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Bitcoin miners are increasingly positioning themselves as providers of artificial intelligence infrastructure and high-performance computing capacity, but the stock-market reaction to fresh AI hosting deals has cooled markedly in the past couple of years. New research suggests that while contract values are growing, investors are paying less attention to the headline announcement and more attention to what happens next—execution, funding, and long-term profitability.
According to an analysis by Blocksbridge Consulting published in TheEnergyMag’s Miner Weekly, deals tied to AI infrastructure have become less “market-moving.” The report reviewed 25 AI and HPC infrastructure contracts announced between June 2024 and August 2026, finding that the average stock move on announcement day fell from roughly 24% for the earliest deals to about 10% for the most recent ones. Median gains also declined by around half over the same period, even as the reported size and value of the contracts increased.
Key takeaways
- Blocksbridge Consulting’s review shows AI/HPC deal announcement-day reactions weakening from ~24% average moves to ~10% in later deals.
- Median gains from these announcements dropped by about half despite larger contract sizes, implying investors value execution more than upfront figures.
- Revenue per contracted megawatt has inched higher over time, suggesting AI hosting agreements are becoming more financially attractive.
- Major early wins for miners tied to notable AI counterparties produced sharp stock jumps, while newer mega-deals have generated smaller, shorter-lived reactions.
- Investor caution is also visible in infrastructure-focused indices, with TheEnergyMag’s TEM AI Infrastructure Growth Index down ~28.5% from its June peak.
Why AI-hosting news is moving stocks less
The central takeaway from the Blocksbridge Consulting analysis is not that AI hosting deals are shrinking—they appear to be growing in economic importance—but that markets have started to anticipate them. As more miners and infrastructure providers offer similar propositions, investors may treat new contracts as incremental confirmation rather than a sudden re-rating of business prospects.
The report points to a nuanced shift. On one hand, annualized revenue per contracted megawatt has edged upward across the sample, an indicator that AI hosting agreements may be improving in value. On the other hand, the reduced market reaction suggests that investors now scrutinize the substance behind those deals: whether capacity can be delivered on time, how projects are financed, and how durable profitability will be once contract ramp-ups and operational costs are accounted for.
In other words, it’s possible for deals to be economically better while still failing to trigger the same stock enthusiasm as earlier announcements—because expectations adjust. When investors believe execution risk is either higher or more variable than the market used to assume, the “surprise” embedded in contract headlines becomes smaller.
Early deal spikes versus muted mega-deal reactions
The difference between early and later announcements stands out in examples cited alongside the Blocksbridge Consulting findings. According to the report’s examples, initial agreements connected to AI infrastructure sparked dramatic moves for certain miners and hosting operators.
Core Scientific’s initial hosting agreement with CoreWeave reportedly pushed its shares up by more than 40%. Applied Digital’s first CoreWeave lease gained nearly 49%, while TeraWulf’s first Fluidstack deal surged almost 60%.
But as the market has absorbed similar news, later mega-deals have tended to elicit more modest reactions. TeraWulf’s 401-megawatt lease with Anthropic lifted its shares by about 5%. CleanSpark’s $6.6 billion AI hosting agreement reportedly gained nearly 9%. Bitdeer’s new Tydal contract briefly pushed its stock up roughly 12%, but the gains reportedly faded by the close.
That pattern fits the report’s broader conclusion: investors appear more likely to react to earlier “proof points” and less likely to reprice rapidly when a company announces a larger continuation of an established AI hosting strategy. For traders and portfolio managers, the implication is straightforward—volatility around announcements may be structurally lower than it was during the market’s earlier phase of AI infrastructure discovery.
Indexes show momentum slowing, not demand disappearing
The cooling enthusiasm is also reflected beyond individual stock moves. The TheEnergyMag TEM AI Infrastructure Growth Index—tracking publicly traded companies developing AI data center and digital infrastructure businesses—has reportedly fallen about 28.5% from its June peak, even though the index remains sharply higher than a year earlier. The implication is that investors have not abandoned the sector, but they have reduced the intensity of the chase.
The same article notes that the slowdown in these AI infrastructure equities has mirrored broader risk appetite. It cites the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index falling nearly 17% from its July peak, suggesting that part of the recent softness could be tied to sector-wide sentiment rather than purely idiosyncratic execution concerns for specific mining or hosting players.
