Only $35 million of BUZZ’s stated $180 million ARR is active; the rest depends on Q4 deployments.
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Its claimed 9.62-second p99 fits Ethereum's latency target, while workload, proof and whole-system power details remain undisclosed.
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The miner's AI cloud growth may reduce sell pressure, but May data shows Bitcoin retention still lagging.
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Bitcoin miners double down on AI, tokenized RWAs top $43 billion, Ripple strengthens its African payments network and Sam Bankman-Fried loses his appeal.
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More than 172,000 traders were liquidated in a single day as Bitcoin’s losses piled up, pushing the cryptocurrency out of the world’s top 10 largest assets by market cap. Bitcoin now sits at 13th place, trailing gold, NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, and silver, among others. Related Reading: Unknown Wallet Destroys $8.5 Million In Bitcoin In Shocking Burn Longs Take The Brunt Total crypto liquidations reached $921 million within 24 hours, with Bitcoin alone accounting for $352 million. Ethereum followed at $241 million, while XRP, ZEC, HYPE, SUI, DOGE, and NEAR recorded the remaining losses. Long positions made up more than 90% of all liquidations, a sign that traders had bet on a price recovery that never came — resulting in forced selling rather than new bearish bets. Four-hour liquidations hit $95 million, with longs at $55 million and shorts at $39 million. Across exchanges, Hyperliquid and Bybit saw heavy long liquidations, OKX leaned toward short liquidations, and Binance recorded equal long-short positions. Bitcoin was trading around $73,125 at the time of writing, down 1.70% in 24 hours and 5% over the past week. Its intraday range ran from $72,485 to a high of $75,280. A Wider Market Slide The broader crypto market moved in the same direction. Ethereum dropped 5.60% over the week, BNB fell 2.50%, and XRP declined 3.15%, according to Coingecko data. Tether slipped just 0.005%. Meanwhile, gold held the top spot globally with a market cap exceeding $31 trillion, based on CompaniesMarketCap data. NVIDIA, Google, Apple, and Microsoft followed. AI-driven demand has kept NVIDIA and Broadcom among the stronger performers in recent months, while gold and silver have attracted buyers looking for stability. Bitcoin’s total market cap stands at roughly $1.47 trillion — significant by most standards, but no longer enough to place it in the top 10 alongside the world’s biggest companies and commodities. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s 4-Year Rhythm Is Still Playing Out, Says Crypto CEO Bearish Signals Across The Board Technical indicators paint a gloomy picture. On the 1-day chart, moving averages from 10 to 200 periods all point to negative momentum, according to TradingView data. The oscillator group is mixed — the RSI sits at 3 6, which is considered neutral, but two other oscillators are flashing sell signals. Whether Bitcoin can climb back into the top 10 will depend heavily on price action in the weeks ahead. Reports indicate a sustained move above $75,000 could help restore market confidence, while a break below key support levels may extend the current slide. Featured image from Bitpanda Blog, chart from TradingView
Jeff Park argued that crypto is entering a phase similar to Nvidia’s pre-mainstream AI era, when the technological shift was visible to early believers but not yet obvious to the broader market. In an X post defending crypto’s ideological roots on Sunday, Park framed today’s industry as being in a difficult “middle game” before onchain capital markets become self-evident infrastructure. Park’s comparison centered on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Elon Musk’s first public appearance together at GTC 2015, a moment he described as occurring inside a narrow window before AI had become a mainstream consumer or institutional priority. By then, Huang had spent decades backing parallel graphics processing and had supported CUDA since 2006, while Musk had already had what Park called his “Hassabis moment” in 2012. OpenAI, he noted, had not yet been founded. “This is that narrow window where a revolution is visible to some but not others,” Park wrote, “in which both of these geniuses had early inklings of recognizing AI’s pervasive potential, but the broad public was not yet made aware. It would take another 10 years for it reach mainstream applications of course.” Why Crypto Looks Like Nvidia Park said he sees crypto in a similar position today. Before GPUs became central to the AI boom, the technology was sustained by gamers, hobbyists and researchers who pushed its capabilities without necessarily knowing they were helping subsidize a much larger computing transition. In his analogy, early DeFi played a comparable role for crypto by subsidizing the development path toward institutional tokenization. Related Reading: European Commission Launches Crypto Rules Review As Euro Stablecoin Project Gains Support “Gamers subsidized AI’s development, just like early DeFi subsidized the institutional tokenization development,” he wrote. The core of Park’s argument is that crypto’s hardest phase is not the early ideological phase or the eventual mature phase. It is the transitional stage between them. He borrowed from Elon Musk’s remarks about autonomous driving at GTC 2015, where Musk said the simplest parts were very low-speed driving, where a vehicle can stop, and high-speed driving, where rules are more structured. The hardest part, in Park’s telling, is the 10-to-50 mph zone: urban environments with bikes, children, cones, manholes and edge cases requiring both precision and speed. Park applied that framework to crypto infrastructure. The “0-10 mph” phase was permissionless money, a use case he said people could understand from a practical standpoint. The “50 mph+” phase, in his view, will be onchain capital markets becoming obvious because of self-custody, capital efficiency, money velocity and settlement optimization. The difficult part is what sits in between. “But its the 10-50 thats hard, where money in a pre-internet financial infrastructure is hitting AML/KYC, offshore capital conduits, discretionary bank risk models, lagging reporting regimes create all kinds of need of need for precision and speed that institutional infrastructure today needs to develop further,” Park wrote. “Its fundamentally solvable, but this is the most challenging portion of fulfilling the dreams of onchain capital markets.” Related Reading: Washington Moves To Review Crypto Tax Rules With New IRS Study Bill Park also drew a distinction between Bitcoin and the wider crypto sector, while rejecting the idea that support for one must exclude the other. He said Bitcoin and crypto are not trying to solve identical problems, even if both originate from a similar ideological impulse around open access. “I love bitcoin. But contrary to some opinion, I believe its possible to love crypto too, because bitcoin is a monetary experiment enabled by the evolution of technology, while most of crypto is the inverse: a technology experiment enabled by the evolution of money,” he wrote. “They are fundamentally solving different problems, though rooted in one ideal: to make its access as much of a public good as possible.” Park’s broader thesis is that the ideology behind crypto is not fading but changing shape. He described the “winning ideology” as “technological financialization,” a form of hyperfinancialization with decentralizing elements that exports sovereign finance, agentic rails and self-determination as public goods. That framing matters because much of the industry’s current debate is focused on whether crypto’s institutionalization weakens its original purpose. Park’s answer is that the ideological layer remains essential, but the practical expression of that ideology is now moving through financial infrastructure, tokenized markets and systems that need to interact with existing compliance and banking regimes. “This ‘middle game’ period will be remembered as the most critical juncture for the industry,” Park wrote, adding that the future belongs to “those who recognized it was always ideological.” At press time, the total crypto market cap stood at $2.55 trillion. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The deal marks the first phase of Hut 8 commercializing its Beacon Point data center campus located in Nueces County, Texas.
NVIDIA shares, NVDA, fell 7% on Thursday after a US federal judge allowed an investor lawsuit to proceed as a class action, reviving allegations that the company and CEO Jensen Huang concealed more than $1 billion in crypto-mining–related graphics card sales. NVIDIA Accused Of Hiding $1 Billion In Crypto Sales The suit, originally filed in 2018, contends that NVIDIA misled shareholders by attributing surging revenue to gaming demand while minimizing the substantial contribution from cryptocurrency miners. Plaintiffs maintain that the company funneled orders from miners through consumer GeForce gaming cards rather than reporting them under dedicated crypto product lines, inflating the appearance of organic gaming growth. Related Reading: MARA Holdings’ Bitcoin Sell-Off: 15,000 BTC Liquidated As Prices Crash Below $69,000 According to internal testimony and documents disclosed in the court filing, independent analyses place undisclosed crypto-related GPU revenue between $1.1 billion and $1.35 billion—far exceeding what NVIDIA publicly acknowledged at the time. In court materials, one insider identified as “FE 1” explained how the tracking system monitored miner purchases; another, “FE 2,” said Huang participated in sales meetings where crypto-driven demand and its effects on revenue were discussed. Plaintiffs argue these accounts, together with internal records, show NVIDIA was aware of the scale of miner demand but publicly downplayed its significance. Class Action Certified Despite Company Defense NVIDIA has long maintained that crypto mining accounted for only a small fraction of its business and that any mining-related exposure was largely confined to dedicated Crypto SKUs within its OEM segment. NVIDIA’s defense has drawn backing from industry groups: in August 2024, the Digital Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief urging the US Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision that had partially revived the case. Regulators have previously sanctioned NVIDIA over related disclosure