Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
Strategy pauses its Bitcoin buying spree to hoard a massive $3 billion cash cushion
Strategy now has more than 20 months of coverage for preferred-stock dividends and debt interest.
BitMine Buys $49 Million in Ethereum as Tom Lee Hails Early Robinhood Chain Demand
According to BitMine Chairman Tom Lee, Ethereum is benefiting from the early success of the Robinhood Chain layer-2 network.
Robinhood built a blockchain for tokenized stocks. Memecoins took over
Robinhood Chain has pulled in $135 million of value and 800,000 addresses since July 1. Almost none of it is doing what the chain was built for.
Bitcoin threatens $62K in risk-asset rout as Donald Trump says US will ‘run’ closed Hormuz Strait
Bitcoin bulls faced an uphill struggle to preserve $62,000 as stocks opened down on Strait of Hormuz rhetoric between the US and Iran.
Even Nvidia’s head of automotive fights with Nvidia for compute
Today, I’m talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia. Nvidia is obviously in the news constantly because of the AI boom — it’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, because the AI industry can’t get enough of the company’s GPUs. But Nvidia is also a key supplier … Read more
The Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet with 64GB RAM is down to $2,100
Almost all gaming laptops have gone up in price over the past year. Curiously, the surprisingly fast Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming laptop/tablet combo has not. It’s actually gotten quite a bit cheaper recently. Best Buy has the lowest price on the configuration that includes the AMD Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 “Strix Halo” chipset, … Read more
Bolivia weighs adding Tether’s USDT to its national payments system
Crypto usage has spiked in the country, with transaction volumes hitting $430 million in the year after the central bank removed restrictions in mid-2024.
SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market’s appetite for the company’s “fly, fail, fix” approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.
Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates
Some of the new features are powered by Google’s Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the the tech giant’s broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.
Strategy Pads Cash Reserves to $3 Billion, Skipping Bitcoin Buy for Third Week
Strategy went another week without buying Bitcoin, focusing instead on lifting its cash reserves to $3 billion via common stock proceeds.
UK Treasury report on tokenization cites Ripple as convergence model
A Treasury-backed report targets putting repo, gilts and funds onchain within two years, and warms to permissionless networks that firms like Ripple have been building on.
Tom Lee’s BitMine ether holdings rise to 5.77 million tokens, or 4.8% of total supply
The company expanded its ETH treasury while Chairman Tom Lee pointed to Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth on Ethereum.
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Bank of Thailand Flags Abnormal Stablecoin Trades in ‘Grey Economy’ Crackdown
Data analytics flagged stablecoin transfers meant to evade scrutiny, the central bank says, handing the findings to the securities regulator.
Wall Street transfer agents lobby SEC, warning that third-party tokens pose risks to market integrity
The Securities Transfer Association, an industry group for transfer agents, said company-authorized tokenization should receive preferential treatment under future rules.
7 Things We Got Wrong Building a Finance Tool for Founders
Six months of beta taught us that finance software fails founders in ways that have nothing to do with features. We built Money Magician because we kept watching founders — including ourselves — get surprised by their own finances. Not because they were careless. Because the tools weren’t designed for them. Most finance software falls … Read more
Killing the BaseFragment: How to Build Truly Reusable Screens in Jetpack Compose
You spent years building a solid BaseFragment. Loading states, error handling, analytics hooks — all in one place. Then Compose showed up and said: “No more fragments.” So where does all that shared logic go? If you’ve been writing Android long enough, you know the BaseFragment pattern like an old friend. A common abstract class … Read more
Coinbase Ventures tops crypto VC list for H1 2026
Coinbase’s venture capital arm leads 2026 crypto investing even as funding withered and unique investors shied away amid the bear market.
Vibe Coding Cleans Contact Data, But It Can’t Verify It’s Real
Ask an AI coding assistant to write a script that deduplicates your customer database, and it can produce working code in under a minute. Ask it whether the email addresses, phone numbers, or mailing addresses in that same database actually exist and can be used, and the answer becomes far less certain. That distinction highlights … Read more
Strategy sells $467M in MSTR shares, leaves 843,775 BTC stack untouched
Strategy boosted its US dollar reserve to $3 billion after selling $466.7 million in MSTR shares, while keeping its 843,775 Bitcoin holdings unchanged.
Robinhood Chain surges into top five by DEX volume: Bernstein
Robinhood’s new blockchain quickly became a top-five network by DEX volume, signaling strong early demand for its tokenized asset platform, the broker said.
Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo
Washington, D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo’s competing views.