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Mining company IREN has completed the purchase of grid-connected AI data center developer Ingenostrum, S.L. (Nostrum Group). The deal brought the miner into the European market and added about 490 MW of secured capacity in Spain, as well as an additional project portfolio. The Nostrum team of more than 50 employees will move to IREN and continue working under the mining company's brand.

Bitcoin mining difficulty has dropped by 10.09% — to 124.93 T. This is shown by data from the CloverPool service. After the recalculation, the network's average hashrate is about 905.89 EH/s. The next adjustment of the metric is expected in roughly two weeks. One of the largest declines in all of history According to Galaxy Research, the new recalculation became the 11th-largest decline in mining difficulty in the entire history […]

Anthropic has sent senior technical staff to Washington for talks on export restrictions on the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models. This is reported by the WSJ and Axios, citing sources. According to Axios, the startup's technical specialists have been holding virtual meetings with White House representatives since the administration's first approach. On June 12, the US authorities demanded the suspension of access to […]

Analytics firm 10x Research believes that the SpaceX share offering was not the finale but the starting "shot" for three new trades around the space economy. SpaceX held the largest IPO in history, and now, according to analysts, the main opportunity is shifting to the ecosystem around the company. SpaceX placed 555 million shares at $135 and raised $75 billion. Trading opened at $150.

The total value locked in DeFi protocols could grow to $2.7 trillion by the end of 2030. This conclusion was reached by Standard Chartered's head of digital assets research, Geoffrey Kendrick, Cointelegraph writes. According to the expert's forecast, the sector will show 37-fold growth. The main drivers will be RWAs and the development of on-chain protocols. Kendrick noted that currently only 3% of the stablecoin supply and 10% of RWAs are deployed in DeFi. By 2030, the share of use of such assets in protocols could grow to 30%. Scaling the market to $2.7 trillion will require a ninefold increase in the share…