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Chaince Digital Holdings, formerly Mercurity Fintech Holding, adopted its current name and Nasdaq ticker CD in November 2025. By 2026 its continuing operations focus primarily on financial services and advisory activities, alongside digital-asset initiatives.
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HIVE Digital Technologies was founded in 2017 as one of the earlier publicly traded cryptocurrency-mining companies, initially focused on Bitcoin and Ethereum mining using renewable-energy-oriented sites. In 2026 HIVE operates digital-asset mining and GPU-based compute infrastructure, presenting AI and high-performance computing as an increasingly important growth area.
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UP Fintech was founded in 2014 by Wu Tianhua and built the Tiger Brokers platform to give technology-oriented investors access to global securities markets. In 2026 UP Fintech operates digital brokerage and investment services under the Tiger Brokers brand in several regulated markets.
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Bit Digital evolved from Bitcoin mining into an Ethereum treasury and staking company with a majority investment in WhiteFiber, the AI and high-performance-computing infrastructure business that listed on Nasdaq in 2025.
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Howard Wille and Chuck Snyder founded FactSet in 1978 with the goal of making financial data easier for investment professionals to retrieve and analyse. The company began during an era when financial information was fragmented across printed reports and specialised data systems.
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TeraWulf was formed in the early 2020s by energy and infrastructure executives to build large-scale Bitcoin mining using low-carbon power sources. The strategy focused less on owning a distinctive mining chip than on controlling sites, electrical infrastructure and access to inexpensive energy.
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Hut 8 was established in Canada during the late-2010s cryptocurrency mining expansion and built industrial-scale Bitcoin computing sites. The company focused on securing large amounts of electricity and deploying specialised ASIC miners in locations where power economics could support continuous operation.
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IREN, originally known as Iris Energy, was founded in Australia in 2018 by brothers Daniel and Will Roberts with a strategy of building data-centre infrastructure near renewable and low-cost energy. The first major workload was Bitcoin mining, where electricity cost and data-centre efficiency directly determine economics.
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Leaf Hua Li founded Futu in Hong Kong in 2012 after a long career at Tencent, where he had worked on QQ and other major internet products. Futu built a digital brokerage aimed at giving technology-oriented investors a more integrated trading, market-data and community experience.
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Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt met at Stanford, later moved to New York and built trading technology for financial institutions before founding Robinhood in 2013. Their core proposition was commission-free stock trading through a mobile-first interface aimed at people who had been poorly served by traditional brokerage products.
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