Shares of IREN Limited rose 13% on Wednesday after the company announced a $1.6 billion purchase agreement with Dell Technologies for Nvidia-powered Blackwell systems aimed at expanding its artificial intelligence infrastructure capacity. The agreement involves air-cooled Blackwell systems supplied through Dell and is designed to support IREN’s previously announced five-year, $3.4 billion managed AI cloud
Delphi AI officially partnered with MarsCat to build a privacy-first decentralized Web3 social ecosystem. Due to increasing data privacy scandals and growing centralized surveillance, applications are being redefined in how they handle communication and user interactions. This shift promotes the use of decentralized intelligence with a stronger focus on data sovereignty and user privacy. The
FTSE Russell’s governance committee has approved a fast-entry overhaul that will allow mega IPOs to be added more quickly to its top benchmarks, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. Bloomberg ETF senior analyst Eric Balchunas said on X that the FTSE Russell Governance Committee has signed off on adjustments to fast-entry IPO rules and
Investment bank Jefferies has forecast that a wave of initial public offerings from cryptocurrency and blockchain companies could generate a combined market capitalization of $1 trillion within the next five years. The prediction signals a notable shift in institutional investor sentiment, moving away from speculative bets on Bitcoin price swings toward the underlying technological infrastructure
The much-hyped copper-to-gold breakout says more about how capital is shifting between defense and growth than it does about bitcoin’s destiny on its own. Ethereum (ETH) charts and Bitcoin (BTC) flows might grab more headlines, but the signal embedded in the copper-to-gold ratio is about global liquidity and risk appetite across the entire market complex.
The world’s largest Bitcoin treasury and business intelligence firm, Strategy, has revealed its total Bitcoin purchase of 2026, scooping up all Bitcoin mined this year and more. This has followed several weeks and months of steady Bitcoin accumulation as the firm continued to show strong conviction in the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Strategy acquires 171,238 Bitcoin
AmericanFortress has launched a beta privacy infrastructure on Arbitrum, promising compliant, mixer-free transaction shielding for institutional and high-volume DeFi users. AmericanFortress has rolled out its beta privacy infrastructure on Arbitrum, introducing a Send-to-Name system that uses human readable FortressNames and auto generated stealth addresses to conceal counterparties while preserving bilateral auditability on chain. The company
Oobit, the global crypto payments app backed by Tether, has integrated the Arbitrum network into its payments infrastructure, expanding its push to make stablecoin spending easier at mainstream merchants. The move connects Arbitrum users with Oobit’s payment rails, allowing them to transact at more than 150 million Visa-accepting merchants across over 200 countries. For Oobit,
DDC Enterprise Limited (NYSE American: DDC) expanded its corporate Bitcoin treasury to 2,714 $BTC on Wednesday with the purchase of 131 Bitcoin, the company announced. The New York-based company said the acquisition marks its second Bitcoin purchase in seven days, following a 200 $BTC transaction on May 21. Together, the two deals added 331 $BTC