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Friday, July 31, 2026

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

Crypto · lede

Bank of Italy finds no consistent cost advantage for stablecoin remittances

Researchers found that fiat conversion costs and payment infrastructure, rather than blockchain fees, accounted for most of the differences in stablecoin remittance costs and settlement times.

CoinTelegraph · 9 minutes ago

AI · lede

Translation: We had to cut our price by 80% because a open waits model with 284B and 13B active parameter called DeepSeek v4 flash just price/performance mocked us again.

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LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago

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