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Sunday, June 21, 2026

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Crypto · lede

Kraken Fed account fight could shape how crypto firms get direct payment access

ICBA is pressing the Kansas City Fed to reassess the limited account before its first-year term expires. The post Kraken Fed account fight could shape how crypto firms get direct payment access appear

CryptoSlate · 35 minutes ago

AI · lede

GLM-5.2 is on DeepSWE

https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/ Side note, why does this sub dislike DeepSWE? I want to know more and did some research and found this post which has since been retracted by the original author (highl

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago

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