Claude Opus 5 Outperforms Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks at Half the Cost
What happened: Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, claiming superior performance to its own frontier model, Fable 5, on most benchmarks—while charging half the price ($5/$25 per million tokens).
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Bitcoin ETFs Shed $225M, Breaking Seven-Day Inflow Streak Amid Iran Tensions
What happened: US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $225.
Bitcoin Slides Below $64K as Bond Yields Raise Rate-Hike Odds
What happened: Bitcoin fell below $64,000, trading as low as $64,056 amid rising US bond yields.
Jul 24: SEC Pays $150K to Settle Coinbase Lawsuit Over Missing Gensler Texts and Deleted…
Strategy, BlackRock, and Coinbase Lead $15M Quantum-Proof Bitcoin Secu · Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3: Multimodal Video, Audio, and Roboti
Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3: Multimodal Video, Audio, and Robotics AI Model
What happened: German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL) released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model trained on images, video, audio, and robotic action prediction.
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SEC Pays $150K to Settle Coinbase Lawsuit Over Missing Gensler Texts and Deleted Records
What happened: The U.
Benchmark Trims Coinbase Estimates, Sees Regulatory Clarity as Offset
What happened: Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer lowered Coinbase’s Q2 2026 revenue forecast from $1.
Bitcoin Steadies Near $66,000 as Chip Stocks Surge and Yen Plunges
What happened: Bitcoin hovered near $66,300, up about 1% on the day and 3% for the week, as global markets responded to a rally in semiconductor stocks and the Japanese yen’s slide past 163 per dollar
Benchmark Raises Hut 8 Target, Citing $50B Data Center Contract Pipeline
What happened: Benchmark increased its price target on Hut 8 from $165 to $195—an 18% boost—after the company secured a second 15-year, 352 MW lease at its Beacon Point campus in Texas.
US Moves to Forfeit $25M in Crypto Linked to International Fraud Schemes
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SEC and Coinbase Settle Records Lawsuit, Agency to Overhaul Retention Policies
What happened: The U.
Jul 23: SEC and Coinbase Settle Records Lawsuit, Agency to Overhaul Retention Policies
US Moves to Forfeit $25M in Crypto Linked to International Fraud Schem · Benchmark Raises Hut 8 Target, Citing $50B Data Center Contract Pipeli · Bitcoin Steadies Near $66,000 as Chip Stocks Surge and Yen Plunges
US Seeks Forfeiture of $25M in Crypto Linked to Global Fraud Schemes
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Digital Asset Adds $10M From Shinhan, SC Ventures at $2B Valuation
What happened: Digital Asset, developer of the Canton Network, has secured an additional $10 million in funding from Shinhan Financial Group and SC Ventures (Standard Chartered’s venture arm).
Galaxy Digital Launches $5M Fund to Quantum-Proof Bitcoin
What happened: Galaxy Digital has announced the "Galaxy Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative," pledging up to $5 million in grants for developers to strengthen Bitcoin’s defenses against future quantu
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Jul 22: Base to Launch 1:1-Backed Tokenized Equities, Pivoting from Social Strategy
UK Lawmakers Open Inquiry Into Crypto Banking Access · Galaxy Commits Up to $5 Million for Bitcoin Quantum Security Initiativ · Vietnam Imposes $1,900 Fines on Binance and OKX Users Amid Crackdown
Canton Network Developer Digital Asset Raises $10 Million at $2 Billion Valuation
What happened: Digital Asset, the developer behind Canton Network, has secured an additional $10 million in funding from Shinhan Financial Group and SC Ventures.
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