Polymarket seeks approval to bring margin trading to U.S. customers
Polymarket’s application to allow users to take positions that are not fully collateralized follows authorization granted to rival Kalshi in March.
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Bitcoin returns to $64.3K with new three-week BTC price highs imminent
Bitcoin bulls faced “crucial resistance” at $65,000 next as BTC price action diverged from oil and US dollar strength.
Bitcoin’s $60,000-$70,000 range becomes third longest consolidation in history
Bitcoin has spent 307 days in the $60,000-$70,000 range, the third longest consolidation in any $10,000 price band.
Metaplanet explores bringing bitcoin-backed digital credit to Japan
The bitcoin treasury company is working with JPYC and Progmat to explore tokenized credit products backed by bitcoin, aiming to create efficient, 24/7 credit markets in Japan.
Who inherits your bitcoin when you die? Kresus wants an answer built into the wallet
What happens to your bitcoin when you die? For an asset class built on the premise that no one else holds your keys, the honest answer has usually been: nothing good. Self-custody hands you complete control and, in the same motion, removes the safety net that a bank, a broker or a probate court would … Read more
AI Is Changing Schema Matching in Ways Rule-Based Systems Couldn’t
Every AI project assumes the data underneath it is already aligned. It almost never is. Before a model trains, before a dashboard loads, before a retrieval pipeline returns anything useful, someone has to answer a question that sounds trivial and is not: do these two columns actually mean the same thing? Right now a data … Read more
Bitcoin gets a green light from a reliable momentum gauge. Here are key levels to watch
A smoother long-term MACD just flipped bullish, pointing to more upside. Here are key levels that will decide if the ongoing bounce turns into a full blown uptrend.
Live markets: Bitcoin ETFs bleed again while ether funds snap a five-day inflow streak
Spot bitcoin funds lost about $95 million on Thursday and ether funds roughly $52 million, ending the one bright spot in crypto’s institutional flows even as prices rallied.
EU parliament passes ‘chat control,’ allowing private chat scans until 2028
EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages.
Robinhood Chain sees over $70M in ETH bridged during first week
Robinhood’s choice to use Ethereum further solidifies its position as the “ultimate settlement layer and liquidity foundation for tokenized assets,” said HashKey Group’s Tim Sun.
UKey Unveils The Seed Ring: Bringing Hardware Signing Into Everyday Life
Hong Kong, July 10, 2026 – Ukey Limited, a self-custody hardware brand for crypto users, today revealed the Seed Ring, the most distinctive product in its Seed backup line: an NFC recovery ring you can wear every day. Unlike hardware wallets built to be locked away in a drawer, UKey set out to do something … Read more
XRP up 2% as buyers push through $1.10 resistance
A late-session volume surge carried XRP above its recent range, with traders now watching whether $1.10 can hold as support.
After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV
Vivo’s joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.
Bitcoin’s quiet split: Strong in USD, lagging in JPY as Yen rises on intervention fears
A sharp rise in the yen has left bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies underperforming in yen terms compared with their dollar-based trading pairs.
Zcash targets July 28 launch for Ironwood network upgrade
Zcash’s next upgrade will replace the once-compromised Orchard pool and may offer clues about whether counterfeit tokens were created via a recent bug.
Bitcoin zips higher to nearly $64,000 as chip rally and yen strength drive gains
Bitcoin is up 4.2% over seven days that contained an oil shock, a bond selloff and two rounds of U.S. strikes on Iran.
Krea-2-Realism-LoRA Brings Candid Photorealism to Krea 2
Overview Krea-2-Realism-LoRA is a Low-Rank Adaptation module trained by gokaygokay that specializes in pushing Krea 2 toward natural, candid, photorealistic imagery of everyday subjects without requiring explicit style keywords like “photorealistic” or “8k DSLR.” The model was trained using the FAL Krea LoRA Trainer on krea/Krea-2-Raw and runs on krea/Krea-2-Turbo, following Krea’s recommended workflow of … Read more
I Built a Framework to Keep Coding Agents Disciplined
Coding agents imitate a healthy codebase well but bring no judgment to an empty one — so I built a spec-driven framework to supply the discipline I won’t. A postmortem, a pivot, a retrofit test, and whether you actually need any of it. I have a bad habit. I get excited about an idea, and … Read more
Hackers tried to backdoor Injective npm package to steal wallet keys
The incident is significant for developers and applications that handle Injective wallet workflows, Socket researchers said.
DeFi may be ‘quietly re-rating’ given outperformance against Bitcoin: Bitwise
“DeFi usually swings much harder than Bitcoin, so holding up this well is unusual,” says Bitwise, as DeFi tokens have outperformed Bitcoin.
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OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI’s new family of models will continue to power Microsoft’s suite of workplace and productivity apps.
Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him
The new exchanged-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.
Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year
Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft’s carbon emissions increased 25 percent in 2025, totalling 34 million metric tons “without select interventions.” Microsoft says this was “driven primarily by the expansion of our … Read more
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company’s AGI chief and is transitioning to being a “part-time advisor,” she said on X. The news follows Simo’s original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken on the … Read more
Netflix reportedly considers adding always-on channels
Netflix is thinking about adding always-on channels that would stream specific shows and movies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move sounds like a Netflix version of always-on services like Pluto TV and Tubi, except the big hook for those is that they’re free – because of the ads you have to watch. Netflix … Read more