BREAKING: $435 million has been liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the past 12 hours.

On-chain data analyst Yu Jin reported on March 16: - MicroStrategy (MSTR) currently holds 761,068 BTC, valued at $55.962 billion. The firm’s average cost per BTC is $75,696, resulting in an unrealized loss of $1.648 billion. - Bitmine (BMNR) currently holds 4,595,562 ETH, valued at $10.464 billion. Its average cost per ETH is $3,714, with an unrealized loss of $6.604 billion.

March 16 — Bitmine announced today that its total cash and encrypted asset holdings under the "Moonshot Plan" have reached $11.5 billion, per official sources. As of 7:00 PM ET on March 15, 2026, the company’s holdings include 4,595,562 ETH, 196 Bitcoin (BTC), a $200 million stake in Beast Industries, an $83 million investment in Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS), and $1.2 billion in cash. Bitmine’s ETH holdings represent 3.81% of Ethereum’s total supply (120.7 million ETH). Over the past week, Bitmine took two strategic moves: 1. It upped its investment in existing "Moonshot Plan" firm Eightco (ticker: ORBS) by an additional $80 million. ORBS has acquired $50 million in equity from OpenAI and $25 million from Beast Industries. Lee noted: “ORBS is now the only publicly traded stock globally giving investors direct exposure to OpenAI. OpenAI’s long-awaited IPO is set for 2026, and investors can gain direct access via ORBS now. We also see major synergies between Worldchain

Per official sources, Binance will launch a U-based perpetual contract for CFG on March 16, 2026, at 9:00 PM Beijing time, offering up to 50x leverage.

On March 16, HTX market data shows Ethereum (ETH) has climbed above $2300, currently trading at $2301.

Market sources reported on March 16 that MicroStrategy acquired 22,337 bitcoins last week at an average price of $70,194 per coin, with the total transaction value reaching $1.5 billion.