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Kazakhstan's Government Resolution No. 638 mandates that qualifying miners transfer 10% of mined digital assets monthly to a state fund, which routes coins into a National Strategi…
Nine firms including BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium on July 23, pledging $15M over three years for quantum-resistance R&D. Each member dir…
The DOE's largest Genesis Mission grant goes to a 32-partner consortium betting AI can cut nuclear deployment costs in half and compress build timelines by 2x. Energy is the bindin…
Bulgaria's parliament voted 136-13 on July 22 to host 8 US KC-135 refueling tankers and 250 troops at Bezmer Air Base through October 1, defying an Iranian warning that Sofia would…
Blackstone is finalizing a A$4.3 billion syndicated loan for AirTrunk's SYD3 hyperscale data center in Western Sydney, a 400+ MW facility, as Bloomberg data shows 2026 AI infrastru…
Shanghai-based Zhibao Technology signed a non-binding term sheet to accept ~3,500 BTC (~$220M) via PIPE financing, seating bitcoin on its balance sheet from day one while the buyer…
Lightning Labs shipped Wavelength on July 21, 2026: a non-custodial API toolkit that embeds self-custodial Bitcoin payments in any app or AI agent, routes liquidity through Loop, a…
Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul publicly argued that agentic AI is the killer use case for blockchain and crypto, that legacy payment rails are structurally unfit for machine-to-ma…
The SEC formally proposed letting public companies halve their disclosure cadence on May 5, 2026. More than 200,000 comments poured in, 99% opposed. The agency is expected to proce…
AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on July 22, 2026 to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs starting H1 2027, with AMD committing up to $5 billion a…
A Nikkei Asia study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle are carrying $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI infrastructure obligations. The footnotes are larger tha…
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told a conference audience on July 22 that the US fighting Iran while Israel sits out is 'the best situation for us.' Eighteen American so…
OpenAI raised its projected infrastructure spend to $750B through 2030, up from $600B, while posting a $38.5B loss on $13B in revenue. The commitment-to-revenue gap is 57:1. Its ow…
War-risk insurance premiums for Strait of Hormuz tanker transits have surged roughly 1,900%, from ~0.25% to ~5% of hull value. A $100M tanker now faces a ~$5M insurance bill for a…
Block launched Buzz on July 21, a free Apache 2.0 workspace built on Nostr where human employees and AI agents share the same cryptographic identity layer, replacing Slack and GitH…
An attacker exploited 42DAO's minting controls on BNB Chain twice in two hours, minting 4.5 million BLC from a null address and collapsing Balance Coin 99% from its dollar peg.
BIP-110, the proposed temporary Bitcoin data-restriction softfork, is approaching a mandatory miner-signaling window projected around August 7 with less than 1% of hashrate behind…
Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative committing up to $5 million in developer grants, research, and an advisory council to close the gap between fast-movi…
Power companies in five states are using or threatening eminent domain to seize private land for high-voltage transmission lines that primarily serve AI data centers. The constitut…
The Trump administration drafted a civil nuclear cooperation agreement allowing Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium domestically without IAEA Additional Protocol oversight, replacing st…
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