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According to The Information, sources say that SpaceX's AI department had discussions with Microsoft over leasing computing power during the summer. This indicates that, after initial resistance, Musk has fully embraced the "new cloud" business.

According to documents submitted by Riot Platforms to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company voluntarily repaid all outstanding loans and accrued interest to Coinbase Credit on September 21, and terminated the previously established credit line of $200 million, without incurring any early termination fees or penalties.The loan had previously been fully drawn by Riot, with a fixed annual interest rate of 6.15%, and an original maturity date of April 20, 2027. As of June 30, Riot had pledged 5,821 BTC as collateral for the loan, valued at approximately $340.7 million, accounting for about 51% of the total BTC held by the company at that time; with the loan repayment, Coinbase's security interest in the related collateral assets was simultaneously released. Riot initially obtained a $100 million Bitcoin collateral loan in April 2025, increasing the limit to $200 million the following month. This repayment occurred approximately 7 months ahead of the revised maturity date.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a whale with a heavy investment of 4.5 million dollars in Robinhood Meme and DeFi leader has liquidated PONS tokens, with a selling pressure of 3.67 million dollars driving the price down by 4%, from 0.6968 to 0.6688 dollars.During the period from 14:21 to 15:17 today, the whale sold 5.338 million PONS at an average price of 0.6779 dollars, worth 3.67 million dollars. PONS was originally the largest asset on this address, with an acquisition price of about 0.7154 dollars, resulting in a loss of approximately 200,000 dollars from this sale.

According to CoinDesk, the on-chain financial platform Theo announced the launch of a yield-bearing tokenized silver product thSLVR, supported by over $40 million in active leases, expanding its commodity financing business from gold to silver. This token allows holders to maintain exposure to silver prices while passing on the lease income paid by institutional borrowers to the holders.Theo stated that the silver supporting thSLVR will be leased to mature institutional counterparties under standard market terms, with credit exposure guaranteed by the parent company. The product is launched in a beta version, initially targeting institutions and whitelist investors, with plans to expand access later. Silver has experienced significant volatility this year, reaching a historical high of $121.79 per ounce in January, followed by a 41% drop over three days, and falling to a low of $54.74 in July, recently hovering around the mid-$60 range.Theo was founded by former traders from Optiver and IMC and has previously offered yield-bearing tokenized gold and U.S. Treasury products. The silver leasing will also expand the underlying assets of its yield-bearing stablecoin thUSD. According to RWA.xyz data, the market size for tokenized commodities is approximately $4.9 billion, covering 130 products. The London 1-month silver lease rate briefly rose to about 39% in October 2025, while the historical norm is below 1%; the market expects a supply gap in silver for the sixth consecutive year in 2026, with a gap of approximately 46.3 million ounces.

According to data from the London Baltic Exchange, due to the war in Iran leading to a shortage of tankers willing to cross the Strait of Hormuz to load cargo, the tanker leasing costs for the oil industry's benchmark routes have exceeded $1 million per day for the first time.

According to CoinDesk analysis, Bitcoin is approaching the "golden cross" technical signal where the 50-day moving average crosses above the 200-day moving average. Historical data shows that since 2012, Bitcoin has experienced 12 golden crosses, with an average increase of 24.9% over three months for 9 of them, but only 3 have maintained for a full year without being broken by a death cross, with an average annual increase of 250%.What makes this golden cross different from previous ones is that the USDT market share is simultaneously approaching a "death cross" ------ its 50-day moving average is about to cross below the 200-day moving average. A decline in USDT market share usually indicates that funds are flowing out of stablecoins and into risk assets like Bitcoin, and this indicator has previously marked significant trend changes for Bitcoin. The combination of both further strengthens the bullish signal for this round of Bitcoin rebound.

Bitdeer released the production and operation update for July 2026: the company has signed a 16-year co-location lease agreement worth $4.7 billion for the artificial intelligence data center (AIDC) at the Tydal site in Norway, and has configured 121 megawatts of IT capacity to operate NVIDIA GPUs.

