Anthropic Signs $9.1B AI Deal With Riot Platforms
Anthropic signed a 20-year, $9.1B lease for 191 MW of capacity at Riot Platforms' Rockdale campus in Texas, per Bloomberg, marking the Bitcoin miner's biggest pivot into AI infrastructure.
It is the clearest sign yet of Bitcoin miners repurposing cheap power and ready-built sites into compute for the AI boom.
👉 bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/anthropic-strikes-9-billion-deal-with-cloud-computing-firm-riot
Anthropic signed a 20-year, $9.1B lease for 191 MW of capacity at Riot Platforms' Rockdale campus in Texas, per Bloomberg, marking the Bitcoin miner's biggest pivot into AI infrastructure.
The contract runs through June 2048, with full deployment targeted for June 2028 and 96 MW online by December 2027. Extension options could lift total revenue to $16.1B. Riot secured $573M from Morgan Stanley for initial construction, and its shares jumped about 25% after-hours.
It is the clearest sign yet of Bitcoin miners repurposing cheap power and ready-built sites into compute for the AI boom.
👉 bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/anthropic-strikes-9-billion-deal-with-cloud-computing-firm-riot
FlightAware Sues Kalshi Over Alleged Flight-Data Misuse
FlightAware sued Kalshi, alleging the prediction market used its flight-tracking data without permission to run flight-cancellation betting markets and falsely presented FlightAware as a partner.
It piles onto Kalshi's mounting legal troubles, from a New York illegal-gambling suit to blocked sports contracts in Washington and Michigan.
👉 theblock.co/post/411370
FlightAware sued Kalshi, alleging the prediction market used its flight-tracking data without permission to run flight-cancellation betting markets and falsely presented FlightAware as a partner.
The suit claims Kalshi violated FlightAware's trademark and contract rights, and seeks a temporary restraining order plus injunctions. FlightAware warns the markets could strand travelers, disrupt airline operations, and even push people toward unsafe actions.
It piles onto Kalshi's mounting legal troubles, from a New York illegal-gambling suit to blocked sports contracts in Washington and Michigan.
👉 theblock.co/post/411370
Early Access Radar: 12 Waitlists to Join Now
No matter what the market's doing — green, red, sideways — new projects keep launching every week. And the best window to get involved is the earliest one: before the token, before the crowd, while the door's still open.
We rounded up 12 fresh projects with open waitlists into one Early Access Radar — DePIN, perp DEXs, Neobanks, Prediction Markets. A few minutes each, all in one place, so you don't have to go hunting.
Check the full list here 👉 cryptodiffer.com/tools/waitlists
No matter what the market's doing — green, red, sideways — new projects keep launching every week. And the best window to get involved is the earliest one: before the token, before the crowd, while the door's still open.
We rounded up 12 fresh projects with open waitlists into one Early Access Radar — DePIN, perp DEXs, Neobanks, Prediction Markets. A few minutes each, all in one place, so you don't have to go hunting.
Check the full list here 👉 cryptodiffer.com/tools/waitlists
Coinbase Opens a Tokenization Hub in Abu Dhabi
The hub will bring tokenized RWAs on-chain, much of it on Coinbase's Base network, as the exchange pushes institutional tokenization into the Middle East. ADGM has become a magnet for on-chain finance under the FSRA's virtual-asset framework.
👉 coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-establishes-its-tokenization-hub-in-abu-dhabi
The hub will bring tokenized RWAs on-chain, much of it on Coinbase's Base network, as the exchange pushes institutional tokenization into the Middle East. ADGM has become a magnet for on-chain finance under the FSRA's virtual-asset framework.
It follows Coinbase taking exposure to a tokenized Mubadala Capital fund that has already drawn about $75M on-chain.
👉 coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-establishes-its-tokenization-hub-in-abu-dhabi
Anthropic Eyes an IPO as Soon as October
Anthropic is targeting a late September or early October IPO and has begun meeting investors, the Wall Street Journal reported, months after a confidential SEC filing that could bring one of the largest AI listings yet.
