services. Fluid's participation would provide institutional-grade lending markets and deepen access to Bitcoin-backed credit on Sui.
These new builders join an industry-leading group of infrastructure providers, custodians, and DeFi protocols already working together to build a native Bitcoin financial ecosystem on Sui.
“Bitcoin is the world’s most liquid digital asset, but without native utility, it remains an off-chain asset,” said Paul Kremsky, Global Head of Business Development at Cumberland. “Hashi is exciting because it introduces a transparent, institutional-grade framework for BTC-backed credit that will replace synthetic workarounds with a product we are excited to use ourselves.”
“Our community has consistently sought native ways to lend and borrow against their Bitcoin,” said Cyrus Fazel, Founder & CEO at SwissBorg. “We’re thrilled to see Hashi delivering innovative solutions that make this a reality.”
“The next phase of the industry's growth will come from bringing larger pools of capital onchain through infrastructure institutions can actually trust," said Samyak Jain, Co-Founder & CEO at Fluid. “Hashi gets this right: Bitcoin stays on its native chain while verifiable contracts make it productive as collateral. Fluid's lending infrastructure is built to turn that into deep, capital-efficient Bitcoin-backed credit markets on Sui.”
These additions expand the growing consensus of many partners announced earlier this year that Sui is where Bitcoin finance will take flight, thanks to Hashi:
Custody & Wallet Access
BitGo: Institutional custody clients.
Blockdaemon, Cobo, Fordefi (by Paxos): Institutional wallet and infrastructure providers.
Cubist: Cross-chain collateral infrastructure and transfer engine.
Ledger: Retail/institutional self-custody.
SwissBorg: UHNW European retail/institutional asset management and wallet interface.
Lending, Trading & Liquidity Providers
Bullish: Institutional digital asset platform supplying liquidity.
Cumberland: Leading institutional crypto market maker and liquidity provider.
Erebor: OCC-chartered bank providing liquidity.
FalconX: Institutional prime brokerage supplying liquidity.
DeFi & Lending Applications
AlphaLend, Bluefin, Current, Scallop, Suilend: Native DeFi protocols enabling retail lending and borrowing on day one.
Fluid: Connecting lending, borrowing, liquidity and more financial products into a capital-efficient system.
Navi: One of Sui’s largest and longest running DeFi protocols slated for Hashi lending.
Vaults & Asset Management
Concrete by Blueprint Finance: Yield-infrastructure vault platform.
Inveniam Capital: Real-World Asset (RWA) yield strategies.
Wave Digital Assets LLC: SEC-registered investment adviser working with industry partners to facilitate the issuance of Bitcoin-collateralized bonds.
Index Oracle, Insurance & Security Auditing
CF Benchmarks: Crypto index provider distributing pricing data via oracles.
Soter Insure: Native, Bitcoin-denominated institutional insurance.
Asymptotic, Certora, OtterSec: Smart contract security and formal verification auditors.
The activation of the global testnet this July represents the ultimate rehearsal for fully changing Bitcoin Finance. This sandbox environment is designed for institutional engineers, Sui protocols and developers, and custody partners to test integration parameters, stress-test the code under simulated market volatility, and verify cryptographic integrity ahead of mainnet release.
Technical documentation and testnet access configurations will be hosted at https://www.sui.io/hashi.
About Sui
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain built for scalable finance and global payments. Founded by the core team behind Meta’s stablecoin initiative and powered by an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data programmable and ownable. Sui’s primitives offer builders everything they need to create high-performance payments and financial applications, including instant agentic payments. Users can learn more at sui.io.
Contact: media@sui.io
ContactSui Foundationmedia@sui.io
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Zug, Switzerland, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
The Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority has granted Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG a license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR. The European entity of Bitcoin Suisse can now serve clients across selected EEA markets, with Roman Przibylla appointed CEO to lead the expansion.
After more than a decade as Switzerland's crypto pioneer, the Bitcoin Suisse Group ("Bitcoin Suisse") is expanding across Europe. Its European entity, Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG, founded in 2018, has been granted a license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR by the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA), building on its long-standing registration under the Token and TT Service Provider Act (TVTG).
Across Europe, Bitcoin Suisse operates with a clear ambition: to be the first choice for high-net-worth individuals, corporates and institutional investors. This ambition is built on more than a decade of operational experience, proven across multiple market cycles in which the company’s business model has consistently demonstrated its resilience.
Its core services of trading, custody and staking rest on two pillars that clearly differentiate Bitcoin Suisse in the market: a robust, proprietary infrastructure and a unique service philosophy that provides every client with a dedicated relationship manager.
As a result, clients benefit not only from institutional-grade technology and regulatory clarity, but also from personal attention, deep expertise and continuity in the relationship. In a market that is often complex, fast-moving and fragmented, Bitcoin Suisse offers clients a trusted partner that combines technical strength with human accessibility.
