A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Thursday, July 30, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 2:26 PM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Quantum Solutions loses top Japan ETH treasury spot after another $1.9 million sale

The two sales have reduced Quantum’s ETH treasury holdings by 28.6% since mid-June and the firm has ceded the top Japanese ETH treasury spot.

The Block · 9 minutes ago

AI · lede

OpenAI is making their frontier models cheaper

Read the announcement: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ submitted by /u/_wsgeorge [link] [comments]

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 12 minutes ago

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