Blockchain News
Polygon Added Solana to Its Stablecoin Payment Stack. The Bank Connections Matter More Than the Bridge
A stablecoin can move between two wallets quickly and still fail to become an easy payment product. Money has to enter from…
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James Wilson
Blockchain News
Starknet Voted to Research Leaving Ethereum. Quantum Security Is the Reason, but Inherited Security Is the Trade
Starknet holders did not vote to leave Ethereum. They voted to research whether leaving Ethereum could make Starknet quantum-resistant faster. A seven-day…
AI News
Character.AI Reached 200 Million Users and Still Filed for Bankruptcy. Consumer AI Has a Unit-Economics Problem Hiding Behind Engagement
Character.AI proved that people will spend enormous amounts of time talking to artificial personalities. It did not prove that those conversations pay…
Crypto News
Binance Put AI Inside the Trading Interface. The Risk Begins When Explanation Starts Looking Like Advice
Binance has rolled out an AI-generated trading interface to English-language users after testing it with roughly 150,000 people. Binance AI changes the…
Blockchain News
OKX and ICE Built a Permissioned Uniswap Pool for Real U.S. Stocks. This Is What Regulated DeFi Actually Looks Like
The phrase “tokenized stocks” has covered several very different products: synthetic price exposure, offshore wrappers, broker-issued claims and tokens backed one-for-one by…
Market News
Franklin Templeton Put Tokenized Money-Market Funds Behind Bybit Trades. The Assets Stay Off the Exchange
A crypto trader can now use shares in a regulated money-market fund as collateral on Bybit without first transferring those fund shares…
Market News
The Clearing House Chose Quant for Tokenized Deposits. U.S. Banks Are Building an On-Chain Money System That Is Not a Stablecoin
The Clearing House clears and settles more than $2 trillion in U.S. payments every day. It has now selected Quant to build…
Crypto News
The CLARITY Act Has Reached Its Hard Part: The Senate Vote Is Now About More Than Crypto
The U.S. Senate is heading toward a key procedural vote on September 15 on crypto market-structure legislation, after more than a year…
Crypto News
Pakistan Gave Crypto Firms Two Weeks to Apply or Stop Serving the Country
Pakistan’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority opened its licensing portal on August 22, a day after issuing final regulations. Firms already serving Pakistani…
Crypto News
A Bitcoin Fork With 2.53% Miner Support Split the Chain Anyway. It Lasted Two Blocks
Bitcoin’s consensus rules had not changed since Taproot activated in November 2021. That is the longest quiet stretch in the network’s history.…
AI News
Alibaba Built a 2.4 Trillion Parameter Model, Then Announced It Would Give the Weights Away
Frontier labs do not usually publish their best model. That is the business. Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max on August 3 and said…
Crypto News
Bitcoin ETFs Have Not Posted a Selling Day in August. That Is Less Than It Sounds
Spot bitcoin exchange traded funds have recorded zero days of net outflows so far in August 2026, according to Arkham Intelligence’s on-chain…