The Claude-maker signed a 20-year lease with TeraWulf for a 401 MW campus in Kentucky worth $19 billion. A former Bitcoin miner just became the infrastructure backbone for one of the world's top AI companies.
Starting July 6, Revolut users across the EU can no longer buy USDT. Tether refused to seek MiCA e-money authorization, forcing Europe's biggest fintech to delist the world's top stablecoin.
Luxembourg's CSSF has granted Ripple full CASP authorization, allowing the company to offer regulated crypto payment services across all 30 EEA countries after MiCA's transition period ended.
Aave deployed on Monad and pulled in $100 million in deposits inside 48 hours — more than a quarter of the network's total value. Monad Foundation committed $15M in incentives to land the protocol.
Vitalik Buterin published the Lean Ethereum roadmap — a 3–4 year plan to overhaul nearly every layer of the protocol: STARK proofs, quantum-resistant cryptography, and a potential EVM replacement.
Nansen tracked 1.48 million TRUMP token wallets: two-thirds are underwater with $3.81 billion in losses. Trump collected $636M in fees regardless of price performance, his 2026 disclosure confirmed.
Hexens found a critical type-confusion flaw in Aptos's Move VM: a $3,000 attack with near-90% success could have seized Wormhole, LayerZero, and USDC minting controls. Systemic risk: $70 billion. Patched in February.
The EU top securities watchdog ESMA classified prediction market event contracts as binary options — already banned for EU retail investors since 2018, with no transition period and no licensed platforms in Europe.
A researcher found obfuscated code in Claude Code that silently detected Chinese users via timezone checks and steganographic prompt changes. Anthropic removed it July 1, one day after public exposure.
BIP-110 proposes a one-year soft fork to ban Ordinals and BRC-20 data on Bitcoin. Its mandatory signaling window opens in August with only 0.42% miner support. Adam Back and Jameson Lopp warn of a chain split.
The UN's ITU launched the AI for Good Global Commission on July 2 — the first body to seat Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft CEOs alongside heads of state. 44 founding members, first meeting July 7 in Geneva.
Senator Gillibrand proposed a bill banning the president, Congress members, and their spouses from issuing crypto. The direct trigger: Trump's $636M income from the $TRUMP memecoin in 2025.
The IMF mapped the hidden dangers of blockchain tokenization: near-instant settlement is real, but so is near-instant shock propagation — and risk is shifting from bank balance sheets onto a handful of platforms.
June was the worst month on record for U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs: $4.5 billion withdrawn. On July 3, Fidelity and Ark led a $222M reversal after a miss on U.S. jobs data eased rate-hike fears.
Bank of Russia governor Nabiullina confirmed all systems are ready. From September 1, systemically important banks and major retailers must accept the digital ruble — with full market coverage phased in by 2028.
Ondo Finance tokenized BlackRock's IVV ETF and Micron shares on Ethereum — first US-listed securities on a public blockchain under the SEC's official model. Token holders get full shareholder rights via Broadridge.
Sam Altman proposed giving 5% of OpenAI to a US sovereign wealth fund — worth $42.6 billion at the $852B valuation. Anthropic, Google, and Meta would contribute similar stakes to the same fund under the plan.
Microsoft launched Frontier Company with a $2.5 billion budget and 6,000 engineers embedded inside enterprise clients — a push to close the gap between AI tools purchased and AI actually deployed.
US Treasury sanctioned 134 crypto addresses tied to ISIS-K on July 1. Tether instantly froze 131 USDT wallets on TRON. Three Monero addresses were listed but technically can't be touched.
Anthropic's most capable public model is running again. Claude Fable 5 returned on July 1 — two and a half weeks after it was pulled worldwide over sudden US export controls tied to a security incident.