A man has his iris scanned with an orb in exchange for worldcoin crypto (Juan Mabromata/Getty Images)

Largest ethereum treasury, BitMine, invests $20 million into the first worldcoin treasury firm

In addition to BitMine’s investment, Eightco plans to use proceeds from a $250 million private placement to stockpile worldcoin.

Sage D. Young

9/8/25 12:53PM

As BitMine Immersion Technologies passes 2 million ethereum tokens in its corporate treasury, worth over $9 billion, the firm announced a $20 million strategic investment into Eightco, which is moving to adopt the worldcoin cryptocurrency as its primary treasury asset.

In addition to BitMine’s investment, Eightco announced it plans to use proceeds from a $250 million private placement to stockpile worldcoin. The transaction was led by investment firm MOZAYYX and had participation from Kraken, GSR, and Coinfund.

“BitMine wants to support and back innovative projects that create value for the Ethereum ecosystem. As an ERC-20 native token, World is aligned with Ethereum,” BitMine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement. “World’s unique zero-knowledge Proof of Human credential could be essential to future trust and safety between technology platforms and the billions of human users.”

Worldcoin, cofounded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is a layer 2 blockchain built on ethereum. Its native cryptocurrency has jumped nearly 50% in the last 24 hours, while BitMine stock has moved up almost 5%.

According to Eightco’s public statement, “13,698,630 shares of common stock were issued to BitMine at $1.46.”

In other ethereum news:

Spot ethereum ETFs trading in the US saw record outflows last week, with more than $787.7 million leaving the crypto-focused investment funds, data from SoSoValue shows. September’s outflows so far are a stark reversal from the previous months.
ETHZilla brought its crypto holdings to 102,246 ethereum tokens worth about $443 million. ETHZilla has also repurchased $5.5 million worth of its stocks, reducing its shares outstanding by 1.3%, a press release said.
Bit Digital, in a Monday SEC filing, said it holds 121,252 ethereum tokens currently valued at $529 million and has a 71.5% ownership in WhiteFiber, a public AI infrastructure company. “The company intends to allocate the majority of its capital to ETH accumulation and staking yield generation, positioning itself as a leading public ETH vehicle while also holding a majority ownership of an AI infrastructure business,” the filing reported.

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Bitcoin tumbles as oil and gas prices spike and the market’s mood turns risk-off

Bitcoin ETFs reverted to outflows and bitcoin suffered $192 million in liquidations in the past 24 hours.

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Payward, parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, puts plans for IPO on hold

Payward, crypto exchange Kraken’s parent company, has paused its plans for an initial public offering until market conditions improve, according to a report from CoinDesk that cited two people with knowledge of the matter.

Since the firm announced in November its preparation for an IPO of its common stock, the total market capitalization of the crypto industry has shed around $652.2 billion, from $3.2 trillion to $2.5 trillion as of Wednesday, data from CoinGecko shows.

The news comes two weeks after Kraken received approval for a master account from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, allowing the crypto exchange to connect to the Fed’s payment infrastructure used by traditional banks and credit unions.

Last year, Kraken raised $800 million at a $20 billion valuation from institutional investors such as Jane Street and Citadel Securities.

Payward, parent of crypto exchange Kraken, has put its IPO plans on hold

Last year, Kraken raised $800 million at a $20 billion valuation from institutional investors such as Jane Street and Citadel Securities.

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SEC and CFTC issue new guidance on how securities laws apply to crypto assets

On Tuesday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, together with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, issued an interpretation clarifying how federal securities law applies to crypto assets, a first step toward developing a clearer regulatory framework.

The interpretive guidance introduces a token taxonomy for different types of cryptocurrencies, with SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins adding that “most crypto assets are not themselves securities.”

Examples of a digital commodity, “a crypto asset that is intrinsically linked to and derives its value from the programmatic operation of a crypto system that is ‘functional,’” include:

Aptos, avalanche, bitcoin, bitcoin cash, cardano, chainlink, dogecoin, ethereum, hedera, litecoin, polkadot, shiba inu, solana, stellar, tezos, and XRP.

The guidance also includes definitions of digital collectibles (such as NFTs), stablecoins, digital tools, and digital securities (such as tokenized real-world assets and stocks).

This is a monumental step in the mainstream adoption of the industry and clears a hurdle in how crypto can operate going forward, according to David Pakman, head of venture investments at CoinFund. “This will allow new token designs with the confidence that their existence does not require registration with the SEC, etc.,” Pakman told Sherwood News.

Despite the clarification efforts from the two organizations, the market capitalization of the crypto industry has dropped about 2% in the last 24 hours as each of the tokens mentioned in the guidance are trading lower in the period, data from CoinGecko shows.

The joint agency action also complements congressional efforts to turn a crypto market structure framework into law. With the goal of providing regulations on the offer and sale of digital commodities, the CLARITY Act passed the House of Representatives last year and is now sitting in the Senate.

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3/18/26

Citi analysts cut 12-month bitcoin projection to $112,000 from $143,000

The analysts’ bear-case scenario is $57,537, based on “recessionary macro-factors, especially weak equity markets,” which could cause ETF flows to stall.

Sage D. Young3/17/26

Bitcoin sees 8 consecutive days of gains, a streak not seen in 4 years

Bitcoin is on a winning streak. The cryptocurrency has generated eight straight days of positive returns, a rare phenomenon that has occurred only 15 times since Satoshi Nakamoto created it, according to a CoinDesk report.

In the 30 days after posting an eight-day streak, bitcoin traded higher nine times and lower six times. The median return in the period is roughly 19%. Despite the historical gains that followed, the last time bitcoin had such a rally, four years ago, it dropped roughly 30%.

Most recently, bitcoin climbed from below $66,000 on March 8 to over $75,000 yesterday before settling around $73,800 on Tuesday morning.

Traders remain modestly bullish on the likelihood of further gains, though the sentiment is fading: prediction market-implied odds of bitcoin trading above $77,500 in the month stand at 54%, a decrease from 73% on Monday.

(Event contracts are offered through Robinhood Derivatives, LLC — probabilities referenced or sourced from KalshiEx LLC or ForecastEx LLC.)

Bitcoin hits rare 8-day winning streak – but 2022 bear market saw one too