IOG, the primary developers of the Cardano (ADA) blockchain, have transferred control of a Haskell-based network node to the community. Cardano’s protocol and governance are already decentralized. Now its engineering is too. “The last stage of the Voltaire era is full decentralization of node and reference blueprint development. Since 2024, IOG and its partners have […]
This week, “Deconstruction” focuses on new crypto market regulations in Russia, AI replacing developers at Coinbase, and market manipulation in prediction markets. We also discuss saving the economy from neural networks, contrasting cryptocurrency regulations in Asia, and user de-anonymization using OSINT. New Limits in Russia The State Duma has prepared a bill to regulate the […]
From July 13 to 17, spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a net inflow of $75.5 million, marking their second consecutive positive week, according to SoSoValue data. Inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs. Source: SoSoValue. The main driver was BlackRock’s IBIT, with $204.1 million. The largest outflow was from Fidelity’s FBTC, totaling $181.1 million. During the same period, […]
The State Duma’s Financial Market Committee has revised the draft law “On Digital Currency and Digital Rights” for its second reading. The new version proposes changes to the mechanism for blocking transfers related to the illegal circulation of cryptocurrencies. The initial draft of the bill proposed two registries to be maintained by an authorized body: […]
The rise in the use of stablecoins could lead to a reduction in retail bank deposits, according to European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Piero Cipollone at the annual Federcasse meeting. Together we will strengthen trust in money and the banking system, says Executive Board member Piero Cipollone in a @FedercasseBCC lecture. The digital […]
The Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released its first open AI model, Inkling. Today, we are introducing Inkling. Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.https://t.co/Ghebq5mG30 Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵— Thinking […]
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 — the world’s first open 3T-class model with 2.8 trillion parameters, native vision, and a 1 million-token context window. By the project’s own estimates, overall it trailed only the proprietary Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol. Kimi K3 is built on the new Kimi Delta Attention […]
On July 16, VentureBeat published the results of a survey on the security of corporate AI agents. Among 107 respondents, 18% reported a confirmed security incident, while another 36% mentioned an incident that was stopped before causing damage. Source: VentureBeat Pulse Research. Another 42% of participants did not identify such events. In 5% of the […]
Payment company Visa has introduced the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) for stablecoin operations, aimed at banks and fintech companies. The platform supports issuance, redemption, storage, and transfer of assets within a single interface. The product also includes Wallet-as-a-Service, where Visa hosts and maintains the wallet infrastructure, and clients connect via API. Access is secured with […]
Ledger has unveiled the Agent Stack toolset, enabling AI agents to interact with cryptocurrency wallets. These agents can check balances, analyze portfolios, and prepare transactions, but any signed operations require device confirmation. Clean build on the Ledger Agent Stack. The hardware-as-final-approval pattern is exactly right. https://t.co/TIKAaphw76 — Ledger (@Ledger) July 16, 2026 According to the […]