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Riot Platforms is increasingly swapping Bitcoin for bricks-and-mortar — or rather, power and data halls. In a bold strategic pivot, the miner has been selling the coins it mines to bankroll the build-out of large-scale data centres and long-term hosting deals that promise predictable revenue.What Ri

The S&P 500 lost 4.4% on Thursday, marking the index's steepest one-day decline since April 2025. The session erased roughly $3 trillion in market value. The S&P 500 recovered partially on Friday, finishing 0.31% higher at 7,376.86.The Kobeissi Letter, a market commentator, said the S&P ...

Ethereum developers are racing to patch a compatibility headache in Glamsterdam — the network’s next major upgrade — after two rival proposals surfaced on Sunday aimed at preventing deployed apps from suddenly breaking and losing users’ funds.Why this mattersGlamsterdam includes two EIPs, 8037 and 8

Cipher Digital has taken a concrete step in turning its Bitcoin-era data-centre empire into an operating business aimed at high-performance computing (HPC) workloads — but it’s not a cash bonanza just yet.Key developments- Cipher recognised its first HPC lease revenue in Q3 2026 after rent started a

Title: Web3 gaming under pressure — community demands a “fun-first” reset after wave of 2026 shutdownsWeb3 gaming has hit a rough patch, with veteran players and creators publicly questioning whether years of promises about digital ownership and player-run economies delivered sustainable experiences

CoinMarketCap reports:GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) announced on Monday that it will rename itself WeFetch.ai, positioning itself as an AI software company focused on AI-powered shopping, with AI agent shopping services for consumers, retailers, and brands covering 84 million barcodes across 70 co

FXStreet reports — In early Asian trading on Monday, the GBP/USD ended a two-day decline, rebounding to around 1.3370. The Bank of England last week raised rates by 25 basis points to 4.00%, its first hike in over three years; Governor Bailey emphasized that the war in the Middle East driving up ene

Zcash developers are pushing for a protocol change that would speed up how quickly transactions receive initial confirmations on the network. The proposal aims to reduce Zcash’s target block interval from 25 seconds to 20 seconds, a seemingly small adjustment that could matter for wallets and paymen

ChainCatcher report: Alibaba Cloud’s Token Plan Personal Edition will significantly increase monthly quotas. Prices for the Lite, Essential, and Standard tiers remain unchanged, with quotas rising by approximately 74% to 78%. The Lite plan at 39 yuan increases from 11,500 to 20,000 Credits; the Esse

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, the address 0xFD1…6FEe3 purchased 10,000 ETH via CowSwap at an average price of $2,149.25, totaling approximately $21.49 million; these ETH now constitute the largest on-chain asset held by this address.

PANews, November 9: According to Cointelegraph, Zcash developers have proposed further reducing the target block time from 25 seconds to 20 seconds, just days after the activation of the NU7 upgrade. A related draft ZIP has been submitted to the community forum for consideration in the next round of

Mars Finance reports that Zcash developers have proposed reducing the target block interval from 25 seconds to 20 seconds to accelerate transaction confirmation times. On Sunday, developers ValarDragon and Evan Forbes submitted a draft Zcash Improvement Proposal (ZIP) on the Zcash community forum, s

HuoXing Finance reports: On November 9, according to TradingBeats monitoring, a cross-market trader increased purchases of approximately 20,000 "BTC will not drop to $70,000 before year-end" No contracts over the weekend, while slightly covering short BTC positions and realizing partial profits. Cur

Odaily Planet Daily report: Zcash developers ValarDragon and Evan Forbes submitted a draft Zcash Improvement Proposal on Sunday, suggesting reducing the target block interval from 25 seconds to 20 seconds, and proposing it for inclusion in the next community vote and the upcoming NU7.1 network upgra

CoinMarketCap reports—In early Asian trading on Monday, the USD/JPY pair retreated to around 158.25. The Bank of Japan's September meeting minutes revealed that most policymakers deemed further rate hikes appropriate; the former chief economist predicted a December hike and a rate increase to 2% nex