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Bitmine has added $70 million in Ethereum, taking its holdings to approximately 5.93 million ETH. The company says its position equals roughly 4.9% of Ethereum’s supply, with most tokens staked for rewards.
Ethereum is prioritizing quantum resistance and targeting 2029 for protection against a potential quantum computer capable of breaking today’s cryptography. The Ethereum Foundation says future upgrades will be evaluated against that deadline.
EF Protocol is seeking a wider debate on Ethereum issuance. The discussion weighs preserving validator income through unchanged staking rewards against potential dilution for holders who keep their ETH unstaked.
Ethereum’s 2029 quantum-security deadline is influencing upgrade discussions. EF Protocol priorities keep shorter slots and node efficiencies conditional, while a proposal could delay mandatory execution proofs by one fork, CryptoSlate reports.
A proposed LAPTOP memecoin associated with Hunter Biden has drawn backlash from crypto traders. Kraken deleted a promotional post, while a media group named in the token’s distribution distanced itself from the project.
Vitalik Buterin estimates a 60% chance of a cryptography breakthrough involving three primitives. At least one, probably SNARKs, could arrive by decade-end and potentially weaken traditional Wall Street intermediaries.
Cointelegraph reports that purported white-hat hackers took 4,000 BTC from the Liquid sidechain in a major breach. Separately, Bitcoin ETFs recorded their strongest three-week inflow period of 2026.
At least four Bitcoin wallets dormant for roughly a decade moved a combined $15.7 million from August 29 to September 4. One wallet’s $120 holding grew to about $3 million, while coins sent to Coinbase may signal a sale.
Compound’s COMP-governed DAO highlights the tension between executing approved code automatically and preserving emergency controls after a July 2024 governance incident nearly directed a large amount of funds to a small group.
Federal Reserve staff research says stablecoins could theoretically fit into M1 or M2, but reserve overlap and offshore circulation make it difficult to measure their liquidity impact without risking double-counting.
A Bank of Korea study links buying pressure in dollar-backed stablecoins and Binance-paired currencies with local-currency depreciation, citing market makers’ efforts to balance positions as a possible channel.
CryptoSlate reports that Solana’s first account-deposit reduction is live, while the full 90% cut remains incomplete. The broader plan could reduce SOL needed for accounts and weaken one reason to hold the token.
Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 after August payrolls changed expectations for Federal Reserve policy. Crypto markets now await the Sept. 11 CPI report, identified by CryptoSlate as Bitcoin’s next major volatility test.
CryptoSlate reports that a privacy-coin flaw could permit endless token creation. Node operators must upgrade to v0.14.18.0 before block 1,371,000, when multi-input private spending returns and older software becomes incompatible.
