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Odaily News: Circle Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Circle Internet Group, has announced the launch of two grant programs in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to explore the use of regulated stablecoins and digital financial infrastructure for international development and humanitarian aid payments.Circle Foundation will fund UNDP in establishing a Digital Asset Innovation Pool to support its country offices in scaling regulated stablecoin payments from local pilots to full project delivery. The mechanism is designed to complement traditional banking systems.Another grant awarded to World Food Program USA will support WFP in building governance, risk, compliance, and fund reconciliation frameworks for digital asset distribution. WFP plans to test stablecoin payment channels in 2 to 3 countries over the next three years and conduct independent research to establish benchmarks for speed, efficiency, and cost. (Bitcoin.com News)
Soluna Holdings has announced an amended agreement with Dory Creek, a subsidiary of Bitdeer Technologies Group, to increase the Bitcoin mining capacity of its Project Kati 1 in South Texas, USA by 7MW, bringing the total power allocation for the project between the two parties to 35MW and filling the K1BC phase capacity. This expansion adopts a joint mining model, with Bitdeer providing and retaining ownership of Sealminer A2 Pro Air miners, while Soluna is responsible for data center infrastructure, power, and operational management, with mining revenue shared between the two parties. The additional 7MW is expected to be fully deployed by November 2026. (TheEnergyMag)
According to TheEnergyMag, Bitcoin miner MARA announced it has paid a $100 million power deposit for its data center project in Matagorda County, Texas, and adjusted the payment and exit terms of the transaction with sustainable fuel developer HIF USA. Located southwest of Houston, the project spans over 1,200 acres and has a planned power capacity of up to 2 gigawatts, which MARA plans to use to build a campus supporting high-performance computing and Bitcoin mining. Under the revised agreement, payments originally contingent on regulatory approval will now be paid in two installments, with the maximum total acquisition price for the project remaining capped at $600 million provided all milestones are met.
Circle Foundation announced its support for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to advance digital payment infrastructure, exploring how to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and financial accessibility of funding disbursement for development projects and humanitarian aid through regulated stablecoins. Specifically, Circle Foundation will fund UNDP’s establishment and operation of the Digital Asset Innovation Pool, facilitating the deployment of regulated payment stablecoins from pilot projects into standard programs. Previously, UNDP has tested solutions such as digital cash payments, fund disbursement in low-connectivity environments, and mobile wallets in locations including Aleppo, Syria; Haiti; Guatemala; and Gambia. Circle Foundation will also provide an additional grant to World Food Program USA to support WFP in building the governance, risk management, fund management, reconciliation, and compliance systems required for stablecoin payments, alongside integration into local fintech and mobile payment networks. Over the next three years, WFP plans to pilot stablecoin payments across payment channels in two to three countries to evaluate their costs, speed, transparency, and operational feasibility.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, Gate has launched Hajimi perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20x leverage. Meanwhile, Gate has also launched SUE (Construction Cat) perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10x leverage.It is reported that SUE (Construction Cat) originates from an orange kitten rescued from a Komatsu excavator in Ohio, USA. The construction crew named it after the machine brand, abbreviated as Sue. SUE is a meme coin on the BCS chain.
According to PRNewswire, Nasdaq-listed BTC Digital Ltd. announced that its 10MW cryptocurrency computing infrastructure project in Georgia, USA, has been completed and is now entering the deployment preparation phase. The company expects to deploy high-performance mining rigs and launch digital asset mining operations within approximately two months.
According to Bloomberg, private credit firm Eagle Point Credit Management LLC is providing a loan of approximately $1.3 billion for a large AI data center in Texas, USA, associated with Anthropic, marking another mega-deal in the boom of AI infrastructure financing.
