⚠️ Hashe Chain News: Hourly Aggregated Briefing:

Reporting Period: 05:00 - 06:00
🔥 Bitcoin miner CleanSpark’s Q2 losses widened, with a $224 million impairment of Bitcoin holdings
CleanSpark released its Q2 financial report: Bitcoin mining revenue was $136.4 million, down 25% year over year (from $181.7 million in the same period last year). The impairment loss on Bitcoin holdings totaled $224 million, resulting in wider losses.
🔥 MARA revenue fell 18% in Q1, saying Bitcoin mining is still an “operational cornerstone”
In Q1, MARA Holdings sold about $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin to repay debt and improve liquidity.
🔥 Circle launches AI agent USDC stablecoin functionality and completes a $222 million ARC token sale
USDC issuer Circle released a suite of tools that allow AI agents to self-custody funds, provide services for payments, and execute transactions without manual intervention. At the same time, Circle completed a $222 million ARC token sale.
🔥 Ethereum Foundation appoints three new co-leads to lead the core protocol cluster
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) protocol team (the former protocol R&D team) is responsible for designing and developing the Ethereum base layer, and has now appointed three new co-leads.
🔥 Baidu’s new AI model ERNIE 5.1 tops the Chinese leaderboard, reducing build cost by 94%
Baidu launched ERNIE 5.1, surpassing top models on the Chinese AI rankings, with build cost at only 6% of competitors. Baidu calls it a leap in “parameter efficiency.”
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