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Monday, June 22, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 7:57 AM ET

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

Crypto · lede

These XRP price charts hint at a potential 25% relief rally in July

An XRP death cross and liquidation signals align for a possible 25% relief rally in the short term, while one analyst eyes a longer-term rebound toward $8.

CoinTelegraph · 18 minutes ago

AI · lede

Ling and Ring 2.6 Technical Report: Efficient and Instant Agentic Intelligence at Trillion-Parameter Scale

arXiv : https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15079 Full Paper : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.15079 HuggingFace : https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/models?sort=created (This month they released base models for

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 4 minutes ago

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