For Bitcoin miners that have broadened into AI workloads and high-performance computing, this matters because their ability to convert new contracts into steady earnings depends not only on deal economics, but also on the capital markets environment. When AI infrastructure equity momentum slows, lenders and equity investors often become more selective about who can finance expansions and meet delivery timelines—exactly the areas the Blocksbridge analysis implies investors are emphasizing more now.
What investors should watch next
If the market is indeed moving toward a more “disciplined” pricing of AI hosting deals, the next signals will likely be less about the size of the headline contract and more about execution milestones: ramp schedules, delivery progress, and evidence that annualized megawatt economics can hold up as contracts scale. Readers should watch whether announcement-day reactions continue to weaken as deals become more common, or whether new structures—potentially with clearer financing and delivery frameworks—can restore stronger sentiment.
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An additional 22 miles of the waterborne barrier system has been constructed since Trump’s return to office.
Challenges in construction
Trump’s Administrations have faced several hurdles in constructing the border wall.
One aspect of the construction that has posed significant challenges has been the need to acquire land that is already owned. Approximately 70% of the border is made up of private, tribal, or state-owned land, according to the GAO. And the federal government has faced pushback from all three fronts.
Among multiple challenges that have been made in response to the government’s attempts to acquire land, the Texas General Land Office in July sent CBP and an agency contractor a cease-and-desist letter after it said it discovered that the contractor had cleared over a mile of state land for construction, using heavy machinery and destroying vegetation.
“Texas sovereignty will not be infringed upon by failure to follow established protocol,” said Commissioner Dawn Buckingham in a statement. “I am committed to maintaining a positive relationship with CBP, but we will not allow rogue actors who breached our agreement to undermine the incredible work we do for Texas.”
Culper Research shorted Nvidia after predicting the $5 trillion AI giant might be re-routing Chinese demand for AI chips through sketchy deals with neighboring countries.
Almost no one believed it at the time, but as it turns out, it called the top.
Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s guidance of “assuming zero for China” to comply with US export controls to the country, the company actually benefitted from work-arounds and created big problems for itself in neighboring nations.
“I’m forecasting China’s sales to be zero,” Huang said in November 2025 after US export restrictions halted Nvidia’s chip sales to China. “It’s zero for the next quarter, zero for the quarter after that. We’re assuming it’s going to be zero.”
By May 13, however, Culper Research sniffed a problem with that claim and sold-short Nvidia shares. It sensed that Nvidia might be re-routing its Chinese demand for AI chips via Taiwan and places like Malaysia and Singapore.
It also foresaw legal problems as regulators discovered its diversions.
With the exception of one day immediately following that report, Nvidia’s stock has never closed any day higher than its May 13 close.
Calling the top on Nvidia
It was an unexpected and remarkably accurate call in the middle of a bullish mania. The week prior to the report, Nvidia had rallied 13%, and shares were up an impressive 20% year-to-date.
Skeptical, Culper Research wrote, “We are short Nvidia for one reason: The company has a significant China problem.”
As it turns out, Nvidia did have massive, unpublished problems in China and neighboring Taiwan. In the three months since that report, those problems became mainstream news.
On July 24, Taiwanese prosecutors searched the home and workplace of an Nvidia employee suspected of smuggling prohibited chips to China. Investigators also went through his desk at the company’s Taipei office.
It’s the first known legal action against an alleged Nvidia employee in Taiwan’s widening AI chip-smuggling investigation. Prosecutors said the man was “strongly suspected of having committed the offences,” and cited a risk of flight and destruction of evidence.
That story surfaced on July 28. The same day, Jensen Huang quietly sat down with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington, DC.
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On May 13, Culper Research estimated that more than 20% of Nvidia’s fiscal 2026 compute revenue would still run on Chinese demand, even though that demand would, according to its analysis, probably run through Southeast Asian intermediaries and Taiwanese diversions.
The report named those intermediaries: Singapore’s Megaspeed, Malaysia’s Speedmatrix, and a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Gigabyte, Giga Computing.
