A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Saturday, July 25, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 2:49 PM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Bitcoin advocacy group to join US State Department’s ‘digital freedom’ program

The Bitcoin Policy Institute and three partner organizations will be able to send employees to work alongside State Department officials to address issues including digital freedom.

CoinTelegraph · 34 minutes ago

AI · lede

Mobile Offline LLMs: What do you use them for?

I've spent the last year or so playing around with open source MLX and GGUF models on iPhone hardware. Given the limitations in memory, GPU/CPU/ANE, and in turn the context window I've been trying to

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 30 minutes ago

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AIMobile Offline LLMs: What do you use them for?CryptoBitcoin advocacy group to join US State Department’s ‘digital freedom’ programAIKimi Linear 48B A3B?AII run 35B–480B coding models on my 36 GB MacBook by streaming MoE experts from SSD — self-contained app, and I publish the benchmarks that *failed* tooCryptoEU expands HTX crackdown as Russia-linked crypto network keeps shifting its financial railsAIBenchmarks: TensorSharp vs. llama.cppCryptoRobinhood in talks to add Crypto.com prediction markets as Kalshi rivalry grows: WSJAIGreat Arguments by Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic :DAITurns out open AI is a coalition, not a company.CryptoRussia’s largest bank Sberbank plans crypto trading infrastructure by DecemberAIHow much are you actually using your local models these days? Which ones do you reach for the most?CryptoTrump jokes about 4th term as $17 million in TRUMP tokens move onto exchangesCrypto Wise to resubmit US charter application under GENIUS ActCryptoNorth Korea arrests hackers accused of laundering stolen funds from country's bank via cryptoAIGoogle comes out in favor of OpenWeight models. (It is now EVERY tech giant vs Anthropic)CryptoUS Senate has 4 days to save CLARITY Act as odds fall to 30% – Galaxy Digital saysCryptoWhat Is an AI Kill Switch and Why Do US Lawmakers Want One?CryptoBitcoin ETF weekly trading volume falls to lowest since October 2024 as ether funds lead inflows againCryptoBitcoin is now fighting the ECB’s €51.8 billion bond wall for a shrinking pool of capitalCryptoNorth Korea arrests bank hacking ring tied to crypto laundering: ReportCryptoDemocratizing weather derivatives through tokenization could be crypto's most important real-world use caseCrypto8x faster than US cash: The $1T network settling millions while banks sleep on weekendsCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoThese 10 altcoins are still worth $12B after a 97% collapse – but do users pay enough to them keep running?CryptoFidelity joins push for Senate passage of CLARITY ActCryptoBitcoin broke away from AI stocks but now $96 oil could turn its escape into a trapCryptoDango’s perp DEX taps out nearly 4 months after launchCryptoRobinhood Chain's real-world assets jump fivefold as tokenized stocks start trading in bigger sizeCryptoTwo Ethereum bridges lose $31.7M within hours as third protocol halts stakingAIWho ONLY use local models?CryptoEthereum ETFs close week in red, end 5-day inflow streakAIPSA: DO NOT use Intel consumer platforms for multi-GPU setupsAII released Inflect v2: two ultra-tiny complete TTS models under 4M and 10M parametersAIQuoting Boris ChernyAIAMD Instella-MoE-16B-A3BAIIntroducing Claude Opus 5CryptoBitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir and Anduril join US State Department’s Freedom Tech Excellence ProgramCryptoMorgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF Nearly Notches $400M in AssetsCryptoStocks Just Topped Crypto on Hyperliquid. ARK Says That Changes EverythingCryptoEU authorities include HTX exchange in Russian sanctionsCryptoStrive’s SATA recovers most of June decline, trades within 3% of par Crypto$7 Trillion Investment Giant Fidelity Backs New Crypto Clarity ActCryptoStrategy now publishes the Bitcoin return threshold below which it may have to restructureCryptoState Department to Debut Freedom Tech Program with Bitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir as Founding PartnersCryptoHouse passes bill on lawmakers using insider information for stock trading CryptoSamsung Wallet Will Add Stablecoin Support, Including USDCCryptoFBI used Google cookies, 500 food orders and a Monero seed phrase to identify Steam malware funderCryptoCardano co-founder Hoskinson says Bitcoin could lose top spot if governance fails quantum