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TeraWulf Stock Jumps on $19B Anthropic AI Lease and JV Sale

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf is moving further into the artificial intelligence infrastructure race, signing a long-term data center deal with AI firm Anthropic and restructuring its ownership in a separate AI campus venture. The company said it expects the agreement to generate about $19 billion in contract revenue over 20 years. In a separate transaction, TeraWulf also announced plans to sell its majority stake in an AI data center joint venture in Texas, with proceeds intended for reinvestment into wholly owned AI infrastructure projects. Following the announcements, TeraWulf shares rose by roughly 12% in Monday morning trading, extending a year-to-date gain of about 107%, according to Yahoo Finance data at the time of writing. Key takeaways TeraWulf signed a 20-year data center lease with Anthropic, expected to bring roughly $19 billion in contract revenue. The Anthropic campus will be built at TeraWulf’s Justified Data site in Hawesville, Kentucky, with initial operations targeted f...
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Ripple Obtains Full MiCA License to Offer XRP Services in Europe

Ripple has received full authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework after Luxembourg’s financial regulator granted the company a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license. The approval follows Ripple’s preliminary CASP approval earlier this year and, according to the company, completes its transition into the “post-transitional” MiCA regime. The CASP authorization, combined with Ripple’s existing Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, allows the blockchain payments firm to provide regulated crypto-asset services across the European Economic Area (EEA) under EU rules. Key takeaways Ripple secured a CASP license in Luxembourg, completing its full MiCA authorization after preliminary approval in June. The authorization enables regulated crypto-asset services across the EEA, supported by Ripple’s existing EMI license. Ripple says it is among a relatively small group of firms fully authorized under MiCA. MiCA enforcement has begun acro...
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UN Agency Advances Stellar Network Payments Past Pilot Phase

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is moving from blockchain pilots to a wider rollout of blockchain-based payments after signing a new agreement with the Stellar Development Foundation. The initiative builds on 16 months of testing in multiple countries and aims to define how UNDP country offices can use blockchain payments across a broader set of development and humanitarian programs. According to UNDP, the new phase will focus on creating a repeatable process that offices can apply, following pilot projects in Haiti, Syria, Kenya, Guatemala and The Gambia, with additional work reported in Colombia and Papua New Guinea. UNDP said the pilots generated measurable outcomes that helped justify the next step. Key takeaways UNDP has signed an agreement with the Stellar Development Foundation to expand blockchain-based payment usage across programs beyond initial pilots. Pilot results cited by UNDP include lower distribution costs in Syria and continued payments during a ce...
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Bitmine to Buy $74M in Ether as Chair Cites Higher Clarity Act Odds

Bitmine Immersion Technologies says it has boosted its Ethereum treasury, adding $74 million worth of ETH to bring its holdings to 5,742,237 tokens as of Sunday. The update marks a sizable increase from the company’s previous reported balance and comes as US lawmakers move toward a vote on the proposed CLARITY Act, legislation that could reshape how digital assets are regulated. In the same period, Strategy—one of the most prominent Bitcoin treasury companies—reported selling $216 million worth of BTC to fund dividend payments, cutting its total holdings. Together, the two moves highlight a developing split in how major crypto treasuries are allocating capital across ETH and BTC. Key takeaways Bitmine reported ETH holdings of 5,742,237 as of Sunday, up by 42,197 ETH from its previously disclosed figure. The company estimates the latest purchases were worth about $74 million based on ETH’s prior valuation at the time of reporting; ETH has since moved higher. Bitmine’s chair Tom Le...
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Strategy sells 3,588 BTC for $216M to fund dividends, keeps $2.55B reserve

MicroStrategy’s long-time Bitcoin proxy, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy Incorporated), has again sold a portion of its holdings to fund corporate needs. In a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, the company said it sold 3,588 Bitcoin for a total of $216 million, trimming its position to 843,775 BTC. The disclosed sales were completed across multiple days and were priced at two different average levels: Strategy sold 1,363 BTC at an average of $59,256 between last Monday and Tuesday, and 2,225 BTC at an average of $60,773 between Wednesday and Sunday, according to the filing. Key takeaways Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million, reducing its total holdings to 843,775 BTC, per its Monday SEC 8-K. The sales come after Strategy previously reported its first Bitcoin sale in years in early June, following a 2022 tax-related transaction. Strategy’s June capital framework ties Bitcoin sales to dividend funding, and it raised its STRC preferred st...
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AI Decides Which Crypto Brand You Trust And It's Not Neutral

You think you research crypto brands on Forbes or CoinDesk. You don’t. You ask ChatGPT. And ChatGPT already picked its favorites. The Gatekeeper Nobody Noticed For twenty years, if you wanted to know whether a financial brand was trustworthy, you went to established media. Forbes. The Wall Street Journal. Bloomberg. CoinDesk for crypto specifically. Those outlets shaped perception. Their coverage decided who was credible and who wasn’t. A positive Forbes profile moved markets. A negative Bloomberg investigation destroyed reputations. That era just ended. On July 2, 2026, PR firm 5W released The Crypto Trust Index , research scoring how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI answer when a first-time buyer asks whether a crypto brand is safe. The finding: AI engines do not stay neutral. They answer with a verdict, recommend, hedge, or warn. There is no neutral tier. The gatekeeper didn’t disappear. It just moved. And almost nobody noticed. What The Research Actually Found 5W ...
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FCA Warns of Regulatory Overhaul as AI Agents Move Toward Tokenized Money

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a wide-ranging blueprint for how retail financial services should be regulated as “agentic” AI pushes firms toward near-total automation. In its landmark report, “AI and the future of retail financial services” , FCA executive director Sheldon Mills argues that the industry is moving away from human-led, episodic decisions and toward continuous services delegated to AI systems. The review, issued as regulators grapple with the speed of generative AI deployment and growing experimentation with blockchain-based finance, frames settlement infrastructure as a key constraint. It suggests that advanced automation will require financial plumbing capable of processing transactions instantly and reliably—something the FCA implicitly contrasts with slower legacy settlement processes. Key takeaways The FCA says retail financial services are shifting from human-led decisions to AI-enabled, continuous and delegated activity. The report call...
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