Crucially, Culper warned that the exposed corridor of Chinese demand routing through Taiwan was “just one of many in what is a complex and far-flung operation.”
It predicted multiple additional Nvidia OEMs, partners, and intermediaries would sustain their Chinese demand through intermediaries in nearby countries.
A former high-level Nvidia employee told the firm that “Megaspeed is just the tip of the iceberg.”
Huang insisted the company wasn’t skirting export restrictions and that it “repeatedly tested and sampled data centers around the world and found no diversion.”
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Wintermute’s US arm has registered as a broker-dealer and already signed exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers as clients, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The registration clears Wintermute USA to register as a market maker on American stock exchanges. Chief Executive Evgeny Gaevoy said the firm wants to compete with Jump Trading, Jane Street and Citadel Securities within three to five years.
What the Wintermute Broker License Changes
One list frames the whole move. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust held $43.2 billion at the end of June. A dozen firms are cleared to create and redeem its shares, the job that keeps an ETF trading close to the value of what it holds.
Not one of them is a crypto company. The fund’s latest prospectus names Jane Street, Citadel Securities, Virtu Americas, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan among them.
That is the gap Wintermute is stepping into. It says it quotes prices across more than 60 venues, yet it could not touch the plumbing of crypto’s own flagship product. The job needs a broker-dealer license.
Now it has one. It also has customers waiting, according to the Journal.
Registration does not make Wintermute a Wall Street firm overnight. It makes it eligible.
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Wintermute Takes Aim at Jump, Jane Street and Citadel
Gaevoy gave himself three to five years to catch those three firms, the Journal reported.
The plan runs in stages. Wintermute starts with commodities and digital asset ETFs, the markets closest to what it already trades. Tokenized equities follow, if regulators allow them. Designated market maker status on a major exchange sits at the end.
Each stage needs a separate approval. None of them is automatic.
The numbers show how steep the climb is.
Three firms hold designated market maker status on the New York Stock Exchange, according to the exchange’s own model. They are Citadel Securities, Virtu Americas and GTS Securities.
Every listed stock gets exactly one. Citadel Securities holds that role for more than 1,900 of them, about 62% of NYSE listings, and issuers picked it for more than 80% of NYSE IPOs. A designated market maker must also carry at least $75 million in capital before inventory risk.
Wintermute’s case rests on who it already serves. Institutions drove 72% of its spot over-the-counter (OTC) volume in the first half of 2026, up from 59% a year earlier, according to Wintermute’s institutional flow data.
“At three quarters of volume, institutional flow defines market structure,” Wintermute, H1 2026 OTC flow report.
Those clients already buy equities, commodities and ETFs somewhere else.
The groundwork started early. The firm opened a New York headquarters in May 2025 and hired Ron Hammond, previously of the Blockchain Association, to lead policy work.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has 180 days to act once a membership application is complete. It oversaw 3,184 broker-dealers at the end of 2025, down from 3,394 in 2021.
Wintermute joins a shrinking club, not a crowded one.
Tokenized Stocks Remain the Bigger Prize
The tokenized equities stage carries the most weight.
That market is already forming. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cleared a tokenized share trading rule from Nasdaq in March 2026. In June, NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange backed a tokenized equities venture with OKX.
Wintermute had already made its case. In a September 2025 submission to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, it argued broker-dealers should be free to trade tokenized securities for their own account and hold them in wallet software.
That was a lobbying position then. It is a licensed firm’s position now.
Two questions remain open. Which securities Wintermute quotes first, and whether any exchange grants it market maker status at all.
Registration buys the ticket. It does not hand over the seat.
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Optimism plans to release about 343 million OP over the next 12 months. Its buyback program has bought back 9 million.
Year 5 runs from May 2026 to April 2027 on the Foundation’s budget calendar. Its outlook for that stretch landed Thursday, five days after OP hit the lowest price in its history.
What Optimism’s Year 5 Outlook Projects
Optimism is an Ethereum layer-2 network. OP is its governance token. Each year the Foundation sets out where new OP will come from. Four sources feed Year 5.
- The Ecosystem Fund supplies the biggest piece at 200 million OP.
- Early core contributors add 47.6 million.
- Investors add 15.3 million.
- The Governance Fund adds 10 million.
