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ME News reports that on August 17 (UTC+8), digital assets platform Fireblocks appointed former SEC Commissioner and Acting Chair Elad Roisman as Chief Regulatory and Policy Officer and General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, to lead the company’s regulatory strategy and policy initiatives. Roisman s

Odaily Planet Daily report: Despite the S&P 500 index surging this year and continued inflows of capital, historical seasonal selling periods, ongoing geopolitical tensions, and emerging signs of weak consumer demand are prompting Wall Street strategists to issue a wave of risk-aversion warnings.The

SpaceX went public in June 2026 at $135 per share, landing a valuation of roughly $1.8 trillion. That number makes it one of the most valuable companies ever to debut on a stock exchange. But the real story isn’t the IPO itself. It’s the years of quiet positioning by investment firms that built bill

Ryan “Neityu” Aubry is no longer just visiting. The 21-year-old French rifler has officially transitioned from a temporary stand-in to a permanent member of FaZe Clan’s CS2 roster, ending a four-month audition that began back in April 2026.The signing, finalized around August 11-12, locks in a roste

Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 17, according to BIT (bit.com) market data, at the opening of U.S. trading, the storage sector extended its gains: Kioxia ADR surged 14.6%, SanDisk (SNDK) rose over 8%, Seagate Technology (STX) increased 1.82%, Western Digital (WDC) climbed 5.8%, Micron Techno

PANews, August 17: According to Bloomberg, digital asset infrastructure company Fireblocks has appointed former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner and acting chair Elad Roisman as Chief Regulatory and Policy Officer and General Counsel, Regulatory, based in Washington. Roisma

Odaily Planet Daily reports that, according to insiders, NVIDIA will provide approximately $100 billion in credit financing to support OpenAI’s lease of a massive AI data center campus. The data center project, located in Ohio, USA, is among the largest AI infrastructure initiatives currently planne

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has widened access to the digital yuan, adding eight commercial banks to its e-CNY operating network and bringing the total number of authorized operators to 30, the central bank said in an Aug. 17 statement. The move advances the PBOC’s plan to scale the state-back

CryptoBriefing and Yahoo Finance both cover HIVE Digital's $350M GPU cloud contract but disagree on who the customer actually is.CryptoBriefing and Yahoo Finance both cover HIVE Digital's $350M GPU cloud contract but disagree on who the customer actually is.What all sources agree onThe deal is worth

The company's crypto and cash reserves now stand near $11.4 billion as its treasury approaches 5% of Ethereum's total supply.BitMine Immersion Technologies has expanded its Ethereum treasury once again. The company added 9,926 ETH to its balance sheet, bringing total holdings to approximately 5.82 m

The company raised $334 million but directed the funds toward reserves and preferred stock repurchases rather than new bitcoin purchases.Strategy, the business intelligence firm turned bitcoin treasury company led by Michael Saylor, has repurchased $132 million of its STRC preferred stock. The compa

The bitcoin-holding company raised roughly $333.7 million through share sales but did not add to its bitcoin position this cycle.Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, raised roughly $334 million by selling shares of its common stock, MSTR, according to disclosures reviewed by multip

Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) has turned AI demand into one of the most powerful growth stories in the stock market, but the next leg of the rally may be harder to achieve. Trading near $226, with its 52-week high at $236.54, NVDA is once again approaching a critical price zone as investors weigh reco

The AI spending boom has a shadow. Nine of the largest technology companies are sitting on approximately $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet commitments tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. That figure is roughly five times the $600 billion in com

BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) has repurchased 1.7 million common shares in the week ending August 16. This is the smallest weekly buyback since the program began on July 1 and the third consecutive weekly decline, while the company’s Ethereum (ETH) treasury grew to 5,815,164 tokens.Total cry