Odaily News According to sources familiar with the matter, Nvidia will provide approximately $100 billion in credit financing support for a hyperscale AI data center campus leased by OpenAI. The data center project, located in Ohio, USA, is one of the largest planned AI infrastructure projects globally. The financing support from Nvidia will help OpenAI complete the first phase of the project, which is expected to last about two years and cover roughly half of the entire project's construction scale.Sources indicate that this financial support may not only be used for data center construction financing but could also partially go toward purchasing Nvidia AI chips. (The Information)
Odaily News – Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings disclosed in its latest quarterly SEC filing that it has pledged 18,750 BTC as collateral for two Bitcoin-backed loans, totaling $750 million in principal.Among these, financing provided by Coinbase Credit includes a refinancing of the original $150 million credit facility plus an additional $300 million in new funds; Two Prime Lending separately provided a $300 million loan. Both loans have been fully drawn, with a combined financing cost of approximately 7.56%, primarily maturing in August 2028.The pledged 18,750 BTC were valued at approximately $1.2 billion at the time of the transaction. If a decline in Bitcoin's price pushes the collateral ratio below the agreed level, MARA could face margin call requirements; otherwise, the related BTC may be subject to liquidation risk.The new funds will mainly be used for general corporate purposes and to support MARA's acquisition of Long Ridge Energy & Power. The transaction has an enterprise value of approximately $1.5 billion. Long Ridge owns a natural gas power plant in Ohio, USA, with an expected installed capacity of 505 MW, along with over 1,600 acres of industrial land. MARA plans to further develop the site into a base for Bitcoin mining, AI, and high-performance computing infrastructure. (Crowdfund Insider)
Binance will open 10 bStocks trading pairs, including Astera Labs (ALABB), ASML (ASMLB), AST SpaceMobile (ASTSB), BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNRB), Coherent (COHRB), Credo Technology (CRDOB), IREN (IRENB), Netflix (NFLXB), Super Micro Computer (SMCIB), and USA Rare Earth (USARB), on August 5, 2026, at 20:00, simultaneously supporting spot algorithmic trading bots and Binance Convert zero-fee trading.
Odaily News: SK Hynix and SanDisk have unveiled the first standard specification for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), a next-generation storage technology based on NAND flash. SK Hynix presented the specification at FMS 2026, held from August 4 to 6 in Santa Clara, California, USA.HBF stacks NAND flash vertically in a manner similar to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) to enhance capacity and data transfer speeds. The specification defines two stacked configurations—8-layer and 16-layer NAND dies—with a maximum capacity of 512GB and bandwidth offered in three tiers, supporting 0.4TB to 3.0TB per second.HBF connects to processors using the industry-standard UCIe interface, enabling compatibility with different processor types such as GPUs and CPUs. The specification has been released through the Open Compute Project (OCP), and the HBF Consortium currently includes Google and AI semiconductor company Tenstorrent.SK Hynix will also showcase its in-development 10th-generation (V10) 375-layer 4D NAND wafers and products for the first time at this event, with plans to begin mass production of high-performance, high-capacity enterprise SSDs (eSSD) utilizing this technology early next year.
According to IT Home, Snap announced it will hold a dedicated event in Los Angeles, USA on September 16 to fully showcase its consumer-grade AR glasses Specs for the first time. CEO Evan Spiegel will personally introduce the device's functions and application scenarios. Specs opened for pre-order in June this year at a price of $2,195 (approximately 14,858 RMB), featuring dual Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, self-developed LCoS display technology, a 51-degree field of view, and AI real-time contextual assistance. It can operate independently without an external computing unit, with a mixed usage battery life of about 4 hours, extendable to 20 hours with the charging case.
According to BeInCrypto, the official verified X account of U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis was hacked on July 29. The account briefly posted a fake Solana Meme coin promotion post named $USA Token, featuring a pump.fun minting link. The post was deleted within approximately five minutes, accumulating around 5,600 views and 37 replies during that period. Crypto community users quickly issued warnings, and there are currently no records of financial losses. Lummis's office had not released any statement as of press time. The timing of this incident is sensitive, coinciding with the stalemate of the "Digital Asset Market Transparency Act" (CLARITY Act) championed by Lummis in Congress.
