A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Monday, August 3, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 10:31 AM ET

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

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How Coinbase plans to force-settle and instantly recreate institutional positions on Deribit within a 30-minute window

New keys, saved histories, closed margin loans and an Aug. 28 opt-out boundary precede the estimated cutover. The post How Coinbase plans to force-settle and instantly recreate institutional positions

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CryptoHow Coinbase plans to force-settle and instantly recreate institutional positions on Deribit within a 30-minute windowCryptoUS hints at more yen intervention: Five things to know in Bitcoin this weekCryptoColdcard Bitcoin Theft Continues, Now Estimated Over $114 Million In Total StolenAIIntroducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption DashboardCryptoCircle slides after Morgan Stanley downgrade, cut in price targetAIV4-Flash-0731 - vibes after first weekend of useCryptoBernstein sees another leg lower for crypto markets if Clarity Act stallsCryptoTom Lee says ether outperformed Nasdaq 100 in July as Bitmine adds 10,399 ETHAIImport AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativityCryptoHow Fake World Assets and onchain gacha became crypto’s latest crazeCryptoKraken is force-selling 7 delisted tokens into dead markets, warning users insufficient liquidity could result in zero proceeds.CryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoBlackRock expands tokenized cash with new blockchain-based money market offeringsAI70-class VRAM stagnationCryptoMorning Minute: The Coldcard Bitcoin Hack Nears $114 Million in Potential LossesAII compared MinerU, Granite-Docling, and PaddleOCR-VL on 12 PDF-parsing capabilities using 6 document typesCryptoEric Trump’s American Bitcoin treasury tops 8,000 BTC as Q2 mining production hits recordCryptoTom Lee's Bitmine bought more ether, added to stock buyback last weekCryptoStrategy Sells $105M in Bitcoin as Dollar Reserve Hits $4BAImodel: MTP support for Qwen3-Next by yomaytk · Pull Request #25589 · ggml-org/llama.cppCryptoNo dice? Your Bitcoin hardware wallet is probably not as secure as you thought it wasCryptoStrategy sells 1,638 Bitcoin to fund dividends and STRC repurchasesCryptoBithumb sets 2028 IPO timetable as it overhauls internal controlsCryptoStrategy sold another $105 million of bitcoin last week, repurchased $81.2 million of STRCCryptoMichael Saylor’s Strategy sells another 1,638 BTC for $105 million, reducing total holdings to 842,138 BTCCryptoCLARITY Act failure could send crypto valuations lower: BernsteinCryptoBitget set to exit Japan, close all remaining positions by year-endCryptoBitGo launches Link, connecting clients to Coinbase, Kraken, Crypto.com and moreCryptoTrumps’ American Bitcoin reports record BTC output, narrower Q2 lossCryptoSolo Bitcoin miner nets $200,000 as Coldcard hardware wallet drains rocks sentimentCryptoSouth Korean Exchange Bithumb Targets 2028 IPOCryptoRipple invests in Zilo and Licuido to assist tokenized capital markets pushCryptoBitcoin, ether decline as Coldcard exploit enters a fifth dayCryptoBithumb now targets 2028 IPO after major internal restructuringAIKAT Coder 2.5 dev: Do yourself a favor and try it!CryptoLive updates: Bitcoin rises above $63,000 as stocks surge to start AugustAIGLM 5.3 SpottedCryptoBitcoin may find bear market bottom in August: 10x ResearchCryptoColdcard Losses Near $114M as Small Bitcoin Transfers SpikeAIAI9Stars released G9v3-39A5BCryptoThe bitcoin futures yield collapse: Once over 20%, now less than Treasury notesCryptoBernstein says Clarity Act failure could accelerate SEC, CFTC crypto rulemakingCryptoFive days, a 30% chance, and a battle over Trump’s crypto profits: Inside the Senate’s scramble to pass CLARITY Act before FridayCryptoRobinhood wins UK crypto registration before new regulatory regime kicks offCryptoRipple invests in ZILO and Licuido to deepen tokenized capital markets pushCryptoSouth Korea’s Bithumb officially targets 2028 IPO, outlines multi-year roadmapCryptoHashKey receives JPMorgan approval to open client money accountCryptoColdcard wallet losses may near $114 million as possible fourth sweep emergesAI[RELEASE] SupraBrain-50M-v0.1CryptoFour unpatched bugs, a 5-year quantum clock, and a miner standoff are