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Airdrops and Retro Funding are both set at zero.
Add those lines together and the total comes to 272.9 million OP. The report’s own supply target implies 343 million. The 70 million difference goes unexplained.
There is a second gap. The report puts circulating supply at 2.16 billion OP. The Foundation’s official tracker, which the same report names as the canonical record, showed 2.29 billion on Thursday. That leaves 125 million OP unaccounted for.
The Foundation describes its numbers as directional estimates. Even the low reading still points to more than 200 million new tokens. Investors already hold 92% of their allocation. Early contributors hold 78%. These large scheduled token unlocks now draw from a shrinking pool.
Buybacks Cover Only a Fraction of New Supply
Governance approved the buyback in January 2026. It routes up to half of Superchain revenue into monthly OP purchases for one year.
The first purchase cleared on March 5. It spent 95.8 ETH and picked up 1.57 million OP, according to the Foundation’s public thread.
Purchases now top 9 million OP, worth roughly $781,000. Set against 343 million in projected unlocks, that is one token bought for every 38 released.
The revenue behind those buybacks is shrinking too. Coinbase’s Base network left the OP Stack in February. OP fell 23% on the news, and Optimism cut more than 20% of its staff weeks later.
OP traded near its record low at $0.0867 on Thursday, down 2.5% on the day. It bottomed at $0.082043 on August 1. The token now sits 98% below its March 2024 peak of $4.84.
Enterprise Bet Now Carries the Token
Optimism has stopped handing tokens to users. No airdrops ran in Year 4. Retro Funding paused after Season 7. The Grants Council budget shrank.
Both programs sit mostly unspent. Retro Funding has used 81.4 million OP of an 859 million pool.
OP Enterprise replaced them in January 2026, selling production-grade infrastructure to exchanges, fintechs and banks. Bitpanda’s Vision Chain, Ink and a Dunamu agreement for GIWA Chain lead the customer list. Base signed on as a paying client in the same post that announced its exit.
The Foundation tied all future spending to that shift.
“token deployment is tied to the OP Enterprise strategy and measured against OP Mainnet growth and enterprise customer acquisition,” the Optimism Foundation said in a report.
OP Mainnet grew monthly transactions by more than 60% in Year 4. The projected unlocks are worth about $29.8 million at current prices, or 15% of the token’s entire market value. For holders, the question is simple. Can enterprise revenue grow faster than the supply still to come?
Optimism did not immediately respond to BeInCrypto’s request for comment.
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July was the month the market caught its breath. After a June defined by a hawkish Fed surprise, a broken ETF cycle, and one of Bitcoin’s worst monthly candles in years, July delivered the opposite script: a steady grind higher, a World Cup campaign that closed out on schedule, a tennis debut at Wimbledon, and a security backdrop across the industry that made Zoomex’s transparency stack more relevant than ever. The month proved that recovery, like the drawdown before it, tests infrastructure just as hard as a crash does.
Zoomex by the Numbers
Against that backdrop, Zoomex’s value proposition stayed exactly where it was in June: sub-10ms execution, a dual liquidity pool architecture blending internal depth with aggregated external liquidity, and a minimalist interface built to hold up when volatility spikes in either direction. The platform continues to serve over 3 million registered users across 35-plus regions, with a catalogue spanning 700-plus trading pairs across Perpetual USDT, Inverse Perpetuals, Spot, tokenized equities, and now Predict Market contracts.
July’s test looked different from June’s. Rather than a single violent liquidation event, the month asked Zoomex’s infrastructure to hold up through a slower, choppier grind higher punctuated by a contentious Fed decision and an industry-wide spike in security incidents elsewhere. Zoomex’s regulatory stack, Canada MSB, US MSB, US NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, stayed unchanged and fully active through it, and the platform’s Hacken security audits and Proof of Reserves framework remained the answer to a month where trust, not just speed, was the thing being tested across the sector.
What Zoomex Shipped in July
World Cup Predict Market Series Reaches Its Finale
Zoomex closed out its five-part World Cup Edition X Space series, part of the Zoomex World Cup Impact Pledge, with back-to-back episodes featuring some of football’s biggest names. England goalkeeper David James joined the third episode on July 9.