issues. In 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined the company $5.5 million and issued a cease-and-desist order for allegedly failing to fully disclose how crypto-mining demand affected fiscal 2018 results. Despite that settlement, plaintiffs say the newly surfaced internal emails and testimony support their contention that NVIDIA’s public statements materially mischaracterized the drivers of its 2018 revenue. Related Reading: Ethereum (ETH) May Be Reversing Course, Says Top Analyst; Watch These Key Resistances The alleged concealment had real market consequences: when cryptocurrency prices collapsed in late 2018, and miner demand evaporated, NVIDIA sharply lowered its revenue guidance, citing excess inventory and weaker miner orders. The stock plunged over two trading days, precipitating the investor suit that has now been certified as a class action by Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. Judge Gilliam reached the certification after NVIDIA failed to demonstrate that its statements had no impact on the company’s stock price. Court filings also include an internal email from a senior vice president that suggested NVIDIA’s valuation remained elevated because of the company’s public reassurances—an item plaintiffs point to as evidence of market effect. At the time of writing, NVDA was trading at $172, down almost 18% from its all-time high of $212 set in October of last year. Featured image from CNBC, chart from TradingView.com
A federal judge certified a class of Nvidia investors alleging billions of dollars in undisclosed crypto-related GPU revenue.
Bittensor’s TAO ripped higher on Thursday and topped in early European trading on Friday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the project on the All-In podcast, pushing the token from $243.5 to $310.6 before it cooled to $298.1 by press time. The move put one of crypto’s most closely watched AI-linked assets back in focus, not because Huang endorsed the token directly, but because he treated the underlying technical milestone as meaningful in a much bigger debate over open AI infrastructure. The moment came when Chamath Palihapitiya pointed Huang to what he called a “pretty crazy technical accomplishment” inside “this crypto project called Bittensor.” He described a recent training run on Subnet 3 in which participants used distributed excess compute to train a Llama model “totally distributed” while still managing the process statefully. Nvidia CEO Responds To Bittensor’s Accomplishment Huang’s immediate reaction was brief but memorable: “Our modern version of Folding@home.” That line mattered because it effectively reframed Bittensor’s latest milestone in language traditional tech audiences already understand. Folding@home was one of the most recognizable examples of decentralized volunteer computers; Huang’s comparison suggested he viewed Bittensor’s experiment less as crypto theater and more as a legitimate expression of distributed coordination. Related Reading: Austin Arnold Unveils His Top 6 Crypto Altcoin Picks For 2026 In the context of TAO’s price action, traders appeared to read that as external validation from one of the most influential executives in AI hardware. Huang then widened the discussion beyond Bittensor itself and into the structure of the AI market. “I believe we fundamentally need models as first-class products, proprietary products, as well as models as open source. These two things are not A or B, it’s A and B. There’s no question about it,” he said. He followed that with an even sharper distinction: “Models are a technology, not a product. Models are technology, not a service.” Related Reading: Is Dogecoin About To Repeat NVIDIA’s Run? Here’s What The Chart Says He spent the next stretch explaining why that dual-track model matters. For general-purpose consumer use, Huang said most people will continue to prefer turnkey services rather than fine-tuning their own systems. “I would really, really love not to go fine-tune my own. I would really love to keep using ChatGPT. I love to use Claude. I love to use Gemini. I love to use X,” he said, arguing that this horizontal layer of AI products “is thriving” and “is going to be great.” On the @theallinpod this week, @chamath asked @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about decentralized AI training, calling our Covenant-72B run “a pretty crazy technical accomplishment.” One correction: it’s 72 billion parameters, not four. Trained permissionlessly across 70+ contributors… pic.twitter.com/BN0tWG66e8 — templar (@tplr_ai) March 19, 2026 But he drew a hard line when it came to industry-specific deployment, saying domain expertise “has to be captured in a way that they can control,” and that “it can only come from open models.” That distinction goes to the heart of why Bittensor reacted so violently. While Huang didn’t make a token call, or presented Bittensor as the winner of open AI, he did endorse the coexistence of proprietary and open model ecosystems, while acknowledging that specialized industries will need more controllable, open foundations. At press time, TAO traded at $297.0 Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
CEO Jensen Huang predicted $1 trillion in chip demand through 2027 and praised OpenClaw and the rapid rise of agentic AI systems.
