A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Thursday, July 2, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 6:46 PM ET

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

Crypto · lede

Ripple co-founder backs venture launched by US senator's son: Report

While engaged in negotiations over ethics in a crypto market structure bill in Congress, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said she had “no involvement” in her son’s derivatives exchange, backed by at least

CoinTelegraph · about 1 hour ago

AI · lede

Tip: use this llama.cpp PR to improve PP on Intel ARC

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25222 Another win for Intel ARC users (all 4 of us). The community keeps improving llama.cpp for Intel ARC. This time, the hero from that Pull Request (with

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago

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CryptoRipple co-founder backs venture launched by US senator's son: ReportCryptoOpenAI Offers US Government a $42 Billion Slice of Itself: ReportAITip: use this llama.cpp PR to improve PP on Intel ARCCryptoRussia Is Ready for 'Widespread Use' of Digital Ruble by September, Says Bank GovernorCryptoTreasury Department Sanctions Over 130 ISIS-Affiliated Crypto Wallets on TronAILocal benchmarks with a RTX 3090 - Qwen3.6 27b vs OrnithCryptoSecuritize becomes first to debut shares on NYSE and onchain, but it won’t be the lastAIIt's officially over. One of the fathers of AI at Nvidia doesn't believe in AGI and compares OpenAI and Anthropic's closed models to AOL and Prodigy's closed internets. Says the future is every business having a customized open source model.CryptoBitcoin Exchange Inflows Spike to 49,000 BTC in a Day, Signaling More Volatility is Coming: ReportCryptoAI Researchers Got Chatbots to Share Cocaine Recipes Using This One Wild TrickAIllm-coding-agent 0.1a0CryptoeToro leads $12.5 million round in onchain perps exchange ExtendedCryptoIMF says tokenization could transform settlement and financial stabilityCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoCFTC’s Selig says Illinois lawmakers ‘decided they know better’ on crypto taxCryptoWavespace Launches MiCA-Compliant Self-Custodial Bitcoin Debit Card Powered by Lightning and NWCCryptoRussia on track for digital ruble rollout on Sept. 1: Central bank governor CryptoSecuritize tokenizes $295 million of its own stock on Solana and Avalanche amid NYSE debutCryptoJPMorgan says Strategy’s bitcoin sale policy introduced ‘avoidable’ risk into crypto marketsCryptoSecuritize Begins Trading on NYSE as Tokenized Shares Land on Solana, AvalancheAIFine-tuned Gemma-4-31B specifically for Copywriting & Creative Writing Tasks (Scored +290 Elo over base using EqBench3)CryptoHow tokenized stocks fail as collateral even when the stock price does not moveCryptoJapanese Financial Giant SBI to Shut Down Bitcoin Mining PoolAIUsing DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system promptsAIGemma 4 WebGPU Kernels 255 tok/s by x/@xenovacomCryptoBitcoin price taps new July high above $62K on weak US jobs dataCryptoIrish authorities recover another 500 bitcoins from lost Clifton Collins drug stashCryptoCrypto Shorts Get Rekt as Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Rise to Weekly High PricesCryptoFrance’s crypto kidnapping surge exposes the personal data trail behind wrench attacksCryptoBitget Bolsters Stock+ Platform With U.S. Stock Options TradingAIUnderstand to participateCryptoFBI director discloses Strategy holdings months after deadline: ReportCryptoEToro invests in onchain derivatives platform Extended as brokers race into DeFiCryptoBitwise says STRC selloff signals crypto cycle nearing a bottom, not Strategy’s breaking pointAISoftware developers appreciation postCryptoOndo expands tokenized equities with onchain shareholder votingCryptoRobinhood CEO says future of crypto is in real-world assets, not memecoinsAIRebuilding Gemma 4 31b... better... As 26b...CryptoTether freezes 134 ISIS terror wallets as stablecoins now sit inside the sanctions machineAIKimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub CopilotAIpoolside/Laguna-XS-2.1CryptoHumanity Protocol repositions toward enterprise AI after $36 million hack, founder saysAII’m switching to Linux, is Ubuntu the most compatible with local AI?CryptoMystery owner challenges the $200B ‘lost’ Satoshi Bitcoin claim in New York courtCryptoFBI Director Kash Patel's Undisclosed Stock Buy in Bitcoin Giant Strategy Is Down 44%CryptoFBI Director Kash Patel Did Not Disclose Six-Figure Strategy (MSTR) Stake: ReportCryptoUS Treasury sanctions over 100 ISIS-K crypto addresses that moved over $1.4 millionCryptoSBI Crypto to shut down mining pool that holds roughly 2% of Bitcoin's hashrateCryptoOndo Finance debuts SEC-aligned tokenized stock model with BlackRock ETF, Micron sharesCryptoStandard Chartered Becomes First Global Bank to Offer Direct USDC Access