US yen intervention puts Bitcoin, risk assets on notice for liquidity flux
The first US-Japan joint yen intervention in 28 years came amid record bond yields and worries about the yen carry trade.
Month: August 2026
Live updates: Bitcoin at $63,600 as rare US-Japan yen action tests carry-trade fears
Japan may have spent as much as $36.6 billion buying yen in the first joint US-Japan action to support the currency since 1998. Bitget Wallet’s Alvin Kan says it can slow a disorderly slide without reversing the broader trend.
Memory Governance Is Becoming the Control Plane for Agentic AI
The Bottleneck Is Shifting Early LLM applications had limited memory. State was stored in variables, logs or session history and it did not carry cleanly from one task to the next. Agentic AI is changing this. Today agents use tools, pull information when needed to understand what has already happened in an ongoing task. This … Read more
Rajat Bagga and the Culture of High-Stakes Product Development
Product development within high-stakes industries like fintech and healthcare requires balancing rigid technical constraints with necessary human interfaces. Modern operational ecosystems handle unprecedented volumes of sensitive data, creating environments where functional requirements frequently clash with user experience needs. Rajat Bagga focuses on resolving these systemic disconnects by aligning technical feasibility with coherent interaction models that … Read more
Apple briefly removes Telegram from App Store, Gram rebounds
Apple restored Telegram after the messaging platform removed content that violated its child safety policies and banned the user who posted it.
Introducing Agent Intent-Based Access Control
Today, we’re announcing Agent Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC), a new capability in Varonis Atlas that lets businesses connect AI agents to their enterprise data with safeguards that stop dangerous or out-of-policy behavior. Agents are making headlines for going rogue, exposing sensitive company data and, in one case, deleting an entire production database. Agent IBAC compares the … Read more
Bhutan’s GMC puts part of its bitcoin treasury to work after 10,000 BTC pledge
The planned Gelephu Mindfulness City says 3iQ will run part of its bitcoin treasury on a market-neutral basis, a shift from holding the coins as a long-term national asset.
Why Jim Cramer’s quantum panic isn’t rattling bitcoin as price holds steady around $64,000
Jim Cramer says he’s dumping his bitcoin over quantum computing fears, but his track record of crypto and bank calls has buoyed the crypto community.
NY judge denies CFTC motion to halt enforcement action against Kalshi
The ruling leaves New York’s case against Kalshi in place while allowing the CFTC to renew its request before Judge Victor Marrero.
Nigeria sets crypto tax collection rules for digital asset platforms
The framework specifies how existing tax obligations apply to crypto disposals and rewards, with some withheld amounts payable in the originating token.
Your AI Meeting Summary Is Probably Missing Something
You get off yet another Zoom call, and the meeting summary arrives about ninety seconds after the call ends. Five bullets, a couple of action items, and you skim it and think, yeeeaaaahhhhhhh, that’s about right. Then you close it. Now think about the last time you opened the transcript underneath and read it to … Read more
K-EXAONE 2.0 Brings 262K Context to Frontier AI
Overview K-EXAONE-2.0-750B-A37B is a frontier-scale multilingual language model developed by LGAI-EXAONE featuring 750 billion total parameters with 37 billion active parameters during inference. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 256 total experts and 8 activated experts per token, supports a context window of 262,144 tokens, and covers ten languages: Korean, English, Spanish, German, Japanese, … Read more
XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD on Ethereum through $280 million lending pool
XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD against their coins on Ethereum without selling, through a $280 million vault that had never accepted an XRP-linked asset before.
Crypto firms still seeking frontier AI access; only select few have it
Crypto executives say restricting powerful AI models may initially be justified, but it doesn’t make sense as open-source alternatives become more capable.
A new Solana proposal would take daily SOL burns from $47,000 to $650,000
SGP-0003 bundles a fee overhaul with a doubling of the disinflation rate. It needs 40 million more SOL of validator support in two weeks to reach a vote.
Bitcoin nears $64,000 as traders look past Strategy’s BTC sales and Coldcard sweeps
Every major token except ether is green on the week, with BTC up 1.9% over 24 hours and Asian equities selling off on AI-trade jitters.
A bitcoin wallet dormant since 2013 moved $31 million, and it’s not the only one
A 12-year-old bitcoin wallet moved $31 million on Monday, part of a broader wave of dormant coins shifting since the Coldcard hack.
Coldcard Bitcoin theft tops $100M across 3 confirmed attack waves: Galaxy
Galaxy Research said 90% of the stolen Bitcoin remains unmoved as investigators examine a suspected fourth wave that could lift losses to $130 million.
Bitmine adds $19.6M in ETH, repurchases 4.5M shares
Bitmine said it now holds about 4.8% of Ether’s circulating supply as it pursues its 5% acquisition target.
Mastercard completes $1.8B BVNK acquisition in stablecoin push
Mastercard said the tie-up would help banks, fintechs and enterprises expand stablecoin payments, payouts, settlement and treasury services.
Malaysia Blockchain Week’s OnlyFans scandal, lonely heart scammed for $3.3M: Asia Express
Fake romance crypto investment scams net $9 million in a single week in Hong Kong, as Malaysian authorities lose it over a crypto conference’s after-party.
Caleb & Brown expands to UK, betting on untapped crypto demand
The boutique brokerage will focus on high-net-worth clients rather than competing with retail crypto exchanges.
Boltz pauses service after wave of AI-assisted hacking attempts
The non-custodial protocol said attackers are discovering and adapting exploits faster than its small development team can identify and patch them.
The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation
You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon adventures with a machinelike precision. But every so often it launches a curious experiment, whether it’s an action title about a militarized elephant or turning horse races into a card game, showing that it’s … Read more
After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
Marmot Researchers Turn to OnlyFans for Funding—And There Are Meme Coins Too
Scientists are using OnlyFans to help fund decades of marmot research, while unofficial memecoins inspired by the project have emerged on Solana.
U.S. FBI intelligence agent arrested in connection with theft of $1 million in crypto
The agent, who had “top secret” clearance and worked in FBI headquarters, was accused of taking crypto from wallets the agency had investigated.