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MARA sold almost all its mined Bitcoin, then pledged 18,750 BTC for an AI dream with no disclosed safety net

The miner sold 2,213 BTC and later pledged 18,750 BTC, while the differently dated collateral pools cannot be reconciled.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

A $433 million Bitcoin accounting crash just exposed the high-stakes gap in CleanSpark’s massive AI transition

Bitcoin valuation-line shifts equaled 87% of the reversal in magnitude, while Sandersville still needs substantial capital.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

American Bitcoin built an 8,002 BTC reserve, but nearly 40% of it is quietly tied up with Bitmain

Mining supplied roughly 95% of Q2 reserve growth, while first-half operations and Bitcoin purchases used $129.1 million in cash.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

Bitcoin holds $64,000 as private hiring drops 53% before today’s macro test that could break support

ADP private-job growth fell to 44,000 from 95,000, but wages and yields resist a simple relief trade.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

With leverage outnumbering spot volume 6 to 1, XRP traders are walking a $2.36B tightrope

Stablecoin-margined XRP open interest on Binance fell to about $186 million on July 31, its lowest level since April 2025, according to CryptoQuant. Bybit held roughly $229 million in the same contract type, about $43 million more than Binance. XRP trades near $1.03, putting the token roughly 3% above the $1 level that has become […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos7 Aug

Former OpenAI researcher predicts brain-controlled AI coding agents by 2027

Conduit says neural data will scale into AI prompts, but it has not published aggregate performance for free-form thought.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

CoinDesk owner Bullish volume fell 43%, but a 72% spread jump nearly offset the annual decline

A filing-derived volume-times-spread proxy slipped 1.6% year over year and 38.3% from June despite the wider company-defined spread.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

Searching your Bitcoin wallet can put your IP address in Chainalysis’ hands

WalletExplorer documents IP-plus-URL logging inside Chainalysis, while other major services disclose sharply different linkage, retention and access rules.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

BlackRock’s crypto ETFs shed $3.5 billion as last year’s creation boom turns into redemptions

IBIT and ETHA moved from a $13.91 billion Q2 increase to a $3.53 billion decrease, while three positive August sessions remain inconclusive.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

AVAX One holds $88 million in Avalanche tokens, but its lender only wants cash or Bitcoin

The waiver required a $1.3 million payment, increased the remaining note and left $5.437 million under lender control.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

Inside the $18 million Bitcoin gamble with zero margin calls until September

The low rate lasts one period; on Sept. 2, PowerCompute must repay, surrender collateral or accept repriced terms.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

Solana whales just triggered a countdown that could skyrocket SOL’s daily burn rate by over 1,200%

Both records are marked threshold-met, but Aug. 22 ends only discussion before later voting and any implementation.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7 Aug

Block’s total profits jumped 25%, masking a 31% profit drop inside its $1.8 billion Bitcoin arm

Lower fees and trading dynamics narrowed implied margin by about 102 basis points, with no disclosed Bitcoin-specific activity payoff.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

How a Nasdaq Bitcoin holder diluted investors by 98% without selling a single coin

The Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin holder grew from about 2.86 million to 147.3 million shares while its latest reported treasury remained approximately 5,833 BTC.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

Galaxy Digital lost $85M on crypto as its projected $80M in AI revenue must offset $3.5B AI investment

All 133 MW is live, but the revenue figure is Q3 guidance and does not yet offset the Q2 loss.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

Hyperscale sells Bitcoin for AI business set to deliver less than 20% of 2027 revenue

The roughly 4.9% variable-rate position leaves its exact collateral amount, current LTV and liquidation threshold undisclosed.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

How a crypto startup quietly siphoned 470,000 Binance users to build a $4 billion card empire

Binance-affiliated entities filed a Hong Kong petition against RedotPay's founders, alleging the payment startup used its partnership with Binance to divert more than 470,000 Binance Card customers into its own competing stablecoin card. As Bloomberg News reported, Binance claims $472.8 million in losses, built on an estimated $925 lifetime value per customer, and says RedotPay […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos6 Aug

BNY and BlackRock funnel billions through one infrastructure provider, exposing the fragile illusion of crypto diversification

BNY's Digital Asset Custody platform plans to provide institutional crypto staking support through Galaxy's infrastructure, the two firms said Aug. 4. BNY touches roughly 20% of the world's investable assets, with $62.6 trillion in assets under custody and administration as of June 30. Galaxy is one of three validator firms approved to stake Ethereum for […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos6 Aug

How institutional dark pools quietly ate 15% of crypto volume and killed the retail whale-watching edge

sFOX says execution through crypto dark pools rose from negligible volume in April to 15% of monthly volume by June. Separately, the firm's July 30 report puts OTC-desk routing at 77.7% of institutional volume moving through the platform, versus 18.4% landing on public exchanges. May's dark-pool volume alone came to $147 million. Diana Pires of […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos6 Aug

Bitdeer lands $4.7 billion AI lease tied to Anthropic but must deliver by year end

The scheduled value assumes full performance, while credit issuance, committed project debt and delay protections remain undisclosed.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug