A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 12:57 PM ET

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

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One Year Later: How Coldcard Q’s Key Teleport Delivers Secure Remote Key Management for Bitcoin Treasuries

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AI · lede

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

Simon Willison · 3 minutes ago

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CryptoOne Year Later: How Coldcard Q’s Key Teleport Delivers Secure Remote Key Management for Bitcoin TreasuriesAIHave your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper videoCryptoBusiness use of stablecoins set for growth surge: Cybrid report CryptoChinese exile once linked to Trump strategist gets 30-year sentence in $1 billion fraud CryptoCrypto Firms Lead $517 Million Corporate Surge Into 2026 MidtermsCryptoSharplink Buys Ethereum for First Time in 2026—With ETH Down 68% From PeakCryptoDutch Prosecutors Seek to Bankrupt Crypto Platform Knaken After Funds FrozenCryptoFCA finalizes UK crypto rules as firms face 2027 access deadlineCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoTD Cowen Slashes Strategy Price Target, Citing Ongoing Bitcoin WeaknessCryptoVisa, Stripe, Coinbase and more join Open USD stablecoin that shares reserve revenueCryptoOKX AI unveils marketplace for agents to find work and get paid in stablecoinsCryptoNew Zcash nonprofit Sovright unveils ZEC wallet recovery toolAIPageStorm: A Model Built for Creative Book WritingCryptoJefferies warns of crypto market volatility as Clarity Act faces Senate testAIWhy Specialization Is InevitableCryptoCircle slides 13% as Stripe, Coinbase and BlackRock back rival stablecoin networkCryptoUS starts clock to bring in ID checks for converting dollars to stablecoins but DeFi stays outside the rulesCryptoUAE-Based Goldman Lampe Private Bank Acquires $137 Million in BitcoinCryptoUK Sets Landmark Crypto Rules in Race to Become Global HubCryptoCrypto Wallet MetaMask Launches Yield-Paying Money Account on MonadCryptoMetaMask launches Money Account with stablecoin yield and spending in one walletCryptoMetaMask launches stablecoin yield account with card spendingCryptoMetaMask unveils all-in-one Money Account offerings users up to 4% APY on mUSD holdingsCryptoSharplink buys 10,000 ETH, repurchases 2.13 million SBET shares in latest buybackCryptoOKX launches AI marketplace for autonomous agent economyCryptoTokenized securities need competition, not gatekeepersCryptoJPMorgan warns rushed US crypto rules could create market loopholes as Senate races toward July CLARITY Act voteCryptoStrategy's new plan divides industry observers even as MSTR, STRC climbAIWell.. it's a step up from nonstop bot spam I guessCryptoNasdaq expands distribution of its market data into blockchain infrastructureCryptoTheo becomes first crypto-native investor in Fidelity tokenized fundCryptoSwan's Cory Klippsten sees record Bitcoin holder supply revealing early bottomAIQwen 3.6 27B Speculative Decoding Bench: Pushing ~100 TPS on a single RTX 3090CryptoTD Cowen slashes Strategy target to $260 on bitcoin outlook, calls new capital framework ‘constructive’CryptoStarkWare unveils Starknet quantum roadmap, says industry has no excuse CryptoStarkWare unveils Starknet post-quantum roadmap, calling it crypto’s ‘strongest’ to dateCryptoSpiko links EU regulated T-bill funds to Coinbase stablecoin railsAINEW on Hugging Face: Filter by hardware compatibilityCryptoMorning Minute: A Change of StrategyCryptoRipple bets XRPL lending can give XRP a future beyond payments as price strugglesCryptoNew York Life Investment Management makes first tokenized move partnering with Centrifuge on high-yield corporate bond strategyAIHuawei open-sources OpenPangu-2.0-Flash - 92B total,6B activeCryptoBitcoin’s quiet $59,000-$60,000 range is starting to look dangerousCryptoNew York Life's $800 billion asset manager makes tokenization debut with Centrifuge fundCryptoBitcoin $4.4 billion supply overhang emerges as institutional demand wiltsCryptoSolana Company to back Kazakhstan’s $6B crypto megacity ambitionCryptoFCA Finalizes Landmark Crypto Rules to Make UK a 'Global Hub'CryptoHollywood director Carl Rinsch sentenced to 30 months for diverting $11 million in TV production funds to stock options, crypto and luxury purchasesAIBartowski has delivered DS4 GGUFCryptoBitcoin nears 2024 lows as options traders pay up for downside protectionCryptoWill UK traders lose crypto exchange access after MiCA’s July 1 deadline?AInvidia/Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 just droppedCryptoStrategy heads for 11th losing month in 12 as bitcoin weakness continuesCryptoESMA MiCA warning puts Binance EU service changes under scrutinyCryptoUK to lower stablecoin capital buffers, undercutting EU's MiCA requirementsAINorm-preserving abliteration on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 0% refusal, benchmarks intact, open source datasetCryptoSEC wins $5.5 million default judgment over alleged fake crypto platform NanoBitCryptoTrump’s Bitcoin made in America push runs into a power problem the tax bill cannot fixCryptoKalshi hit with 14-day restraining order in Michigan, blocking sports prediction markets in stateCrypto'47 Ronin' Director Gets 30 Months