A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Edition · 195 items · 9:33 AM ET

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

Crypto · lede

BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy Among Nine Firms Launching the Bitcoin Security Consortium, Pledging $15 Million To BTC Security Development

Bitcoin Magazine BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy Among Nine Firms Launching the Bitcoin Security Consortium, Pledging $15 Million To BTC Security Development Nine major Bitcoin firms launched a consort

Bitcoin Magazine · less than a minute ago

AI · lede

Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev · Hugging Face

from kwaipilot: Following the release of KAT-Coder-V2.5 in July, we are pleased to release the open-weight version KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev, an MOE model with a total parameter count of 35B and 3B activate

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 2 hours ago

Trending

BitcoinCryptoCoinbaseMillionBitmexStrategyGroupExchange

The full file

Every headline, in order

CryptoBlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy Among Nine Firms Launching the Bitcoin Security Consortium, Pledging $15 Million To BTC Security DevelopmentCryptoLatest $3.8 billion RWA recovery shows how quickly DeFi absorbed the KelpDAO shockCryptoStrategy-led group pledges $15M to quantum-proof Bitcoin networkCryptoThe KIDS Act is way worse than digital carding — it is a mass surveillance systemCryptoBinance joins STOP THE TRAFFIK in anti-human trafficking effortCryptoLayerZero, Keeta enable tokenized bank deposits across Ethereum, Solana and BaseCryptoFlow Traders pilots Lombard’s new bitcoin-backed credit strategy for stablecoin borrowingCryptoBlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy in group pledging $15 million to prepare Bitcoin for quantum threatsCryptoBitMEX token crashes 90% as exchange announces shutdownCryptoSoutheast Asian Scam Networks Cost Victims Up to $114B in a Year: UNCryptoBitget secures license for New Zealand expansionCryptoXRP’s $1.16 recovery gets support from whales and a $285 million ETF streakCryptoMorning Minute: Wall Street Moving Onchain Will Drive the Next Bull MarketCryptoAbu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital joins tokenization push as Coinbase takes stake in onchain fundCryptoPolymarket to challenge France’s nationwide website blockCryptoBernstein says Bitcoin mining deals necessary for AI power crunchAIKwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev · Hugging FaceAIThe Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AICryptoHYPE falls as crypto funds queue nearly $150M in locked tokens for withdrawalAICEO of Hugging face: Heading to San Francisco to have a little chat with that “rogue agent”CryptoBulls face a test unlike anything in bitcoin's 17-year historyCryptoCrypto 'Wrench Attacks' Cost Victims $124M in Six Months, Up 12x: CertiKCryptoBitcoin rose 2% on CLARITY progress while Coinbase, Circle jumped over 8% – but why?CryptoKazakhstan approves strategic crypto mining rules tied to national reserveCryptoBitcoin will get ‘lift’ from Hyperliquid, Robinhood in next crypto bull market: Bitwise execCrypto‘Not currently the right capital solution’: Smarter Web sells 178 bitcoin to repay $11.7M convertible instrumentAIAbsurd claim: the distilled model outperforms the originalsCryptoCrypto catches its breath as bitcoin settles into a holding pattern amid July rallyCryptoArbitrum Perp DEX AFX Trade Drained of $24M, Offers Hacker 30% to Return ItAIDeepSeek Founder’s 4-hour investor meeting: DeepSeek is prioritizing AGI over user growth and commercialisationCryptoBitcoin’s $69,000 test could expose its whale-led rebound as a fragile Fed gambleCryptoCoinbase to expand Singapore office headcount by 25%: ReportCryptoCircle partners with Kakao, Toss Bank to explore stablecoin payment rails in South KoreaCryptoLive markets: Bitcoin slips back as Iran war expansion sends oil surging above $90 per barrelCryptoBitcoin may have bottomed before its traditional cycle low: Grayscale’s PandlCryptoBitMEX to shut down permanently 11 years after Arthur Hayes co-founded crypto exchangeCryptoBitMEX to Close on September 23, Halts New Sign-UpsCryptoBitMEX, the exchange that invented perps, is shutting downCrypto24/7 financial rails: How BNY plans to eliminate the weekend lag in U.S. TreasuriesCryptoNew Verus-Ethereum bridge attack drains $7.5 million through flaw used in May: BlockaidCryptoHome invasions became most common crypto wrench attack in H1 2026: CertiKCryptoBitMEX to shut down after 11 years in crypto derivativesAIModel "distillation" accusations are getting way overblown at this pointCryptoMirae Asset completes Korbit acquisition, becomes largest shareholderCryptoBitcoin ETFs approach $1B in 7-session inflow runCryptoSouth Korea's oldest crypto exchange is now part of the $1 trillion Mirae Group familyCryptoKakao taps Circle to explore won stablecoin payment infrastructureCryptoBitcoin, Ethereum-linked protocols lose $35 million in multiple attacks hours apartAIA caveman qwen3.6 27BCryptoSwiss Bank BancaStato Launches Bitcoin Trading Through Sygnum and AvaloqAIModel "distillation" accusations are getting way overblown at this pointCryptoSouth Korea’s Mirae Asset completes acquisition of Korbit crypto exchangeCryptoArbitrum-based AFX Trade drained of $24 million after bridge keys compromisedAIQuoting Seth LarsonAIStartup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AICryptoXRP