Bitcoin Miners Pivot to AI; Tokenized RWAs Rise and Ripple Expands in Africa

Bitcoin miners, long treated as leveraged bets on BTC prices, are shifting toward AI and data center infrastructure as margins tighten and demand for AI computing accelerates. Nvidia’s reported $20 billion bond sale to fund AI expansion reinforced the multi-year investment cycle miners are positioning themselves to serve.

Firms such as HIVE Digital, Hut 8, CleanSpark and TeraWulf are repurposing energy-intensive facilities and power infrastructure for high-performance computing and AI hosting. The tokenized real-world asset market continued to grow despite broader crypto weakness, with total onchain financial assets surpassing $43 billion — a 37% increase over six months, per Token Terminal.

Tokenized funds make up nearly 80% of that market while tokenized commodities and stocks are gaining traction. Standard Chartered expects tokenization to help decentralized finance reach a $2.7 trillion market cap by 2030, and Citigroup projects tokenized RWAs could reach $5.5 trillion over the same period.

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