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Bitmine added 71,672 coins to its Ethereum treasury, increasing its reserves to around 5.28 million ETH. Chairman Tom Lee considered Ether’s recent pullback a good buying opportunity, prompting the company to accelerate its acquisition of the asset. Bitmine Immersion Technologies, a digital asset platform, continues to solidify its position as the largest Ethereum (ETH) accumulator. On Monday, the company announced increasing its control over the asset by securing more than 4.37% of its 120.7 million supply. Ethereum Portfolio of Bitmine The business revealed that it purchased 71,672 ETH over the last seven days. It didn’t disclose the price at which it bought…

Pfizer Inc. () is trading at $25.30 in the Monday session, fractionally below the $25.33 prior close, with an intraday range running between $25.20 and $25.39. The 52-week trading band sits at $22.64 to $28.75, which means the current price is roughly 11.6% above the year low and 12% below the year high — squarely in the middle of a multi-quarter consolidation that has frustrated holders for the better part of 18 months. Market capitalization stands at $144.08 billion. Average daily volume is heavy at 35.48 million shares. The P/E ratio prints 19.33 on a trailing basis, but the more…

Bitmine owns more than 4.37% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 87% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains Bitmine uplisted to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) from the NYSE American effective as of April 9, 2026 Bitmine has 4,712,917 staked ETH, representing $10.3 billion at $2,191 per ETH MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR…

London, United Kingdom, May 18th, 2026, Chainwire Quantography Labs announced the early-access release of Lock.com, a hardware-free crypto wallet built around an isolated, air-gapped security approach. Lock.com is now available to early access users. The platform separates private key storage from network-connected systems, removing the need for dedicated hardware wallet devices. Hardware wallets have long been the standard for protecting digital assets. But they come with a trade-off: users must trust the device, the manufacturer, and the supply chain behind it. Lock.com removes that dependency by separating the signing environment from the broadcasting environment. Private keys remain on a fully…

Willemstand, Curaçao, May 18th, 2026, PlayNewswire International iGaming and crypto-entertainment brand 1win has officially announced the launch of its new global crypto tournament system, featuring competition formats with prize pools ranging from 10,000 USDT to 200,000 USDT. With the new approach to crypto gaming, 1win invited players worldwide to compete for crypto rewards in a single virtual environment. The initiative marks a transition from region-specific tournaments with unique terms and conditions to an international model in which players from multiple locations share gaming experiences and compete for crypto rewards. The Crypto Tournament system by 1win includes three formats with different…

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, May 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a sovereign Layer 1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives trading, has officially commenced the operation of its L1 Mainnet, signaling a definitive end to the era of trade execution compromised by general-purpose blockchain congestion. Engineered for the world’s most demanding participants, AFX introduces the Sovereign Trading Layer—a dedicated financial environment where the non-custodial transparency of a Perp DEX meets the uncompromising speed and depth traditionally reserved for institutional-grade centralized entities. At launch, the protocol supports a high-liquidity suite of perpetual markets across both digital and traditional macro assets, featuring BTC, ETH, Gold…

XRP is about to enter a technical compression zone, which could lead to a significant increase in volatility in the upcoming weeks. Price action has become more compressed between converging support and resistance levels, following months of intense downward pressure and extended consolidation in the $1.30-1.40 range. In the past, such a structure seldom lasted long before a clear breakout or breakdown took place.XRP’s recovery outlined on the chartAccording to the current chart, XRP is repeatedly testing resistance close to the 100-day moving average at $1.49, while progressively regaining short-term moving averages. Although buyers have been able to sustain higher…

Traders dumped $1.5 billion in stablecoins onto Binance. Fast. And the move says a lot about where crypto confidence sits right now. Bitcoin’s been wild. Price swings have been sharp enough to rattle even seasoned traders, and the response — parking serious money in stablecoins on one of the world’s biggest exchanges — is pretty much a textbook defensive play. When traders don’t want out of crypto entirely but can’t stomach the ride, stablecoins become the waiting room. That’s basically what’s happening here. The $1.5 billion figure is big by any measure. Binance absorbed the entire inflow without visible disruption,…

Cotton futures rounded out the Friday session with contracts down 151 to 333 points. July was 412 points in the red this week, with December falling 355 points. The US dollar index was $0.467 higher at $99.195. Crude oil was up $4.49 at $105.66 on the day. Few details announced following the meeting with President Trump and China’s President Xi left the market hanging. President Trump stated early this morning that US farmers will be very happy with the trade deals with China. The market didn’t seem as confident. More News from Barchart CFTC data showed managed money adding another…

Key TakeawaysData shows the tokenized RWA market hit $34.5B in May 2026, up over 100% year-on-year.Blackrock, Ondo Finance, and Circle lead institutional RWA adoption as private credit surpasses treasuries.Standard Chartered projects the tokenized asset market to reach $30 trillion by 2034. Institutions Pile Into Onchain Finance The scale of growth becomes clearer in a historical context because, as reported earlier, the tokenized RWA market cap surged 20 times over during the last three years, reaching $29 billion before the latest milestone. The sector stood at under $2 billion as recently as 2022. Source: RWA.xyz Blackrock’s BUIDL fund has become the…