A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 2:51 PM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Robinhood Chain goes live on mainnet alongside 24/7 tokenized stocks, Lighter perps and planned crypto agentic trading

Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 built using Arbitrum's tech stack, went live on public mainnet, with partners including Uniswap from day one.

The Block · 6 minutes ago

AI · lede

Deepseek Flash V4 at IQ2 or Qwen 3.6 27B Q5KM ? Any tests or benchmarks ?

Deepseek Flash V4 at IQ2 or Qwen 3.6 27B Q5KM ? Any tests or benchmarks ? Wondering which one would be better at speed / coding / reasoning submitted by /u/soyalemujica [link] [comments]

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago

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