“We are very proud of this milestone. The MiCAR authorization marks a decisive step on our journey towards a global brand and eventually becoming a global wealth management platform. Together with our presence in Switzerland and Bermuda, we now have the regulatory foundation to serve clients across some of the world’s most important financial centers,” says Andrej Majcen, Co-Founder and Group CEO, Bitcoin Suisse.
Roman Przibylla Appointed to Lead European Business
Roman Przibylla leads the European expansion as CEO of Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG. He brings more than 15 years of distribution experience from senior roles at Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, HSBC, Vontobel and Maverix Securities.
“The MiCAR license gives Bitcoin Suisse access to one of the largest and most sophisticated investor markets in the world. We can now bring high-net-worth and institutional clients in Europe what they truly need: infrastructure at the highest level and, at the same time, direct, personal points of contact with genuine crypto expertise. That combination is not a given in this market,” says Roman Przibylla, CEO Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG.
About the Bitcoin Suisse Group
Bitcoin Suisse is a leading premium provider of crypto financial services for institutional clients, crypto foundations, family offices, asset managers and high-net-worth individuals. Headquartered in Zug and founded in 2013 by crypto natives, Bitcoin Suisse employs over 200 people across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the United Arab Emirates and Bermuda. www.bitcoinsuisse.com
ContactLukas MettlerBitcoin Suissel.mettler@bitcoinsuisse.com
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New nonprofit research and development lab brings together a group of senior technical contributors from the Ethereum Foundation to ready the network for step-function wave of adoption from institutions, agentic finance and DeFi
Ethlabs to reinforce foundational commitments to credible neutrality, censorship resistance and security
NEW YORK, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A coordinated group of Ethereum ecosystem stewards today announced the launch of Ethlabs, an independent, nonprofit research and development organization formed to ready Ethereum for the next phase of institutional adoption. The funding effort is led by Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR), Sharplink, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBET), Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin and other key Ethereum ecosystem contributors including Anchorage, Octant and SNZ.
As stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets, funds and autonomous AI commerce move onchain, they are converging on Ethereum as the neutral, credibly permissionless settlement layer for the global economy. Ethlabs exists to ensure the network is ready to absorb that demand at scale, advancing a faster Ethereum with trustworthy interoperability, so institutions building on Ethereum can do so with the neutrality, resilience, privacy and security they require.
Cofounded by five former senior Ethereum Foundation researchers: Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf and Julian Ma, Ethlabs brings together researchers responsible for key contributions to finality, scaling, data availability, the virtual machine and protocol economics — the technologists who have guided the network through its most consequential upgrades over the past decade. This initiative gives that work a dedicated institutional home with stable, long-term funding.
The launch reflects a natural evolution of the Ethereum ecosystem. As the Ethereum Foundation refocuses on its core mandate and embraces a multi-node future, Ethlabs emerges as one of several independent organizations advancing the network in parallel. Ethlabs' early work will center on what institutions need to move onchain at scale: faster settlement, native issuance and cross-chain movement on robust infrastructure, capacity on mainnet and research that grounds ETH's monetary properties.
Thomas "Tom" Lee, Chairman of Bitmine. "We believe Ethereum is positioned to grow significantly in adoption by institutions and by AI agents. And naturally, the ecosystem needs to dramatically expand its investment in talent and research to support this growth. The formation of Ethlabs demonstrates that key stakeholders are stepping up to help ensure Ethereum remains a leading platform for decentralized finance. We believe positive momentum is building in the digital asset ecosystem, and initiatives like this strengthen the foundation of the ecosystem as the community works together to advance Ethereum's next chapter. As a significant institutional participant in the Ethereum ecosystem, Bitmine is excited to help serve as a steward of Ethereum's long-term growth and support the dedicated builders, researchers and innovators who are helping shape its future."
Joseph Chalom, Chief Executive Officer of Sharplink. "We are at the beginning of an institutional supercycle on Ethereum, and the researchers behind this organization are the people who will make the network ready to carry it. They have quietly shaped Ethereum for the better part of a decade, and giving their work a stable, independent home is one of the most meaningful contributions we can make to the ecosystem. We hold ETH because we believe in what this network is becoming, and supporting the people advancing it at the protocol level is the clearest way we know to back that conviction. This is what responsible stewardship looks like: using our position to drive the next wave of institutional adoption and to strengthen the foundation the entire onchain economy will be built on. Sharplink is proud to help bring Ethlabs to life, alongside our ecosystem partners."
