NEAR Eyes AI Agent Currency: What the June Upgrade Really Means
AI agents are buying services from each other at machine speed, and NEAR wants to be their settlement layer. The June 2026 upgrade targets 70+ shards and…
Ripple Wins Big, XRP Stays at $1: Where Does the Value Go?
Ripple settles Treasuries with JPMorgan and launches in Japan with SBI, yet XRP stays pinned near $1. Garlinghouse hints at a possible IPO benefit for…
Polymarket Hacked for $3M: Why the Blockchain Wasn't the Problem
Polymarket lost roughly $3 million on June 25, 2026, but the blockchain held. A supply chain attack hit the frontend, not the smart contracts. Here's what…
Stablecoins vs. Remittances: Sending Money Home for Almost Nothing
Stablecoins are cutting remittance costs from over 6% to under 2%, in minutes. Here is how the technology works, which corridors are live, and why the last…
Sakana AI Launches Fugu: The 7B Model That Conducts AI, Not Competes
Sakana AI launched Fugu on June 22, a 7-billion-parameter orchestrator that coordinates top AI models instead of competing with them. Here's what it is, and…
AI Agents Are Paying Each Other in Stablecoins: How x402 Works
AI agents can't open bank accounts, but they can hold a crypto wallet. Here's how machine-to-machine stablecoin payments via the x402 protocol actually work,…
Microsoft Warns: USB-Spread Malware That Drains Crypto Wallets
Microsoft flagged a USB-spread crypto clipper malware on June 17, 2026, active since February. It swaps wallet addresses mid-paste and steals seed phrases via…
Tether Shuts Down aUSDT: Why the Stablecoin Giant Killed Its Gold-Backed Dollar
Tether is shutting down aUSDT, its gold-backed synthetic dollar, after the token reached just $1.27 million in supply. Here's what the closure reveals about…
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