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Publicly traded agency CEA Industries stated Tuesday that it now holds 480,000 BNB, valued above $600 million.
The worth of BNB has surged 27% within the final week alone, hitting a brand new excessive of $1,330 on Tuesday.
Shares of CEA Industries, which trades as BNC on the Nasdaq, rose 8% following the announcement.
BNB prolonged its latest surge early Tuesday, with the Binance-backed token setting a recent all-time excessive mark and flipping Tether to grow to be the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. And following the newest leg up, a publicly traded firm revealed that it now holds greater than $600 million value of the coin.
CEA Industries Inc. (BNC) stated Tuesday that it now holds 480,000 BNB tokens with a mean acquisition price of $860 per token, representing a complete funding of roughly $412.8 million.
Due to BNB’s newest surge, which has seen the coin soar in worth by 27% within the final week alone to a present value of $1,273, these holdings at the moment are valued at $611 million.
Earlier Tuesday, following CEA’s announcement, BNB peaked at a brand new file value of $1,330, per information from CoinGecko. It’s at present up 121% over the past yr.
BNC shares are up 8% on the day at a value above $10 per share, although the worth is down 41% over the past month. CEA’s inventory popped to a 52-week excessive of almost $83 per share in July when the corporate introduced its BNB treasury transfer.
CEA Industries is at present the biggest BNB treasury firm and goals to personal 1% of the full BNB token provide by year-end 2025, following the mannequin of different digital asset treasury leaders like Technique (Bitcoin) and BitMine Immersion Applied sciences (Ethereum).
“BNB’s all-time highs are a transparent validation that the worldwide markets are waking as much as the inherent worth, credibility, scale, and utility of each the asset and underlying ecosystem,” stated CEA Industries CEO David Namdar, in a press release. “We view BNB not simply as a token, however because the fulcrum of a massively built-in ecosystem.”
The token’s latest surge has come amid rising use of BNB-based perpetual futures alternate Aster, which has helped drive rising exercise and person onboarding on BNB Chain.
“BNB’s latest rally has been largely pushed by elevated on-chain exercise and rising institutional curiosity,” Illia Otychenko, lead analyst at CEX.IO, advised Decrypt earlier Tuesday.
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