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According to PR Newswire, BitMine increased its holdings by 101,901 Ethereum last week, marking the highest weekly purchase volume since the week of December 15, 2025. As of April 26, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 5,078,386, accounting for approximately 4.21% of the total Ethereum supply.Currently, the total value of the cryptocurrencies, cash, and other investment assets held by BitMine is approximately $13.3 billion, which includes $940 million in cash, 200 Bitcoins, $200 million in equity assets from Beast Industries, and a $91 million investment in Eightco Holdings (ORBS). Additionally, it has staked 3,701,589 Ethereum (73% of total holdings), valued at approximately $8.8 billion, with a current annualized staking yield of about $264 million.BitMine Chairman Tom Lee stated that the company's ETH holdings surpassed 5 million this week, achieving this accumulation in just 10 months, and has completed 84% of its goal to hold 5% of the total ETH supply. Tom Lee noted that multiple research reports suggest ETH is gradually becoming a "store of value" asset and will be used as collateral in digital asset financial transactions. Since the outbreak of the U.S.-Iran war, ETH has outperformed the S&P 500 by 1,696 basis points, making it one of the best-performing assets globally (second only to crude oil).He also pointed out that Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual drivers of Wall Street's on-chain tokenization and the growing demand for public neutral blockchains from AI intelligent systems, indicating that this round of the crypto winter has entered its final phase.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, in the past half hour, a SOL staking whale redeemed all 300,000 SOL (26.07 million USD) from staking and then transferred it to Binance.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Grayscale has staked 102,400 ETH through its Ethereum mini trust fund in the past 10 hours, worth $237 million.

According to Prnewswire, Nasdaq-listed company Aurelion disclosed that it currently holds 33,318 Tether Gold (XAUT), with a holding value exceeding $157 million based on a price of $4,719.15 per ounce. Additionally, the company revealed that it has staked 10,000 XAUT, transforming the gold token from a mere reserve asset into a yield-generating collateral asset, while another 23,318 XAUT remain unstaked.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Bitmine has staked 112,040 ETH again four hours ago, worth over 260 million dollars.

Robin Markets tweeted that it has completed a $475,000 angel round of financing, led by Fabric VC, with joint leads from Animoca Brands, ATKA Incubator, John Lilic, and Stefan D. George, and participation from several institutions and angel investors including Hilbert Capital, Layer Zero, and Gnosis.Robin Markets has simultaneously opened its V1 staking product to the public. Robin Markets is a DeFi platform focused on Polymarket position yields, with its core product allowing users to earn yields on their positions in Polymarket.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens, Bitmine has staked a total of 191,952 ETH in the past 12 hours, worth approximately $446.9 million, with an additional 98,352 ETH (about $229 million) staked in the last 3 hours.

Lido has released the latest developments regarding the Kelp security incident, stating that its Earn series vaults are working with the management to address the issues, which involve two major risk points: the rsETH exposure and the liquidity tension in the lending market. Lido emphasizes that the core staking protocol has not been affected, and both stETH and wstETH remain safe and stable.Currently, only the EarnETH vault has an approximately 9% TVL exposure to rsETH, and related deposits and withdrawals have been suspended by the management, awaiting a solution. Approximately $70 million in ETH has been recovered from the previous attack, and the subsequent asset recovery and loss distribution are still in progress. In response to liquidity pressure, the management has reduced leverage and optimized the position structure, significantly decreasing the wETH debt exposure. If losses ultimately occur, EarnETH will activate a $3 million "first loss protection mechanism" (funded by the DAO). As for other vaults, DVV and EarnUSD have not been affected and are operating normally; the GGV sub-vault is currently experiencing negative returns due to the combination of circular staking strategies and rising lending rates, but adjustments are ongoing. Withdrawal requests submitted by users will be processed based on valuations prior to the incident.

Meta Pool indicates that a suspicious contract has been found attempting to impersonate a legitimate staking pool and tokens. Meta Pool emphasizes that this contract is not associated with Meta Pool or any official NEAR liquidity staking provider.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai 9684xtpa), F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun stated this morning that he sold 83.7 million SPK last year and is currently "a bit regretful" about it.Subsequently, Upbit officially announced the listing of SPK, and Spark stated that the total staking amount of SPK has exceeded 500 million. Market data shows that SPK reached a maximum increase of 73% within 24 hours and topped the Binance gainers list.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Bitmine staked 93,600 ETH in the past hour, worth approximately 218 million dollars.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, after increasing their holdings by 100,000 ETH at noon today, Bitmine has just deposited 75,600 ETH ($176 million) into Ethereum PoS staking. Currently, Bitmine should have staked a total of 3,471,000 ETH, accounting for 70% of their total ETH holdings (4,976,000 ETH).

