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Finance

Donut Labs Raises $15M Seed Funding to Build AI-Powered Crypto Trading Browser

Donut Labs has now raised $22 million across a pre-seed and seed funding round in the last six months.

16:9 Donuts (congerdesign/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Network Hashrate Hit Record High in October, JPMorgan Says

The monthly average network hashrate, a proxy for competition in the industry and mining difficulty, rose 5% to 1,082 EH/s.

Bitcoin mining machines (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

HIVE Digital's Mining Capacity Hits 23 EH/s as Bitcoin Output Funds AI Shift

The company is converting parts of its mining footprint into AI-ready data centers, including a site in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, that could support 25,000 GPUs.

Data center servers

Finance

OpenAI Eyes Massive $1T IPO as Early as 2026: Reuters

AI has become the bellwether for the general technology sector, which often correlates with the cryptocurrency market.

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (TechCrunch/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Mythical Games Taps Sam Altman’s World to Keep Players Safe From Bots

As part of the partnership, Mythical will build Mythos Chain, the first layer-3 blockchain atop World Chain, the layer-2 network built on top of Ethereum.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

Finance

Deutsche Digital Assets and Safello to List Staked Bittensor ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange

The exchange-traded product offers investors regulated access to Bittensor’s TAO token with staking rewards and full physical backing.

Artificial Intelligence (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Sit on Prime Power Assets as AI Pivot Accelerates: Canaccord

The broker said bitcoin mining still drives nearly all sector revenue even as the narrative shifts toward AI.

Racks of mining machines.

Finance

Shipping Firm OceanPal Adds AI Arm With $120M PIPE Deal, Eyes 10% of NEAR Supply

The move is backed by investors including Kraken and Fabric Ventures, and OceanPal's shipping business will continue to operate separately.

Shipping vessel at sea (Getty Images/Unsplash+/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Galaxy Digital Slips 7% on $1.15B Exchangeable Debt Raise

The company is selling $1.15 billion in exchangeable notes in a private offering.

Galaxy Share Price (TradingView)

Markets

Benchmark Sees Hut 8 as Hybrid AI–Bitcoin Power Play, Price Target Doubled to $78

The Wall Street broker said Hut 8’s shift to energy infrastructure from bitcoin mining makes it a unique bet on AI, HPC and future power-hungry technologies.

Hut 8 plant