A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 6:16 AM ET

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

Crypto · lede

UK Lawmakers Launch Inquiry Into Crypto Banking Access

A cross-party group is examining why UK banks block accounts and payments for crypto firms—and whether it's holding the sector back.

Decrypt · about 1 hour ago

AI · lede

DRAM shortage will last another 10 years, warns ADATA chairman

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LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 25 minutes ago

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AIDRAM shortage will last another 10 years, warns ADATA chairmanAIAnthropic got sued for using copyrighted books for LLM trainingCryptoUK Lawmakers Launch Inquiry Into Crypto Banking AccessCryptoCoinShares launches UCITS platform targeting Europe’s institutional investorsCryptoBitcoin breaks $66k as US debt hits $39.5 trillion creating Bitcoin’s next liquidity test for August 3CryptoUK parliamentary group probes banking barriers for crypto firmsAIToday I learnt the power of LocalLlamaCryptoLondon Stock Exchange plans overnight venue to extend trading hours: FTAIUS gov't lobbied by major US labs is about to ban open source models.CryptoBitcoin ETFs post 5-day inflow streak, longest since MayCryptoUK parliamentary group launches probe into crypto sector’s banking challengesCryptoXRP jumps 4% as traders watch 'triangle breakout' toward $1.35CryptoBase’s 1:1-backed tokenized equities launch ‘imminent,’ Pollak saysCryptoLive markets: Bitcoin ETFs post a fifth straight day of inflows in a first since AprilAIThere's a new PR for llamacpp claiming to boost prompt processing with rocm by around 15%, also fixes a bug which makes Q2_K 28x fasterCryptoUK Parliament begins inquiry into banking chokepoint for crypto businessesCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoBitcoin hits a two-week high near $65,500 as the chip trade turns back into a tailwindCryptoWashington judge blocks Kalshi’s sports prediction markets over state gambling lawsCryptoGrayscale files S-1 for first US Worldcoin ETFAIDavidAU somehow managed to improve Qwen 3.6 27BCryptoCelsius co-founders Leon, Goldstein to pay FTC over $6M CryptoBinance & OKX users face $1,900 fines in Vietnam, Coinbase in China? Asia ExpressCryptoSEC charges Florida man and company in alleged $22 million crypto mining fraud schemeAIOpenAI released gpt-oss 350 days ago. Will we ever see another open-weight model from them?CryptoLondon Stock Exchange eyes overnight trading launch in 2027: FT CryptoTrump agrees to ethics provision as crypto bill inches closer to Senate voteAIMotif 3 Beta releasedCryptoPatrick Witt defers military training as CLARITY heads to Senate AIGrabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation dataAIGoogle has disappeared completely from the top 15AIKimi-K3 isn’t quite better than Fable yet, but it’s definitely getting closer.CryptoBitcoin Miner Hut 8 Shares Jump on $9.8 Billion AI Data Center DealCryptoDemocrats added certain consumer protection rules to CLARITY: Coinbase execCryptoGrayscale could take Worldcoin to Wall Street after ETF filing with the SECCryptoTether Gold recognized as Accepted Spot Commodity in Abu Dhabi financial center CryptoBitcoin defies recent tech stocks sell-off: Are bulls eyeing $70K rally?AII ran Ternary-Bonsai-27B (2-bit) and Bonsai-27B (1-bit) on Terminal-Bench 2.0, in 8GB VRAMCryptoKalshi, Polymarket open interest falls 20% as World Cup frenzy winds downCryptoBank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million UsersCryptoFTX begins $900M payout as creditors in 45 countries could lose their claims within 6 monthsAIAmerican AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.CryptoSEC sues Mining Automatic and founder over alleged $22M crypto mining schemeCryptoTrump’s crypto ethics stance leaves Clarity Act negotiations in limboCryptoMetaplanet’s Bitcoin Japan Announces Plan to Scoop Up Coins Despite Market Downturn CryptoRussia's First Comprehensive Crypto Law Is Two Votes Away From PassingCryptoBitcoin-Treasury Capital B Plans 10-for-1 Reverse Stock Split for SeptemberCryptoVietnam sets new crypto trading fines on par with drunk-driving penaltiesCryptoExodus to cut 25% of staff in company reorganizationAIReverse-engineering is cheap nowCryptoBitcoin treasury company discovers buying own stock adds 24% more BTC per share than buying BitcoinCryptoCardano Triggers Hard Fork With First Community-Voted UpgradeCryptoCoinbase Executive Says Clarity Act Has ‘Tremendous Momentum’ in the SenateCryptoAI-assisted hacking is outpacing traditional code reviews, NEAR co-founder saysCryptoBitcoin ETFs