A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Thursday, July 23, 2026

Edition · 195 items · 2:54 AM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Bitcoin, Ethereum-linked protocols lose $35 million in multiple attacks hours apart

The attacks hit Verus, B² Network and other cross-chain systems, showing how compromised keys, upgrade powers and validation checks can empty protocols without breaking the underlying cryptography.

CoinDesk · 16 minutes ago

AI · lede

A caveman qwen3.6 27B

Just saw this on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/ProCreations/grug-27b The benchmarks claim that it's quite a bit better than qwen3.6 27B original and that they reduced the amount of necessary to

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 38 minutes ago

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