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ICYMI: Here's a quick recap of some of today's news @TheBlockCo 👇

✍️ HIVE's BUZZ HPC signed a five-year, $350 million GPU cloud agreement with an unnamed investment-grade enterprise customer.

💸 Strategy sold 3.46 million MSTR shares for approximately $333.7 million, but did not buy or sell any bitcoin last week.

🇦🇹 Austria's FMA fined Bitpanda €70,000 ($81,130) for violations of the EU's MiCA rules.

💰 Bitmine acquired 9,926 ETH over the past week, bringing its total holdings to 5.815 million ETH, or 4.8% of the circulating ether supply.

👀 Harmony plans a pre-attack rollback after exploiters forged 3 trillion ONE tokens.

🏛️ The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday will begin seeking public comments on the GENIUS Act, the landmark crypto legislation signed into law last year.

📉 Public bitcoin miners CleanSpark, BitFuFu, and Canaan each reported lower bitcoin production in July for the second consecutive month, even as the price of bitcoin recovered from a major selloff in June.

🗞️ From BlackRock saying bitcoin sentiment is turning, to Goldman Sachs gaining bitcoin and ether income ETFs, plus what's next for the Clarity Act, here's what caught our eye @TheBlockCo this week in The Daily newsletter 👀

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ICYMI: Here's a quick news recap from today's Asia & EMEA sessions @TheBlockCo 👇

🔮 A Washington court ordered Kalshi to stop offering prediction markets related to sports, elections, politics, entertainment, culture, technology, and science, or "mentions" in the state.

🪙 Bitwise announced that it has partnered with Superstate to explore the tokenization of its funds.

😬 MSCI proposed a new eligibility screen for non-operating companies that could result in Strategy and Metaplanet being removed from its Global Investable Market Indexes.

📄 Payward, Kraken's parent company, reported second-quarter adjusted revenue of $508 million, up 17% year over year, and remained adjusted EBITDA positive at $23 million for the quarter ended June 30.

🇳🇴 Norway's sovereign wealth fund saw its indirect bitcoin exposure rise to a record 11,549 BTC in H1, according to K33 Head of Research Vetle Lunde.

💸 Hyperscale Data sold approximately 685 bitcoin for $43 million, reducing its holdings to about 275 BTC as it redirects part of its digital asset treasury toward the continued development of its Michigan data center.