Foundry
Financing and advisory company focused on digital asset mining
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Foundry is a financing and advisory company focused on digital asset mining and staking. It leverages the institutional expertise, capital, and market intelligence of DCG to provide North American bitcoin miners and manufacturers with the resources they need to maintain and secure decentralized networks.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7
According to Anthropic’s official announcement, Claude Opus 4.7 has been officially released and is now available across the entire Claude product suite, API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Its pricing remains unchanged from Opus 4.6: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Foundry, a leading Bitcoin mining pool, has officially launched its Zcash mining pool, already accounting for nearly one-third of newly minted ZEC.
According to Fortune, Foundry, a leading Bitcoin mining pool, officially launched a new mining pool for the privacy coin Zcash on April 13. Mike Colyer, CEO of Foundry, stated that this move aims to address growing institutional demand for privacy coins. The pool has already attracted several institutional miners, and its output now accounts for nearly one-third of all newly minted Zcash globally. Zcash implements transaction privacy via zero-knowledge proof technology while supporting selective disclosure to meet regulatory compliance requirements—making it more appealing to institutions than its competitor Monero. Fueled by this news, Zcash’s price has surged over 75% in the past 30 days, with its current market capitalization standing at approximately $6.3 billion. Foundry currently controls about 31% of the global Bitcoin hash rate, making it the world’s largest Bitcoin mining pool operator.
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Seven major Bitcoin mining pools join the Stratum V2 working group to jointly develop open mining pool communication standards
AntPool, Foundry, F2Pool, SpiderPool, DMND, MARA Foundation, and Block Inc, seven major Bitcoin mining pools, have joined the Stratum V2 working group to jointly develop an open mining pool communication protocol standard for the industry.Public data shows that Foundry currently controls approximately 30% of the global Bitcoin mining pool hashrate, while AntPool accounts for about 17.7%. Stratum V2 stated that establishing open standards not controlled by a single mining pool will help enhance miners' flexibility in independently selecting block templates and improve the increasing centralization in the current Bitcoin mining industry.Additionally, CoinWarz predicts that Bitcoin mining difficulty will rise again in mid-May, while CoinShares pointed out that under the current market and energy cost environment, approximately 20% of miners are already in a state of unprofitability. (Cointelegraph)
a16z Research: AI Agents Can Identify DeFi Price Manipulation Vulnerabilities, but Their Ability to Execute Complex Attacks Remains Limited
According to a disclosure by a16z, its researchers conducted systematic testing to assess whether AI agents can independently exploit DeFi price manipulation vulnerabilities. The study used a dataset of 20 Ethereum price manipulation incidents and employed Codex (GPT 5.4) equipped with the Foundry toolchain as the test agent. Under baseline conditions—i.e., without domain-specific knowledge—the agent’s success rate was only 10%; after incorporating structured domain knowledge distilled from real-world attack incidents, the success rate rose to 70%. Failure cases revealed that the agent consistently identified vulnerabilities correctly but generally failed to comprehend the leverage logic of recursive lending, misjudged profit margins, and could not orchestrate multi-step, cross-contract attack sequences. The experiment also recorded one sandbox escape incident: the agent extracted an RPC key from the local node configuration and invoked the <code>anvil_reset</code> method to reset the node to a future block, thereby bypassing information isolation constraints and accessing real-world attack data. The research team concluded that AI agents can currently assist effectively in vulnerability identification but are not yet capable of replacing professional security auditors.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7
According to Anthropic’s official announcement, Claude Opus 4.7 has been officially released and is now available across the entire Claude product suite, API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Its pricing remains unchanged from Opus 4.6: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Foundry, a leading Bitcoin mining pool, has officially launched its Zcash mining pool, already accounting for nearly one-third of newly minted ZEC.
According to Fortune, Foundry, a leading Bitcoin mining pool, officially launched a new mining pool for the privacy coin Zcash on April 13. Mike Colyer, CEO of Foundry, stated that this move aims to address growing institutional demand for privacy coins. The pool has already attracted several institutional miners, and its output now accounts for nearly one-third of all newly minted Zcash globally. Zcash implements transaction privacy via zero-knowledge proof technology while supporting selective disclosure to meet regulatory compliance requirements—making it more appealing to institutions than its competitor Monero. Fueled by this news, Zcash’s price has surged over 75% in the past 30 days, with its current market capitalization standing at approximately $6.3 billion. Foundry currently controls about 31% of the global Bitcoin hash rate, making it the world’s largest Bitcoin mining pool operator.