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Bitdeer Sends Its Own Mining Fleet Into Soluna’s Texas Wind Farm Under the deal announced Aug. 25, Bitdeer subsidiary Dory Creek will install company-owned Sealminer A2 Pro Air machines at Soluna’s Project Kati 1 in Willacy County. Deployment starts in September and ramps up in batches, putting the hardware inside the facility’s K1BC phase. Project Kati 1 is an 83 MW wind-powered data center that booked its first gross profit during the second quarter of 2026. The publicly traded firm Soluna currently runs 192 MW of data center capacity across Texas and Kentucky, with another 14 MW under construction at…

Hashdex said it will liquidate its eponymous spot-price Bitcoin exchange-traded fund this month, distributing the cash to all remaining shareholders and selling the fund’s roughly 225 $BTC holdings. In a filing on Monday, the fund issuer said the decision was made after evaluating factors including trading liquidity, operating costs and investor interest. The 200,000 shares, which have traded on NYSE ARCA under the DEFI ticker since March 2024, have net assets of $14.25 million, according to the fund’s website. Late to the game, which saw the first of 10 other competing $BTC ETFs debut months ahead of it, analysts saw…

Draper University partnered with Cardano and Orion Fund to launch the Apex acceleration program in Silicon Valley. Selected startups will receive up to $70,000 in funding in exchange for a 3.5% equity stake. The application window closes on September 1, 2026, and on-site activities begin on October 5, 2026. This Tuesday, it was announced that Tim Draper backed a Cardano accelerator through Draper University. The initiative aims to drive the development of startups focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 infrastructure ready for institutional capital. Big opportunity for founders in the Cardano ecosystem. DraperU teamed up with @Cardano and @OrionFund…

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said on Aug. 21 that countries could use tokenization to raise capital and attract foreign direct investment by offering digital representations of assets to global investors. “Let’s tokenize everything,” CZ wrote in an X post. He argued that countries and companies have an incentive to sell tokenized shares to investors worldwide. CZ also backed issuing tokenized assets across every blockchain rather than selecting a single network. He acknowledged that this approach would create fragmented liquidity but said parallel development would be the fastest way to expand the sector. His comments represented a policy and industry view,…

The memecoin market has changed dramatically over the past year. Earlier cycles were driven largely by community momentum and viral attention, but investors are now placing greater importance on utility and ecosystem development. That shift has left several established meme coins fighting to regain momentum while newer projects introduce broader use cases. Shiba Inu ($SHIB) remains one of the sector’s biggest names, but its recovery has been slower than many holders expected. At the same time, MemeToro ($MT) is building an AI-powered ecosystem before exchange listings, leading some investors to view it as one of the breakout memecoin candidates heading…

Galaxy Research has said the SEC’s proposed Reg Crypto framework could give hundreds of existing tokens a formal route out of investment contract status. Galaxy Research, in an Aug. 21 analysis, said the proposal could replace years of uncertainty over when an investment contract tied to a token ends with a filing and a recorded date. Alex Thorn, Galaxy’s head of firmwide research, said the first visible effect could be the resolution of securities-law questions surrounding tokens already in circulation, rather than a fresh wave of public token sales. The SEC estimated that about 475 issuers would file transition reports…

Zama has listed its native $ZAMA token on Revolut across the European Economic Area, giving the privacy-focused blockchain project access to a fintech platform serving more than 70 million customers. Zama said on Monday that the listing also puts $ZAMA in front of more than 15 million Revolut customers who already use the app to trade cryptocurrencies, while allowing existing users to purchase the token without opening another account or completing additional identity checks. JUST IN:Zama will launch a Learn & Earn campaign inside @Revolut later this year, teaching millions why confidentiality onchain matters for mass adoption.$ZAMA is now live…

CME Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded insults at a CFTC roundtable over whether prediction markets are legitimate financial infrastructure or carnival games. The confrontation is the public face of a deeper regulatory battle between federal and state authorities, incumbent exchanges and startups, and two incompatible visions of what derivatives markets should look like. The CFTC roundtable on prediction markets was supposed to be a policy discussion. It became a fight. Terry Duffy, the chairman of CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange, sat across from Luana Lopes Lara, the co-founder of Kalshi, a prediction market…

Payments platform Decta will use $USDC to settle its own funds internationally, bringing stablecoins into its back-end treasury operations. Decta said Tuesday that it will use OpenPayd, a financial infrastructure company, to convert company funds into $USDC for international settlement, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. “This is a proprietary treasury use case rather than a customer-facing payments flow,” Lux Thiagarajah, chief commercial officer at OpenPayd, told Cointelegraph. “Decta transfers its own funds into OpenPayd’s regulated infrastructure, where they are converted into $USDC via OpenPayd’s over-the-counter capabilities to support international operational settlements,” he added. The integration shows how stablecoins…

South Korea’s Shinhan Asset Management signed a four-party memorandum on Aug. 21 to test a Korean won tokenized fund using the Solana blockchain. The agreement brings together Shinhan Asset Management, the Solana Foundation, tokenization platform Etherfuse and decentralized exchange Orca. The participants will conduct a proof of concept covering the fund’s issuance and distribution process. The planned product would invest in short term Korean won bonds and target overseas institutional investors. However, the participants have not announced the fund’s size, expected yield or public launch date. Shinhan will test the complete tokenized fund process The proof of concept will examine…