testCryptoClaude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the PriceCryptoClarity Act on the Ropes as Ethics Fight and Shrinking Calendar Threaten PassageCryptoPoolin, Once One of Bitcoin's Biggest Mining Pools, Files for BankruptcyCryptoWise plans to resubmit national trust bank application under GENIUS Act frameworkCryptoNational Fraternal Order of Police Gives Green Light to Clarity Act in Latest Support for Crypto BillCryptoCrypto advocacy groups support CLARITY passage as ethics rules face pushbackAIWhy won't he sign the letter then?CryptoNvidia, Meta, and Microsoft Tell Washington: Don't Kill Open-Source AIAIIt appears that the anti opensource AI lobby is far outgunned alreadyCryptoStrategy Overhauls Bitcoin Metrics, Debuting 'Net Bitcoin Per Share'CryptoSealed in Foil: BMAG’s New Focus on Trading CardsCryptoBitcoin ETFs Shed $225M, Snapping Seven-Day Inflow Streak as Iran Tensions Spook MarketsCryptoTop Crypto Industry Groups Pen Letter to Senate Leaders Urging Them To Support the Clarity ActCryptoInternet Freedom Foundation calls India’s BitChat GitHub takedown order ‘unconstitutional’CryptoCrypto Biz: Is the AI-to-crypto rotation underway?CryptoGalaxy cuts Clarity Act passage odds to 30%, says bill needs ‘last-ditch effort’CryptoWorld Foundation raises $52.5M in Pantera-led funding to expand World ID infrastructureCryptoSenate Dems should accept the victory they won on Trump's crypto limits: White HouseCryptoSam Altman-backed World Network secures $52.5 million in fresh funding to fight online AI deepfakesCryptoWorld Foundation Raises $52.5M to Scale Sam Altman’s ‘Proof of Human’ IDCryptoWorld Foundation raises $52.5 million in WLD token sale with one-year lockupCryptoInstitutional crypto trading platform LMAX is exploring sale, IPOCryptoBitcoin falls under $64K as surging US bond yields boost Fed rate-hike oddsCryptoEU Names Justin Sun's HTX in Russia Sanctions, Two Months After UKAIMore than 20 companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Hugging Face have signed a letter urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open weight models.CryptoDemocrats Push Back on GOP Ethics Text as Thune Doubts a Pre-Recess Clarity VoteCryptoSaylor and team overhaul Strategy's bitcoin metrics as bear market persistsCryptoBrazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank lending limitsCryptoArthur Hayes, BitMEX co-founders face fraud claims over alleged ‘Insider Trading Desk’ as exchange winds downCryptoMorning Minute: Bitcoin's New $15M Quantum Defense FundCryptoIndia Orders GitHub to Take Down Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Amid ProtestsCryptoEU hits Russia with massive 21st sanctions package targeting $120B crypto networkCryptoCrypto market maker B2C2 held sale talks with multiple potential buyersCryptoCrypto's institutional influx has killed the memecoin crazeCryptoA $5 billion cluster has formed in bitcoin options. It tells a bullish storyCryptoBitcoin settles near $65,000 as oil's march toward $100 fails to spook the marketCryptoPoolin was bitcoin's biggest mining pool and now it's filing for bankruptcyCryptoFormer bitcoin miner Poolin files Chapter 11, sets $52 million floor bid for Texas operationsCryptoPolymarket Account in Farage Backer's Name Took $9M in Crypto From Unknown Sources: FTCryptoThe Largest Stablecoins RankedCryptoHow Do Stablecoins Maintain Their Peg?AIThe first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?CryptoBlack Forest Labs Unveils FLUX 3 AI: Ditches Stills for Video—And Robot HandsCryptoBitcoinist.App Brings Private Mining Pools to iOSCryptoElizabeth Warren Claims Clarity Act Would Help Trump — And ‘Criminals and Cartels’CryptoSmarter Web Company Sells Bitcoin to Clear $11.7 Million Debt FacilityCryptoRobinhood CEO’s X account hacked to promote Vladhood memecoin flagged as ‘scam’CryptoMoonPay now accepts Discover Network cards for crypto purchases and sales in USCryptoSwan CEO claims Twenty One serves Tether’s US political interests, calls Mallers’ role ‘ceremonial’CryptoCoinbase calls AI payments its ‘most high-conviction bet’ as businesses begin accepting agent paymentsAIQuoting Seth LarsonAIBringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to DiffusersAIQuoting Thomas PtacekAIOpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedAIAre AI labs pelicanmaxxing?AIOrchestrionsAIOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's nextAIThe 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-MakingAIControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsAINewer 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 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