The filing is confidential, so the timing stays unofficial and could shift with market conditions.
👉 investing.com/news/stock-market-news/anthropic-meets-investors-to-shore-up-confidence-ahead-of-planned-september-ipo-wsj-93CH-4850754
Anthropic is targeting a late September or early October IPO and has begun meeting investors, the Wall Street Journal reported, months after a confidential SEC filing that could bring one of the largest AI listings yet.
Recently valued near $965B, the AI lab has lined up Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley for a possible Nasdaq listing, as it races OpenAI to public markets. Separately, Anthropic said it will watermark the text and files its models generate, adding C2PA metadata to comply with the EU AI Act, applied worldwide.
The filing is confidential, so the timing stays unofficial and could shift with market conditions.
👉 investing.com/news/stock-market-news/anthropic-meets-investors-to-shore-up-confidence-ahead-of-planned-september-ipo-wsj-93CH-4850754
River Markets Raises $8.5M Seed for a Prediction-Market Prime Broker
The startup is building a prime brokerage for prediction markets: a single terminal and API to trade every venue like Kalshi and Polymarket, with cross-exchange routing and the pro order types desks expect, such as icebergs, pegs and stop-losses.
It is pitched as institutional infrastructure for one of crypto's fastest-growing arenas, event contracts.
👉 x.com/river_markets/status/2087179350470963533?s=20
The startup is building a prime brokerage for prediction markets: a single terminal and API to trade every venue like Kalshi and Polymarket, with cross-exchange routing and the pro order types desks expect, such as icebergs, pegs and stop-losses.
It is pitched as institutional infrastructure for one of crypto's fastest-growing arenas, event contracts.
👉 x.com/river_markets/status/2087179350470963533?s=20
Bitget Pre-IPO Board. Trade IPOs Before the Bell
The biggest AI companies in the world are still private, and normally that means only insiders and funds get exposure. Bitget changes that: its pre-IPO board lets you trade the names before they ever ring the bell, all USDT-margined and 24/7.
Three are live right now on Bitget: OpenAI at a reported ~$852B (20x), Anthropic at ~$965B (20x), and Moonshot AI, the team behind Kimi, at a rumored ~$50B (10x).
The biggest AI companies in the world are still private, and normally that means only insiders and funds get exposure. Bitget changes that: its pre-IPO board lets you trade the names before they ever ring the bell, all USDT-margined and 24/7.
Three are live right now on Bitget: OpenAI at a reported ~$852B (20x), Anthropic at ~$965B (20x), and Moonshot AI, the team behind Kimi, at a rumored ~$50B (10x).
eToro to Buy TradeZero for Up to $231M in US Push
eToro agreed to acquire US online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and new shares, its biggest move yet to expand in the American market.
Unveiled alongside eToro's Q2 earnings beat, the acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approvals.
👉 nvestors.etoro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/etoro-acquire-tradezero-accelerate-us-expansion
eToro agreed to acquire US online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and new shares, its biggest move yet to expand in the American market.
Founded in 2015, TradeZero brings broker-dealer infrastructure, execution technology and access to Canada, on roughly $80M of revenue at an 81% gross margin. eToro says the deal is accretive in year one and adds an experienced active-trader team.
Unveiled alongside eToro's Q2 earnings beat, the acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approvals.
👉 nvestors.etoro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/etoro-acquire-tradezero-accelerate-us-expansion
xAI Launches Grok Bot, a 24/7 Autonomous Agent
xAI unveiled Grok Bot, a multi-agent AI system that operates autonomously across apps, tools and websites, running around the clock on its own cloud computer.
The launch sharpens Elon Musk's race against OpenAI and Anthropic to make autonomous, computer-using AI a mainstream product.
👉 x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot
xAI unveiled Grok Bot, a multi-agent AI system that operates autonomously across apps, tools and websites, running around the clock on its own cloud computer.
Rather than answering a single prompt, Grok Bot is pitched as an always-on agent that chains tasks across the web on xAI's own infrastructure. It extends xAI's agent push after the Grok Build coding agent and the Grok Computer effort.
