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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

IREN’s $625 million AI bet creates a $476 million stock overhang

The Aug. 4 filing covers 94.9% of the closing issuance; holders decide whether and when to sell.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

Stablecoin payments are going mainstream. What happens when the recipient needs local currency?

The following is a guest post and opinion from Danyel Arenas, Co-Founder and CEO at KiiChain. Visa’s launch of its Stablecoin Platform is a sign that stablecoins are moving into mainstream financial infrastructure. The platform gives banks, fintechs and payment providers a way to access, hold, move and redeem stablecoins within a Visa-managed environment. As […]

CryptoSlate•Danyel Arenas6 Aug

Hut 8’s $7 billion cash balance shrinks to $233 million outside its AI projects

Most of the balance is dedicated to project construction and debt service, while quarterly interest expense reached $51.2 million.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

Bitcoin miner sells 1,619 Bitcoin at a $47 million loss before its AI data center paid rent

Cipher sold 1,619 BTC at a $47.7 million realized loss in the first half, while its new rent ramp remains undisclosed.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

Canaan can use crypto to buy back nearly 20% of its market value while its core business burns cash

The authorization allows asset sales but reports no transaction, leaving current buyback capacity and available liquidity unresolved.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

SpaceX’s $85 billion IPO windfall went everywhere except Bitcoin

Its Aug. 4 filing showed $93.522 billion in June cash, but unchanged endpoints cannot rule out intra-period transactions.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

Bitcoin price breaking out toward $69,000 now opens a turbo path toward $84,000

A Bitcoin breakout attempt briefly pushed price above $65,000 on Aug. 5, but failed to sustain the move, even as Fed funds futures put the odds of a September rate hike at 57.4% as of Aug. 5, down from 80.5% a week earlier. Brent crude fell more than 5% on Aug. 4, settling near $79 […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos6 Aug

Is crypto dead yet? Project shutdowns peaked this April but the latest 2026 data hides a scarier trend

DeFi supplied the largest share of 109 tracked exits, but project counts cannot time the market.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6 Aug

TeraWulf’s Bitcoin mining revenue fell 73% as AI related leases reached 71% of sales

The revenue crossover is real, but Anthropic rent starts only as new capacity is delivered from late 2027.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

Investors poured millions back into Grayscale’s XRP fund, but a $16.8M market hit instantly wiped out the comeback

The Grayscale XRP fund added 480,000 net shares in Q2 after a derived 3.94 million-share Q1 contraction, but net assets still fell.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

BitMart gives US users just days to pull crypto before aggressive new compliance checks risk freezing their assets

Covered users must close positions and withdraw by 23:59 UTC, while the wider platform keeps two Aug. 26 clocks.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

All six US Solana ETFs have suffered five consecutive days of absolute zero net flows

The product-wide pause followed an $18.1 million BSOL outflow while seed and conversion capital complicate the cumulative total.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

A massive 100 million PROVE tokens unlock today, but razor-thin liquidity reveals a market unprepared for a 51% supply shock

CoinGecko shows 208.33 million and Tokenomics.com 233.332 million, but accessible official terms confirm only the investor-and-contributor tranche.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

USDC redemptions just outpaced mints by $4B, but a massive new token presale is quietly doubling Circle’s revenue outlook

Redemptions exceeded mints, yet circulation rose 19% as lower reserve yield sharpened attention on an undisclosed ARC Token contribution.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

Bitcoin treasury Strive bought 20 BTC, but 110,000 new shares left holders with less Bitcoin exposure

Bitcoin holdings rose 0.10%, while effective common shares increased 0.13% and trimmed gross per-share exposure by about 0.03%.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

An AI data center firm just raised $25 million, but 90% of it vanishes in days to pay off one massive loan

Principal alone would absorb 89.5% of headline gross proceeds, while the warrant structure can add 11.7 million shares.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

How dumping 1,200 Bitcoin helped a cellular chipmaker completely erase its debt and double its cash

The chipmaker ended June with 314 unrestricted coins after sales helped erase convertible debt and lift cash to $21 million.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug

BlackRock’s rare ETHA reverse split is about to make trading Ethereum 70 times cheaper than Coinbase

BlackRock is preparing a one-for-three reverse split of its iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA), a structural change that will lift ETHA’s share price and could reduce its effective trading spread without changing the value of investors’ holdings. ETHA’s sponsor approved the reverse split on July 31, according to an SEC regulatory filing. Every three shares […]

CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo5 Aug

Bitcoin miners’ AI pipelines are on trial as Texas freezes 474 GW of data center requests

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit every data center project seeking a grid connection before regulators approve any new projects. The order puts AI infrastructure tied to Bitcoin miners under scrutiny, while the audit verifies each project's power sourcing, water use, cooling plans, and ownership. The order covers […]

CryptoSlate•Gino Matos5 Aug