Binance launches regulated gold, silver options through ADGM exchange
New commodity options let traders gain exposure to gold and silver prices through Binance’s Abu Dhabi-regulated exchange.
Month: July 2026
Lava Network Puts Tokenization to Work on Germany’s EUR 500M Battery Storage Problem
Germany needs to roughly quintuple its battery storage by 2030, and the capital to build it has to come from somewhere. Lava Network is now testing whether tokenized financing can be part of the answer. The protocol’s Tokenization Sandbox has entered live deployment, with Berlin-based energy company Electric Blue running its evaluation of up to … Read more
Bitcoin price wedged into ‘most divided’ FOMC as Iran war spikes oil prices 8%
Bitcoin traders weathered an oil-price surge and ongoing Asia chip-stock sell-off into the Federal Reserve interest-rate decision.
Google brings its age-assurance technology to Android developers worldwide
Google is expanding its Play Age Signals API, giving Android developers a privacy-preserving way to tailor experiences based on users’ age ranges.
Full school day cellphone bans are more popular than ever
As schools across the country continue to implement cellphone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continue to gain support. Seventy-seven percent of US adults support banning cellphones in middle and high school classes, and 48 percent support banning them for the entire school day. That’s the first time more Americans have supported, … Read more
AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots
AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and discarding the originals.
MoonPay vault enables ChatGPT and Claude users to authorize crypto transactions
MoonPay’s PayBox vault lets ChatGPT and Claude users authorize crypto purchases, token swaps and crosschain transactions while retaining custody of their assets.
Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports Private Key JWT client authentication for agents. With Private Key JWT client authentication, your agents can authenticate to a downstream identity provider’s token endpoint using a signed JSON Web Token (JWT) client assertion instead of a shared OAuth 2.0 client secret. You can register a public key with your … Read more
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Hacked Four More Platforms Besides Hugging Face
OpenAI quietly updated its breach disclosure to confirm its agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face. Only one has been named so far.
SEC Ready to Provide Crypto Rules if Clarity Act Flounders: Chair Atkins
Passed by the House a year ago, the bill cleared Senate Banking in May and still awaits a floor vote.
The traditional 9-to-5 banking day is officially dying, says Morgan Stanley execs
Tokenization and 24/7 markets are reshaping finance, making always-on banking a reality.
Cost to insure AI debt reaches record high amid Asian semiconductor tumble
Seoul’s historic two-day crash and widening hyperscaler credit spreads suggest the AI trade’s leverage is starting to bite — in equities and in bonds.
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Elon Musk’s X settles multiyear legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers
X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a “systematic illegal boycott” of the platform after it saw a decline in advertising revenue following Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the social network
Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.
Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers
A Monday morning problem Sarah Chen manages 12 assembly lines and 2,000 machines. Before her 10 AM production review, she needs one answer: Which lines need attention this week? Simple question. Painful journey. She starts in the IoT dashboard. Line 4’s motor temperature is running 12°C above baseline — has been for three days. Calibration … Read more
The Ferrari Luce has at least 500 fans
Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed Luce EV. Ahead of Ferrari announcing its quarterly earnings on Thursday, the Financial Times reports that Ferrari was aiming to sell “just under 500” Luce units this year, and reached that … Read more
Stablecoin firm Brale says new protocol can remove a major hurdle to scaling custom tokens
Today’s bridge model won’t scale as hundreds of companies issue their own stablecoins, fragmenting liquidity, Brale CEO Ben Milne said in an interview.
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick can turn a five-day churn-response cycle into one that takes minutes. Last quarter, a mid-size SaaS company lost 12% of its at-risk accounts because the retention team took five days to identify and contact dissatisfied customers. By the time someone manually reviewed CSAT spreadsheets and call transcripts, those … Read more
Coinbase hit by spot trading slump: Wall Street trims expectations ahead of earnings
Wall Street expects a sluggish second quarter from Coinbase as crypto trading activity cools, putting all eyes on and pending U.S. crypto legislation.
Crypto Long & Short: What this year’s $972 million crypto hacks actually tell us about security
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Immunefi’s Mitchell Amador writes that most of 2026’s stolen crypto is leaving through keys, signers and governance, not contract bugs, and explains why “we were audited” was never the same as “we are safe.”
Remarkable’s refurbished bundle is an awesome deal that’s over $350 off
The Remarkable Paper Pro bundle comes with a stylus and a folio cover. A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-end options is much cheaper than usual. The Remarkable Paper Pro normally sells for $629 on its own, but Woot is … Read more
Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work
Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona.
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
The startup analyzes calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
Ethereum Foundation names pcaversaccio to board amid leadership changes
pcaversaccio (known as “pc”), is a prominent security researcher in the Ethereum ecosystem. His addition brings the foundation’s board to four members.
The TechBeat: The Most Private Fire TV Setup You Can Build Without Jailbreaking (7/29/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Hidden Infrastructure Exposed: ANY.RUN Reveals Hijacked Gov Websites Delivering Malware By @anyrun [ 22 Min read ] ANY.RUN reveals how PhantomEnigma … Read more