Odaily News: According to MSX.COM data, the losses of the two US CPU giants widened. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell 3% to $612.285 per share, with a total market capitalization of $999.5 billion. Intel dropped 5% to $116.860 per share, with a total market capitalization of $617.7 billion.In addition, US gold and silver mining company stocks followed the decline in gold prices. Newmont Mining fell 4.7%, Harmony Gold dropped 6.7%, Hecla Mining declined 5.9%, and Coeur Mining fell 5.5%.

Odaily News: Hut 8 announced the completion of a $1.07 billion four-year senior secured revolving credit facility, with JPMorgan serving as Lead Arranger, Bookrunner, and Administrative Agent, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley serving as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, and a syndicate comprising 12 lending institutions in total. Hut 8 is primarily engaged in energy infrastructure and digital asset mining businesses.

Odaily: The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to hold a markup on September 16 of a series of digital asset tax bills, moving crypto tax legislation toward a full House vote. The markup focuses on two core issues: when miners and stakers should be taxed on newly created tokens, and whether wash sale rules applicable to stocks should extend to digital assets.The two key bills are the "Mining and Staking Tax Clarity Act" H.R. 9175 and the "Applying Existing Tax Anti-Abuse Rules to Digital Assets Act" H.R. 9172. The former provides that miners and stakers need not pay tax immediately upon receiving new tokens, and can instead pay tax as ordinary income when the tokens are actually sold; the latter extends wash sale and constructive sale rules to actively traded digital assets, closing a tax loophole that crypto traders have exploited for years.

Odaily News - NYSE-listed Cango reported Q2 revenue of $50.8 million, with BTC mining operations contributing $47.4 million and other business revenue of $3.4 million. As of June 30, Cango held 1,056 BTC, with cash and cash equivalents of $10.1 million and long-term debt of $31.2 million.In mining operations, Cango phased out lower-efficiency S19 series miners and partially shifted to a hash rate leasing model. As of June 30, the company's self-operated hash rate stood at 19.84 EH/s, with leased hash rate at 7.74 EH/s, totaling 27.58 EH/s in operational hash rate. In Q2, the company mined 656 BTC at an average cash mining cost of $73,313 per coin, down approximately 5% from Q1. Cango also began implementing a BTC hedging strategy to mitigate the impact of price volatility on operating cash flow.On the AI infrastructure front, Cango's LN mining site in Georgia, USA, completed its retrofitting in early July and now supports up to 3 megawatts of capacity, with room reserved for future expansion. Containerized equipment has been installed, and GPU hardware is arriving in batches. Cango has signed its first AI customer contract and expects to begin recognizing related revenue in Q3.Additionally, Cango plans to develop both bare-metal GPU hosting and cabinet colocation models simultaneously, though no formal cabinet colocation contracts have been signed yet. The company has deployed test nodes in Texas and along the US West Coast to meet customers' low-latency deployment needs, and is evaluating additional potential sites and the feasibility of self-built facilities.

Odaily News Bitcoin mining pool OCEAN announced that, by mutual agreement, co-founder Luke Dashjr has left OCEAN and resigned from his positions as Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and Director. OCEAN has repurchased all of Luke Dashjr's equity stakes. The parting of ways stems from differing visions for the future of Bitcoin mining. Luke Dashjr will participate in the new project CONVOY. OCEAN will continue to serve miners through transparent, non-custodial mining pools.

Odaily News, "White-Haired Stock Guru" Serenity stated on the X platform that following a series of Fact Sheets released by the U.S. government recently, the country's future priority industries and strategic directions can now be seen more clearly.Serenity pointed out that this week, the U.S. government released policy documents related to the "Golden Age of Space Transportation," with the space industry becoming a key area of focus. She believes that relevant policy goals will drive the development of the launch industry and may benefit space supply chain companies, including rocket manufacturers and other enterprises.The U.S. government has proposed a target of achieving 1,000 launch and reentry missions per year by 2030, with rocket companies such as Rocket Lab (RKLB) expected to be beneficiaries. In addition, Serenity stated that other policy areas of U.S. focus this month include: tariffs on drone components; cooperation on U.S. mining and critical mineral resources; adjustments to polysilicon supply chain tariffs; and other strategic industrial policies. By continuously monitoring U.S. government policy documents, it is possible to more directly assess the industry sectors that capital markets will focus on in the future, helping investors identify potential industrial opportunities.

Odaily News: According to MSX.COM data, spot gold rose nearly 3% during the day, which may have driven the U.S. gold sector higher at the market open. Coeur Mining rose over 7%, Eagle Materials, Newmont Mining, and Kinross Gold each gained over 6%, while Pan American Silver, Gold Fields, and Barrick Mining climbed more than 5%.

Odaily News, according to the official announcement, to meet users' diversified investment needs, Bitget has listed perpetual contracts for 3 stocks and ETFs: GDX (Gold Miners ETF), NET (Cloudflare), and LYTE (Photonics and Optics ETF).These contracts are settled in USDT and support up to 20x leverage and 7×24 hour trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 276 stock contract underlyings.

Odaily星球日报讯 据官方公告，币安将于 2026 年 8 月 17 日 13：30 至 8 月 18 日 05：00（UTC）期间，上线 GDXUSDT（VanEck 黄金矿业 ETF）、NETUSDT（Cloudflare）、VSTUSDT（Vistra）、SHOPUSDT（Shopify）、LYTEUSDT 和 CXMTUSDT（长鑫科技）六个 U 本位永续合约，支持最高 20 倍杠杆，资金费率结算频率为每八小时一次，并支持多资产模式。

Odaily News: Keel Infrastructure Corp. (formerly Bitfarms) announced in its Q2 earnings report that it has shut down all of its US Bitcoin mining operations and is preparing to convert its mining sites into AI and high-performance computing data centers. Between April 1 and August 7, the company sold 1,085 BTC, generating $75 million, and currently holds 1,861 BTC. Keel's CEO stated that electricity is the limiting factor. The company's three priority sites are close to obtaining full permits, and multiple potential tenants are in discussions. The company has $819 million in liquidity and unused power capacity through 2027.