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Compute Exchange launches AI inference token forward contracts
Compute Exchange rolled out forward contracts allowing enterprises to fix AI inference token prices for up to six months, using competitive bidding among providers to set rates and mitigate operational cost volatility.
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Kraken parent Payward posts 17% revenue growth despite 13% trading volume drop
Payward reported $508 million in adjusted Q2 revenue, up 17% year over year, while total transaction volume fell 13% to $310 billion. The company offset weaker crypto spot activity through growth in traditional futures, equities, and tokenized assets, while funded accounts surged 42% to 6.6 million.
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Bank Leumi launches direct crypto trading with Galaxy Digital
Israel's largest bank, Bank Leumi, announced a partnership with Galaxy Digital to offer Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading to its customers, launching in early 2027 and becoming the first bank in the country to provide direct digital asset services.
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Ripple's $50M RLUSD Mint on Ethereum Narrows XRP Ledger Gap
Ripple issued 50 million RLUSD tokens on Ethereum, pushing the stablecoin's total circulating supply to $1.63 billion and narrowing the supply gap with XRP Ledger to just $5.7 million. Capital is flowing from Ripple's native network to Ethereum as corporate clients prefer the latter's infrastructure.
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Nebius stock surges on 454% revenue growth; BofA raises target to $310
Bank of America hiked its Nebius price target from $280 to $310 following the company's Q2 earnings, which showed $582.3 million in revenue—a 454% year-over-year jump. The stock closed at $259.20, leaving room to the new target, but contrarian investor Michael Burry has increased his short position, highlighting divergent market views on the AI infrastructure play.
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LinkedIn Crypto Recruiter Scams Steal $11.8M in Singapore
Scammers posing as recruiters on LinkedIn have stolen $11.8 million in Singapore by using spoofed domains, fake video interviews, and malicious coding assessments to harvest session tokens that bypass multi-factor authentication and compromise corporate systems.
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EdgeConneX syndicates $3B for Meta's Ohio data center campus
EdgeConneX is syndicating roughly $3 billion in loans to build a 1-gigawatt data center campus in New Albany, Ohio for Meta, bundling construction and off-grid power assets into a single debt package—a novel structure that could reshape AI infrastructure financing.
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US retail sales growth slows to 5% in July, marking sharp deceleration
US retail sales rose 5% year-over-year in July, down from 7.3% in May, signaling a potential economic slowdown that could influence Federal Reserve policy and crypto market sentiment.
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EWC 2026 CS2 tournament: $2M prize pool, 32 clubs, Vitality vs B8
The Esports World Cup 2026 CS2 tournament runs August 12–23 with a $2 million prize pool and 32 competing clubs. Team Vitality faces B8 Esports in an upper bracket semifinal with significant Club Championship points at stake.
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Ripple CTO Schwartz: Bitcoin opinions "don't matter" after BIP-110 fails
Following the failure of Bitcoin's BIP-110 soft fork proposal, Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz declared that network participants' moral judgments about how others use blockchain resources are irrelevant in truly decentralized systems.
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Bitcoin 365-Day ROI Falls Below 1.0, One-Year Holders Face Losses
Bitcoin's 365-day running return on investment has fallen below 1.0, indicating that one-year holders are now underwater. The metric hit roughly 0.514, reflecting a 49% negative return over the trailing 12 months, a threshold last seen during bear markets in 2014–2015, 2018–2019, and 2022.
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Robinhood Ventures Fund II begins NYSE trading, opens VC to retail
Robinhood's second venture fund launched on the NYSE with $225.5 million raised, offering retail investors daily-liquid access to 80 private companies without accreditation requirements—a shift toward democratizing early-stage investing.
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DeepSeek launches open-source agent harness, raises V4-Pro API prices
DeepSeek unveiled an MIT-licensed agent harness to compete with Claude's coding stack while raising API prices, intensifying competition against Anthropic in the AI model market.
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Vals AI raises $40M Series A from a16z for AI model evaluation
Vals AI raised $40 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to build independent evaluation benchmarks and monitoring tools for enterprise AI deployments. The company's flagship Vals Index ranks frontier language models on real-world business tasks.
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AI Boom Could Redirect Capital to Bitcoin, Former Bitwise Advisor Says
Jeff Park, a former Bitwise portfolio manager, argues that artificial intelligence's wealth creation could eventually redirect capital toward Bitcoin as financial structures supporting the AI boom become unstable.
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Trezor Data Breach: 13,689 Customers Exposed via ShipMonk
Trezor disclosed a breach at ShipMonk, its shipping provider, exposing names, emails, phone numbers and addresses of 13,689 customers across seven countries. The hardware wallet maker said its own systems were not compromised.
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Cleveland Fed's Hammack Renews Call for Higher Interest Rates
Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack called for higher interest rates at a Dayton Chamber event, arguing the central bank must restrain growth and investment to bring inflation below 3% to its 2% target amid rising business demand for capital.
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Trezor Shipping Partner Breach Exposes 13,600 Customer Addresses
A data breach at Trezor's shipping partner ShipMonk exposed the names, phone numbers, email addresses and home addresses of over 13,600 customers. Trezor says its devices and backups remain untouched, but the leaked data poses phishing and physical attack risks.
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Bullish reports $280M Q2 net loss amid crypto trading slowdown
Bullish, the crypto platform and parent company of CoinDesk, posted a $280 million second-quarter net loss on softer digital asset volumes, though adjusted revenue and subscription services hit records.
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USENIX study identifies 65,340 risky crypto addresses with $574.8M in losses
Researchers at USENIX Security '26 identified 65,340 risky addresses across Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, with $574.8 million in associated losses. Two active attack vectors account for $15.7 million of the total.
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Lazarus Group Moves $16.6M Bitcoin in Holdings Restructure
North Korean hacking group Lazarus transferred 262.2 BTC ($16.6 million) between addresses in what analysts describe as fund redistribution, not liquidation. The movement shows no exchange destination and triggered no measurable Bitcoin price response.
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Crypto valuations could double as protocols adopt token buybacks
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said crypto valuations could at least double as protocols increasingly use revenue to fund token buybacks and burns, with revenue-capture mechanisms expected to spread across DeFi and layer-1 networks over the next 12 to 24 months.
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Metaplanet CEO clarifies $322M Bitcoin transfer as routine custody operation
Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich confirmed the company moved 5,014 BTC between custodial addresses for about $8 in fees, dismissing speculation that the transfer signaled a sale.
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Goldman Sachs to acquire NEOS for $2.25B, scaling Bitcoin ETF business
Goldman Sachs agreed to buy options-income specialist NEOS Investments for up to $2.25 billion in a cash-and-equity deal, folding in its $1 billion Bitcoin covered-call fund and instantly scaling Goldman's crypto ETF business ahead of regulatory approval expected in Q1 2027.