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Bitcoin Miners Emerge as Key AI Infrastructure Partners Amid Power Crunch: Bernstein

Miners’ secured grid capacity and high-density sites offer hyperscalers a faster, cheaper path to expand AI data centers as interconnection delays mount.

Racks of mining machines.

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Rally in Pre-Market as Sector Nears $90B Market Cap

AI and high-performance computing demand fuel fresh gains, with miners eyeing a potential $100 billion market cap by year-end

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Finance

QumulusAI Secures $500M Blockchain-Backed Facility to Scale AI Compute Infrastructure

The non-recourse facility allows QumulusAI to borrow stablecoins against up to 70% of its approved GPU deployments.

Data center servers

Markets

Decentralized AI Marketplace Recall Announces Token Generation Event

The token will be used to fund and reward AI tools, allowing holders to vote on protocol upgrades and treasury allocations.

Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

YZi Labs Introduces $1B Fund for BNB Chain Projects

YZI Labs says it wants the BNB ecosystem to form a backbone of "democratized access and ownership"

Chanpeng "CZ" Zhao (Nikhilesh De/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

IREN Declines 6% on $875M Convertible Note Offering

The hot-handed bitcoin miner turned high-performance computing play could raise as much as $1 billion in the note sale.

Data center servers

Finance

DCG Subsidiary Yuma Taps TradeBlock Founders to Lead Growth in Decentralized AI on Bittensor

Yuma has appointed veteran crypto founders Greg Schvey and Jeff Schvey as its new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer, respectively.

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Markets

AI and HPC Hype Fuels Pre-Market Rally in Bitcoin (BTC) Mining Stocks

Bitcoin treasury stocks are lagging, however, despite BTC trading above $124K.

Year To Date Performance (MSTR, 3350, CIFR, IREN, BTBT) (TradingView)

Opinion

Kill the Captcha: They Don't Work, Here's What Does

Digital proof of personhood offers a path out of the arms race between bots and CAPTCHAs, argues Daniel Brunsdon of human.tech.

Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

CoreWeave Stock Surges on $14.2B Meta AI Deal, Core Scientific Merger Looms

CoreWeave secures $14.2 billion dollar Meta contract, draws bullish analyst coverage, and awaits Core Scientific merger vote.

CRWV Share Price (TradingView)