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Four unnamed clusters of large electricity customers in Texas, including crypto mining facilities and data centers, failed mandatory voltage ride-through (VRT) tests required under ERCOT reliability standard NOGRR282, according to a May 21, 2026 report from ERCOT's Large Load Working Group. Each failing group could shed more than 5,000 MW of demand in a single fault event, roughly equal to the electricity consumption of Boston, at a moment when Texas is bracing for record summer load.

Bitcoin has lost more than half its value since October 2025 and is posting its weakest year-to-date performance in at least ten years, as institutional and retail money flows toward AI infrastructure plays and a wave of AI-driven listings and equity rallies pulls liquidity away from digital assets.

Athens is preparing legislation that would impose a flat 15% capital gains tax on cryptocurrency profits, according to two anonymous officials from the Greek Ministry of National Economy and Finance who spoke to Reuters on June 5, 2026. The draft bill has not yet been submitted to Parliament but is expected within the coming months.

Athens is preparing legislation that would bring cryptocurrency trading firmly into the country's tax code, with a rate that analysts describe as pragmatic relative to global peers.

Hong Kong's central bank has assembled a 21-institution expert group to define the legal and market standards for tokenised bond issuance and trading, accelerating a push that has grown the city's on-chain debt market sevenfold in a single year.

Korea's fourth-largest crypto exchange has secured a combined KRW 160 billion in fresh investment from a major domestic brokerage and a foreign exchange currently excluded from South Korean app stores, as South Korea accelerates its shift toward regulated digital asset markets.