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Donald Trump Jr.-backed Thumzup Media entering dogecoin mining game in a big way

Thumzup estimates its planned 3,500 dogecoin mining rigs will fetch $22.7 million in annual revenue.

Sage D. Young

On Thursday, Thumzup Media Corporation, backed by Donald Trump Jr., announced plans to increase the total number of dogecoin mining rigs in its operations to 3,500 units, according to its shareholder letter

Thumzup’s pending acquisition of dogecoin mining rigs “marks the company’s entry into the rapidly growing $10.5 billion cryptocurrency mining market, which is projected to reach $22.6 billion by 2035, which is an 8.9% CAGR,” the announcement stated. “Importantly, it should diversify our revenue streams while positioning us as one of the few publicly traded, utility-scale Dogecoin miners.”

Year to date, dogecoin has dropped nearly 32% to trade around the $0.22 level. At this price level and with 3,500 mining rigs, the company is estimated to make $22.7 million in annual revenue. Thumzup Media’s stock dropped on the news and is down nearly 3% as of 11:45 a.m. ET.

The announcement comes as senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas predicts REX Shares and Osprey will be the first to roll out a spot dogecoin ETF by as early as next week. 

REX Shares posted that its spot dogecoin ETF, which will trade under the ticker DOJE, is “coming soon” and will be the first ETF to provide exposure to the cryptocurrency that started off as a satirical joke but has since turned into a massive financial instrument with a market capitalization of nearly $32.9 billion.  

The “40 Act” Balchunas referenced is short for the Investment Company Act of 1940, which focuses on the “disclosure to the investing public of information about the fund and its investment objectives, as well as on investment company structure and operations,” per a blog post from the SEC. 

Meanwhile, CleanCore Solutions started a dogecoin treasury. The firm announced earlier this week a $175 million private placement to adopt dogecoin as its primary treasury reserve. 

The firm also said Alex Spiro, a partner of New York law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan who has represented dogecoin enthusiast Elon Musk, will join as the company’s board chairman. 

Shares of CleanCore have dropped more than 56% in the last five days.

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XRP treasury firm trend grows as Evernorth, backed by Ripple Labs, enters the arena

The fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, XRP, is getting a new treasury firm: Evernorth.

The firm will list on the Nasdaq and expects to raise over $1 billion in gross proceeds from SBI, Ripple Labs, Pantera Capital, Kraken, and GSR, according to a press release. Chris Larsen, cofounder and executive chairman of Ripple, also announced investing 50 million XRP tokens worth $124.5 million. Net proceeds are dedicated for open-market acquisitions of XRP.

Evernorth joins a number of firms stockpiling XRP, such as VivoPower International, Trident Digital Tech Holdings, and Webus

The announcement comes during a fragile period for crypto markets, but the latest news has boosted XRP’s price and the asset is back to flat over the last seven days.

$1.2B

Crypto liquidations reached $1.2 billion in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass data, as bitcoin continued its downward trajectory. Bitcoin suffered $458.24 million in liquidations, with the bulk of them — over $334 million — in long positions. Meanwhile, the second-biggest crypto, ethereum, saw the second-biggest figure for liquidations yesterday, with $278 million.

Bitcoin slipped as far as $103,856 early Friday morning, its lowest level since July, and is down 13% in the past seven days. The sell-off dragged the total crypto market cap down to $3.67 trillion, down 5.5%. Underscoring the market anxiety, CoinMarketCap’s fear and greed index is now at 28.

Bitcoin ETFs also suffered, registering $536 million in outflows on Thursday. The Ark 21 Shares Bitcoin ETF took the biggest hit, with $275.15 million in outflows. Since Monday, bitcoin ETFs have seen $864.5 million in outflows. 

Maja Vujinovic, CEO and cofounder of digital assets at FG Nexus, told Sherwood News that bitcoin’s slump looks like a classic risk-off chain reaction.

“Credit jitters and trade tensions pushed money into gold at record highs while leveraged crypto longs were forced to unwind. Once the liquidations exhaust and policy fog clears, the same macro buyers chasing safety today are likely to hunt value in BTC again,” Vujinovic said. 

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