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Finance

Jane Street Leads $105M Funding for Antithesis, a Testing Tool Used by Ethereum Network

Antithesis said its Series A will scale deterministic simulation testing, replaying complex failures exactly for crypto and other always-on systems.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

AI Investment to Drive Global Growth Through 2026, BofA Says

Bitcoin miners have been among those riding the AI boom, with IREN and Cipher Mining up over 300% in 2025.

Bank of America billboard in Times Square. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: Asia Wakes Up to an AI BTC-Nvidia Tailwind That’s Already Starting to Sputter

Yesterday’s Amazon-driven risk rally is colliding with a sharp wobble in Nvidia, putting the AI-BTC-beta trade that lifted crypto back under scrutiny.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Nvidia)

Markets

Crypto Market Mood Lifted as Amazon Pours $50B Into AI Infrastructure

The price of bitcoin jumped back above $87,000 and crypto miners with a focus on AI/high-performance computing are surging.

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Markets

Cipher Mining Inks New 10-Year HPC Deal With Fluidstack; Shares Rise 13%

The expansion adds 56 MW at Barber Lake and secures $830 million in contracted revenue, reinforced by increased Google backing.

CIFR (TradingView)

Markets

AI and HPC Bitcoin Miners Surge Pre Market Following Stellar NVIDIA Earnings

Strong NVIDIA guidance lifts pre market sentiment across bitcoin miners while NAKA delivers delayed Q3 losses.

IREN (TradingView)

Opinion

AI Agents Need Identity and Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are the Solution

ZKPs could become the backbone of a new era of trusted AI and digital identity, giving individuals and organizations a way to interact safely and transparently across platforms and borders, argues Evin McMullen, CEO and co-founder of Billions Network.

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

Finance

Tether Eyes $1B Investment in German Robotics Startup Neura: FT

Neura aims to produce 5 million robots by 2030 and has already booked €1 billion in orders.

Tether

Markets

Crypto Investor Dan Tapiero Sees AI-Blockchain Crossover Fueling Next Big Wave

‘Blockchain is the money of AI,’ said the 50T founder, who’s betting 20% of his next fund on startups that don’t yet exist.

Dan Tapiero (Shutterstock/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

CleanSpark Shares Drop 5% After Upsizing $1.15B Convertible Note For Expansion

The bitcoin miner expands financing to accelerate power and data center growth, joining a record surge in convertible debt issuance across bitcoin and AI firms.

Bitcoin miners are attractive partners to build AI data centers: Bernstein. (Shutterstock)