Are Green Again—Here’s Why Investors Should Zoom OutCryptoRussia Moves to Rein In Crypto Fraud With New LegislationCryptoCrypto investor charged with using 8 companies and new investor cash to keep an alleged $20M fraud aliveCryptoHut 8, IREN deals lift AI-focused Bitcoin mining stocksCryptoFormer NY Governor Cuomo joins OKX board, touts 24/7 tokenized tradingAIWho’s Afraid of Chinese Models?CryptoNew Onramp Report Makes the Case for Spot Bitcoin Over Paper Claims as Price Sits at Half Its PeakCryptoTom Lee's Bitmine Taps the Brakes on ETH Buys, Pivots $86M Into Stock BuybackAISo what happened with OpenClaw?AIIntroducing Cosmos 3 EdgeCryptoStrategy Pads Cash Reserve By $225M With MSTR Sale, Bitcoin Stash Remains UntouchedAIKimi K3: The open-weights escalationCryptoBitcoin gets $2.5B target for $72,000 by August as unknown trader bets big on Fed rallyCryptoBenchmark backs Exodus after 25% workforce cut, says stablecoin pivot is being overlookedCryptoStrive (ASST) Adds 21 Bitcoin as Treasury Reaches 19,921 BTC and Cash Climbs to $157 MillionCryptoFrance blocked Polymarket after its transaction controls failed to stop 578,751 new French visitorsAIUnsloth now supports AMD!CryptoInside Cardano's 'Van Rossum' hard fork, and what it means for usersCryptoHut 8 fully commercializes 1 GW Texas AI campus with second $9.8B lease as IREN signs $2.8B in contracts; shares climb double digitsCryptoExodus to cut 25% of global workforce in payments shiftCryptoHyperliquid challenges Polymarket with $32 million opening for prediction-market buildersCryptoAI compute stocks bounce as Hut 8, IREN land billions in new contractsCryptoAllbridge Pauses Cross-Chain Protocol After $1.65M Flash Loan AttackCryptoBitmine expands Ethereum treasury to 5.78 million ETH, repurchases 5.5 million sharesCryptoTom Lee's Bitmine slowed ether purchases as it bought back $86 million in stockCryptoBitcoin whale dumps $122 million 40x long right before liquidation can strikeCryptoSaylor's Strategy raises cash reserves to $3.2 billion, leaving bitcoin holdings unchangedAIImport AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan CryptoStrategy (MSTR) Sells $263.5 Million in MSTR Shares, Skips Bitcoin Purchase as USD Reserve Tops $3.2 BillionAIKimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused because of “cyber guardrails”. Hugging Face: We had this experience ourselves this week! Very scary to be guardrailed as a defender when you know attackers are likely bypassingCryptoBrazil’s securities regulator sets up task force with 60-day deadline for tokenization proposalCryptoMorning Minute: Hyperliquid Opens Prediction Markets to Anyone in HIP-4 UpgradeCryptoSaylor joins Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fight as miners get one last chance to avoid forced signalingCryptoA bitcoin 'volmageddon' may be brewing, key indicator suggestsCryptoStrategy's Michael Saylor Makes 110-Point Case Against Bitcoin's BIP-110CryptoBank of Korea prepares for live CBDC transactions with 9 banks in SeptemberCryptoBitcoin ETF inflows return, but $2.3 billion stablecoin liquidity drain leaves $57,000 exposedCryptoCrypto market slips even as equities advance. Pump surges on social-media chatterCryptoHyperliquid plans to add decentralized prediction markets in upgrade to HIP-4CryptoCross-chain protocol Allbridge halts after $1.65 million flash loan exploitAIQuoting Sam AltmanAIAI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-MakingAIClaude Code uses Bun written in Rust nowAISQLite Query ExplainerCryptoGPT-5.6 vs Fable 5 Review: Which One You Pick Depends on These FactorsAIControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsAIClaude make Fable 5 permanentAInascheme/quixoteCryptoECB Warns Stablecoins May Drain Bank Deposits—Here's What That MeansCryptoCardano Pumps as Network Moves to Further Decentralize DevelopmentCryptoBitcoin Sentiment Is Turning Bullish — But It’s Too Early to Celebrate: ReportCryptoKimi K3 Just Triggered DeepSeek Flashbacks for the Stock MarketCryptoOcean Mining VP Jason Hughes: BIP-110 on Track to Fail as Miner Signaling Stays Below 1%CryptoChina’s Kimi K3 Is Out—And Beats Claude Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol on Key BenchmarksAIQuoting Kimi K3AILLM cliché highlighterAISpot birds not golfAIFirefox in WebAssemblyAIKimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmarkAIQuoting Thibault SottiauxAIInkling: Our open-weights modelAINewer 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, ImproveAIPRX Part 4: Our Data StrategyAIImport 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 AINotes from inside China's AI labsAIImport 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