A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Thursday, July 2, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 9:06 AM ET

Calm signal from the crypto and AI firehoses — hand-picked from 14 sources, every morning. No commentary, just what moved.

Crypto · lede

Aave brings V3 lending and GHO stablecoin to Monad

Aave launched its V3 lending protocol on Monad with 12 supported assets as the network commits $15 million in first-year incentives to build liquidity and adoption.

CoinTelegraph · 6 minutes ago

AI · lede

Talking with Gemma 4 31B!

Hi! I'm Andi from Hugging Face. This is a fully open-source and free to test/pull/modify demo I'm bringing today. It's a voice demo creating a pipeline of: - Nvidia's parakeet - Gemma 4 31B (served

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 37 minutes ago

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