Month: August 2026
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Coldcard exploit sparks Bitcoin flight, ‘bullish’ crypto consolidation: Hodler’s Digest, August 2
The “sickening” loss of $90 million of Bitcoin from cold storage weighs heavily on sentiment, as the Clarity Act stalls with just five days left to hold a Senate vote.
Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing is an instrumental epic of desperate longing
Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar’s debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk, it caught me off guard. That album has no percussion on it at all. Heaven Comes Crashing is almost entirely … Read more
Crypto Exchanges Are Quietly Becoming Financial Operating Systems
Recent moves by Crypto.com, Coinbase, and S&P suggest that the next phase of crypto may be built around infrastructure—not another trading screen. For years, crypto exchanges competed on a familiar set of features: more tokens, lower fees, faster trading, and increasingly complicated charts. That competition is starting to change. Several recent developments suggest that major … Read more
The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air
The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.
Dashboard Trust Is a Data Governance Problem, Not a BI Tool Problem
You built the dashboard. It’s connected to the right sources. It refreshes on schedule. It looks good in the demo. Three months later, someone in a leadership meeting asks where a number came from, and the room goes quiet. Nobody answers with the dashboard. Someone pulls up a spreadsheet instead. If you’ve worked anywhere with … Read more
Beyond Simple Prompts: Engineering Self-Reflection & Actor-Critic Loops in AI Agents
One-shot generation is fast, but fragile. A model produces an answer in one pass, with no enforced verification step, no hard break condition, and no structural defense against its own blind spots. The result is familiar: polished language masking logical drift. Reliable AI systems are not built by asking for better prompts. They are built … Read more
Five Prediction Markets, Five Definitions of Price: The Normalization Problem Nobody Talks About
Pull the current price for the same event from two prediction market APIs and diff them. Check “Fed cuts rates in September” on Kalshi and Polymarket at the same moment: Kalshi shows YES at 61¢, Polymarket shows YES at $0.58. Three cents isn’t rounding error, and it isn’t one venue lagging the other. They won’t … Read more
Finance in AI-Native Companies Is a Control System, Not a Monthly Report
A lot of companies still run finance like it’s 2012. Budgets get locked once a quarter. Forecasts get refreshed once a month. Engineering ships an AI feature on Monday, and finance figures out what it did to cloud spend somewhere around the middle of the following month. That arrangement holds up fine when the business … Read more
Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to “pace the rate of AI development.”
Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI
Edward “Bud” Cole speaks in Japan in 2023. | Image: Jun Sato/WireImage Fender CEO Edward “Bud” Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on … Read more
Counting down the days: State of Crypto
The Senate is going on its summer break in a week, leaving next to no time left to sort out its remaining priorities in August. And obviously, the fate of Clarity is one of those priorities.
Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit Balloons to $88 Million as Attackers Keep Draining Wallets
Galaxy Research says a third wave of thefts from Coldcard Bitcoin wallets has pushed observed losses to roughly 1,367 BTC across 4,585 addresses.
Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School
Let’s see how this “frontier community for techno-optimists” is doing …
Why a DeFi platform ditched its consumer app to become the secret backend for tech giants
Revenue fell from $80 million to $20 million in the bear market. OTC lending at $260 million outstanding is the fastest-growing line, targeting $1 billion by year-end.
Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170
When Microsoft announced its latest round of Xbox price bumps in June, it only gave US pricing. Now we know the pricing increases for the EU and UK, and they’re dramatic. Depending on the model, Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170. The 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive is … Read more
TechCrunch Mobility: Two roads diverged — for robotaxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
The future of crypto payments won’t include on-ramps or bridges, Fun CEO says
Alex Fine said standalone crypto payment rails are becoming obsolete as platforms shift toward unified funding flows that abstract away blockchain complexity for users.
On Cloud 9: Inside KuCoin’s Ninth Anniversary Skybox at Tomorrowland Belgium
Crypto companies usually celebrate anniversaries the way they celebrate everything: a conference stage, a keynote, a token announcement. KuCoin spent its ninth birthday in a skybox overlooking 43 meters of waterfalls, lasers, and the largest Mainstage Tomorrowland has ever built. On July 24, the opening night of the festival’s second weekend, KuCoin hosted its “On … Read more