Joe Lubin, Ethereum co-founder and founder and Chief Executive Officer of Consensys. "Ethereum is entering its next stage of evolution. We are now poised to recognize and implement the idea that there should be a number of steward nodes of Ethereum, each configured in their unique way to evolve and protect what is sacred about the network and massively grow the world's appreciation and utilization of it. With support from the Sharplink, Bitmine and many others, Ethlabs is the latest group of EF origin that is externalizing to become a major node of the network of "Responsible Institutions and Stewards of Ethereum". By providing a long-term, independent home to researchers and developers advancing Ethereum's core technology and values, Ethlabs will be instrumental in preparing the network for the next major wave of adoption, from institutional finance to agentic commerce, with the scale, security, interoperability and resilience that global institutions require. Today and going forward the Ethereum ecosystem will be further decentralized, enormously stronger with each steward more focused and empowered."
Ansgar Dietrichs, Executive Director of Ethlabs. "Ethereum is at a pivotal moment. A decade of uninterrupted operation and a track record of credible neutrality have earned it the trust of users and institutions around the world. As blockchain systems move rapidly into mainstream use, the coming years will define the shape of the onchain economy for decades. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become the shared base layer of that economy, the neutral foundation the broader onchain ecosystem is built on, where users, institutions, and agents can transact and interoperate without intermediation. Ethlabs was created to help Ethereum realize that potential. As longtime contributors to the core protocol, we are establishing an independent non-profit organization to advance Ethereum's core technology and the shared standards and infrastructure builders depend on, and we are excited to carry forward that work at the moment it matters most."
The funding effort has been organized to preserve Ethlabs independence at every level. Contributions flow through an independent grants administrator that handles screening, valuation and disbursement. Funders provide accountability through transparent quarterly reporting and an independent annual audit, rather than influence over the research agenda. Final decisions on research priorities and technical direction will rest with Ethlabs leadership.
About BitmineBitmine (NYSE: BMNR) is a Bitcoin miner with operations in the US. The company is deploying its excess capital to be the leading Ethereum Treasury company in the world, implementing an innovative digital asset strategy for institutional investors and public market participants. Guided by its philosophy of "the alchemy of 5%," the Company is committed to ETH as its primary treasury reserve asset, leveraging native protocol-level activities including staking and decentralized finance mechanisms. The Company launched MAVAN (Made-in America Validator Network), a dedicated staking infrastructure for Bitmine assets, in 2026.
About SharplinkSharplink (NASDAQ: SBET) is a leading institutional-grade Ethereum treasury platform designed to give public market investors smarter, more productive exposure to ETH. Ethereum underpins the majority of global stablecoin, tokenized real-world assets and decentralized finance settlement, making ETH a unique native yield generation and long-term network growth opportunity. Sharplink was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. Learn more at www.sharplink.com.
About EthlabsEthlabs is an independent, nonprofit research and development lab and ecosystem steward focused on the next era of growth for Ethereum and ETH. It exists to turn Ethereum's unique properties into infrastructure, standards, and outcomes that users, builders, institutions, and asset issuers can rely on. All of its research is published openly. Learn more at ethlabs.org.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding anticipated institutional interest in Ethereum, research focus and technical roadmaps, governance arrangements, grants administration and oversight mechanisms, and treasury and digital-asset strategies. These statements are based on current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including market conditions for digital assets, regulatory changes, protocol-level developments or setbacks, the timing and success of research efforts, funding availability, and general economic conditions. Additional risk factors are described in Sharplink's and Bitmine's SEC filings at www.sec.gov. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release, are not guarantees, and neither Sharplink nor Bitmine undertakes any obligation to update them except as required by law. This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or digital asset.
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You search the app store for a popular crypto wallet, and three results come back with the same logo and nearly the same name. One is real. The other two may be built to empty your wallet the moment you type in a seed phrase.
That scenario is common. In April 2026, Kaspersky found 26 fraudulent crypto wallet apps on Apple's App Store alone, each copying the branding of a trusted wallet.
Learning how to verify a crypto wallet app before installing it is now a basic safety step, because these clones sit on official stores, not just shady websites.
Six quick checks catch nearly every counterfeit, and they take only a few minutes. Run them before you download, because once a malicious app has your seed phrase, the loss is permanent.
Why Fake Wallet Apps Are So Convincing
Scammers succeed by borrowing trust. The fake apps Kaspersky identified impersonated well-known wallets like MetaMask, Ledger, Trust Wallet, and Coinbase, copying their branding so closely that a quick glance could not tell them apart.
Many of these counterfeits even included filler features, such as a calculator or a small game, to look like ordinary software and slip past review. Knowing how to spot a fake crypto wallet means looking past the surface, because the polish is exactly what the scam relies on.
The checks that follow each target a detail that a clone tends to get wrong. None of them requires technical skill, only a habit of pausing before installing.
1. Download Only From the Official Source
The safest path to a real app starts on the wallet's official website. Find the project's verified site, then follow its link to the App Store or Google Play, instead of searching the store directly, where a clone might rank above the original.