It was followed by Argentina legend and two-time Olympic gold medalist Javier Mascherano for the #ZOOMEXFootballAMA episode on July 14 hosted from Boston hours before the quarterfinals kicked off.
The series wrapped with a World Cup Final Panel featuring Fernando Llorente in late July. Each episode carried a charity component: Zoomex committed 1,000 USDT per episode to a cause chosen by that episode’s football guest, rising by an additional 5,000 USDT whenever the guest’s match prediction landed.
Zoomex Debuts at Wimbledon 2026
Zoomex extended its sports footprint beyond football and Formula 1, marking its first entry into elite tennis through partnerships with three professional players, Felix Gill, James Duckworth, and Roman Safiullin, timed to Wimbledon 2026.
Alongside the sponsorship, Zoomex launched a dedicated tennis Predict Market and a Grand Slam Trading Challenge, letting users trade to earn Lottery Tickets toward Wimbledon prizing while forecasting match outcomes and key moments as the tournament played out, extending the same Elite Access Platform positioning that has anchored its football and racing partnerships all year.
Home Race Week With Ollie Bearman
Zoomex’s Formula 1 partnership stayed active through the sport’s own headline week, as Silverstone hosted the British Grand Prix with Haas driver, Zoomex partner, and local favorite Ollie Bearman racing in front of a home crowd.
The platform marked the occasion with dedicated content around Bearman’s Silverstone weekend, keeping the F1 partnership visible alongside the month’s football and tennis campaigns rather than treating it as a one-off from earlier in the year.
Regulatory Watch: July’s Countdown Redefines Crypto’s Rulebook
Zoomex closed out July’s regulatory coverage by tracking the CLARITY Act’s stalled momentum, updated text was out and a floor vote was targeted before the August recess, but an ethics dispute kept blocking the final step, dropping the odds of 2026 passage sharply. Against that backdrop, MiCA continued cementing its position in Europe as the only fully operational framework.
Macro Meets Crypto: When the Regime Flips
Zoomex broke down how July inverted the macro playbook that had defined crypto trading through 2025 and early 2026. Instead of tariffs weakening the dollar and the Fed inching rates lower, July brought a strengthening dollar and a new Fed chair talking hikes instead of cuts, forcing traders to rewrite the script mid-cycle.
Grid Trading on Zoomex: How to Profit From Sideways Markets
With July’s price action defined by a choppier, range-bound grind rather than a clean trend, Zoomex published a breakdown of its Contract Grid tool, designed specifically for markets that drift sideways for days or weeks without a decisive move.
Zoomex Predict World: Turning Crypto Markets, Sports, and Global Events Into Live, Tradable Charts
Alongside the World Cup campaign, Zoomex’s Predict Market kept broadening its scope through July, letting users trade not just match outcomes but geopolitical and macro questions from the same interface, from Venezuela-related political scenarios to speculation around a potential Russian nuclear test by a set 2026 deadline. The mix reinforced the product’s core pitch: one prediction venue spanning sports, crypto price action, and world events, rather than a football-only campaign tool.
Zoomex Monthly On-Chain Report: June 2026
Rounding out coverage carried over from June, Zoomex published its monthly on-chain report highlighting a pivotal month for the platform’s on-chain footprint, marked by a dramatic surge in exchange trade volume, sustained multi-chain asset growth, and a diversified pattern of capital flows.
CEX Security Architecture: How Your Funds Are Protected on Zoomex
Zoomex closed the month’s editorial output with a deep dive into its 7-layer security architecture, framed against the industry’s track record of exchange failures, from the FTX collapse to the Bybit exploit that resulted in $1.5 billion in losses in early 2025, positioning Zoomex’s safeguards as the counterpoint to that history.
World Cup Prediction Market Campaign Wraps Up
The World Cup Prediction Market Campaign that opened in mid-June ran through July 18, giving users a full month of task-based Lucky Spin draws for World Cup tickets, gift boxes, airdrop rewards, and trading vouchers before closing out alongside the tournament itself, with Zoomex flagging heating competition on the leaderboard as the window narrowed.
Discord Rewards Campaign
From July 15 to July 25, Zoomex ran a Discord-based promotion offering USDT bonuses, limited community roles, and priority access, with a $500 prize pool for top participants, extending the platform’s community engagement beyond X and into Discord for the first time this cycle.