According to Pulse 2.0, Riot Platforms has signed AI data center leasing agreements with two major technology clients, involving 241MW of critical IT capacity, corresponding to approximately $9.8 billion in long-term contract revenue. This move will accelerate the company's transition from a Bitcoin mining-centric business model to a large-scale data center developer.One of the larger agreements is a 191MW custom build lease agreement signed by Riot Platforms with a leading frontier AI laboratory, located at Riot's Rockdale campus. The initial lease term is 20 years, expiring in June 2048, and is expected to generate approximately $9.1 billion in contract revenue.If the client continues to lease after the initial lease term, the revenue scale from the agreement could further expand. The agreement includes two options for a 5-year renewal; if both renewal options are fully exercised, the potential total contract value will increase to approximately $16.1 billion.Riot expects that the initial lease term alone will bring in a cumulative net operating income of approximately $7.3 billion to $8.2 billion, equivalent to an average annual contribution of about $365 million to $411 million. The first phase of 96MW is expected to be delivered in December 2027, with the full 191MW planned for deployment by June 2028.

Eclipse founder Neel Somani published an analysis stating that by leasing diesel generator sets, AI data centers can bypass grid access bottlenecks and complete deployment within months. Taking a 50MW inference data center as an example, about 40 leased diesel units are needed (monthly rent of approximately 2 million USD), consuming about 2.5 million gallons of diesel each month (approximately 12.5 million USD), with the cooling system costing about 1 million USD, and the total hardware investment being about 1.9 billion USD (including approximately 21,000 GPUs and supporting network equipment). Based on similar leasing agreements like Colossus 2, monthly revenue could reach approximately 180 million USD.

The PPP prediction market tool monitoring shows that in the Polymarket "OpenAI Astra Release Date" prediction market, the probability of OpenAI releasing Astra before August 31 has risen to 24%, an increase of 8% in 24 hours; the probability of it being released before September 15 is currently reported at 61%, an increase of 6% in 24 hours. According to the settlement rules, if OpenAI releases Astra before the corresponding deadline, or releases a product confirmed to be the same model as Astra and makes it publicly available, the market will settle as "Yes."Public testing or open waitlists qualify, but closed testing and private access do not count; the main settlement basis is OpenAI's official information. Previously, OpenAI disclosed that it would slow down the development process of Astra until appropriate safety measures are established. However, OpenAI founder Sam Altman also stated that Astra is a powerful model, and the company is working hard to make it available to a broader range of users.

According to an analysis by Reuters of LSEG data and company filings, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon, and Alphabet have committed to future payments of approximately $1.09 trillion in uncommenced lease obligations, primarily for AI data centers, which is about four times their confirmed lease liabilities (approximately $285 billion). These commitments have not yet been included on the balance sheet but have been disclosed in the notes to the financial statements. Among them, Microsoft disclosed the largest amount, reaching $329.1 billion; Meta disclosed $278.99 billion and signed an additional $68 billion in new leases in July; Oracle disclosed $260 billion, nearly seven times its confirmed liabilities, with lease terms generally ranging from 15 to 19 years, and the company has warned that it may face risks if customers do not renew or are unable to fulfill their obligations; Alphabet and Amazon disclosed $85.2 billion and $137.21 billion, respectively.The analysis points out that if the demand for AI computing power continues to grow, these facilities will support the next phase of cloud business expansion; if demand falls short of expectations, companies may be forced to pay high costs for large amounts of long-term idle capacity. S&P Global Ratings has included the uncommenced leases of companies like Oracle in its adjusted debt forecasts. This data highlights the potential long-term financial pressure that the expansion of AI infrastructure brings to tech giants.

On July 17, Interlace and BlockSec jointly held the summit "The Next Decade of Payments: Digital Currency, AI Agents, and the New Global Financial Order." The event brought together industry guests from AI, Web3, security, and payments to discuss the development trends of stablecoin payments, security compliance, AI agents, and global payment infrastructure.BlockSec co-founder Zhou Yajin and Interlace founder and CEO Michael Wu delivered keynote speeches on "Security and Compliance in Crypto Payments" and "Agentic Payment and the New Infrastructure of Global Finance," respectively, sharing their latest observations on the development trends of digital asset payments. As the scenarios for stablecoin payments continue to expand, the security compliance system and the construction of a new generation of payment infrastructure are becoming key supports for driving industry development. In the future, payment infrastructure will not only serve the function of capital flow but will also further evolve into a programmable, trusted, and verifiable value transfer system, providing underlying support for the connection between digital assets and real-world commerce.At the event, Interlace also officially released the white paper "The Value Transmission Layer of the AI Economy: From Concept to Implementation." The white paper was jointly initiated with ecosystem partners such as Bitget, BlockSec, Cobo, Conflux, Stable, Xagent, and Hetu, systematically defining the architecture, standards, and implementation paths of Agentic Payment infrastructure, providing a reference for value transfer in the era of the AI economy.