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The Nvidia CEO laid out a five-layer framework for AI infrastructure in his first standalone blog post in months, pushing back against the narrative that AI will destroy jobs.
The AI-linked cryptocurrencies moved higher after a report from Wired said Nvidia is planning an open-source platform for autonomous AI agents.
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As the Bitcoin market reels from a sharp sell-off and uncertainty grips the broader crypto space, most attention remains locked on falling prices and broken support levels. Meanwhile, Theo4 is executing with precision on Polymarket, steadily building a reputation as one of the platform’s most dominant traders. While panic and emotion drive losses elsewhere, Theo4’s performance underscores a different approach. How Theo4 Quietly Became Polymarket’s Standout Performer While much of the crypto world fixated on the Bitcoin crash, Theo4 has quietly become one of the most successful and talked-about traders on Polymarket. A crypto analyst known as BeingInvested has revealed on X that since joining the platform in October 2024, Theo4 has made just 14 predictions and has highly concentrated positions that have generated an astonishing $22.05 million in profits. This accumulation places the trader among the largest and most profitable accounts publicly visible on the platform. Related Reading: 70% Of Institutional Investors Aren’t Buying The Bitcoin Top Narrative – Here’s Why Theo4 placed huge bets at prices that turned out to be still deeply attractive: $0.37 on Donald Trump winning the popular vote, $0.60 on a Trump presidency, 35 cents on a Republican double, and $0.63-$0.66 betting against a Harris win, and several aligned positions reinforcing the same core thesis. Rather than scattering capital across many outcomes, Theo4 has extremely well-timed directional conviction around the Trump sweep narrative. Amid the BTC drawdown, the Epstein theory is making waves. Analyst Zynx argued that it’s disturbing how Bitcoin critics are pushing the Epstein narrative. These are the same people who repeatedly claimed that Strategy was on the verge of liquidation. They cannot tolerate the reality that BTC is winning, so they resort to misinformation to undermine it. Firstly, they labeled BTC as a tool for criminals, and now they are attempting to associate it with some of the most nefarious individuals imaginable. However, no matter how aggressively they try to taint the image of BTC, Zynx noted that it will never stop people from buying, and it is the only thing that sets them free. Why Understanding The Expanded Flat Pattern As the Bitcoin flat pattern continues to develop into its final leg, it’s important to understand how the expanded flat pattern actually behaves. According to Decode, in these structures, the price can break high-time-frame support, print a lower low, and then continue higher afterward. This behavior runs directly against the dominant bearish narrative that a lower low must signal a confirmed bear market. Related Reading: Is The Bitcoin Bottom In? CMT Reveals What Traders Need To See Now Decode pointed out that the structure shown on Google and Nvidia charts is not always the case. In reality, it is often the wave of traders going short at the break of the structure that fuels the reversal higher. “Trends are not black and white, bull or bear, but there are other ways to look at things,” Decode noted. Featured image from Pngtree, chart from Tradingview.com
Already an investor in CoreWeave, Nvidia last September had agreed to purchase $6.3 billion of computing services from the AI infrastructure provider.