whales accumulate as small holders capitulate CryptoBitcoin wilts as oil and rates rise. Clarity Act odds tumble to 38%CryptoArbitrum protocol AFX Trade hit by $24 million bridge exploit: BlockaidAIBringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to DiffusersAIQuoting Thomas PtacekAIOpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedCryptoSenator Lummis: Ethics, other provisions in crypto Clarity Act to be further discussedAIAre AI labs pelicanmaxxing?AISanctions on Open Source. hope they don’t do anything stupid here.AIChina’s Kimi K3 fuels fears safety curbs are holding back US AIAI+1 if you are friend of open weight models and would rather pay $20 for Kimi rather than closed cloud providersCryptoBipartisan support ‘critical’ as Democrats push back on GOP crypto bill on ethics groundsCryptoNasdaq-listed Zhibao Technology to Take 3,500 Bitcoin in Proposed PIPE FinancingCryptoCoinbase Wants to Be Canada's One-Stop Shop for Stocks, Crypto and Prediction MarketsCryptoCrypto’s US Workforce Is Tiny, But Industry Punches Above Its Weight: ReportCryptoKraken Parent Company Makes Moves to Offer xStocks From Global MarketsCryptoBenchmark Raises Hut 8 Price Target After Bitcoin Miner Signs $9.8 Billion AI Data Center DealCryptoLightning Labs Launches Wavelength: “Bitcoin on Easy Mode” for Developers and Autonomous AgentsCryptoAlibaba's New Qwen Image 3 AI Wants to Be Useful, Not Just PrettyCryptoFranklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case'CryptoGalaxy puts $5 million behind Bitcoin’s race to migrate before quantum risk arrivesCryptoBitcoin Is Bouncing: Here’s the Bull and Bear Case for Its Next MoveCryptoNew CLARITY Act update bans officials including presidents from issuing or even holding crypto tokensCryptoClarity Act’s impact on Circle could be negative over the long term, Mizuho saysCryptoClarity Act Latest Draft Bars Trump From Crypto Ventures—But Only Until 2029CryptoMVMT Labs bankruptcy lists under $1 million in assets after $38M raiseCryptoBenchmark sees Hut 8 becoming a ‘power-first data center REIT,’ raises target another 18%CryptoKraken parent Payward partners with GTN to scale xStocks internationally, beyond US equitiesCryptoNew Clarity Act Draft Would Bar Trump and Officials From Issuing Crypto, With a 2029 SunsetCryptoWinklevoss Twins Donated $10 Million From Bitcoin Sale to Trump Super PACCryptoSEC reaches settlement with Coinbase over records requests from Gensler eraAIInstead of panicking about the Hugging Face attack, people need to start questioning OpenAI's insecure sandboxes.CryptoSenate releases latest version of Clarity Act including software developer protections and ethics provision with ‘sunset’ date in 2029CryptoUS targets $26.4 million in five crypto scam cases as DOJ says $800 million recoveredCryptoHugging Face CEO Thanks Chinese AI for Saving the Day After OpenAI HackCryptoCrypto directly employs 34,000 in the US and contributes $55 billion to the economy: NCA reportAIOpenAI hacking HuggingFace in one memeCryptoCelsius founders face permanent crypto bans that could cost more than their $16.5M obligationsCryptoBitcoin ETFs Take in Nearly $1B in New Money — But What Will the Price Do?CryptoCoinbase Settles FOIA Fight With the SEC Over Gensler’s Vanished TextsCryptoUS Seizes More Than $25M in Crypto Tied to Investment and Romance ScamsAIOrchestrionsCryptoCentralized Elements 'Frequently Persist' in DeFi and Should Be Regulated: FATFAIOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's nextCryptoOpenAI’s model breach is not the singularity, but dismissing it as hype is dangerousCryptoJustin Sun's HTX 'Rotating' On-Chain Wallets Amid UK Sanctions: TRM LabsAISolve the CyberGym benchmarkAIThe State of Simulation for Physical AI: An OverviewAICalifornia Sea LionAINativ: Run AI models locally on your MacAIA Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code teamAIGrabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation dataAIReverse-engineering is cheap nowAIWho’s Afraid of Chinese Models?AIKimi K3: The open-weights escalationAIImport AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan AIQuoting Sam AltmanAIAI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-MakingAIClaude Code uses Bun written in Rust nowAISQLite Query ExplainerAIControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsAIClaude make Fable 5 permanentAINewer Models, Same AdvantageAISecurity incident disclosure — July 2026AIWhat building Shippy taught us about building agentsAIModel 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 clickAIHugging Face Models on Foundry Managed ComputeAIRun AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilotAILeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, ImproveAIImport 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 AILatest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI's V4 assessment.AIRecent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed AttentionAIHow open model ecosystems compoundAIImport 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 disempowermentAIImport AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting AIComponents of A Coding AgentAIImport AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer AIA 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 realityAIThe State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and PredictionsAILLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December)AIFrom 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