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Alternative stablecoins reach $4.81B on Solana as liquidity grows diverse
The Solana selection of alternative stablecoins grew in the past quarter. The network now carries $4.81B in liquidity, in addition to its USDT and USDC supply.
Mon, Jul 20
Alibaba jumps 5.4% after unveiling flagship AI model
Alibaba claims its latest AI model is the world’s strongest after Anthropic’s top system. This move comes as China now stands face to face with U.S AI rivals. The company unveiled a preview of Qwen3.8-Max, the flagship model in its Qwen lineup, through an official X post on Sunday. The preview is now accessible on...
Mon, Jul 20
UK CFO’s AI optimism jumps to 73% as geopolitical concerns ease
Most UK CFOs are now betting on artificial intelligence to level up their business performance. According to a Deloitte survey, executive confidence in AI-driven performance has steadily climbed over the last two years. Less than 40% were optimistic about AI in 2024, compared with 73% today. Deloitte’s findings are based on a relatively small sample...
Mon, Jul 20
Hong Kong’s HKDAP stablecoin could launch this month
A Hong Kong dollar stablecoin backed by a Standard Chartered-led venture could begin trading as early as July 31, 2026, offering the crypto market a regulated digital currency pegged to something other than the US dollar. The Hong Kong Economic Journal reported that HKDAP is expected to launch before the end of July. The timing...
Mon, Jul 20
Breakthrough quantum heat engine brings larger quantum computers a step closer
A micro-scale quantum heat engine that converts thermal energy to usable work under near-zero temperatures has paved the way for the realization of a more efficient quantum computer. The scientists at Aalto University have developed the first machine capable of carrying out an entire quantum mechanical cycle within a superconducting circuit. The entire machine measures...
Mon, Jul 20
Hyperliquid Opens HIP-4 Prediction Markets to Anyone With 500k HYPE
Hyperliquid has announced a big update wherein the platform is letting anyone build prediction markets on its exchange, as long as they stake 500,000 HYPE first. This is the permissionless phase of HIP-4, the outcome markets upgrade that went live on mainnet on May 2. Phase 1 of HIP-4 included a curated set of markets...
Mon, Jul 20
LIVE: Bitcoin reclaims $65,000 as Iran escalates tension by killing two U.S. troops in Jordan
Two U.S. service members were killed, one remains missing, and several others were wounded during an Iranian missile and drone attack on a Jordanian air base. The deaths are the first caused by direct Iranian fire since the war began, while four evacuated troops have already left the hospital. Bitcoin climbed back above $65,000 on...
Sat, Jul 18
China’s Xpeng brings budget Tesla rival to Europe with robots and flying cars
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng flew into Munich this week with more than just a new car. The company used the European launch of its L03 SUV to tell the world it is building robots and flying cars too. The launch event was branded a “Physical AI” event, a term Xpeng uses to describe its...
Sat, Jul 18
BubbleMaps: 63% of top Robinhood memecoin traders are losing money
The on-chain analytics firm BubbleMaps reports that most people trading the biggest memecoins on Robinhood Chain are underwater. Reportedly, only 37% of the 164,538 traders active across the network’s top 50 tokens have made a profit, while the remaining 63% have lost money. Are traders making money on Robinhood Chain? “Robinhood trenches are brutal,” BubbleMaps,...
Sat, Jul 18
David Sacks warns on US AI lead as China's Kimi K3 tops coding arena
Kimi-K3 has claimed top spot on a closely watched coding leaderboard. Kimi-K3 is a Chinese-built AI model, and this has prompted David Sacks, President Trump’s former AI czar, to believe that American AI labs are being hindered by US rules. Moonshot AI built Kimi-K3, and the AI model became number one on July 16. It...
Sat, Jul 18
Chamath Palihapitiya asks who's really cashing in on the AI boom?
Chamath Palihapitiya is asking if the money being poured into artificial intelligence is paying off for anyone beyond the small group of companies already collecting it. The Social Capital founder, in two posts made on X on July 17 and 18, called out AI labs over how they trained their own models versus how they...
Sat, Jul 18
Cheaper Chinese AI models overtake US rivals in developer usage
OpenRouter, the aggregation platform that routes developers’ API calls across dozens of AI systems, reports that open-weight models built by Chinese labs now run more than three times the weekly token volume of American models. The reason is because Chinese models that are nearly equivalent to their U.S. counterparts cost a fraction as much. Price...
Sat, Jul 18
The coal-powered Asian AI engine driving Wall Street’s record run
For a while, stock trading in Asia appeared to be unstoppable and has grown to be one of the largest sources of income for American banks. Then, practically overnight, the atmosphere was altered by a Chinese artificial intelligence business. Asian equity markets have been bringing in large sums of money for Wall Street’s main banks,...
Sat, Jul 18
Grayscale files to convert Solana Staking ETF to pay shareholders regularly
Grayscale filed a prospectus supplement with the SEC on July 17, outlining a Third Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for its Solana Staking ETF (ticker: GSOL).
Sat, Jul 18
TrustedVolumes attacker returns 1,122 ETH, keeps $2M in bounty deal
A negotiated settlement has once again outpaced a long asset recovery process as one of the attackers of TrustedVolumes, a liquidity resolver linked to 1inch Fusion, has returned 1,122.12 ETH in an Ethereum transfer, more than two months after the incident. The hacker has allegedly retained a similar amount as part of a negotiated bug...
Sat, Jul 18
AI’s IPO boom is creating venture capital’s biggest winners
Venture capital’s biggest winners are changing the rules of the exit game, and 2026’s IPO boom is allowing them to cash in. US IPOs have reportedly already raised more than $141.2 billion this year. This puts the market within striking distance of the $142.4 billion record set in 2021. The biggest artificial intelligence listings are...
Sat, Jul 18
North Korean operative accessed MetaMask code before being caught
Consensys, the company behind the MetaMask crypto wallet, unknowingly hired a North Korea linked developer who used the alias "Tyler Knapp."
Sat, Jul 18
Coinbase admits trust gap as Base faces crypto backlash
The controversy regarding Base’s loss of credibility in the crypto community has now moved into the higher levels of Coinbase, creating doubts that go beyond social media. This controversy is important because today Base isn’t just another layer-2 blockchain anymore. Now it is processing more of the onchain stablecoin volume than any other blockchain and...
Sat, Jul 18
Pump.fun’s SOL sell-offs weigh on Solana as memecoin trade fades
Pump.fun transferred another 81,712 SOL, worth roughly $6.15 million, to crypto exchange Kraken on July 18, 2026, according to on-chain analyst EmberCN. On its own, the move is just another wallet transfer. But in the context of slowing memecoin activity and weakening Solana network revenue, it offers another glimpse into how one of crypto’s biggest...
Sat, Jul 18
ECB sees stablecoins driving a new era for digital payments and banking
Piero Cipollone, member of the executive board of directors of the European Central Bank (ECB), warned on Friday that the increasing popularity of stablecoins threatens Europe’s banking system because retail deposits will be detached from commercial banks. Speaking at a gathering of Italy’s cooperative banks in Rome on July 17, he said the trend adds...
Sat, Jul 18
