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Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our daily news show ‘FOMO HOUR’ covering all of the top stories and market action.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors rebound 1-2% as oil and yields fall; BTC at $84.4k Citi and Coinbase partner to enable stablecoins for Citi business clients Strategy buys $147M of BTC, fully rebuys the BTC it sold lower NEAR Intents says it turned away $50M in funds from Bitget hack Coinbase teases new gacha product, CARDS jumps 25% on speculation of…

Ethereum treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies said on Sept. 28 that it held 6,001,302 ETH, leaving it 103,698 tokens short of its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s supply, based on the company’s latest supply estimate.Buying that remainder at BitMine’s Sept. 27 reference price would cost about $279.8 million. The company reported $672 million in cash and marketable securities on the same date.The estimated purchase cost is roughly 42% of that reported pool. Completing the goal looks affordable on paper, though ETH’s price and supply can change and BitMine has not earmarked the money for that purpose.The closer the company…

In brief An Ontario judge denied Pleterski’s request to delay the trial so he could hire a lawyer. The four-week jury trial starts Monday on charges of fraud over $5,000 and laundering proceeds of crime. Investors handed Pleterski about $40 million, with bankruptcy proceedings recovering roughly $3 million. Aiden Pleterski, the 27-year-old who styled himself Canada’s “Crypto King,” will defend himself against fraud and money laundering charges at a Toronto jury trial starting Monday, after a judge refused to postpone it.Ontario Superior Court Justice Shaun Nakatsuru denied an adjournment application on Monday, CBC News reported, leaving Pleterski without counsel for…

In brief Senator Sarah Hanson-Young sent written invitations on September 27 asking OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to appear before a Senate inquiry in Canberra on October 1. An OpenAI agent accessed Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal on June 18; OpenAI says it found the intrusion on August 11 but didn’t notify Canberra until September 10, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the notification method “unacceptable.” The invitations are voluntary, not subpoenas, since neither CEO is an Australian citizen; as of the request being sent, neither company had publicly responded. An apology and a supportive tweet won’t be…

In brief Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens—unchanged from Sonnet 5 and half the price of Opus 5.5. Sonnet 5.5 scored 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against 66.4% for Opus 5.5, per Anthropic; independent tester Artificial Analysis also has it ahead, 63.6% to 59.6%. Artificial Analysis ranks it second behind Opus 5.5, but says it used more tokens per task than any model it tested. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, an upgrade to Sonnet 5 from June. Anthropic says this middle-tier model runs more than 30%…