Bitmine Immersion announces 4.066M ETH, $1B cash, and total assets of $13.2B, becoming the world's largest Ethereum treasury. The company plans to launch its MAVAN staking solution in early 2026 and will hold its annual meeting on January 15, 2026.
Tether said it has completed a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, without disclosing the amount. The companies are already connected through USDT0, which has handled more than $70 billion in cross-chain value transfers since early 2025.
Polymarket launches a Telegram mini-app, allowing users to trade prediction markets using USDT from their TON wallets. The integration leverages Omniston for seamless cross-chain settlement, eliminating EVM wallet requirements.
OpenAI has launched a self-serve ads platform for ChatGPT, targeting massive ad revenue by 2030. The challenge is that ads are shown mainly to free users, a group with weaker payment and purchase intent.
Hong Kong is launching a platform for tokenized bond settlement and payment, while officials say the first fiat-backed stablecoin licenses could be issued as early as March.
LayerZero ZRO Season 2 airdrop snapshot is set for May 2026, with claims likely open through June. Eligibility rewards real cross-chain activity, Stargate usage, and OFT holdings. A 153 million token community pool backs the event. Watch for fake claim sites.
Blockaid said a leaked StakeDAO deployer key was used to reconfigure LayerZero v2 OFT peers, enabling the attacker to mint more than 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum and swap the tokens for ETH.
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open-source multimodal model unifying video, audio, image, and text in a single architecture. With 30B-parameter hybrid MoE, it boosts video inference throughput by 9.2x and fully discloses weights, training data, and fine-tuning recipes.