Never install a wallet from a link in a message, email, or ad. Those routes are how most counterfeits reach victims, so to download a crypto wallet safely, treat the official website as the only trusted starting point.
2. Match the Developer and Publisher Name
Every legitimate app lists a developer or publisher name, and a clone almost always gets it slightly wrong. Check the name on the store listing against the one on the official website, letter for letter.
Scammers rely on near-misses that pass a fast read, such as an extra character or a swapped letter in the developer name. Confirming a legitimate crypto wallet app often rests on this match, since a mismatch is one of the clearest signs the listing is fake.
3. Read the Download Count and Reviews Realistically
A real wallet with a large user base shows it. Established apps carry hundreds of thousands of reviews and a long, active history, while a clone usually has a thin record or a sudden burst of vague five-star posts.
Look at the substance of the reviews, not just the rating. To judge whether a crypto wallet app is safe, read the recent one and two-star reviews, where victims of a fake tend to warn others first.
4. Inspect the Listing for Clone Details
The details of a fake listing rarely hold up to a careful look. Compare the icon, the exact spelling of the name, and the description against the official website, watching for small visual differences or off wording.
Spelling errors and clumsy grammar in the description are common giveaways. A professional team proofreads its store listing, so the telltale signs in the real vs fake crypto wallet comparison are the rough edges a legitimate developer would never ship.
5. Check the Permissions It Requests
A wallet needs very little access to do its job. Be cautious of an app that asks for permissions with no clear reason, such as your contacts, SMS messages, or camera, since those requests often signal data harvesting.
Excessive permissions are a pattern across fake crypto wallet apps, which use the access to steal credentials or monitor the device. A genuine wallet keeps its requests minimal and relevant to sending, receiving, and securing crypto.
6. Confirm It Never Asks for Your Seed Phrase Up Front
This is the check that settles it. A real wallet generates a recovery phrase for you to write down when you create an account, and it never asks you to type an existing seed phrase to "verify," "restore," or "connect" right after download.
Any app that demands your seed phrase up front is built to steal it. This single rule does most of the work in telling real from fake, and it holds for every wallet without exception, which is why it belongs at the center of any crypto wallet app scams 2026 checklist.
How IronWallet Clears Every Check
A legitimate wallet passes all six points without effort, and IronWallet works as a clear example of what that looks like. Checking it against the list shows the pattern a real app follows.
Official source: IronWallet is distributed through its official website and verified store listings, not third-party links.
Verifiable developer: an established company that has operated since 2017 stands behind it, with a public identity.
Real user base: it carries more than 3 million users and ratings above 4 stars across the app stores, backed by genuine reviews.
Seed phrase done right: it generates a 12-word recovery phrase for you to hold, and never asks you to enter an existing one to unlock access.
The point is not that IronWallet is the only safe choice. Is it a real wallet, whichever one you pick, clears these checks the same way, while a counterfeit fails at least one of them.
A Final Safety Step Before You Fund It
Even after a wallet passes every check, a cautious first move protects you. Send a small test amount, confirm it arrives and that you can send it back out, and only then move larger funds into the app.
Checking a crypto wallet app before downloading takes minutes, and it is far cheaper than the alternative. The habit of verifying first, choosing to check a crypto wallet before downloading instead of after, keeps a counterfeit from ever reaching your funds.
Conclusion
Fake wallet apps work by looking exactly like the real ones, which is why the defense has to happen before installation.
The six checks all point the same way: confirm the source, the developer, the reviews, the listing details, the permissions, and above all, that no app asks for your seed phrase up front.
Run the list every time you add a new wallet, and treat anything that fails even one check as a fake. A few minutes of verification stand between a counterfeit app and everything stored behind your keys.


Disclaimer: This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.

The final round of group games does not space itself out for your convenience. Both matches in a group kick off at the same time, and across the closing days, the deciding fixtures stack up close together, which leaves a narrow window to settle one position and set up the next.
World Cup betting in this stretch is as much about timing your funds as reading the football. When the last group games run simultaneously and the knockouts start days later, how fast a settled bet frees up for the next one becomes a practical question, not a technical footnote.
To make that concrete, the sections below follow the closing round on one non-custodial sportsbook, Dexsport, as a working example of how the settlement rhythm plays out.
The Final Matchday Runs on a Tighter Clock
The closing round of the group stage is built differently from the first two. To stop teams from arranging a convenient result, both fixtures in a group start at the same moment, so two deciding games play out in one block instead of one after the other.
That synchronization is fair for the sport and demanding for a bettor. A pre-match position on one group locks in before kickoff, and any reaction has to happen live while a second game runs alongside it.
The deciding fixtures also cluster across a few days, so a bankroll cycles through several settlements in a short span.
