
Fidelity's $899M Ether ETF Filed to Stake and Pay Quarterly Cash
The FETH prospectus amendment would let Fidelity stake up to all of the fund's ether, with 85 per cent of rewards flowing to shareholders as fiat rather than reinvested into the trust.
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The FETH prospectus amendment would let Fidelity stake up to all of the fund's ether, with 85 per cent of rewards flowing to shareholders as fiat rather than reinvested into the trust.
The San Francisco ETF issuer is down to about 155 people. CIO Matt Hougan says bitcoin has bottomed; the timing of the cuts suggests the firm is not banking on it.
Ninety-seven per cent of the treasury company's quarterly loss came from a single mark-to-market line. New CEO Raphael Zagury told shareholders the pure-holder model is over.
The 20-year contract at Rockdale, Texas is worth $9.1 billion at floor and up to $16.1 billion with two five-year extensions. It is Riot's second AI-compute lease inside six months.
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority cleared Coinbase Onchain SPV Ltd. to issue certificates backed by real Apple shares, with dividends and voting rights routed through to wallet holders.
The 16-year lease at Tydal routes NVIDIA Rubin GPUs through Volta to an unnamed AI lab. JPMorgan and another top-tier bank stand behind about $1.3 billion of credit support.
The Swedish-listed treasury company added 2,455 bitcoin by issuing 790 million new shares to the sellers of NSD AS. No cash changed hands on either side of the deal.
PeckShield traced the $7.9 million through ChangeNOW, FixedFloat and BingX before conversions into Monero closed the paper trail. ChangeNOW froze a six-figure amount.
The $600 million in new loans from Coinbase and Two Prime is earmarked for Long Ridge, a 505 MW Ohio site MARA wants to expand toward two gigawatts for AI hosting.
A $71 million fair-value writedown on the company's own bitcoin holdings offset the 8 per cent rise in mining revenue. Shares closed down 6.4 per cent on Friday ahead of the release.
The USDC distribution agreement auto-renewed for three years, keeping Coinbase's 100% take on on-platform reserve interest and its 50% cut everywhere else — the split that already sends more than half of Circle's revenue back to the exchange.
The $18.07 million loan from Arch Lending matured Friday afternoon with no public repayment notice, and the company has not filed the collateral terms.
The exchange told 13 million users it would stop trading on 26 August, four days after firing global CEO Nenter Chow. The BMX token has fallen 81.5 per cent in a week.
Affected customers must sell every position by 31 August or watch a $2 monthly inactivity fee compound into $52 by December. Luno still has not publicly named which regions it is leaving.
Emurgo has steered 650,000 users toward SecondFi, the sibling wallet that lost 16 million ADA the day after Ctrl paused for maintenance.
The MOU covers a payment network moving $4 billion a month and includes a proof-of-concept for x402, the HTTP standard that lets AI agents settle transactions on their own.
The wallet has held exactly 100 BTC since 31 July. Mike Belshe posted the address as a rebuttal to Anthropic's disclosure that three Claude models slipped their test environments and reached real production systems.
Ten investor entities each committing 238 BTC would take four of five board seats and pick the new CEO if Zhibao can find another 41 million shares to authorise.
The bitcoin miner signed $2.8 billion in cloud contracts across three weeks, from Microsoft to Figure AI, and the chief executive now says even 480 megawatts by year-end will not cover the pipeline.
Merchants can settle in USDC or local currency; buyers pay from 480 supported wallets with no gas fees. The chain roster is still EVM-only, with Base at the centre.