The launch sharpens Elon Musk's race against OpenAI and Anthropic to make autonomous, computer-using AI a mainstream product.
👉 x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot
Harmony Protocol Exploited as Attacker Mints 4B ONE Tokens
An attacker minted bout 26% of supply, inflating the token count from around 15B to 19B and sending ONE down 38%.
It stirs memories of Harmony's 2022 Horizon bridge hack, a roughly $100M theft the FBI attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, plus a 2023 staking bug that mis-minted 146M ONE.
👉 coindesk.com/markets/2026/08/12/harmony-s-one-falls-26-after-attacker-allegedly-mints-4-billion-tokens
An attacker minted bout 26% of supply, inflating the token count from around 15B to 19B and sending ONE down 38%.
Harmony asked exchanges to freeze funds tied to four wallets, paused its token bridge, and said it is working on a patch and rollback options. The team has not yet explained how the attacker was able to mint the tokens.
It stirs memories of Harmony's 2022 Horizon bridge hack, a roughly $100M theft the FBI attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, plus a 2023 staking bug that mis-minted 146M ONE.
👉 coindesk.com/markets/2026/08/12/harmony-s-one-falls-26-after-attacker-allegedly-mints-4-billion-tokens
ENS Foundation Takes Over Its $65M Endowment
ENS tokenholders approved the Next Era of ENS DAO proposal with about 70% support, putting the $65M endowment under a newly operational ENS Foundation with a five-member board, an executive director and staff.
The revamp lands after a governance fight, when ENS Labs CEO Nick Johnson self-delegated 3.26M tokens to block a Security Council renewal, a move critics called a governance attack.
👉 x.com/ensdomains/status/2087184444113531304?s=20
ENS tokenholders approved the Next Era of ENS DAO proposal with about 70% support, putting the $65M endowment under a newly operational ENS Foundation with a five-member board, an executive director and staff.
The DAO keeps its 54.6% token majority and authority over the protocol, but the Foundation can now do what a purely decentralized body cannot: engage institutions like ICANN and defend ENS trademarks. The endowment is funded from .eth registration fees.
The revamp lands after a governance fight, when ENS Labs CEO Nick Johnson self-delegated 3.26M tokens to block a Security Council renewal, a move critics called a governance attack.
👉 x.com/ensdomains/status/2087184444113531304?s=20
Whatnot Raises $545M Series G at a $20B Valuation
Live-shopping marketplace Whatnot closed a $545M Series G at a $20B valuation, roughly double the $11.5B it was worth after its Series F last October.
The mega-round stands out in an AI-obsessed market, betting on livestreamed, gamified commerce for small-business sellers.
👉 cnbc.com/2026/08/07/whatnot-live-shopping-valuation-20-billion.html
Live-shopping marketplace Whatnot closed a $545M Series G at a $20B valuation, roughly double the $11.5B it was worth after its Series F last October.
The round was led by ICONIQ, Lightspeed and Avra, with returning backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, DST Global and Alphabet's CapitalG, plus new investors like Kleiner Perkins. Whatnot has now raised about $1.5B since 2019 and plans to expand and lean further into AI.
The mega-round stands out in an AI-obsessed market, betting on livestreamed, gamified commerce for small-business sellers.
👉 cnbc.com/2026/08/07/whatnot-live-shopping-valuation-20-billion.html
Crypto.com Launches Tokenized US Stock Derivatives
Crypto.com rolled out derivatives tracking 1,500 US stocks and ETFs, including Apple, Tesla and Nvidia, offering synthetic price exposure with trades from just $1, around the clock.
It joins Kraken, Bybit, Bitget and Robinhood racing into tokenized equities, a market up roughly 600% this year to $2.49B that Citi projects could reach $5.5T by 2030.