Why Settled Funds Need to Move Quickly Here
The pressure is specific to this phase. A win settled on an afternoon group game is only useful for an evening fixture if the funds are actually available in time, and the final round packs those fixtures tight.
Group markets mostly settle on the result at 90 minutes plus stoppage, so the wait is rarely about the outcome. The wait is about the payout rail. Funds that sit in an operator queue for a day miss the next deciding game, while funds that return to a wallet quickly stay in play for the cluster still to come.
Map the Fixture Clock Before the Cluster Starts
The closing fixtures do not arrive evenly. Some groups finish a day before others, and within a single day the synchronized pairs can sit only a few hours apart, so the schedule itself shapes how much room there is to settle and re-stake.
Reading that calendar in advance changes the approach. Knowing that an afternoon group decides at the same time as another, with an evening pair to follow, tells a bettor how quickly funds need to clear and how much to hold back for later fixtures.
The bettors who struggle in this phase are usually the ones reacting to the schedule instead of planning around it.
Custody Decides How Fast You Can Reinvest
The difference comes down to who holds the balance between bets. A custodial sportsbook keeps your funds and releases them through a cashier on its own schedule, which can lag during a high-traffic matchday.
A non-custodial model settles to a wallet you control. Dexsport works this way, settling won bets on-chain so the balance lands back in your wallet instead of a platform account, ready to stake on the next game in the cluster.
It keeps standard play no-KYC, supports stablecoins across multiple networks, and runs live betting with built-in cash out for the simultaneous games. The fast payout is quick instead of literally instant, and the result still waits for full time like anywhere else.
Stablecoin Balances Hold Value Between Games
Speed is only half the problem across a multi-day finale. A bankroll that swings in value between an afternoon settlement and an evening bet introduces a second variable that has nothing to do with the football.
Holding the balance in a stablecoin removes that swing. A sum settled after one group game is the same sum when the next kicks off, so the only thing that changes the bankroll is the bet itself.
On Dexsport that balance can stay in a stablecoin across its supported networks, so a payout from an afternoon game holds its value until the evening fixture. For a bettor cycling funds through several deciding fixtures in a few days, that stability matters as much as the speed of the transfer.
Dead Rubbers and Survival Games Bet Differently
The closing games are not routine, which is why there is activity to settle in the first place. Teams already through often rotate their starting eleven and ease off, while a side fighting to survive plays at full intensity, and that motivation gap is consistently underpriced.
A dead-rubber favorite resting key players is a weaker proposition than the league table suggests, and a desperate underdog is stronger. Reading which group games are live and which are effectively decided tells you where to place a bet worth settling quickly, before the next fixture in the cluster begins.
When two games run at once, Dexsport's built-in cash out lets you close a position on one while the other is still in play, freeing the funds without waiting for full time.
A Workflow for the Closing Days
A simple rhythm keeps the finale manageable, and it maps cleanly onto a non-custodial setup like Dexsport.
Fund the wallet before the cluster begins, keep the working balance in a stablecoin, and place pre-match positions on the synchronized games early so nothing is rushed at kickoff.
When a bet settles on-chain, let the balance land back in the wallet before committing to the next fixture, and resist the urge to re-stake funds still in transit.
Treat each deciding game as its own decision, sized to a budget set in advance, and the compressed schedule stays a sequence of clear choices instead of a scramble.
Closing the Group Stage in Good Shape
The final matchday rewards preparation more than speed of tapping. Simultaneous kickoffs and a tight cluster of deciding games make fund availability a real constraint, and the platforms that settle quickly to a wallet leave a bettor ready for the next fixture instead of waiting in a queue.
Set a budget for the closing round, hold the bankroll in a stable form, read which games are genuinely live, and carry only what you mean to risk into the knockouts. The group stage ends fast, and a clear settlement rhythm is what keeps it from ending messily.

Disclaimer: The information here is provided for general purposes only and is not legal, tax, investment, or financial advice. Betting carries risk, and rules vary by country, so check the law where you live. Please gamble responsibly, within your means, and only if you are of legal age.

Bitmine owns 4.7% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million
Bitmine is 94% of the way to the 'Alchemy of 5%' in just 11 months
Bitmine's Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP
Bitmine has 4,718,677 staked ETH, representing $8.2 billion at $1,733 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors
Bitmine owns $104 million of Eightco (NASDAQ: ORBS), now one of the only publicly listed equities in the world to provide investors indirect exposure to OpenAI
Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings & Marketable Securities + "Moonshots" total $10.7 billion, including 5.67 million ETH tokens, total cash & marketable securities of $601 million, and other crypto holdings
Bitmine remains supported by a premier group of institutional investors including ARK's Cathie Wood, MOZAYYX, Founders Fund, Bill Miller III, Pantera, Kraken, DCG, Galaxy Digital and personal investor Thomas "Tom" Lee to support Bitmine's goal of acquiring 5% of ETH
NORWALK, Conn., June 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- (NYSE: BMNR) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. ("Bitmine" or the "Company") a Bitcoin and Ethereum Network company with a focus on the accumulation of crypto for long term investment, today announced Bitmine crypto + total cash & marketable securities + "moonshots" holdings totaling $10.7 billion.
