Iris Energy Has Committed Most of Childress Site to Expansion of Bitcoin Mining: Bernstein - CoinDesk

Partior, Blockchain Payment Network Backed by JPMorgan and DBS, Raises $60M Series B - CoinDesk

Bernstein hits back at Culper’s short report on mining firm IREN; values Block and Core Scientific deal at $300 million - The Block

DEX Aggregator Rage Trade to Issue Token on Buzzy New Layer 1 Blockchain Hyperliquid - CoinDesk

Animoca Brands’ co-founder defends token launch amid potential IPO - DL News

First Mover Americas: BTC Retreats From $60K - CoinDesk

JPMorgan, Standard Chartered-backed blockchain payment network Partior raises $60 million - The Block

BREAKING: Tornado Cash dev Alexey Pertsev fails to get bail to appeal money laundering conviction - DL News

Bitcoin and ether slide as equities sell-off despite rising rate-cut expectations - The Block

XRP is the Sole Major in Green as Bitcoin Bulls Remain Sidelined - CoinDesk

SEC Drops Investigation of Bitcoin L2 Stacks Builder Hiro, Filing Says - CoinDesk

After launching Telegram clicker game, Pixelverse raises additional $2 million - The Block

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP Gains Amid Overall Index Decline - CoinDesk

Web3 can fix academia’s broken incentives - Blockworks

Bitcoin miner Bitfarms sets vote date on Riot’s attempted takeover step - The Block

DeFi needs to solve its security woes. Here’s how that could happen - DL News

SEC drops its probe into Hiro’s Stacks Blockchain, according to a regulatory filing - The Block

The Scoop: Would a Trump presidency help crypto’s sentiment problem? - The Block

Pump.fun, Crypto’s ‘4chan,’ Attracts Iggy Azalea and 1 Million Memecoins - Bloomberg ($)

Token distribution protocol ZAP reaches $100 million valuation with latest funding - The Block

US lawmakers take action in Congress to free Binance executive in Nigeria - DL News