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Bitdeer Technologies Group said on Aug. 4 that its Tydal Data Center subsidiary signed a 16-year colocation and services agreement with Volta Tydal AS for an artificial intelligence and high-performance computing campus in Norway. The contract covers 121 megawatts of critical IT capacity, supported by about 133 MW of total power. Bitdeer expects approximately $4.7 billion in contracted payments during the initial term. A one-time eight-year renewal option could raise the potential contract value to about $8 billion over 24 years. Bitdeer’s $4.7 billion deal contracts 121 MW The agreement assigns the full 121 MW to Volta, which plans to…

Delegated representatives — or stakeholders that ADA holders elect to vote on governance proposals on their behalf, similar to representatives in a parliament — voted 78.97% in favor against a 60% threshold. The constitutional committee, a body of elected members that rules only on whether a proposal complies with the Cardano Constitution rather than on its merits, found the hard fork compliant, with all seven members agreeing where five were required. (Cardanoscan)Interestingly, the pool operators who actually run Cardano’s infrastructure approved the community’s first self-directed hard fork by the narrowest of its three margins, with 53.02% of operators voting to…

EU sanctions rules will bar direct and indirect transactions with $HTX from Aug. 23 when those dealings fall within the bloc’s jurisdiction. For some individuals still needing to exit the exchange, an ordinary withdrawal will then require a narrow authorization from a national authority. Council Regulation (EU) 2026/1848 lists “$HTX (HUOBI GLOBAL SA)” in Annex XLV and sets Aug. 23, 2026, as the date the restriction applies. Article 5ad prohibits transactions with listed entities. Later amendments extend that prohibition to entities acting on behalf of or at the direction of a listed entity, as well as qualifying crypto-asset or payment…

Kraken will begin automatically liquidating seven delisted tokens today, Aug. 3 after closing withdrawals for affected clients. Any PLANCK, AIR, MICHI, FLY, ANLOG, TERM or STRD left on the exchange is due to be sold during a five-day window that runs through Aug. 7, according to Kraken’s published schedule. This is a disposal of residual spot balances, not leveraged positions or margin calls. Clients can no longer move the affected assets off Kraken because the withdrawal cutoff passed at 14:00 UTC on July 31. Kraken says it will liquidate the balances automatically based on prevailing market conditions. Kraken published the…

American Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have had their biggest weekly inflow since April, taking in $850 million last week, according to Bloomberg figures. The major U.S. funds managed by BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, Morgan Stanley and others have received the cash the week after hackers targeted Coinkite’s popular Coldcard product. Hackers started stealing millions in Bitcoin from Coldcard wallets after discovering a vulnerability in the product’s software. Some estimates put the amount of Bitcoin lost now at over $130 million. JUST IN: BlackRock tells Bloomberg they’ve “seen consistently” that Bitcoin ETF investors are buying and holding $BTC “long term” on this dip…

Robinhood Chain, the blockchain network launched by the popular trading platform, saw its daily $NFT trading volume more than double that of Ethereum on Aug. 12, according to data from Dune Analytics cited by The Data Nerd. The chain recorded $3.13 million in $NFT volume, roughly 2.3 times Ethereum’s $1.35 million on the same day. Understanding the Volume Spike The surge marks a notable milestone for Robinhood Chain, which officially launched its mainnet on July 1. However, analysts at The Data Nerd cautioned that a substantial share of the inflows was likely driven by short-term FOMO (fear of missing out)…

Ben Nadareski, CEO and co-founder of Solstice, said he views this as a positive development for crypto adoption and agreed with Goh that it puts Samsung in a unique position. “The broader picture is distribution catching up to liquidity,” said Nadareski in a Telegram conversation. “For years, crypto had deep venues in places like South Korea and weak paths into daily spend. Samsung Wallet points the other way: stablecoins inside a hub people open for cards and checkout.” Samsung outlined its Samsung Wallet expansion plans during its Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event, saying over 800 million smartphones would have stablecoin features…

Asset manager Grayscale plans to establish regular cash distributions from rewards generated by its Ether ($ETH) and Solana ($SOL) staking exchange-traded products (ETPs), giving holders recurring access to yield generated by underlying assets. In Form 8-K filings submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Grayscale said it intends to amend the trust agreements governing the Grayscale Solana Staking ETF (GSOL) and the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE) around Aug. 7. The amendments would require each trust to convert staking rewards into cash no less often than quarterly and distribute net proceeds to shareholders. The framework could make staking…

Nigeria’s revenue agency has issued rules requiring crypto platforms and peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces to collect, report and remit taxes, including paying some withheld amounts in digital tokens. In its Guidelines on Taxation of Virtual Assets, the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) said income tax deducted at source and stamp duty “shall be remitted to the Service in the originating token of the transaction.” Value-added tax, by contrast, must be remitted in the currency used for the payment. The guidelines place exchanges and P2P marketplaces at the center of withholding, reporting and remittance under the country’s existing laws. Under the guidelines, platforms…

M3 DAO, a renowned decentralized autonomous organization to assist Web3 developers, has partnered with a prominent crypto exchange, GXT Exchange. The partnership is poised to connect the developer network of M3 DAO with the digital asset trading framework of GXT Exchange. As M3 DAO disclosed in its official social media announcement, the development aims to allow access to improved futures and spot trading backed by comprehensive liquidity. Thus, the joint initiative underscores a shared commitment to efficient and secure cryptocurrency trading services. M3 DAO x GXT Exchange: Liquidity Unleashed! 🌊Connecting our 200K+ global builder network with @GXTExchange! Teaming up to…