pushing Bitcoin to a critical crossroadCryptoBitget to exit Japan, close remaining positions after Dec. 31CryptoU.S. Jobs, Circle, Galaxy, American Bitcoin earnings: Crypto Week AheadCryptoBitcoin miner gambles on a 4-day bridge loan equal to 97% of its BTC treasury value – the deadline passed without in total silenceCryptoCrypto treasury firm ZeroStack warns of survival risk amid $82.5M lossCryptoBitcoin slips under $63,000 despite Iran deal hopes as Coldcard losses rattle marketCryptoBitcoin hits $62K while Coinbase premium hits 77-day negative streakCryptoLuno blocks crypto transfers for some users, leaving a late August cash-out deadline before monthly fees hitAIDaniel Han of Unsloth validates Qwen3.8-27B will run only 17GB VRAMCryptoTen mystery investors are using 2,380 BTC to completely hijack a Nasdaq company and gut its leadershipAICan't wait to see Qwen3.8-27BCryptoKalshi and Polymarket’s combined volume reaches all-time high in July, surpassing $50 billionCryptoColdcard’s 5-year flaw reveals hardware wallet testing gap: Kraken’s security chiefCryptoSouth Korean stablecoin outflows top $367M in June: Report CryptoHong Kong police flag $3.3 million romance scam involving fake crypto appAIMiniMax-H3 now on huggingfaceAIQwen3.8-27B announced alongside Qwen3.8-MaxCryptoThis $163M crypto stash collapsed to just $15M, forcing ZeroStack to literally stake its survival on token rewardsAIGitHub - sqliteai/waste: Run the full 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model beyond available RAM by streaming activated weights directly from NVMe. A dependency-free, embeddable C inference engine.CryptoAfter 3 reverse stock splits and a $13.5M loss, this real estate firm bet $8M on crypto it may not be allowed to withdrawAIcondense-json 1.0AIChina’s DFSX Offers 2x The Memory Bandwidth Of NVIDIA’s GB200CryptoSEC keeps Nasdaq bitcoin options on hold after granting CME reviewAIDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731: surpasses Fable-5, Sol & Kimi-K3 on Chess BenchmarkCryptoSaylor hints at Strategy bitcoin buy after five-week pause as STRC rate stays at 12%: ‘Bitcoin Drive engaged’CryptoColdcard Bitcoin Exploit Balloons to $88 Million as Attackers Keep Draining WalletsCryptoTrump Media says $165 million bitcoin transfer to Crypto.com wasn’t a saleCryptoWhat’s the Deal With Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’?AILatest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontierAIOpen letters about AI developmentAIJuly 2026 newsletterAIQuoting Greg BrockmanAIdatasette-apps 0.2a0CryptoIran-linked exchange sent $676 million to Binance wallets in alleged sanctions-evasion operation: ReutersAITen advances in mathematics and theoretical computer scienceCryptoBNB Chain ‘pursuing legal action’ against former employee over memecoin launched from tutorial walletCryptoRussian decree bans crypto mining across Moscow region through 2032CryptoCZ Warns Bitcoin Holders After $70 Million Wallet Exploit: 'Nothing Is 100%'CryptoThe More Americans Know About AI, the Less They Like It: GallupAIdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731AIStateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)AIllm-mcp-client 0.1a0AIOxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon WillisonAIsmevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnessesCryptoColdcard Bitcoin Thief Likely Used Top Blockchain Services Provider: ReportCryptoGoogle Yanks Google Earth AI Image Tool a Day After Launch Over Deepfake FearsAISlack Emoji MakerCryptoAI Music Company Suno Loses Copyright Case in GermanyCryptoUS Is Banning Foreign Robots—Even RoombasCryptoYounger Democrats Understand Clarity Act And Bill Should Pass, Says Coinbase’s Chief Policy OfficerCryptoCoinkite Releases Fixed Firmware After Coldcard Bug; AI Likely Involved In The BreachCryptoTether Reports $1.5B Q2 Profit as USDT Supply Grows, Gold Holdings RiseCryptoUS Closes in on Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Bitcoin Insurance Policy, Sanctions CompaniesCryptoCircle Lands New York Trust Charter as Stablecoin Issuer Expands Regulatory FootprintCryptoCOLDCARD SECURITY RISK: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIREDCryptoColdcard Wallet Flaw Exposes Years of Bitcoin Seeds After $70M in BTC StolenCryptoUS Treasury Sanctions Iranian Firms Taking Bitcoin for Hormuz PassageCryptoXDC AI and the Rise of Agentic Finance: When AI Agents Learn to PayAIdatasette-agent 