This week, BitMine, led by Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee, once again increased its Ethereum reserves, taking advantage of a decline in the leading altcoin. According to data from the Arkham platform, the firm acquired 48,049 ETH worth nearly $140 million from a FalconX hot wallet. It should be noted that the company has not officially confirmed this transaction.

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Strategy reported that it currently holds 671,268 BTC in its wallets (more than 3% of the total supply of the leading cryptocurrency). This marks the second consecutive week in which the number of bitcoins purchased by the company over a seven-day period exceeded 10,000 BTC. The last time such volumes were recorded was during the summer, when the price of the leading cryptocurrency was around $117,000.

Strategy Inc. (MSTR) announced on December 8, 2025, that it had acquired 10,624 bitcoins for approximately $962.7 million during the period from December 1 to 7, 2025, at an average price of $90,615 per bitcoin.

A crypto whale from the Hyperliquid platform, who earned around $200 million during the market crash in October, has added another $10 million to his long Ethereum position. As a result, the total size of his ETH investment has reached $44.5 million.

According to Santiment, since November 11 the number of wallets holding 100 BTC or more has been steadily increasing, indicating that “whales” have started accumulating the flagship cryptocurrency again.

Last week, the Ethereum treasury company BitMine purchased $205 million worth of ETH, increasing its holdings to 3.63 million altcoins valued at $11.8 billion at the current exchange rate.

On Tuesday, November 18, the San Francisco–based blockchain company Ripple carried out a mysterious action involving XRP that hardly went unnoticed.

Leap Therapeutics, a company whose shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange, has changed its name to Cypherpunk Technologies Inc. after adopting a new strategy focused on accumulating digital assets. The main focus is on the privacy cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC).

The director of the family investment firm Maelstrom, Arthur Hayes, is preparing to buy Zcash (ZEC) at the bottom — at a relatively high price. After reaching a peak of $744, the ZEC price dropped by more than 40%, forming a bearish “double top” pattern on the chart.

On Monday, November 10, U.S. spot SOL ETFs recorded their tenth straight day of net inflows. According to data from SoSoValue, total net inflows into Solana spot ETFs on Monday amounted to $6.78 million, with $5.92 million flowing into Bitwise’s BSOL and $854,480 into Grayscale’s GSOL.

In a statement dated November 10, Strategy reported that the new Bitcoin purchase was a continuation of its strategy to increase its holdings of the first cryptocurrency, which exceeded $67 billion at the beginning of November.

The chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), who turned it into the world’s largest Bitcoin treasury, published a message stating that the organization’s BTC portfolio has reached $65.45 billion.

During the first IPO on the European stock market, it was planned to issue about 3.5 million preferred shares of Strategy (STRE) and raise €350 million ($378 million). However, demand from European institutional investors for the company’s new shares exceeded the planned issuance volume many times over, allowing the IPO organizers to double the offering.

JPMorgan Chase’s share in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, owned by BlackRock, increased by 64.26%.

The crypto-treasury (DAT) company Strategy has announced the issuance of new perpetual preferred shares denominated in euros, aimed at financing further Bitcoin (BTC) purchases.

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Investors on the open market have purchased over 375,000 bitcoins in the past month, including 50,000 BTC on November 5, according to data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant.