A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 5:36 PM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Wintermute registers as SEC broker-dealer to trade stocks, options and crypto ETFs

Wintermute USA is a New York-based subsidiary that has registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and FINRA.

The Block · 7 minutes ago

AI · lede

Scotoma-2: Gemma4, but with less annoying slop and better writing.

GGUFs here: https://huggingface.co/ReadyArt/gemma-4-31B-it-scotoma-2-GGUF Disclaimer: By slop, we are specifically talking about specific tics with the model(sentence structures), but this doesn't in

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago

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CryptoWintermute registers as SEC broker-dealer to trade stocks, options and crypto ETFsCryptoFollowing primary loss, crypto PACs invest $1.5M in 3 US state racesCryptoBitcoin miners MARA and CleanSpark post double-digital revenue drops as AI infrastructure pivot continuesCryptoGalaxy Digital lost $85M on crypto as its projected $80M in AI revenue must offset $3.5B AI investmentCryptoTokyo Tells Trump to Stop Meme-ing MarioCryptoMeta Says Its AI Model Escaped and Hacked a Third-Party Company TooAIScotoma-2: Gemma4, but with less annoying slop and better writing.CryptoBreez Announces Glow, an Open Source Bitcoin to Stablecoins Progressive Web AppCryptoHyperscale sells Bitcoin for AI business set to deliver less than 20% of 2027 revenueCryptoSenators Push CFTC to Ban Wildfire Bets on Prediction MarketsCryptoLate Ondo founder’s mother seeks control of company and removal of De Bode as CEOCryptoSenate Whip Barrasso Becomes Latest Lawmaker to Support Crypto Clarity Act, But Time May Be Running Out CryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoCoinbase’s Base app will become ‘less Base-centric’ under Cobie, Jesse Pollak saysAIQwen 3.8 Max now ranked as best overall model ahead of Opus 5 by Artificial Analysis agentic indexAINew model release: Ling-3.0-tiny: 7.9B total parameters, with only 1.3B active per token- free for a weekCryptoThe End of the Closed-Source Era Is at Hand: Obscurity Was Never SecurityCryptoHow a crypto startup quietly siphoned 470,000 Binance users to build a $4 billion card empireCryptoPutin Signs Russia's First Crypto Law: Trading Is Legal, Payments Stay BannedCryptoOpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face HackAIdatasette 1.0a38AIdatasette 0.65.3CryptoBitcoin ETF inflows surge after Coldcard hack, but link is unclear: Bloomberg analystCryptoXRP, Bitcoin Whales Are Accumulating—Is the Bear Market Nearly Over?AISimon Willison on Technical BloggingCryptoDePIN project Vangrid raises $9 million in token round to build spatial data network for physical AICryptoBreez Drops New Bitcoin App Which Doubles As Wallet and Developer ToolkitCryptoBNY and BlackRock funnel billions through one infrastructure provider, exposing the fragile illusion of crypto diversificationCryptoTokenized RWAs triple deposits to $7.4 billion as broader DeFi contracts 15%: CoinSharesCryptoCathie Wood's Ark Invest Makes SpaceX, Circle Top Holdings After Latest Buying SpreeCryptoUS appellate court mandate affirms Sam Bankman-Fried convictionAIKV cache quantization benchmarks: 413 pairs tested on Qwen 3.6 27B, Gemma 4 31B. KLD with BeeLlama.cpp v0.4.0: KVarN 6-bit beats q8_0, precision tail 1024 dominatesCryptoUS Senate will vote on CLARITY crypto bill ‘without any question’ this week: Tim Scott AII ported vLLM's serving stack to C++20: 66 MiB binary, no Python at inference, output checked token-for-token against vLLMAIAI clickbaitCryptoBitcoin miners’ AI pivot loses Wall Street’s wow factorCryptoHow institutional dark pools quietly ate 15% of crypto volume and killed the retail whale-watching edgeCryptoMetaMask Launches Self-Custodial AI Wallet for Autonomous Crypto TradingCryptoBitcoin price coils under $65K as US PMI data brings new ‘stagflation’ warningCryptoDuckDuckGo’s Meta-Trolling 'Normal F***ing Sunglasses' Sell Out in Under a WeekCryptoJPMorgan says Hyperliquid faces growing competition while HYPE ETF inflows stallCryptoBlock’s spending rise despite 40% workforce cut leaves analysts weighing growth prospectsCryptoTether expands tokenization business into Saudi Arabia, starting with real estateCryptoBitcoin ETF Inflows Surge Following $130M Coldcard Hack CryptoBitdeer lands $4.7 billion AI lease tied to Anthropic but must deliver by year endAInvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Parse-2.0 · Hugging FaceAII compared even more parsers on 14 PDF-parsing capabilities using different typesCryptoCrypto for Advisors: Europe's crypto rules, U.S. PreviewCryptoIREN’s $625 million AI bet creates a $476 million stock overhangCryptoCircuit, DaLand Give Credit Unions a Direct Path to BitcoinCryptoStablecoin payments are going mainstream. What happens when the recipient needs local currency?CryptoStep App winds down after four years as FITFI token sinksCryptoWhat Is Arc? 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Here's whyCryptoBitcoin steadies above $64,000 as traders watch $100 billion SpaceX unlockCryptoXRP whales keep buying the dip, but ether shows deeper capitulationCryptoCASHCAT jumps 120% in a week as Robinhood Chain hits $774 million of value lockedCryptoCathie Wood’s Ark Invest scoops up $17 million in Circle, $20 million in SpaceX shares following Q2 resultsAIZuck will "share more on open source" soonAIAn AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testingAIBaseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥AIIntroducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2AIThird-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI modelsAIIncident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testingAIPrime Agent - a new coding harness surpassing Codex/CC/PIAIMeta Model, Muse Spark 1.1 Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing, Breaching Systems and Making Changes to Internal Systems - The InformationCryptoMeta Debuts AI Coding Agent Muse: Here’s How It Compares to Claude Code and CodexCryptoWhite House Now Reviewing Crypto Clarity Act Ethics Text Ahead of August Deadline: ReportCryptoBitcoin Red Team Finds 85 Critical Flaws Across 390 Open Source Repos After Coldcard ExploitAIyou can now buy llm's at your local supermarketAIOne-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5CryptoRussia Passes Law to Regulate Crypto Exchanges, Keeps Payment Ban in PlaceCrypto‘If Clarity Dies, Democrats Killed It’: Lummis Urges Senate to Act on Crypto Bill Before RecessAINew release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter loggingAIllm-anthropic 0.26AIPipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlxAIllm 0.32AIDeploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6BAIQuoting Steve YeggeAIDon't be a meat proxyAIQuoting David Crawshaw's promptAIIntroducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption DashboardAIImport AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativityAILatest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontierAIGPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded AircraftAIThe OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scaleAIImport AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker AINVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical RoboticsAIAnatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 IncidentAIBringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to DiffusersAIOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's nextAIGrabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation dataAIKimi K3: The open-weights escalationAIImport AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan AIControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsAINewer Models, Same AdvantageAISecurity incident disclosure — July 2026AIModel Routing Is Simple. 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