👉 coindesk.com/business/2026/08/12/crypto-com-rolls-out-tokenized-stock-derivatives-as-crypto-exchanges-push-into-equities
Crypto.com rolled out derivatives tracking 1,500 US stocks and ETFs, including Apple, Tesla and Nvidia, offering synthetic price exposure with trades from just $1, around the clock.
Issued by Foris Capital and settled through broker Alpaca, the products are live for users in the EEA and approved markets. Holders get no voting rights, only dividend-equivalent adjustments to their positions.
It joins Kraken, Bybit, Bitget and Robinhood racing into tokenized equities, a market up roughly 600% this year to $2.49B that Citi projects could reach $5.5T by 2030.
👉 coindesk.com/business/2026/08/12/crypto-com-rolls-out-tokenized-stock-derivatives-as-crypto-exchanges-push-into-equities
River AI Raises $1.1B to Build a Personal AI Stack
River AI, the two-month-old startup from xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1B across seed and Series A, one of the largest rounds for any company founded this year.
With no valuation disclosed, the raise is a bet that open, user-owned models can challenge the closed-source AI giants.
👉 techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/general-catalyst-leads-1-1b-round-into-2-month-old-river-ai
River AI, the two-month-old startup from xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1B across seed and Series A, one of the largest rounds for any company founded this year.
The round was led by General Catalyst and AMP, with strategic checks from Nvidia and AMD plus Y Combinator and Temasek. River is building personalized AI that users and organizations own and control, and says its API runs reinforcement-learning training two to four times cheaper than closed rivals.
With no valuation disclosed, the raise is a bet that open, user-owned models can challenge the closed-source AI giants.
👉 techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/general-catalyst-leads-1-1b-round-into-2-month-old-river-ai
Solana RWA Ecosystem: Third in Size, First in Trading
Everyone argues who leads RWA. By total value it is still Ethereum. But tokenized stocks tell a different story.
Solana holds just 23% of tokenized-stock market cap, yet settles 95-97% of all on-chain trading volume. Others hold the shares. Solana trades them.
The whole Solana RWA market is up 6.8x in a year to $2.35B, led by BlackRock's BUIDL, with a wild mix from tokenized T-Bills to collectible cards.
Everyone argues who leads RWA. By total value it is still Ethereum. But tokenized stocks tell a different story.
Solana holds just 23% of tokenized-stock market cap, yet settles 95-97% of all on-chain trading volume. Others hold the shares. Solana trades them.
The whole Solana RWA market is up 6.8x in a year to $2.35B, led by BlackRock's BUIDL, with a wild mix from tokenized T-Bills to collectible cards.
Bitget launches $300M fund to back quant firms
Bitget Institutional has rolled out Project Archimedes, a $300M capital program aimed at quantitative trading firms, asset managers and market makers.
CEO Gracy Chen said the aim is to back more than 50 teams over the next six months, as tightening arbitrage returns push quants toward basis spreads, funding-rate gaps and tokenized-stock strategies that Bitget's unified account lets them collateralize in one place.
👉 x.com/bitget/status/2087482028426191179?s=20
Bitget Institutional has rolled out Project Archimedes, a $300M capital program aimed at quantitative trading firms, asset managers and market makers.
The money splits into two tracks. A $100M Capital Provider Program funds emerging quant firms running market-neutral strategies, with returns shared under an agreed structure. A $200M Interest-Free Lending Program gives established institutions interest-free capital once they meet set trading-volume or position requirements, cutting their funding costs. Eligible firms first pass strategy assessment, due diligence and drawdown reviews.
CEO Gracy Chen said the aim is to back more than 50 teams over the next six months, as tightening arbitrage returns push quants toward basis spreads, funding-rate gaps and tokenized-stock strategies that Bitget's unified account lets them collateralize in one place.
👉 x.com/bitget/status/2087482028426191179?s=20
Kalshi and Blanket Bring Hedging to Small Businesses
Kalshi teamed up with Blanket, an AI tool built by economist Lauris Zminsky, that helps small businesses hedge real-world risks using its prediction markets.
It is framed as an insurance alternative for bars, brands and other small firms long priced out of institutional-grade hedging.
