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Markets

NAKA Plunges 55% as PIPE Investors Ready Sales

AI-related bitcoin mining stocks extended gains as Tesla jumps on Elon Musk’s share purchase.

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Markets

GPU Gold Rush: Why Bitcoin Miners Are Powering AI’s Expansion

Bitcoin mining firms are transforming their energy-hungry facilities into AI data centers, chasing stable contracts and higher returns as crypto profitability wanes.

Mining machines (GreenBelka/Shutterstock)

Finance

Bittensor Ecosystem Surges With Subnet Expansion, Institutional Access

Yuma’s "State of Bittensor" report highlights accelerating growth, institutional entry and academic engagement as decentralized AI gains traction.

Artificial Intelligence (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

Opinion

In the AI Economy, Universal Basic Income Can’t Wait

Though other ideas for supplementing income amid the AI revolution have legs, UBI is the simplest and fastest way to ensure AI’s benefits trickle down to everyone.

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Finance

Coinbase Enlarges Its AI Agent-Focused Crypto Micropayments Ecosystem

Coinbase engineers have released x402 Bazaar, a “Google for AI agents” discovery layer.

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Markets

Nebius-Microsoft $17.4B Deal Lifts AI Mining Stocks in Pre-Market Trading

Nebius surges 47%, Cipher Mining and IREN both advance on speculation of more AI infrastructure partnerships.

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CoinDesk Indices

The Agentic Era Needs a Network

As we move beyond basic automation, we need systems rooted in verifiability and accountability, writes Hashgraph CEO Eric Piscini. Just like the web needed HTTPS, the agentic web needs a trusted network.

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Finance

Kite Raises $18M to Bridge Stablecoin Payments and Autonomous Agents

General Catalyst and PayPal Ventures co-led the Series A funding as Kite launches infrastructure to let AI agents transact at scale with on-chain settlement

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Finance

Citi Says Stablecoins and AI Could Drive Post-Trade Shakeup

Citi’s survey of 537 industry leaders points to tokenization, T+1 adoption and GenAI reshaping trade processing.

Close up of Citigroup logo on the side of a building.

Finance

IREN Posts First Full-Year Profit on AI Cloud Growth, Mining Expansion; Shares Climb

The stock rose 13% pre-market with IREN closing in on MARA as the world’s biggest bitcoin and AI miner by market cap.

IREN (TradingView)