The infrastructure behind crypto deserves more attention.
The more I look at the crypto market, the more I think the bigger opportunity could be sitting in the infrastructure behind it.
$CRWV, $BMNR and $APLD give three completely different angles on the same broader theme. CRWV is positioned around compute, providing GPU-heavy infrastructure for AI and other high-performance workloads. BMNR is much closer to the actual crypto asset side, with its BTC and ETH treasury strategy. Then APLD sits on the physical infrastructure layer, with data centers and power capacity that can serve crypto mining as well as HPC and AI workloads.
What really stands out is the growing overlap between crypto and AI. Both industries need enormous amounts of electricity, computing power and specialized infrastructure. That means companies that already control power and data-center capacity potentially have multiple ways to monetize those assets as demand shifts between markets.
But thereโs a catch. These businesses are extremely capital intensive. Building data centers, buying GPUs and expanding power capacity requires huge amounts of funding, so debt, dilution, financing costs and customer concentration can have a major impact on the final economics.
Thatโs why Iโm looking beyond the headline market caps and crypto exposure. I want to see which companies can actually turn their infrastructure into recurring revenue, strong margins and sustainable cash flow.
The crypto market may be known for its coins, but the infrastructure supporting the ecosystem is becoming a story of its own. And with AI now competing for many of the same resources, this intersection could become even more interesting.