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Texas questions whether AI data centers should pay for the grid they strain

Texas spent years subsidizing the AI data center boom, but Governor Greg Abbott now wants the industry to pay for the grid strain it creates.

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Analysis BTC +0.12%

AI is pushing crypto media into a fight over trusted market data

Crypto set out to strip trusted middlemen out of money, but it may end up installing a new set of them over its information, more powerful than any newsroom that came before.

1 day ago

Bitcoin coin surrounded by STRC and SATA preferred shares trading below par, illustrating margin call pressure and stress in the Bitcoin-backed digital credit yield market.

Market BTC +0.12% Bearish

Bitcoin’s ‘digital credit’ yield trade breaks below par as margin calls hit $10 billion market

STRC and SATA's first major selloff showed how quickly that trade can crack under margin pressure.

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#	Name	Price	24H %	7D %	MCap	24H Vol
1	Bitcoin BTC	$64,044.28	+0.12%	-0.05%	$1.28T	$14.51B
2	Ethereum ETH	$1,725.16	-0.53%	+3.68%	$208.2B	$8.12B
3	Tether USDT	$1.00	-0.03%	-0.06%	$186.21B	$40.67B
4	BNB BNB	$588.91	+0.44%	-3.14%	$79.37B	$726.77M
5	USDC USDC	$1.00	0.00%	0.00%	$74.8B	$4.4B
6	XRP XRP	$1.15	-0.11%	+0.84%	$71.09B	$722.54M
7	Solana SOL	$73.84	+3.03%	+9.27%	$42.85B	$1.84B
8	TRON TRX	$0.33	+0.74%	+2.60%	$30.97B	$355.15M
9	Hyperliquid HYPE	$68.35	-3.46%	+13.33%	$17.31B	$364.06M
10	Dogecoin DOGE	$0.083	-0.33%	-3.64%	$14.19B	$278.98M

Market data updates periodically. Data via CoinMarketCap

ETF BTC +0.12%

Franklin Templeton new ETFs would convert US companies stock dividends into Bitcoin exposure

Franklin Templeton’s dividend-funded proposal follows BlackRock’s income-focused Bitcoin ETF as issuers search for the next product category.

2 days ago

Digital Asset Treasuries BTC +0.12%

STRC’s plunge puts Saylor’s Bitcoin dividend machine under pressure

STRC’s plunge is forcing investors to ask whether Saylor can defend Strategy’s high-yield dividend machine without selling Bitcoin, diluting shareholders, or breaking confidence in the trade.

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Market BTC +0.12% Bearish

Why Bitcoin fell below $63K after the oil shock finally eased

Bitcoin’s drop below $63,000 shows traders are looking past Hormuz relief and pricing the Fed’s hawkish rate outlook back into risk assets.

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Mobile neobank app connected to a transparent DeFi vault system displaying stablecoin lending pools and automated crypto yield infrastructure

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The future of vaults: neobanks and invisible DeFi

Kraken’s early traction suggests the next wave of DeFi adoption will come through neobanks and fintech apps that hide vault complexity behind familiar savings products.

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Fantium CEO Jonathan Ludwig says sports tokenization needs utility, alignment, and real access

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Fantium CEO Jonathan Ludwig says sports tokenization needs utility, alignment, and real access

Moving beyond fan tokens, Fantium aims to integrate liquidity and access into the evolving sports token ecosystem.

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Texas questions whether AI data centers should pay for the grid they strain

AI is pushing crypto media into a fight over trusted market data

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