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Beacon is a web3 accelerator founded by Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon. Committed to supporting the best web3 founders and ideas, Beacon evaluates teams from around the world and is sector-agnostic. The accelerator invests in early-stage companies and partners, and has raised $85M in funds, with a network of over 250 investors from 9 countries.
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Benchmark Raises Hut 8 Target Price to $195
Odaily Equity Research raised its target price for Hut 8 to $195 from $165 on Wednesday, citing the full commercialization of the company's Beacon Point AI data center campus in Texas.This is the second time Benchmark has raised its target price for Hut 8 this month. Last week, analyst Mark Palmer had already incorporated the first phase of the Beacon Point project into his valuation, raising the target from $85 to $165. The new target implies approximately 75% upside from Hut 8's stock price of around $111 on Wednesday.Hut 8 has now signed contracts for 949 megawatts of AI data center capacity, indicating its business is further pivoting from traditional Bitcoin mining towards AI infrastructure and power-driven data center models. Benchmark believes the company is evolving into a "power-first data center REIT," an infrastructure platform centered around power resources and data center assets.Hut 8's stock rose about 2% on Wednesday, bringing its year-to-date gains to nearly 120%. As demand for AI computing power continues to grow, the market is reassessing the value of the substantial power and data center resources held by Bitcoin mining companies.
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Hut 8 and IREN Announce New Billion-Level AI Infrastructure Contract, Both Stock Prices Surge Over 16%
According to The Block, Bitcoin mining companies Hut 8 (HUT) and IREN sequentially announced major AI infrastructure deals, with share prices both rising over 16% on the day. Hut 8 signed a second 15-year, $9.8 billion lease at the Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas, fully commercializing the 1GW site. This contract doubles the signed capacity for existing tenants to 704MW, raising the total value of campus contracts to $19.6 billion. Adding River Bend's 245MW, Hut 8's total signed IT capacity for its AI data center portfolio reaches 949MW, with a total contract base term value of $26.6 billion and expected average annual net operating income exceeding $1.75 billion. If three renewal options are exercised, Beacon Point's potential contract value could reach up to $50.2 billion. After signing a new $2.8 billion multi-year cloud computing contract, IREN raised its end-of-2026 AI cloud annualized revenue target from $3.7 billion to over $4 billion, with currently about 85% of the target secured within contracts. Clients include top institutions such as Microsoft, NVIDIA, Perplexity, and Figure AI, with customer prepayments in the new contract covering approximately 45% of the related GPU capital expenditures. As of June 30, IREN held approximately $7.6 billion
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Hut 8 signs $9.8 billion, 15-year lease for AI data center
Hut 8 signed a $9.8 billion, 15-year lease on Monday for Phase 2 of its Beacon Point AI data center campus in Texas. The company's stock price rose as much as 14% during intraday trading. This agreement, which involves the same investment-grade tenant as Phase 1, adds 352 megawatts of NVIDIA-based AI computing power, fully commercializing the 1-gigawatt campus. The tenant's total commitment has risen to 704 megawatts, bringing the campus's base contract value to $19.6 billion. The announcement boosted other Bitcoin miners transitioning into AI infrastructure businesses, with IREN, Cipher Mining, TeraWulf, and the CoinShares Bitcoin Miners ETF all rising in early trading.
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Benchmark sharply raises bitcoin miner Hut 8 target price to $165
Odaily Benchmark has raised its price target for Hut 8 (HUT) from $85 to $165, citing the company's accelerated commercialization of its AI data center business and a total of $16.8 billion in long-term contracts for AI infrastructure. Analyst Mark Palmer stated that the commercialization progress of Hut 8's Beacon Point AI data center campus in Texas "has changed the company's valuation logic," significantly increasing the project's value.Currently, Hut 8's stock price is approximately $97, meaning Benchmark's new target implies roughly 69% upside. The stock had previously fallen nearly 30% over the past six weeks.According to Benchmark's estimates, the redesigned first phase of the Beacon Point campus will support 352MW of IT capacity, a 57% increase from the original 224MW plan. The base term value of the lease for this initial phase is approximately $9.8 billion, with an estimated annualized net operating income of around $655 million.Additionally, the lease agreement for Hut 8's River Bend data center, signed with Fluidstack and supported by Google, is valued at approximately $7 billion. The combined base term value of the two contracts reaches $16.8 billion. If tenants exercise the included 5-year renewal options, the potential total value could rise to $42.8 billion. (The Block)
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A new address withdrew 37,000 ETH from Gemini and staked them into the Eth2 Beacon Chain, worth $65.66 million
Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a new address withdrew 37,000 ETH (worth $65.66 million) from Gemini 10 hours ago, and subsequently staked them in batches into the Eth2 Beacon Chain.
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The Beacon Season 1 is officially live, with over 7.7 million BCN tokens in rewards
: The Beacon announced on platform X that the first season of The Beacon, "Goblin's Gambit," is now live, with a total reward pool exceeding 7.7 million BCN tokens. Users can earn BCN tokens by participating in the game. Additionally, for the best experience, the official team recommends that users play the game via the Epic Games platform.For more related content, please read: Complete Guide to the First Season of Chain Game The Beacon: 7.7 Million BCN Prize Pool and Treasure Chest Gameplay
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The Beacon: Season 1 event will launch on May 25, with rewards exceeding 7.7 million BCN tokens
The Beacon announced on platform X that its first season, "Goblin's Gambit," will launch at 16:00 UTC on May 25, with total rewards exceeding 7.7 million BCN tokens. Users can earn BCN token rewards by participating in the game.
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Ethereum Foundation Faces Accelerating Talent Drain, with Multiple Core Researchers Resigning
According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation has recently experienced another wave of talent attrition: researchers Carl Beek and Julian Ma announced their departures this Monday. Beek had worked at the Foundation for seven years and led the development of Ethereum’s Beacon Chain, making significant contributions to Ethereum’s transition to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism; Ma had been with the Foundation for approximately four years, contributing to mechanism design, cryptoeconomics, and protocol scalability, and co-authored EIP-7805—a proposal aimed at enhancing Ethereum’s censorship resistance. Earlier this year, in February, Co-Executive Director Tomasz K. Stańczak resigned; multiple other senior figures—including Josh Stark, Barnabé Monnot, and Tim Beiko—have also departed in succession.
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Hut 8 Signs $9.8 Billion AI Data Center Lease Agreement, Stock Hits All-Time High
Odaily News Bitcoin miner Hut 8 has announced the signing of a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease agreement to provide capacity for the first 352-megawatt phase of its AI data center at the Beacon Point site in Texas. Following the news, Hut 8's stock price surged 33% to $107, reaching an all-time high. The IT capacity covered by the agreement will support hyperscale AI training and inference workloads. Hut 8's total contracted AI data center capacity now stands at 597 megawatts, with a total contract value of approximately $16.8 billion. The estimated average annual net operating income is around $1.1 billion. The site is expected to begin power supply in the first quarter of 2027, with the first data hall delivered in the third quarter of the same year.
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