for Spending Netflix's $11M on DogecoinCryptoMichigan judge blocks Kalshi from allowing residents to place sports betsCryptoBenchmark sees over 500% upside in Strategy, reiterates $570 target on new capital frameworkAIMicrosoft has taken down fastcontext model from everywhereCryptoCelsius-linked Bitcoin miner Ionic Digital seeks Nasdaq direct listing amid AI pivotCryptoBitcoin’s $60,000 test is not over after Strategy’s $2.5B STRC backstopCryptoBitcoin's correlation with dollar-yen rate hits -0.90, undercutting 'carry trade' theoryCryptoLive updates: Bitcoin falls back below $59,000, Circle's stock gets crushedCryptoAustralia’s crypto travel rule is coming into effect: Here’s what's changingCryptoCathie Wood’s ARK adds $43.5M in crypto stocks amid market dipCryptoSelf-exiled Chinese billionaire sentenced to 30 years for fraud involving cryptoCryptoSecuritize to debut on NYSE this Thursday after gaining final nod for mergerCryptoArk Invest loads up on Coinbase, Circle, Bullish, Robinhood shares as stocks rally higherAIFeaturing Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model PagesAIHTML table extractorAII Hate Dario Amodei, and everything he stands for.CryptoUK sets capital, market abuse rules in landmark crypto frameworkAIIntroducing LongCat-2.0 - , a large-scale MoE language model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and ~48 billion activated per token. This was the stealth model that was on Openrouter under the name 'owl-alpha'.CryptoOrnith Is the Open-Source Coding Model Built for Agents, Not HumansCryptoStrategy Snaps 9-Day Losing Streak as Bitcoin Giant Adopts 'Robust' Capital FrameworkCryptoChina Has Its Own Mythos Now, Says Qihoo 360 Founder. And One Version Is FreeCryptoStrategy (MSTR) Surges Over 12% As Bitcoin-Linked Stocks Have Green DayAIon Dario’s statementCryptoSupreme Court Says Trump Can Fire SEC, CFTC Commissioners at Will—At a Crucial Moment for CryptoCryptoJPMorgan Backs U.S. Crypto Bill, But Puts a Warning Label Front and Center as Senate Eyes August DeadlineCryptoBitcoin’s $60K breakdown sets up a volatility shock as traders load up on downside hedgesAIIt’s time, Sam, it’s time.CryptoMeta Unveils New Tech That Uses AI to Translate Brain Activity Into Text—Without SurgeryCryptoBitcoin Is in a Fight at $60K—Here's What the Charts SayAICount the number of Safari tabsCryptoMSTR jumps after Strategy says it may sell more Bitcoin to fund dividends and buybacksAIDiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributionsCryptoFidelity Outlines 5 Factors That Could End the Bitcoin and Crypto WinterCryptoGalaxy Slashes Clarity Act's 2026 Odds to 50% as Senate Time Runs ShortCryptoXRP Ledger's 'Missing Layer' Draws Closer as Developers Test Lending, Credit Features: RippleCryptoWhat states can still do to crypto after GENIUS and CLARITYCryptoClarity Act Enters Critical Two-Week Window as Senate Heads Into RecessAIOrnith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic CodingCrypto2007–2009—The Global Financial Crisis and the Birth of BitcoinCryptoStrive (ASST) Holds 19,864 BTC With No New Purchases Last Week, Balance Sheet Hits $141.7M CashAIEffect of GLM 5.2 !!AIImport AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human eraAIQuoting Jon UdellAIHack Your SummerAILatest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystemAIUsing Local Coding AgentsAIQuoting Dean W. BallAIQuoting Timothy B. LeeAIWhat happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistantAIIncident Report: CVE-2026-LGTMAIQuoting OpenAIAIRun a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One CommandAIAI and LiabilityAIdatasette-export-database 0.3a2AIsimonw/browser-compat-dbAIQuoting Tom MacWrightAIAccelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModelAIIntroducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real WorldAIBuild real agentic apps using CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harnessAIShipping huggingface_hub every week with AI, open tools, and a human in the loopAIExperimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.jsAIGLM-5.2 is the step change for open agentsAIPP-OCRv6 on Hugging Face: 50-Language OCR from 1.5M to 34.5M ParametersAIImport AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASIAIWe got local models to triage the OpenClaw repo for FREE!*AIBest Local Agents - Jun 2026AIBanning Open Source AI Would Be A MistakeAIMosaicLeaks: Can your research agent keep a secret?AIBeyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique?AIIs it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own toolingAIState of the blog, mid-2026AIFrom the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobotAIFrontier 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 labsAIThe distillation panicAIImport AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.AIReading today's open-closed performance gapAIImport 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 AIImport AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks AIA Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMsAIImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative textAIA 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 ScratchAIFrom GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural AdvancesAIAGI 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