Odaily News, March 24 – Antpool mined Bitcoin block 941,881 at UTC time 15:49:35. Foundry USA mined another version of the same height 12 seconds later, briefly creating two competing chains on the Bitcoin blockchain. Subsequently, ViaBTC extended block 941,882 on top of the Antpool version, while Foundry USA also continued to extend its own branch. Foundry USA then mined blocks 941,883 to 941,886 consecutively, giving its branch a cumulative workload lead. Nodes subsequently reorganized to the Foundry USA version, causing the blocks mined by Antpool and ViaBTC to become orphaned. The affected miners lost the corresponding block rewards and fees, and transactions not confirmed on the winning chain re-entered the mempool to be confirmed in subsequent blocks.
: Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that Foundry USA, which accounts for 33% of global Bitcoin hashrate, has initiated a hashrate-weighted vote to ask its clients whether the mining pool should support BIP-110.
Bitcoin mining pool Foundry USA has released a BIP-110 resource guide. Foundry USA stated that this guide is aimed at miners, helping them make informed decisions before the voting deadline at block 961,632.According to reports, the guide includes the official BIP-110 specification, a proposal website, discussions on the Bitcoin-dev mailing list, interactive explanations from Orange Surf, commentary by Jameson Lopp, as well as perspectives from Adam Back, Michael Saylor, Luke Dashjr, Alex Thorn, Softfork Mechanic, and others. (News.bitcoin)
Elon Musk has completed the acquisition of APR Energy, a mobile power generation company, with the overall transaction valued at least $1 billion. Documents show that Duos Technologies sold its 5% non-voting stake in New APR Energy, realizing a net gain of $50.4 million, which implies an enterprise value exceeding $1 billion. Headquartered in Florida, USA, APR Energy specializes in modular gas and diesel mobile generator sets, with a total installed capacity exceeding 1 GW. Individual projects can be deployed in as fast as 15 to 30 days, providing temporary and backup power for data centers.Industry analysts suggest that this acquisition aims to support the expansion of xAI's computing cluster and reduce reliance on the public grid. However, the fossil fuel-based power generation model will also bring trade-offs in terms of carbon emissions, compliance, and long-term operational costs. (Techrepublic)
Bitcoin News posted on X platform, stating that Foundry USA Pool has begun soliciting voting opinions from its mining clients regarding BIP-110 signaling. According to the email sent to mining pool account holders, voting weight is calculated based on each participant's 10-day average hashrate. Foundry stated that it will follow the majority result of hashrate votes during the signaling period; if more than 51% of the voting hashrate supports BIP-110, the mining pool will signal "Yes" with 100% of its blocks; if the majority opposes it, no support signal will be issued. Foundry is the world's largest Bitcoin mining pool by hashrate.
监管文件显示，MARA Holdings 子公司 Volt Texas 与 HIF USA 签署协议，收购持有德州数据基础设施园区项目的 MAT 1177 LLC 大部分股权，仅保留卖方一部分少数股权。该项目公司拥有与电力公司签署的意向书，计划为园区提供最高 2000 兆瓦电力，用于建设可支持高性能计算与 Bitcoin 挖矿的大型数字基础设施园区。交易对价以里程碑方式分期支付，若所有开发里程碑完成，累计收购金额最高达 6 亿美元，相关土地收购、电力接入和后续数据中心租约执行将触发分期付款义务。
according to official sources, ForeGate's supercomputing database, in collaboration with Michael Owen, OKX, WEEX, and OnebullEX, has officially released the in-game research report "ForeGate 2026 World Cup Winning Guide." The report combines ForeGate's AI prediction model with OKX.ai's data path simulation to systematically analyze the advancement probabilities, progression paths, championship odds, win/draw/loss tendencies, and handicap inclinations for the 48 participating teams in the 2026 USA-Canada-Mexico World Cup. Currently, the model's comprehensive prediction accuracy rate reaches 93.8%, showing strong performance in match outcome response, score calibration, and potential matchup path judgment.ForeGate stated that during the World Cup, it will continuously update predictive content based on match results, team form, and model simulation outcomes, helping users understand the probabilistic logic behind schedule changes. Additionally, the ForeGate World Cup Million Dollar Prediction Event is also underway.