👉 tryblanket.app/
Kalshi teamed up with Blanket, an AI tool built by economist Lauris Zminsky, that helps small businesses hedge real-world risks using its prediction markets.
Describe a risk like a hurricane, a fuel-price spike or an unusually warm winter, and Blanket's AI surfaces Kalshi yes/no markets that could offset the loss. Blanket only recommends contracts and never executes trades or holds funds. It is independent, and Zminsky does not work for Kalshi.
It is framed as an insurance alternative for bars, brands and other small firms long priced out of institutional-grade hedging.
👉 tryblanket.app/
BitGo Adds a Quantum Risk Score for Bitcoin Wallets
BitGo rolled out quantum risk controls for Bitcoin wallets, led by a Quantum Risk Score that flags which addresses have public keys already exposed on-chain.
Glassnode estimates about 6.04M BTC, roughly 30% of supply, already sits at addresses with exposed public keys, though no practical quantum attack is possible today.
👉 bitgo.com/btc-quantum-resistance-score
BitGo rolled out quantum risk controls for Bitcoin wallets, led by a Quantum Risk Score that flags which addresses have public keys already exposed on-chain.
Exposed public keys are the weak point a future quantum computer could target. Alongside guided address remediation and safer UTXO defaults, the score lets institutions migrate funds before any such threat exists. BitGo is among the first major custodians to ship these tools.
Glassnode estimates about 6.04M BTC, roughly 30% of supply, already sits at addresses with exposed public keys, though no practical quantum attack is possible today.
👉 bitgo.com/btc-quantum-resistance-score
Lovable Raises $400M in Series C at $13.3B Valuation, Accelerating AI Coding Expansion
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable has raised $400M in Series C funding at a $13.3B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund.
The company’s valuation has more than doubled from $6.6B in December 2025, when it raised $300M.
Lovable plans to expand its product, infrastructure, and security capabilities while growing its team to around 450 employees this year.
👉 lovable.dev/blog/series-c
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable has raised $400M in Series C funding at a $13.3B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund.
Lovable says users have created 60M+ projects, while Lovable-built apps now generate 900M+ monthly visits. The platform is used by nearly two-thirds of the Fortune 500, with customers including Adidas, NVIDIA, and Deutsche Telekom.
The company’s valuation has more than doubled from $6.6B in December 2025, when it raised $300M.
Lovable plans to expand its product, infrastructure, and security capabilities while growing its team to around 450 employees this year.
👉 lovable.dev/blog/series-c
Fed Injects $5.179B Into Financial System Through Treasury Purchases
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is conducting a $5.179B Treasury bill purchase operation today, August 12, as part of its routine reserve-management program.
The operations are part of a scheduled program rather than emergency stimulus or a new round of quantitative easing. Similar purchases of up to $5.179B were conducted on August 4 and August 11, while the August 6 operation totaled $3.453B.
The Fed uses these purchases to offset routine liquidity drains, including Treasury settlements and tax flows. While the operations can have an indirect positive impact on liquidity-sensitive assets such as Bitcoin and equities, they should not be interpreted as a major policy shift or fresh QE.
👉 newyorkfed.org/markets/domestic-market-operations/monetary-policy-implementation/treasury
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is conducting a $5.179B Treasury bill purchase operation today, August 12, as part of its routine reserve-management program.
The purchases target Treasury bills maturing between September and December 2026 and are designed to maintain ample bank reserves and support smooth functioning of short-term funding markets.
The operations are part of a scheduled program rather than emergency stimulus or a new round of quantitative easing. Similar purchases of up to $5.179B were conducted on August 4 and August 11, while the August 6 operation totaled $3.453B.
The Fed uses these purchases to offset routine liquidity drains, including Treasury settlements and tax flows. While the operations can have an indirect positive impact on liquidity-sensitive assets such as Bitcoin and equities, they should not be interpreted as a major policy shift or fresh QE.
👉 newyorkfed.org/markets/domestic-market-operations/monetary-policy-implementation/treasury
