Wall Street ended higher as the Nasdaq outperformed, while gold and silver stocks tumbled and crypto-related shares traded mixed. The Dow rose 0.13%, the S&P 500 gained 0.65%, and the Nasdaq advanced 0.81%. For the month of August, the Dow has gained 1.24%, the S&P 500 is up 2.61%, and the Nasdaq has climbed 3.43%. Precious metals miners came under heavy selling pressure. Newmont Mining (NEM) dropped more than 3%, the VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX) fell nearly 3%, and First Majestic Silver (AG) lost over 2%. Barrick Gold (GOLD) and Coeur Mining (CDE) each declined nearly 2%, and the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) was down 1.52%. Crypto-linked stocks were split. Hut 8 (HUT) slid over 8%, Cipher Mining (CIFR) declined close to 7%, Riot Platforms (RIOT) and CleanSpark (CLSK) fell more than 5%, and MARA Holdings (MARA) dropped over 4%. On the gainers side, Circle (CRCL) advanced more than 5%, Coinbase (COIN) rose over 3%, Strategy (MSTR) added more than 2%, and Bitmine (BMNR) and Bit Brother (BTBT) both gained over 2%.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is set to hold a public meeting on Aug. 14 to consider a proposed "Regulation Crypto" framework that would let some crypto projects raise capital without completing a full securities registration process. If advanced for public comment, it would become the SEC’s first formal, durable rulemaking effort aimed specifically at the crypto sector. The proposal would also outline a route for projects to exit SEC oversight once developers stop actively managing the network and the project becomes decentralized. SEC Chair Paul Atkins has previously said the exemption period could last as long as four years, though no fundraising cap was disclosed. On the litigation front, a federal judge in Connecticut ruled that Kalshi’s sports-event contracts are not swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, meaning the Commodity Futures Trading Commission did not obtain exclusive jurisdiction on that basis. The decision lands as Kalshi remains under pressure in New York, where the CFTC said it used “emergency powers” to require the prediction-market operator to continue operating after the company sought assistance following a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James. Elsewhere, the market snapshot showed broad declines among major tokens over the past 24 hours, while project, funding, security and AI headlines spanned Bitwise layoffs, a reported COLDCARD Mk3 wallet flaw, Hyperliquid and Robinhood Chain user metrics, and a string of new financings across crypto, AI and financial infrastructure.

ChainCatcher reports that Binance spot market data shows significant volatility across the cryptocurrency market. EPIC recorded a 22.56% decline over the past 24 hours, the steepest drop among the tokens tracked in the latest data. DODO gained 7.79% and displayed a bottom-rebound pattern during the same window, having dipped before recovering. Three other tokens — OSMO, RE and ENSO — all followed a spike-then-pullback path, ending the period lower by 6.75%, 5.51% and 5.23% respectively, according to the same Binance spot figures. Meanwhile, ASTSB rose 6.53% and LSK advanced 9.41%, with both touching new intraday highs during the session. The data, published by ChainCatcher on Aug. 11, shows a sharply diverging market where several assets sold off hard while others pushed to fresh highs within the same trading window.

Techub News reported that U.S. stocks finished August 10 slightly lower, with all three major indexes ending in the red while still holding gains for the month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.11% and remained up 1.50% in August, the S&P 500 fell 0.06% with a monthly gain of 2.01%, and the Nasdaq dropped 0.32% while staying up 2.67% for the month. Gold and silver-linked names outperformed during the session. First Majestic Silver rose 2.45%, the iShares Silver Trust ETF gained 3.36%, Newmont climbed 3.79%, and Coeur Mining added 4.51%. Crypto-related stocks were mostly weaker. Bit Brother fell 5.80%, CleanSpark lost 5.77%, Riot Platforms declined 5.46%, and MARA Holdings dropped 5.25%. Cipher Mining, Bitmine, Hut 8, Coinbase, and Strategy also closed lower, while Circle stood out as the only listed name in this group to post a gain, edging up 0.72%.

Techub News reported that U.S. stocks closed higher on Aug. 7, with all three major indexes posting gains for the session and remaining up for the month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.28% and was up 1.61% in August, the S&P 500 rose 0.62% with a monthly gain of 2.07%, and the Nasdaq climbed 1.30%, bringing its August gain to 3.00%. Precious metals-linked names also moved sharply higher, with SPDR Gold Shares, iShares Silver Trust, Barrick Gold, First Majestic Silver, VanEck Gold Miners ETF, Newmont, and Coeur Mining all advancing. Crypto-related stocks were mixed but leaned lower overall. Cipher Mining, MARA Holdings, CleanSpark, Riot Platforms, and Hut 8 ended down, while Bit Brother, Bitmine, Strategy, Circle, and Coinbase closed in positive territory.

Roundhill Investments launched the Roundhill Neocloud ETF, trading under the ticker NCLD, on Aug. 6, 2026. The actively managed fund is listed on Nasdaq and carries a 0.65% expense ratio. Its focus is the so-called neocloud segment: companies that rent out GPU computing power and operate AI data center infrastructure. Current holdings show a highly concentrated portfolio. Nebius Group accounts for 30.83% and CoreWeave for 27.30%, putting the two names at more than 58% combined. The rest of the top positions include IREN, HUT 8, Terawulf, Applied Digital, Cipher Digital, Galaxy Digital, Core Scientific, and Cleanspark. Several of those companies are known for their roots in bitcoin mining before expanding into AI data center and compute services. According to Roundhill, AI compute demand is growing faster than supply can expand. The article contrasts neocloud providers with traditional cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, saying the newer firms are built more directly around GPU-as-a-Service for AI and high-performance computing workloads. It also cites Morgan Stanley’s estimate that global data-center-related capital spending could reach $2.9 trillion by 2028. The source notes that NCLD offers targeted exposure to this theme, but its concentrated holdings and relatively small fund size could bring higher volatility and liquidity risk than broader index ETFs.

U.S. equities opened mixed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.07%, the S&P 500 down 0.10%, and the Nasdaq lower by 0.54%, according to Techub News. At the same time, crypto-related stocks posted broad losses at the open. Among the decliners, Cipher Mining (CIFR) fell more than 4%, while Hut 8 (HUT) dropped nearly 4%. CleanSpark (CLSK) lost more than 3.5%, and both MARA Holdings (MARA) and Circle (CRCL) were down more than 3%. Bitmine (BMNR) slipped nearly 3%, while Riot Platforms (RIOT), Strategy (MSTR), and Bit Brother (BTBT) each fell more than 2%. Coinbase (COIN) was down more than 1.5%. The moves left all of the crypto concept stocks mentioned in the report in negative territory at the open.

Bitcoin miner CleanSpark (CLSK) released its unaudited bitcoin mining and operations update for July 2026, according to PR Newswire. The company said it mined 586 BTC during the month, bringing its year-to-date production to 4,310 BTC. It also reported a peak operating hashrate of 50 EH/s and an average operating hashrate of 38.6 EH/s, with 230,507 deployed miners as of the end of July. On the power side, contracted capacity reached 1.8 GW, while actual usage stood at 808 MW. CleanSpark said its bitcoin holdings rose to 13,931 BTC by July 31, up slightly from 13,924 BTC at the end of June. During the month, it sold 229 BTC through spot transactions and 350 BTC through exercised call options at an average sale price of $66,133 per coin. The company also announced a 20-year triple-net lease agreement at its Sandersville, Georgia campus with a global investment-grade technology company, with two optional five-year extensions and an estimated total contract value of $6.6 billion over the initial term.