July Airdrop Carnival
Running from June 30 through July 31, the July Airdrop Carnival targeted new users with tiered onboarding rewards, including up to $770 in combined bonuses and airdrops and a fixed-term product offering competitive fixed-term yield options, structured around KYC completion, deposit tiers, and trading activity, before rolling directly into the August Summer Airdrop at month’s end.
Conclusion
July was the month the macro backdrop finally caught up with crypto, and Zoomex’s response was to keep building rather than retreat. A live Prediction Market timed to the World Cup, a full tokenized equities suite answering the AI rotation directly, two World Cup campaigns running in parallel, and a five part charity series pairing football culture with real donations. Not a pause. Continued output through the sharpest drawdown of the year.
The macro numbers explain why that mattered: Bitcoin down roughly 18% for the month, $2 trillion wiped out across risk assets in minutes on June 17, and the Fear & Greed Index sitting in Extreme Fear for most of the back half of the month. Zoomex’s sub-10ms execution infrastructure and dual liquidity pool architecture were built for exactly this kind of stress, and the platform’s regulatory stack, FINTRAC, FinCEN, NFA, AUSTRAC, FATF Travel Rule, stayed unchanged and fully active through it.
No platform token. No VC entanglements. No user funds at risk.
June confirmed what May suggested: reliability compounds precisely when markets don’t cooperate, and the platforms still shipping through a hawkish Fed surprise and an $18 billion monthly drawdown are the ones building for the World Cup final and beyond, not just for the next bull run.
About Zoomex
Founded in 2021, Zoomex is a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives trading. The platform serves over 3 million users across 35+ countries and regions, offering access to 700+ trading pairs. Built around easy to use, transparency, fairness, and speed, Zoomex provides a clear and efficient trading experience for users worldwide.
Through its high-performance matching engine, clear asset and order displays, and transparent fee and rule mechanisms, Zoomex helps users better understand their account status, order execution, trading costs, and results. Zoomex maintains registrations, licenses, and regulatory statuses across multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S. MSB, Canada MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, and has completed security audits conducted by blockchain security firm Hacken. The platform also continues to strengthen its trust framework through Proof of Reserves, Security & Transparency, Compliance Information, and Fees / Rules Transparency initiatives.
Beyond trading, Zoomex builds a refined brand experience through elite sports partnerships, including the TGR Haas F1 Team, World Cup-winning goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez, and world-class tennis events such as Wimbledon. The values of speed, precision, discipline, fair play, and rule-based execution are closely aligned with Zoomex’s approach to derivatives trading.
At Zoomex: Easy to Use. Transparent balance. Fair access to your earnings.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Zoomex? Zoomex is a global crypto derivatives platform founded in 2021, serving over 3 million users across more than 35 countries and regions with 700+ trading pairs.
How does Zoomex work? Zoomex operates through a high-performance matching engine with transparent asset and order displays, allowing users to execute trades and track outcomes with full visibility into their balances and results.
What can you trade on Zoomex? Zoomex offers 700+ trading pairs spanning cryptocurrencies such as BTC, ETH, and SOL, as well as stock-linked contracts like NVDA and AAPL and gold exposure through XAUT.
How does Zoomex compare to other exchanges? Zoomex differentiates itself by not issuing a platform token, avoiding venture capital or incubation deals, and holding security certifications from Hacken alongside regulatory licenses in multiple jurisdictions, positioning the platform around transparency and fund safety rather than token incentives.
Where is Zoomex headquartered? Zoomex operates as a global cryptocurrency exchange with regulatory registrations including Canada MSB, U.S. MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, reflecting its multi-jurisdictional compliance approach.
Is Zoomex available in my country? Zoomex serves users across more than 35 countries and regions. Availability can vary by local regulation, so traders should check the official Zoomex website for country-specific access and requirements.
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If you look up on any given night, you might be able to see a few meteors each hour under optimal conditions. But meteor showers, which take place when Earth’s path intersects with the dusty trails that comets and asteroids leave behind, are special because you can see many more “falling stars” in that same amount of time.