to InstitutionsCryptoOndo tokenizes BlackRock’s IVV ETF and Micron stock under US custodial modelCryptoWall Street is selling Bitcoin but the old holders are now buying it backCryptoThe biggest blockchain upgrades still to come in 2026CryptoBitget expands Stock+ platform with US stock options tradingCryptoPeter Thiel-backed crypto-friendly Erebor Bank eyes $8 billion valuation as deposits nearly quadruple: BloombergCryptoJPMorgan says Strategy's bitcoin sales policy adds 'two-way risk' to crypto marketsCryptoMetaplanet Adds 2,823 Bitcoin in Q2 as Buying Pace CoolsCryptoUK payments blueprint outlines tokenized payments for ‘multi-money ecosystem’CryptoAave brings V3 lending and GHO stablecoin to Monad CryptoAnchorage Digital adds Lido support, giving institutions access to wstETHCrypto‘Accumulation beneath the surface’: Bitcoin rebounds above $61,000 as long-term holders accumulate amid steady ETF outflowsCryptoU.S. payroll growth slowed sharply in June, with only 57,000 jobs addedCryptoVenice’s $65M raise makes VVV holders ask how much of Venice’s growth reaches the tokenAITalking with Gemma 4 31B!CryptoMetaplanet Adds 2,823 Bitcoin, Reaches 43,000 BTC and Becomes World’s Third-Largest Corporate TreasuryCryptoA struggling Nasdaq-listed company that tried to copy Saylor's Bitcoin playbook is completely dumping crypto for AICryptoMorning Minute: Robinhood Debuts 'Robinhood Chain'CryptoThree years after MiCA became law, Europe's crypto framework is undergoing a rethinkCryptoWarsh's comments set the stage for U.S. jobs data to ignite bitcoin, gold rallyCryptoRobinhood’s expanding crypto bet meets a faster-moving prediction market boomCryptoStandard Chartered, Circle bring USDC minting onto banking railsCrypto‘I think we’re nearing the bottom’: Bitwise CIO says Strategy’s STRC selloff is part of bitcoin’s end-of-cycle dynamicsAIZ.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI codingCryptoSmaller tokens lead as bitcoin, sol rally in 'first real bounce of the selloff'CryptoSolana Foundation launches framework for protocol-level governanceCryptoEthereum is splitting into three power centers and ETH treasury firms are paying for twoCryptoSBI Crypto shuts Bitcoin mining pool after 5-year runCryptoBitcoin rises 4% to above $61,000 as inflation fears softenCryptoYield-bearing stablecoin slowdown ends 3-year run for crypto-native productsCryptoOFAC sanctions 134 ISIS-K crypto wallet addresses as Tether freezes fundsCryptoFBI Director Kash Patel disclosed six-figure Strategy stock purchase months after trade: reportCryptoChatGPT developer OpenAI said to discuss offering U.S. government a 5% stake: FTCryptoA US Bitcoin treasury company sold every BTC because debt and Nasdaq pressure just closed inCryptoScattered Spider Suspect Extradited to US Over $8M Crypto Ransom DemandCryptoLive updates: Bitcoin holds above $61,000 as momentum stocks plunge to start quarterCryptoMetaplanet adds 2,823 bitcoin to holdings in Q2, bringing total to 43,000 BTCCryptoCoinbase helped build USDC – Why is it now backing the stablecoin trying to replace it, Open USD?AIPalantir CEO rages against closed modelsAII extended Gemma4-31B to 44B (88 layers) — since Google won't give us anything bigger than 31BCryptoThe 2036 Issue: The Future Is Now, Words of Wisdom from Jeff BoothCryptoRobinhood Launches 'AI-Native' Ethereum Layer-2 Network, Tokenized Stock TradingCryptoBitcoin Price Reclaims $60,000 As Strategy (MSTR) and Strive (ASST) Jump More Than 10%CryptoVenice AI Valued at $1 Billion as Erik Voorhees Makes the Case for Private ChatGPT RivalsCryptoLongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All AlongCryptoAI’s Bitcoin Moment: Why the Open-Source Fight Looks Like Crypto Back in 2014CryptoMoody’s Flags Quantum Threat to Bitcoin and Digital Assets After Trump OrdersCryptoPreferred Stock Is Becoming Bitcoin Treasury Firms’ Financing Tool of Choice: ReportAIHugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AIAIQuoting AnthropicAINano Banana 2 LiteAIWhat's new in Claude Sonnet 5AIScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework MigrationAIThe AI CompassAIHave your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper videoAIshot-scraper 1.10AIWhy Specialization Is InevitableAIFeaturing Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model PagesAIHTML table extractorAICount the number of Safari tabsAIDiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributionsAIOrnith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic CodingAIImport 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. BallAIRun a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One CommandAIAccelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModelAIIntroducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real WorldAIShipping 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-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 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