Real-world assets (RWAs) accounted for 54% of Hyperliquid's weekly trading volume during July 13–19, the first time non-crypto assets have dominated the exchange, according to ARK Invest director of d…
Franklin Templeton, managing nearly $1.8 trillion in assets, argues that agentic AI will run on blockchain rails, not traditional payment networks, making crypto the 'killer use case' for the technolo…
Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul argues that investors should diversify into altcoins to capitalize on the convergence of AI and blockchain, projecting that agentic commerce—autonomous AI agents transa…
Franklin Templeton predicts that AI agents will drive mass cryptocurrency adoption by enabling a micropayment economy on high-speed blockchains like Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain, potentially creating …
Uranium spot prices have settled around $85 per pound, with long-term contract prices at $90 per pound, a level not seen since 2008, according to Cameco data, as AI data center electricity demand is e…
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko argued on July 21 that US fair use laws protect AI companies like Anthropic when training on voluntarily published online data, as Anthropic navigates a $1.5B copyr…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, sworn in on May 22, 2026, held rates steady near 3.6% at his inaugural FOMC meeting on June 17, reiterating that the 2% inflation target is non-negotiable before any…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model, triggering a broad market selloff that dragged Bitcoin below $64,000, Ethereum near $1,800, Solana around $75, and XRP near $1.07. The Fear &…
Velvet Capital's AI-powered trading terminal VelvetX announced support for Robinhood Chain on July 7, enabling single-transaction cross-chain swaps from Solana, Base, BNB Chain, and Ethereum without m…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released its R1 and V3 reasoning models on January 27, 2025, wiping $589 billion from Nvidia's market cap as investors questioned the need for expensive hardware. Within ho…
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud are co-hosting a hackathon in Korea to build AI agents capable of autonomous payments, building on the launch of Pay.sh, an API proxy that lets AI agents pay for Goo…
Beijing-based Moonshot AI on July 16 unveiled Kimi K3, the largest open-weight AI model with approximately 2.7 trillion parameters using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, nearly doubling the 1.6 tril…
Alpaca Markets closed a $135 million funding round led by Peak XV on July 16, 2026, to build AI agent trading infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets. The developer-centric brokerage API …
NameIntel, a remote MCP server and REST API that scores candidate brand names across five dimensions in a single call, has launched with x402 micropayment settlement on Base and Solana. Every endpoint…
RoboStrategy's tokenized shares on Solana outtraded the underlying Nasdaq-listed stock on a Sunday, with the fund's CEO Andrew Kang calling it the 'MicroStrategy of robotics.' The closed-end fund, whi…
Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, launched compute forward curves on July 14, allowing traders to bet on future GPU rental prices for Nvidia's B200, H200, and A100 chips. The contracts enabl…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told Congress on July 14, 2026, that nominal wage growth is moving at a "reasonable pace" but called the disconnect between robust productivity gains and wage increas…
A population-scale measurement of the x402 protocol on Base and Solana reveals that 136,708,672 settlements worth $44,121,383.81 over 280 days are not proof of an AI agent economy, as 21.20% are ficti…
A developer argues that Solana's sub-second finality and near-zero fees make it the first blockchain where autonomous AI agents can operate profitably at scale, enabling real-time yield optimization, …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the GPT-5.6 Sol model, which delivers a 54% improvement in token efficiency for agentic coding tasks, but warned users to expect "hiccups and capacity crunches" during …