As of June 21, 2026 at 3:00pm ET, the Company's crypto holdings are comprised of 5,672,956 ETH at $1,733 per ETH (per Coinbase NASDAQ: COIN), 205 Bitcoin (BTC), $180 million stake in Beast Industries, $104 million stake in Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) ("moonshots") and total cash & marketable securities of $601 million. Bitmine's ETH holdings are 4.7% of the ETH supply (of 120.7 million ETH).
"The best years for crypto remain ahead, in our view. Tokenization and the rapid progress in AI are expected to drive exponential demand growth for blockchain and decentralized crypto," stated Thomas "Tom" Lee, Chairman of Bitmine.
On June 10, Bitmine closed its offering (the "offering") registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), of 3,500,000 shares of 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the "Series A Preferred Stock"), at a public offering price of $80.00 per share.
The Company received net proceeds from the offering of approximately $273.8 million, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and the Company's estimated offering expenses. The Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP. The dividends for BMNP are scheduled to be paid weekly, subject to the terms of the applicable Certificate of Designations.
On June 11, 2026, Bitmine was named to the Fortune 100 Crypto List (link here). Fortune published this definitive ranking of the most influential companies in blockchain and draws on rigorous data analysis by Inca Digital and a survey of leading crypto experts, according Fortune Magazine.
On May 11, 2026, Bitmine released the latest Chairman's Message (link here) for May 2026.
"Over the past week, we acquired 52,203 ETH. We continue to maintain a steady pace of accumulation throughout 2026. We believe we are in the early stages of crypto spring. Bitmine is expected to reach the 'alchemy of 5%' sometime in 2026," stated Mr. Lee.
Bitmine recently launched MAVAN (the Made in American VAlidator Network), the institutional grade staking platform. While MAVAN was originally developed to support Bitmine's own Ethereum treasury, MAVAN intends to expand to serve institutional investors, custodians, and ecosystem partners seeking best-in-class staking infrastructure. A portion of Bitmine's ETH is already staked on the MAVAN platform.
As of June 21, 2026, Bitmine total staked ETH stands at 4,718,677 ($8.2 billion at $1,733 per ETH). "Bitmine has staked more ETH than other entities in the world. At scale (when Bitmine's ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and its staking partners), the projected ETH staking reward is $268 million on an annualized basis (using 2.73% 7-day BMNR yield)," stated Lee.
"Annualized staking revenues are now projected at $223 million. And this 4.7 million ETH is over 83% of the 5.67 million ETH held by Bitmine. Bitmine's own staking operations generated a 7-day yield of 2.73% (annualized)," continued Lee.
Bitmine's crypto holdings reign as the #1 Ethereum treasury and #2 global treasury, behind Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), which reportedly owns 846,842 BTC valued at $54 billion. Bitmine remains the largest ETH treasury in the world.
Bitmine is one of the most widely traded stocks in the US. According to data from Fundstrat, the stock has traded average daily dollar volume of $717 million (4-day average, as of June 18, 2026), ranking #219 in the US, behind Entegris Inc (rank #218) and ahead of Target Corp (rank #220) among 5,704 US-listed stocks (statista.com and Fundstrat research).
Bitmine management believes the GENIUS Act and Securities and Exchange Commission's (the "SEC") Project Crypto are as transformational to financial services in 2025 as US action on August 15, 1971 ending Bretton Woods and the USD on the gold standard 54 years ago. This 1971 event was the catalyst for the modernization of Wall Street, creating the iconic Wall Street titans and financial and payment rails of today. These proved to be better investments than gold.
The Company also announced that the Board of Directors has declared the following seven weekly cash dividends on the outstanding shares of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock, which are expected be paid on the respective payment dates below, to holders of record of the Series A Preferred Stock as of the close of business on the respective record dates provided in the following table:
The Chairman's message can be found here:
https://www.Bitminetech.io/chairmans-message
The Fiscal Full Year 2025 Earnings presentation and corporate presentation can be found here: https://Bitminetech.io/investor-relations/
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About Bitmine
Bitmine (NYSE: BMNR) is a Bitcoin miner with operations in the US. The company is deploying its excess capital to be the leading Ethereum Treasury company in the world, implementing an innovative digital asset strategy for institutional investors and public market participants. Guided by its philosophy of "the alchemy of 5%," the Company is committed to ETH as its primary treasury reserve asset, leveraging native protocol-level activities including staking and decentralized finance mechanisms. The Company launched MAVAN (Made-in America VAlidator Network), a dedicated staking infrastructure for Bitmine assets, in 2026.
