Recently, there is a noteworthy piece of news: Bitmine is frantically hoarding ETH.
In the past week, Bitmine has increased its holdings by 60,999 ETH, and in recent weeks they have been buying 45,000 to 50,000 ETH almost every week.
Currently, Bitmine holds a total of 4.59 million ETH, accounting for 3.81% of the total supply of Ethereum.
Based on current prices, their crypto assets + cash scale has reached 11.5 billion dollars.
At the same time, they have made two rather interesting moves:
The first thing: continue to invest in AI and content ecosystems.
Bitmine has added another 80 million dollars to invest in Eightco (ORBS).
Recently, ORBS has made two investments:
50 million dollars to acquire shares in OpenAI
25 million dollars to invest in Mr. Beast's Beast Industries
Moreover, ORBS has also hired ARK's Cathie Wood as a strategic advisor.
So now ORBS is referred to by the market as:
The only publicly traded company in the world that can "indirectly invest in OpenAI."
If OpenAI really goes public in 2026,
then ORBS's potential will be very large.
The second thing: Bitmine purchased 5,000 ETH from the Ethereum Foundation.
This is actually a rather subtle operation.
Many people have been worried that the EF will continue to sell ETH to cash out for operations.
This time, Bitmine directly bought 5,000 ETH off-market,
which provides operational funds to the EF while avoiding it from crashing the market.
To some extent, this can also be seen as a endorsement of the Ethereum ecosystem.
Here are a few of my observations:
1️⃣ Institutions are systematically hoarding ETH.
For institutions at the level of Bitmine, if they continue to buy 50,000 ETH every week, the impact on the circulating supply is very significant.
2️⃣ AI + Crypto + Content creators are merging.
OpenAI, World ID, human verification, Mr. Beast, these things are starting to be placed in a narrative together, which may become an important story in the next cycle.
🔥Is the real trading volume of global stablecoins less than 1% in 2025?
Recently, I came across a set of data about stablecoins that is quite interesting.
The on-chain trading volume of global stablecoins in 2025 is estimated to be around 250 trillion USD.
However, if we remove the "watered-down" aspect of repeated transactions, internal transfers, and protocol split calls, the transactions with a real payment background account for less than 1%.
These "watered-down transactions" mainly come from three situations:
The first is internal fund transfers within institutions.
For example, moving funds back and forth between different wallets of the same institution looks like many transactions, but in reality, it is just internal accounting.
The second is multiple calls of DeFi protocols.
When a business is executed on-chain, it may be split into many transaction steps, which are magnified when counted at the end.
The third is when stablecoins act as transaction intermediaries.
Many people use USDT and USDC to buy and sell other crypto assets, and a single fund may be counted multiple times during the transaction process.
So, on paper, it looks like a scale of hundreds of trillions of USD,
but the portion actually used for payment consumption is very small.
Currently, the data for real payment scenarios is:
Coinbase, Bitpay, Binance Pay and other institutions process about 132 billion USD a year
Visa processes stablecoin transactions amounting to about 4.5 billion USD
Even if we include some gray uses (money laundering, gambling, fraud),
the real payment proportion of stablecoins is still less than 1%.
My own viewpoint is:
The core use of stablecoins now is still as a liquidity tool in the crypto market, rather than a payment tool.
Many people say stablecoins are the "future payment network"; this direction may not be wrong, but we are far from that stage now.
Therefore, concepts like Circle's stablecoin stock (CRCL) are a bit ahead of the market narrative currently.
If stablecoins really enter payment scenarios on a large scale in the future, then there will indeed be significant room for growth.
But at this stage, there is still a lot of "imagination premium" in the valuation.
My strategy is:
Not to rush, patiently wait for better prices before considering.
Binance's super earning this time is really comfortable.
It's a bit like the previous OKX event, the project party Night has indeed provided quite substantial returns, with an annualized rate of over twenty percent.
I personally filled up two accounts, but still, as the saying goes,
money is always regretted to be less when needed.
Fill as much as you can, I have already filled both accounts to the brim.
I've heard that sub-accounts can also participate, brothers with money can just open a few more accounts and get it done.
After hiking 12km, I suddenly understood a truth about investing:
Doing anything, living long is the most important factor.
Yesterday I walked a famous hiking route in Changshu Yushan—the Eagle Line, which is about 11-12 kilometers in total. As a result, I almost fell apart after finishing, my legs hurt, my thighs hurt, and my whole body ached. At that moment, I realized: When you don’t exercise, you have no idea how bad your body is.
Many people research investments, study making money, and explore entrepreneurship every day. But there is a prerequisite that is often overlooked: You have to live long enough first.
Most of Buffett's wealth was actually earned after he turned 50. If he only lived until 50, would there be today’s stock god? Buffett himself has said: The most important assets in investing are your body and brain.
Many people compete in cognition, resources, and abilities.
But there is a variable that is often overlooked
Lifespan. Sometimes, Living long itself is a huge advantage.