8-14
Bitcoin Mining Stocks Rise as Industry Chases AI Infrastructure
While Riot, Hut 8, and Core Scientific printed strong gains, Bitdeer, Argo, and Canaan are down 20%, 24%, and 71% YTD.
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XRP-3.33%
USDC+0.02%
FONE+2.48%
RIOA+1,045.20%
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MARA Holdings Pledges 18,750 BTC As Collateral For Bitcoin Backed Loans To Advance AI And Energy Expansion | Crowdfund Insider
MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA) has taken a significant step in leveraging its substantial Bitcoin reserves by committing 18,750 BTC as collateral for newly arranged credit facilities. This move, detailed in the company’s recent quarterly SEC filing, secures substantial incremental capital aimed at advancing its strategic shift toward energy generation and artificial intelligence infrastructure. On August 4, 2026, the firm finalized two Bitcoin-backed term loan arrangements providing $600 million i
8-10
A proposed Ethereum upgrade threatens to kill native yield and force SharpLink’s $125M treasury into highrisk DeFi
EIP-8363 would drive net consensus yield to zero at 60. 25 million ETH staked, shifting the burden toward variable fees, MEV and DeFi returns.
8-8
Bitcoin Could Split This Weekend and the Real Risk Is Not the Soft Fork
At block 961,632, estimated to arrive Saturday, a minority of Bitcoin nodes will begin rejecting blocks that do not carry a specific signal. The miners producing those blocks have shown almost no interest in carrying it. As of Thursday, 2. 56% of blocks have signaled support for BIP-110
8-1
JUST IN: 10–23% of blocks on Solana now go over the old 60M CU cap in any given hour.
7-29
100M CU blocks are live on mainnet. SIMD0286 raises the block limit from 60M → 100M compute units. 66% more capacity.
7-27
JUST IN: Everyone thinks card payments are instant. They're not. When you swipe, the card network authorizes in about 2 seconds. That's just a promise. The actual money doesn't settle for 1 to 3 days. The $XRP Ledger doesn't split the two. Approval and final settlement happen together, in 3 to 5 seconds, irreversibly. Authorization is a promise. Settlement is the money. #XRPL does the part that matters.
7-27
XRP Ledger Developers Race To Fix V3.2.0 Bugs The $XRP Ledger community is working through multiple bug reports ahead of the planned July 29 fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment. Developers say the issues range from performance regressions to synchronization problems after upgrading to xrpld v3.2.0. Some node operators report falling behind the mainnet consensus, while reverting to v3.1.3 appears to restore normal performance. Additional reports claim some Windows 10 nodes never progress beyond the connect
