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MARA Holdings sold 2,213 Bitcoin during the second quarter, equal to 91.37% of the 2,422 BTC it mined, before adding $600 million of new borrowing secured by Bitcoin collateral to help finance its planned acquisition of Long Ridge, a power-generation site it aims to develop for AI and high-performance computing.The company’s quarterly filing shows that the new money sits inside $750 million of fully drawn facilities entered into on Aug. 4. Coinbase provided a $450 million facility, including $300 million of new borrowing and the refinancing of an existing $150 million loan. Two Prime provided a separate $300 million loan.…

CleanSpark reported a 30.5% year-over-year revenue decline and a $497.2 million swing from profit to loss in its fiscal third-quarter results. The deterioration adds pressure to the Bitcoin miner’s balance sheet before its Sandersville AI lease can contribute, with the first phased deliveries not expected until the fourth quarter of 2027.Revenue fell to $138.0 million from $198.6 million for the three months ended June 30. Over the same period, a $257.4 million profit became a $239.8 million loss. Related ReadingBitcoin miner CleanSpark signed a $6.6B AI lease before securing the $2.1B required to build itThe 175 MW contract creates a…

American Bitcoin mined approximately 932 BTC and reported $67.015 million in revenue in the second quarter. But its six-month cash flows do not show that the broader reserve strategy was self-funding. The miner finished June with 8,002 BTC, while first-half operations used $63.795 million in cash and digital-asset purchases used another $65.316 million.The cash-flow statement records $144.088 million of net proceeds from at-the-market share sales as the period’s principal financing inflow. American Bitcoin sold 7,755,671 Class A shares through the ATM during the first half, including 2,151,127 shares that produced $33.585 million of net proceeds in the second quarter. The…

Bitcoin at $64,000 faced a key test early Friday as the official U.S. jobs report approached, after a sharp slowdown in private hiring left the market balancing possible interest rate relief against the risk of a deeper growth scare.At about 2:08 a.m. UTC, Coinbase priced Bitcoin at $64,322.23, only 0.37% above the bottom of a $64,087.41 to $64,944.16 rolling 24-hour range. CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin page displayed a closely aligned $64,344.62, down 0.33% over 24 hours. Related ReadingBitcoin’s $64,000 rebound is outrunning ETF demand despite a $197 million inflowBitcoin rose above $64,000 during the week, while analysts said one week of ETF…

AI-assisted security testing uncovered thousands of potential issues across hundreds of Bitcoin projects in just 27.5 hours, revealing dozens of critical vulnerabilities. Developers say the biggest challenge is now verifying reports and directing them to the right maintainers rather than finding new bugs. The findings highlight how AI is accelerating both cybersecurity research and the techniques available to malicious actors. A coordinated AI-assisted security review has uncovered 85 critical vulnerabilities across 390 Bitcoin projects after just over a day of analysis, highlighting both the capabilities of automated security research and the challenges it creates for developers. The volunteer initiative involved…

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 the market’s most closely watched threshold.Binance carried more stablecoin-margined XRP open interest than Bybit in every prior snapshot tracked, including roughly $222 million against $195 million in March and about $205 million against $185 million in June.The July 31 reading shows that XRP leverage has shifted…

Real-world asset perpetuals took 32.2% of matched volume on Hyperliquid in the second quarter, worth US$213 billion, according to the Hyperliquid Research Collective. The share climbed from 1.8% to 20.7% to 32.2% over three quarters, and hit 52% of weekly volume in the week of 13 July. Those markets generated 6.6% of the protocol’s US$169 million quarterly revenue, and all of that record volume runs through a single deployer. Real-world asset perpetuals accounted for 32.2% of matched trading volume on Hyperliquid in the second quarter, worth US$213 billion (AU$302.46 billion), the third straight quarter the category has roughly doubled its…

Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on 15 July that Japan has conveyed its position to Washington through diplomatic channels on previous occasions as well. A White House post of 12 March opened with the name of the US operation against Iran and ran Wii Sports music underneath, and had passed 100 million views by the time it reached the committee on 17 April. The Pokemon Company said on 6 March that it was not involved in a White House post using its characters and that no permission was granted. Japanese Foreign Minister…

Former OpenAI alignment researcher Naomi Bashkansky said she resigned from the AI company on July 23 and joined Conduit the next day as a founding researcher. At Conduit, she will work on models designed to turn non-invasive neural recordings into text that can direct AI agents, a goal her essay calls “telepathy.” Related ReadingOpenAI co-founders quit amid Musk’s legal firestormThe firm’s leadership exits have renewed focus on the firm’s AI safety practices. Aug 6, 2024 · Oluwapelumi Adejumo Bashkansky said she spent about 1.5 years at OpenAI, and described the new role in an Aug. 4 essay. She predicted that…

Both miners reported double-digit revenue declines and shifted from profits to sizeable losses after digital asset valuation declines weighed on earnings. MARA and CleanSpark are investing in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure to broaden revenue beyond Bitcoin mining. CleanSpark ended the quarter with substantial cash, Bitcoin holdings and assets while both companies continued expanding infrastructure. Bitcoin mining companies MARA Holdings and CleanSpark posted lower revenue and wider losses in their latest reporting periods as weaker mining economics and digital asset valuation declines hurt financial performance. Both businesses are continuing to expand into AI and high-performance computing as part of broader…