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Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terms such as "expects," "projects," "projected," "intends," "believes," "anticipates," "estimates," and similar expressions. This document specifically contains forward-looking statements regarding: (i) the Company's goals regarding ETH acquisition, including the 'Alchemy of 5%' initiative and the expectation that Bitmine will reach this goal sometime in 2026; (ii) the Company's beliefs and expectations regarding the cryptocurrency market, including the view that the best years for crypto remain ahead and that tokenization and the rapid progress in AI are expected to drive exponential demand growth for blockchain and decentralized crypto; (iii) the Company's belief that it is in the early stages of "crypto spring"; (iv) the dividend payment schedule for the Series A Preferred Stock, including the expectation that weekly cash dividends in the amount of $0.1847 per share will be paid on the dates set forth herein to holders of record as of the respective record dates; (v) the Company's digital asset accumulation strategy and staking operations, including projected annualized ETH staking rewards of approximately $268 million (when Bitmine's ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and its staking partners) and current projected annualized staking revenues of approximately $223 million; (vi) MAVAN's intended expansion to serve institutional investors, custodians, and ecosystem partners seeking best-in-class staking infrastructure; (vii) management's belief that the GENIUS Act and SEC Project Crypto are as transformational to financial services as US action on August 15, 1971 ending Bretton Woods and the USD gold standard; and (viii) continued growth and advancement of the Company's Ethereum treasury strategy. In evaluating these forward-looking statements, you should consider various factors, including: Bitmine's ability to keep pace with new technology and changing market needs; Bitmine's ability to finance its current business, Ethereum treasury operations, and proposed future business; the competitive environment of Bitmine's business; market conditions affecting the trading price of the Company's common stock and Series A Preferred Stock; regulatory developments affecting digital assets, including the ultimate enactment and implementation of pending legislation and SEC initiatives; the volatility and unpredictability of digital asset prices; the performance, reliability, and security of the Company's staking operations; risks related to AI systems and their impact on cryptocurrency markets; and the future value of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Actual future performance outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond Bitmine's control, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of Bitmine's Form 10-K filed with the SEC on November 21, 2025, as well as all other SEC filings, as amended or updated from time to time. Copies of Bitmine's filings with the SEC are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Bitmine undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.
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Wenn die Preise schnell fallen, ist der erste Instinkt, die Gelder zu bewegen, und der schlimmste Moment, um zu entdecken, dass man es nicht kann, ist mitten im Crash. Genau das erlebten einige Trader Anfang 2026, als ein scharfer Selloff auf Abhebungsbildschirme traf, die sich nicht laden ließen.
Die Episode brachte eine vertraute Sorge zurück für alle, die sich fragen, ob meine Krypto sicher auf einer Börse ist, wenn der Markt dreht. Die ehrliche Antwort ist, dass deine Coins in Ordnung sein könnten, aber dein Zugang hängt davon ab, dass die Plattform zum genauen Zeitpunkt, an dem sie am meisten unter Druck steht, solvent und online bleibt.

Der kritische Engpass für dezentrale Anwendungen hat sich von der reinen Skalierbarkeit zu nahtloser Cross-Chain-Interoperabilität verschoben. Damit ein Multi-Rollup-Ökosystem als kohärenter globaler Computer fungieren kann, benötigt es eine standardisierte Transportebene: einen generalisierten Nachrichtenbus, um beliebige Daten sicher über isolierte Netzwerke zu übertragen, kombiniert mit einem adaptiven Routing-Netz, um Token-Bridging und Liquiditätspfade zu optimieren.
Wormhole (W) fungiert als das "Nachrichtenbus-Element" dieser Architektur und agiert als ein grundlegendes, generalisiertes Cross-Chain-Nachrichtenprotokoll. Auf der Middleware-Seite erfüllt Celer Network (CELR) das "Bridging und Routing-Netz-Element" und bietet leistungsstarke Middleware, die für schnelle Asset-Transfers und lokalisierte Nachrichtenweiterleitung konzipiert ist.

Die Konvergenz von dezentralen Skalierungsschichten und zentralisierten Ausführungsmaschinen hat sich als eine überzeugende strukturelle Erzählung herauskristallisiert. Der Aufbau eines vertikal integrierten Einzelhandelsumfelds erfordert zwei Kernkomponenten: eine hochleistungsfähige Ausführungsschicht, die native Rendite durch dezentrales Restaking bietet, und eine liquide, hochvolumige zentralisierte Handelsmaschine, um den Cross-Chain-Orderflow aufzunehmen.
