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PowerCompute's US Digital subsidiary borrowed $18.07 million from Arch Lending on a 4-day bridge note that matured August 1, representing 97% of its Bitcoin treasury. As of press time, no SEC filing or public statement confirms whether the loan was repaid, extended, or defaulted. The silence is the story. When a miner puts nearly its entire Bitcoin stack into a short-term debt instrument and the maturity date passes without disclosure, it tells you something about the pressure on the balance sheet — and the opacity of how these deals unwind. Treasury management at scale is supposed to be boring. This isn't boring.
PowerCompute's $18M BTC bridge loan due Aug 1 — silence. Zhibao signs $154.7M PIPE. Ripple patches XRPL flood attacks. CLARITY Act races August recess.
TL;DR: PowerCompute's US Digital subsidiary borrowed $18.07M from Arch Lending on a 4-day bridge note due August 1. No SEC filing or statement has confirmed repayment, extension, or default. When a miner pledges 97% of its Bitcoin treasury to short-term debt and the maturity passes in silence, it signals balance-sheet pressure and raises questions about how these deals actually resolve.
TL;DR: Nasdaq-listed Chinese insurtech Zhibao Technology agreed to sell 442 million units for $154.7 million in Bitcoin from 10 investors, granting them board and executive control if the deal closes within 12 business days. Key shareholder approvals and regulatory clearances remain pending. The size and speed signal institutional appetite for Bitcoin-backed capital raises — and the leverage it buys the investors.
TL;DR: Dogecoin cofounder Billy Markus dismissed bearish Bitcoin predictions on Polymarket with a single-word reaction, describing the current downturn as boring rather than panic-inducing. The take reflects a trader's perspective: volatility this size stopped being news cycles ago. BTC sits at $62,534, down 0.7% in 24 hours.
TL;DR: Ripple's Vijay Khanna urged XRP Ledger node operators to upgrade to version 3.2.1, which patches a critical vulnerability enabling manifest flood attacks. An incident on July 31 exposed the gap. The fix is standard infrastructure maintenance — but the speed of the patch and the urgency of the call signal how seriously Ripple takes network security.
TL;DR: Ripple announced investments in ZILO and Lucuido to build regulated transfer agency and digital asset issuance services on the XRP Ledger. The play targets institutional demand for tokenized investment products. Ripple is betting that the infrastructure for on-chain securities issuance becomes a core XRP Ledger business — and that institutional capital follows.
TL;DR: The CLARITY Act, which would regulate stablecoins and digital asset platforms, enters its final week before the Senate's August recess with a 30% passage probability. Republican and Democratic objections threaten to derail it by Friday. The regulatory timeline is tightening — and the odds suggest it doesn't make the cut this cycle.
TL;DR: Zepto postponed its IPO and will pursue a pre-IPO funding round at roughly $4.5 billion after roadshow bids came in significantly below its $7 billion private valuation. The Indian quick-commerce startup is shifting to domestic investors and has extended flexibility until November 2027 under existing SEBI approval. A 36% valuation reset is a hard market signal.
The thread connecting these: institutional capital is moving, but it's moving selectively. Ripple's infrastructure play gets funded. PowerCompute's debt gets structured in silence. Zhibao finds Bitcoin-backed capital. Zepto gets marked down. Watch which bets actually close. — Khal
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More crypto news, daily, at news.leodex.io. The Daily LEO · Written by the LEO Team, Edited by Khal.