The Perseid meteor shower occurs around the same time each year, typically starting in mid-July and lasting until late August, when our planet passes through debris from a comet called Swift-Tuttle. During this shower, you may be able to see up to 100 meteors per hour under the right conditions, according to astronomers.
NASA describes the Perseids as “swift and bright meteors,” saying that they “frequently leave long ‘wakes’ of light and color behind them as they streak through Earth’s atmosphere.”
When can you best see it?
The Perseid meteor shower is already underway. But your best chance of seeing the most meteors will come when it’s at its peak level of activity, which is set to occur the night of Aug. 12 into Aug. 13, according to NASA.
Michael Saylor said ChatGPT helped him design the preferred stock financing model that enabled Strategy to raise about $15 billion for its Bitcoin-focused balance sheet.
Summary
- Saylor credited ChatGPT with helping develop Strategy’s preferred stock financing structure.
- Strategy raised about $15 billion through the securities and related capital-market activity.
- The company reported holding 842,138 BTC as of Aug. 2 after selling 1,638 BTC.
- Saylor said workers should use AI to extend their abilities rather than compete with automation.
ChatGPT helped shape Strategy’s financing plan
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said he used ChatGPT to explore and develop a preferred stock financing model tied to the company’s Bitcoin strategy, according to an Aug. 6 Fortune report.
Saylor discussed the process during an interview with The Diary of a CEO. He said the AI chatbot helped him examine financing structures that Strategy later used to raise billions of dollars from investors.
“AI helped me create $15 billion,” Saylor said.
The figure reflects capital raised through Strategy’s preferred stock products and related financing rather than revenue generated directly by ChatGPT. The AI tool helped Saylor work through the structure, while investors, underwriters and company executives carried out the offerings.
Strategy has built a group of Bitcoin-backed preferred securities, including STRC, STRK, STRF and STRD. The products give investors different combinations of dividends, volatility and exposure to the company’s Bitcoin-heavy balance sheet.
Saylor urges workers to ‘harness the robots’
Saylor said AI is changing how individuals and companies create value. In his view, workers should focus on asking better questions and using machines to pursue ideas that would otherwise require more time or expertise.
“Don’t try to outwork the robots,” he said.
His comments frame AI as a tool that can expand human decision-making rather than merely replace repetitive work. Saylor argued that future entrepreneurs would gain an advantage by combining human judgment and creativity with the speed of AI systems.
The claim also provides a practical example of generative AI being used in U.S. corporate finance. However, ChatGPT-generated proposals still require legal, accounting, and regulatory review before a publicly traded company can use them to sell securities.
Strategy’s preferred shares carry different dividend obligations and risk profiles. Their performance remains closely connected to the company’s ability to manage its capital structure and its large Bitcoin position.
Strategy adjusts its Bitcoin treasury policy
Saylor’s comments come as Strategy has shown greater flexibility in managing its Bitcoin holdings.
An Aug. 3 Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed that the company sold 1,638 BTC for approximately $104.73 million between July 27 and Aug. 2. Strategy used $52.4 million to fund preferred stock dividends and $52.3 million to repurchase STRC shares.
The sale reduced Strategy’s holdings to 842,138 BTC as of Aug. 2. The company reported an aggregate purchase cost of $63.51 billion and an average acquisition price of $75,419 per Bitcoin.
On Aug. 5, Lookonchain identified another transfer of 1,030 BTC, worth roughly $66.14 million, from wallets it associated with Strategy. Strategy had not confirmed that the transfer represented another sale, and no later SEC filing had reduced its reported holdings when this article was prepared.
Strategy expands beyond Bitcoin financing
Strategy is also adding employee benefits as it develops its broader corporate operations. On Aug. 5, the company joined the Invest America Business Pledge and committed to contributing $250 annually to Trump Accounts for eligible children of its U.S. employees.
Eligible children born on or after Jan. 1, 2025, will also receive a one-time $1,000 company contribution matching the U.S. government’s initial deposit.
The next test for Strategy will be whether its preferred stock model can continue attracting investors while supporting dividend payments and protecting its Bitcoin holdings. Saylor’s account of using ChatGPT shows how AI influenced the model’s design, but its long-term performance will depend on capital-market demand, Bitcoin prices and Strategy’s execution.
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