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August 11, 2026

Your Daily Digest of the 🔥Hottest News in Crypto.

Today’s top stories

🤖 Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot
🇰🇷 South Korea drops Travel Rule threshold for crypto transfers
🏦 Trump Media overhauls crypto treasury after $238M quarterly loss
📰 Keep reading for all of today’s biggest headlines

Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot: Report

Anthropic has reportedly agreed to a $9 billion deal with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms for 191 megawatts of capacity at Riot’s Rockdale, Texas campus, under a 20-year contract. The agreement follows a similar $19 billion data center lease Anthropic struck with miner TeraWulf, as Bitcoin miners increasingly pivot to AI and high-performance computing. Riot’s shares dipped 5.4% on Monday but rebounded over 21% in overnight trading.

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South Korea drops Travel Rule threshold for crypto transfers

South Korea is removing its 1 million won Travel Rule threshold, meaning all transfers between registered crypto service providers will now require information-sharing regardless of value. The change aims to prevent users from circumventing the rule by splitting larger transactions into smaller ones. Additionally, new Anti-Money Laundering rules will apply to transfers involving overseas exchanges and personal wallets, with risk-based assessments and mandatory suspicious-transaction monitoring for large transfers.

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Trump Media to revamp crypto treasury strategy after $238M Q2 loss

Trump Media is revamping its digital asset treasury strategy after reporting a $238 million second-quarter net loss driven largely by $190.4 million in unrealized losses on crypto and securities. The company aims to preserve long-term Bitcoin exposure while managing volatility, using options and yield-generating arrangements to improve balance-sheet productivity. It also plans to direct more resources toward its core media businesses, including Truth Social and Truth+, while its Bitcoin holdings grew to roughly 14,139 BTC by the end of July.

Thailand’s 0% crypto tax. Bitcoin Red Team forced to use Chinese AI: Asia Express

Thailand has introduced a 0% capital gains tax on crypto sales made through SEC-licensed platforms, running from January 2025 through December 2029. The move is designed to boost Thailand’s status as a regional crypto hub, though trades on unlicensed or overseas exchanges still face taxes as high as 38%.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin Red Team founder Rob Hamilton says OpenAI restrictions have forced him to rely on open-source Chinese AI models to protect Bitcoin infrastructure. Elsewhere, Asia-Pacific onchain volume jumped 68% year-on-year to $2.36 trillion, Bybit is tracing assets from the $1.5 billion North Korea-linked hack, and regulators in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are tightening crypto rules.