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04-21
Bitmine purchases 101,627 ETH in the largest single transaction of 2026
CoinDesk reports:Last week, Bitmine Immersion Technologies increased its Ethereum holdings by 101,627 ETH, calling it the largest transaction of its 2026 strategy, bringing its total Ethereum holdings close to 5 million. This acquisition brings the company closer to its stated goal of controlling 5%...
Amazon to Invest Up to $250 Billion in Anthropic, Pledging $100 Billion in AWS Spending Over 10 Years
ChainCatcher reports that Amazon has announced it will make an additional investment of up to $25 billion in Anthropic, the parent company of Claude, with $5 billion immediately available and the remaining $20 billion to be disbursed in tranches contingent upon achieving specific business milestones...
Amazon to Invest Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic, Expanding AI Partnership
Odaily Planet Daily reports that Amazon has announced it will make an additional investment of up to $25 billion in Anthropic, including the current $5 billion and an additional $20 billion tied to future business milestones. This follows its previous investment of approximately $8 billion.Under the...
U.S. retail crypto participation rose to 12% in March, with 70% holding Bitcoin.
BlockBeats news: On April 21, according to a recent research report released by Deutsche Bank, U.S. retail participation in cryptocurrency rebounded in March, rising from 7% in February to 12%.Based on a survey of 3,400 consumers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, the ...
Crypto Traders Turn to S&P 500 and Nasdaq Amid Market Shifts
Crypto traders don’t only watch crypto anymore. They still care about Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the wider digital asset market, of course, but more of them are also watching the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The reason is simple: when crypto slows down or gets spikey, US indices often offer clearer price str...
Whale sells 497.73 ETH and buys 3.845 billion ASTEROID over two days
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), the address 0x2d2e…36fc sold a total of 497.73 ETH (approximately $1.14 million) over two days and acquired 38.45 billion $ASTEROID tokens at an average price of $0.00029. It currently holds 369.27 ETH (approximately $855,000) and may contin...
Lido Reports $21.6M rsETH Exposure, Considers $3M Loss Buffer for EarnETH
Lido has disclosed $21.6 million in rsETH exposure and is considering deploying a $3 million loss buffer for its EarnETH product, according to a governance forum post detailing potential losses connected to an rsETH incident.The disclosure, published on Lido’s research forum, frames the $21.6 millio...
Whale Spends $1.14M to Buy 3.845 Billion ASTEROID Tokens
BlockBeats news, on April 21, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, over the past two days, a whale sold 497.73 ETH (worth $1.14 million) and purchased 38.45 billion ASTEROID tokens at $0.00029 each.This whale still holds 369.27 ETH (worth $855,390) and is likely to continue selling to purchase more...
Claude Desktop Allegedly Writes Backdoor Files to Browsers
ChainCatcher report: According to a post by SlowMist CISO @im23pads on X, Claude Desktop has been found to secretly write a backdoor file to browsers. When users install the Claude Desktop application, it silently deposits a special file into all Chromium-based browsers on the computer without the u...
Spark Protocol TVL Surges 17% to $4.395B Following Aave Event
BlockBeats news, on April 21, according to DefiLlama data, following the Aave incident, the total value locked (TVL) of Spark, Ethereum’s leading lending protocol, has increased by $668 million to $4.395 billion.Notably, the incremental 26% comes from Justin Sun, who, according to public information...
Whale sells 497.73 ETH to buy 3.845 billion ASTEROID
Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale sold 497.73 ETH over the past two days to purchase 3.845 billion ASTEROID tokens at an average purchase price of $0.00029. The whale still holds 369.28 ETH and may continue buying.
Justin Sun deposits $174 million into Spark, accounting for 22.5% of the USDC pool.
CoinDesk reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) monitored that Justin Sun has deposited a cumulative total of 105 million USDC into Spark over the past eight hours, adding to his previous deposit of 53,665 ETH, bringing the total value of his deposited assets to $174...
Anthropic introduces Live Artifacts in the Cowork Orchestration Layer for persistent, data-driven applications.
ME News reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), Anthropic introduced the Live Artifacts feature in its new Cowork orchestration layer, marking a shift from static code snippets to persistent, data-driven applications. According to the announcement, Claude can now build functional dashboards, project track...
Spark Protocol TVL Rises by $668M Following Aave Event
Huo Xing Finance reports that, according to DefiLlama data as of April 21, following the Aave incident, the total value locked (TVL) of Spark, Ethereum’s leading lending protocol, has increased by $668 million to $4.395 billion. Notably, 26% of this increase comes from Justin Sun, who publicly discl...
Top 5 Cryptos Held by US Congress Members Revealed
Under the 2012 STOCK (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) Act, congressional members and other government employees are mandated to report stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrency trades of over $1,000 within 45 days of executing them. Here is a compilation of the top 5 crypto choices, and a few littl...
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