0.4a0AIAdvancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6AIInvestigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluationsCrypto‘Bitcoin Senator’ Cynthia Lummis Blasts Democrats For Stalling Crypto Clarity ActCryptoBitcoin Treasury Strategy Posts $8.2B Loss As BTC Price SufferedCryptoLegendary Investor Ray Dalio Still Holds Bitcoin — But Only 1% of His Portfolio AIGPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded AircraftAIThe OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scaleAILFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPUAIImport 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. Until It Isn’t.AIWelcome Inkling by Thinking MachinesAIIntroducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AIAI6 months to live for open modelsAIProfiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profileAINative-speed vLLM transformers modeling backendAIFrom Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one clickAIImport AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computationAIImport AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human eraAILatest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystemAIUsing Local Coding AgentsAIGLM-5.2 is the step change for open agentsAIImport AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASIAIBanning Open Source AI Would Be A MistakeAIState of the blog, mid-2026AIFrontier post-training recipe review with Finbarr TimbersAIImport AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research internsAIWelcome to the AGI era of AI governanceAIClaude Fable 5 and new AI safety fablesAIImport AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racingAILLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)AIFarewell Ai2AIImport AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systemsAIOpen and closed models are on different exponentialsAISome ideas for what comes next, May 2026AIImport AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity storyAIImport AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment AIRecent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed AttentionAIImport AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer AIImport AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.AIImport AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4 AIMy Workflow for Understanding LLM ArchitecturesAIImport AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowermentAIComponents of A Coding AgentAIA Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMsAIA Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026AIAfter Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI AlignmentAICategories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM ReasoningCryptoVenezuela’s sanctions are stablecoins’ proof of conceptCryptoThe Strategy playbook looks different in 2026CryptoRanger’s ICO starts today, and MetaDAO eyes a resetCryptoETH derivatives reset and the next retail tradeCryptoFriday charts: Finding good news, in spite of bad headlinesCryptoDePIN and crypto gaming led a surprising end-of-year reboundCryptoCanton’s $6T RWA rails and Lighter’s Hyperliquid multipleCryptoThe long wait for crypto’s “coffee pot” momentCryptoFailure is an option in crypto financeCryptoYield Basis is making native BTC yield a realityCryptoUsers are the best investors to haveCryptoA sleeper in the perps categoryCryptoThe old story of investing in new technologyCrypto2025 ReflectionsAIThe State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and PredictionsAILLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December)CryptoThe perps wars are heating upAIFrom DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL UpdatesAIBeyond Standard LLMsAIUnderstanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch)AIUnderstanding and Implementing Qwen3 From ScratchAIAGI Is Not MultimodalAIShape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning ResearchAIWhat's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of PurposeAIWe Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in WellbeingAIFinancial Market Applications of LLMsAIA Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AIAIMamba ExplainedAICar-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen?AIDo text embeddings perfectly encode text?AIWhy Doesn’t My Model Work?AIDeep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cellsAISalmon in the LoopAINeural algorithmic reasoningAIThe Artificiality of Alignment