Bitmine Goes Beast Mode: $200M Bet on MrBeast & DeFi
PLUS: Ethereum Hits ATH in Daily Transactions
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In today's newsletter:
💡 Bitmine Goes Beast Mode: $200M Bet on MrBeast & DeFi
📣 Saylor Hints at More BTC Buys After $1.25B Splash
📈 Ethereum Hits ATH in Daily Transactions — With Low Fees
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💡 Insight
Bitmine Goes Beast Mode: $200M Bet on MrBeast & DeFi
In one of the wildest altcoin-adjacent moves we’ve seen this year, Bitmine Immersion — the largest corporate holder of ETH — just made a $200M equity investment into Beast Industries, the consumer and media company founded by MrBeast.
The announcement came from CEO Tom Lee at their shareholder meeting at the Wynn in Vegas.
Why Mr. Beast?
Because he controls the eyeballs.
450M subscribers
5B+ monthly views
Mostly Gen Z & Gen Alpha
This is about distribution. And Tom Lee knows it.
The play? Bitmine becomes the backend for a DeFi-enabled financial platform powered by MrBeast’s massive audience.
Lee called this a “10x moonshot”, with Beast acting as the viral layer, and Bitmine + Lighter Protocol as the financial rails.
📣 Update
Saylor Hints at More BTC Buys After $1.25B Splash
Michael Saylor isn’t done stacking. Just days after Strategy revealed a $1.25B Bitcoin buy, Saylor is already signaling more purchases are coming
🧾 2026 BTC purchases: 14,910 BTC
📦 Total holdings: 687,410 BTC
💸 Avg. cost basis: $75,353
💰 Current price: ~$91,000 → Saylor is well in the green
Strategy continues to fund these buys using convertible notes and other capital raises — even as its stock has slumped hard over the past year.
📈 Signal
Ethereum Hits ATH in Daily Transactions — With Low Fees
Ethereum just set a new all-time high with 2.9M+ daily transactions, and it’s still climbing into early 2026.
Why it matters
Ethereum is scaling — for real. Layer-2s and recent upgrades are keeping fees low despite record activity. Meanwhile, the staking queue dynamics suggest steady institutional confidence.
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