Mantle (MNT) nimmt den "modularen L2-Bein" dieser Gleichung ein und positioniert sich als Ethereum Layer-2-Netzwerk, das für modulare Datenverfügbarkeit und Kapitaleffizienz über native Restaking-Primitiven optimiert ist. Im Gegensatz dazu repräsentiert der Bitget Token (BGB) das "Orderflow- und Exchange-Liquiditätsbein" und dient als das Utility-Framework, das das Spot-/Perpetual-Volumen, die Gebührenverbrennungen und die Punkteakkumulation auf der Bitget-Plattform antreibt.

Die Suche nach hochoptimierter, kapitaleffizienter Handelsinfrastruktur intensiviert sich. Damit die dezentrale Finanzwirtschaft (DeFi) ihre nächste Entwicklungsstufe erreicht, benötigen Anwendungen zwei unterschiedliche, aber hochkomplementäre Schichten: intelligentes Handelsrouting und hyperzuverlässige, eigene Daten.
1inch (1INCH) fungiert als das "Smart Routing"-Bein dieser These und agiert als dominanter DEX-Aggregator, der die tiefste Liquidität und die besten Swap-Kurse über mehrere Blockchains hinweg erschließt. API3 (API3) übernimmt die Rolle des "Source-Owned Data"-Beins und bietet eigene Orakel, die reale Daten direkt mit Smart Contracts verbinden, ohne auf dritte Vermittler angewiesen zu sein.

Entwickler suchen hochspezialisierte Architektur-Stacks. Um skalierbare, cross-chain Finanzprodukte zu entwickeln, benötigt das Ökosystem zwei verschiedene fundamentale Schichten: eine programmierbare, multi-virtuelle Maschine (Multi-VM) Ausführungsumgebung und eine robuste, native On-Chain Kreditfazilität.
Astar (ASTR) fungiert als der "Multi-VM Hub" und bietet eine einheitliche Umgebung für sowohl EVM- als auch WebAssembly (WASM)-Smart Contracts innerhalb des Polkadot-Ökosystems und darüber hinaus, kürzlich gestärkt durch das Upgrade der cross-chain Architektur im Juni 2026. In der Zwischenzeit agiert Kava (KAVA) als das "On-Chain Kreditbein" und ist eine Cosmos-basierte Layer-1, die speziell um Collateralized Debt Position (CDP) Kredite, Stablecoin-Liquidität und aufkommende Real-World Asset (RWA) Ökosysteme herum gebaut wurde.

Der schwierigste Teil beim Wetten auf ein Match in Echtzeit ist nicht die Auswahl des Marktes. Es ist die Entscheidung, wann man aussteigen sollte. Eine Live-Wette, die in der siebenzigsten Minute wie ein Gewinner aussieht, kann bei einem Gegenangriff auf Null verschwinden, und die Cash-Out-Taste ist dort, wo der Druck ankommt.
Live-Wetten verwandeln ein einzelnes Match in eine Reihe von Entscheidungen, und das Timing für den Cash-Out ist das, was einen kontrollierten Wetter von einem nervösen unterscheidet. Die Märkte geben dir die Chance, während des Spiels zu handeln, aber den richtigen Moment zu kennen, um eine Rendite zu nehmen oder weiter zu setzen, ist die eigentliche Fähigkeit.

Eine direkte Wette auf den Weltmeister ist sowohl eine Frage des Zeitpunkts, an dem du sie platzierst, als auch auf welches Team du setzt. Der Preis, den du vor den K.o.-Runden bekommst, ist selten der Preis, den du bekommst, sobald der Turnierbaum feststeht, und diese Diskrepanz ist die gesamte Entscheidung.
Die Weltmeisterschafts-Wette bedeutet, das Team auszuwählen, das den Pokal hebt, entschieden nach dem Finale, anstatt bei einem einzelnen Spiel. Das Zeitfenster vor den K.o.-Runden ist eine echte Gabelung in dieser Wette: Jetzt einen längeren Preis nehmen, während das Feld noch breit ist, oder auf kürzere Quoten warten, sobald sich das Bild klärt.

Die Herausforderung, mainstream Einzelhandelsnutzer in Web3-Ökosysteme zu integrieren, bleibt ein zentraler Punkt für Entwickler. Dieses Rätsel zu lösen erfordert zwei hochoptimierte Mechanismen: einen reibungslosen Verteilungsfunnel, um Nutzer anzuziehen, und eine intuitive, interoperable Identitätsschicht, um diese Nutzer über Blockchains hinweg abzubilden.
Notcoin (NOT), nativ im TON-Ökosystem, hat sich als das "Retail Funnel Bein" etabliert und nutzt die riesige Nutzerbasis von Telegram durch virale Tap-to-Earn-Mechaniken. Im Gegensatz dazu dient SPACE ID (ID) als das "Handles und Namespace Bein" und bietet menschenlesbare, plattformübergreifende Domain-Identitäten für Wallets und dezentrale Anwendungen (dApps).