The Kobeissi Letter cited Bloomberg on platform X, stating, "American tech companies have committed to investing a record $850 billion in data center leasing over the next few years, an increase of $570 billion year-on-year, representing a growth rate of 204%, and a quarter-on-quarter increase of $200 billion, with a growth rate of 31%.It is reported that Meta added a commitment of $79 billion in the first quarter of 2026, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 76%, bringing the total commitment to approximately $183 billion. Microsoft added $41 billion during the same period, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 26%, with a total commitment of approximately $197 billion. Oracle leads with a total commitment of approximately $250 billion, having locked in several key sites to fulfill its contract with OpenAI."

The TRON Nile testnet has recently launched a quantum-resistant upgrade and released the mandatory upgrade version GreatVoyage-v4.8.2-PQ1-build1. This version introduces post-quantum signature capabilities for the first time, supporting two signature algorithms: Falcon-512 and ML-DSA-44, further advancing TRON's technological exploration and capability verification in the direction of quantum resistance.According to the official introduction, the aforementioned capabilities can be applied in scenarios such as transaction signing, SR block signing, P2P relay node handshakes, and TVM contract verification. TRON reminds developers who have deployed nodes on the Nile testnet to complete the version upgrade as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the related new features will only take effect on the Nile testnet after being approved through proposal voting; the activation of testnet functions does not mean that the mainnet will go live simultaneously.

According to The Information, informed sources reveal that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are exploring trading methods based on the cost of computing power, including futures contracts related to GPU leasing prices.As one of the scarcest resources in the AI boom, related futures are expected to be listed by exchanges later this year. Industry insiders say this initiative demonstrates that hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into data centers and the chip sector are reshaping the financial market landscape. For banks providing financing for AI infrastructure construction, such innovative tools may become new means of managing risk.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated on Thursday that SpaceX has only agreed to lease the Colossus AI training data center cluster to Anthropic for six months, but he added that the agreement "has the potential" to be extended for several years. "SpaceX has not committed to leasing Colossus for many years, although that could indeed happen."Earlier this year, SpaceX reached an agreement with Anthropic, which pays $1.25 billion per month to use the computing power of the Colossus and Colossus II data center clusters located in Memphis, Tennessee, with the agreement valid until May 2029. SpaceX stated in regulatory filings last week that either party could terminate the agreement with 90 days' notice. The document did not mention the six-month lease agreement.Musk stated that the agreement is a 180-day lease contract, after which either party can terminate with 90 days' notice, "We won't put them in a bind and will provide a reasonable exit plan, but if computing resources become extremely tight, I have indicated that we may need to reclaim those resources at some point."According to SpaceX's IPO filing, the company's AI business unit generated $818 million in revenue for the quarter ending in March, with an operating loss of approximately $2.5 billion.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, ZEC has fallen from its peak to around $550. The "largest short seller of ZEC" continued to stop-loss and reduce their ZEC short position in the afternoon, with a cumulative closing scale exceeding $5 million. This address previously had a ZEC short position of $12.6 million, and after the reduction, the remaining position is about $8.02 million, with a current floating loss of about $1.17 million.This short position was opened on March 10 at an average price of about $210, coinciding with a recent local low. At one point, the floating loss reached as high as $2.4 million, enduring several months of holding and averaging down until ZEC experienced a phase correction.The margin released from reducing ZEC was quickly redirected by this address to short BTC and ETH: a BTC short position was opened shorting 160 coins with 20x leverage, briefly pushing the scale up to $13 million, with an average price of $80,441; an ETH short position was opened shorting 1,866 coins with 15x leverage, with a scale of $4.27 million, at an average price of $2,286. As of the time of writing, both short positions are still being increased.