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A crypto market analyst has compared XRP to NVIDIA, an American technology company with one of the biggest tech success stories in history. The analyst implied that buying XRP today could mirror the opportunity investors had when purchasing NVIDIA shares in 2000 at just $0.35. The comparison emphasizes the long-term potential of the XRP price and highlights the importance of HODLing. XRP Today Shows Growth Potential Like NVIDIA In 2000 A leading market expert, Egrag Crypto, has drawn a striking parallel between the current XRP price and the early days of NVIDIA. He suggested that buying XRP now could be akin to purchasing NVIDIA shares at just $0.35, as recorded in 2000. At the time of writing, the shares are priced around $180, representing a staggering 51,329% increase from over two decades ago. Related Reading: Brace For Impact: XRP Price Has Formed A Bullish Cross On Its Weekly Stochastic RSI Egrag Crypto points out that a $10,000 investment in NVIDIA at $0.35 per share in 2000 would have secured roughly 28,571 shares. At today’s prices, those shares would be worth over $5,142,780, demonstrating an investment strategy focused more on maintaining conviction and patience than timing or predicting the market perfectly. Beyond this, the analyst’s comparison illustrates the power of investing long-term in disruptive technologies, showing how early adoption and willingness to hold through volatility can result in life-changing gains. Applying this perspective to XRP, Egrag Crypto highlighted that the cryptocurrency has surged from $0.006 to $3.65 over the past 10 years. By comparing the altcoin to NVIDIA shares, he suggests the cryptocurrency could have similar potential for transformative, explosive growth. As a result, he implied that the current XRP price of $2.2 may present a potential entry point for investors willing to commit to a disciplined long-term strategy. Much like NVIDIA in its early days around 2000, XRP is still in the initial stages of its growth trajectory. The cryptocurrency recently emerged from a prolonged legal battle with the US SEC that had constrained its development and price appreciation for nearly 7 years. With increasing utility and ongoing ecosystem developments, XRP is well-positioned to grow over time. While its price has declined roughly 20% this year, according to CoinMarketCap, analysts remain optimistic about its long-term outlook. XRP On-Chain Activity Hits Record Levels On the technical front, XRP has experienced a remarkable surge in on-chain activity, signaling heightened engagement across the network. Data from CryptoQuant shows that on December 2, the velocity metric for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) spiked to a yearly high of $0.0324. Related Reading: Warning: XRP Price Is Forming A Death Cross That Previously Led To A 15% Crash Analysts from CryptoQuant have revealed that the rise in circulation velocity suggests that XRP is being actively traded rather than sitting idle in cold wallets. The increase points to high liquidity and significant participation from whales who appear to be moving large amounts of tokens. Additionally, such activity indicates that the XRP network is experiencing unprecedented levels of engagement, with more coins changing hands in a short time than the market has seen so far in 2025. Featured image from Freepik, chart from Tradingview.com
In a wide-ranging interview, Huang claims AI growth is gradual, powerful and already changing global power dynamics.
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A crypto analyst known as Pumpius has issued a bold warning on social media platform X, declaring that a massive liquidity wave is about to sweep through global markets, and XRP could be the key asset positioned to capture it. His post, shared alongside a chart of the US national debt now above $38 trillion, argues that a combination of government stimulus, monetary easing, and corporate spending is about to unleash a surge of capital unlike anything seen since the 2020 pandemic. Liquidity Flood And The Return Of Stimulus Spending In his analysis, Pumpius highlighted that the United States government is preparing to inject over $400 billion in new stimulus payments, and this is going to be the first direct round of such spending since 2021. This comes at a time when the Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates despite inflation still sitting above 3% and labor market data showing signs of cooling. Related Reading: XRP Price To Reach $1,000 By End Of 2025? Rumor Mills Are On Fire With BlackRock Speculations A similar setup in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic led to an enormous wave of liquidity that lifted both traditional and crypto markets to record highs. Now, President Donald Trump has vowed to provide each American a $2,000 dividend to be distributed from what he said was tariff revenue. The chart shown below illustrates a notable connection vividly: each major stimulus injection, from the $270 billion to $410 billion rounds, coincided with sharp jumps in the national debt and subsequent market expansions. With total US debt now projected to exceed $38 trillion, Pumpius believes another round of liquidity growth is close. The analyst went on to point out that this time, the liquidity wave is not just based on government spending but also on private-sector investment on an extraordinary scale. The so-called Magnificent 7 technology companies (Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia, and Tesla) are collectively pouring over $100 billion every quarter into artificial intelligence infrastructure. XRP Positioned As The Bridge For Global Capital Flow According to Pumpius, all this incoming liquidity needs a bridge, an asset capable of settling large-value transactions instantly across borders. He described XRP as the only digital asset designed precisely for this purpose, built for institutional-grade, real-time settlement and capable of handling global capital flows efficiently. Related Reading: Analyst Predicts XRP Price Will Decouple From Bitcoin, Here’s What Would Happen Ripple’s technology already provides the financial infrastructure necessary to connect banks, fintechs, and payment systems that will need to move funds quickly as liquidity expands. “The math is simple,” he said. “The liquidity is coming. The rails are ready. Own XRP or be left behind,” he concluded. XRP is one of the top-traded digital assets by volume, and market participants are watching closely to see how the cryptocurrency’s price action plays out. Ripple, its parent technology company, has been making different partnership moves and company acquisitions to expand its reach. This is expected to hopefully boost XRP’s adoption on a global scale and, in turn, its price growth. At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $2.45, down by 1.4% in the past 24 hours. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com
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Bitcoin is not just lagging gold in 2025, but its returns have also slipped below those of the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.