Spark posted on platform X that the total staked amount of the native token SPK has exceeded 500 million, with current data showing it has reached 509,969,466. At the same time, users can participate in the Spark Points Program for the fourth quarter by staking SPK and receive point rewards.Previously, due to the rsETH security incident, Aave experienced continuous outflows of funds, while Spark attracted some of the large whales/institutions that withdrew funds from Aave.

According to CoinDesk, Kraken stated that it has submitted 56 million cryptocurrency transaction tax forms to the IRS for the 2025 tax year, of which approximately 18.5 million correspond to amounts below $1, 74% are below $50, and only 8.5% exceed $600.Kraken pointed out that the lack of a minimum amount tax exemption rule for cryptocurrency payments, as well as the taxation of staking rewards as ordinary income at the time of receipt, is placing a heavy reporting burden on investors. Kraken is calling on the U.S. Congress to promote a broader minimum amount tax exemption policy linked to inflation and to allow taxpayers to choose to be taxed on staking rewards at the time of receipt or sale.

Non-custodial staking infrastructure provider Everstake has partnered with Web3 asset data platform RootData to comprehensively empower its business processes using RootData's data. Through the RootData API, Everstake will integrate comprehensive project information into its products, significantly enhancing user experience; leveraging RootData's rich industry data to provide more diverse and in-depth research reports; and obtaining more customer expansion leads based on information such as financing and teams.It is reported that Everstake is an institutional-grade staking infrastructure provider that supports secure and scalable participation in staking across more than 130 proof-of-stake (PoS) networks. Everstake provides support for asset management companies, custodians, non-custodial wallets, protocols, exchanges, and platforms, helping them achieve convenient staking access.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Bitmine has staked 61,232 ETH, worth 14.2 million dollars. So far, a total of 3,395,869 ETH has been staked, worth 7.9 billion dollars, and there may be further staking in the future.

According to PR Newswire, Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies disclosed that it increased its holdings by 101,627 ETH last week. The company's cryptocurrency asset holdings now include 4,976,485 ETH, 199 BTC, equity in Eightco Holdings worth $107 million, and shares in Beast Industries worth $200 million.In addition, the total amount of ETH staked by the company is 3,334,637 ETH (calculated at $2,301 per ETH, totaling $7.7 billion).

Lido posted on platform X that the team is aware of the developments regarding the Kelp DAO security incident. Due to the current exposure of the earnETH product to rsETH, they have proactively suspended new deposits to earnETH and are working with relevant partners to assess the situation. More information will be disclosed based on future developments. Lido added that stETH and wstETH have not been affected by the rsETH incident, and this security issue does not involve the Lido staking protocol itself.

Nasdaq-listed company Intchains Group Limited announced its latest business developments, disclosing its Ethereum (ETH) staking scale and AI-driven operational transformation plan. The company stated that as of now, it has staked a total of 8,040 ETH, of which 1,000 ETH were completed through the FalconX platform, and 7,040 ETH were deployed on its own Goldshell Stake platform; additionally, third parties have staked 1,363 ETH on this platform. The company claims to achieve maximized returns and risk diversification through a multi-platform strategy.On a strategic level, Intchains is advancing its AI-enabled operational model transformation, focusing on chip and product research and development, market sales, and overall business operations, restructuring processes and enhancing decision-making efficiency through automation and intelligent tools. In terms of cost control, the company has reduced its workforce by about 20% based on early 2026 levels and plans to further compress it to a total of about 35%, which is expected to bring annual savings of approximately 20 million RMB in labor costs. This adjustment mainly stems from organizational streamlining and replacing repetitive manual processes with technology. The company's management stated that it will focus on core mining machine technology and Ethereum asset strategy, combining AI to enhance research and development and operational efficiency, and plans to launch a new generation of mining machine products in the second half of 2026 (depending on market conditions).

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a newly created address deposited 7.45 million USDC into Hyperliquid in the past 3 hours and purchased 168,837 HYPE at an average price of about 44 dollars.Among them, about 60,000 HYPE (approximately 2.61 million dollars) has been used for staking.