AWS bedrock agentcore payments went live with solana as the default primary settlement layer over base. 160m+ x402 transactions processed since may 2025. the x402 foundation governing this protocol now includes google, stripe, visa, mastercard, and AWS.
BREAKING: Iran has suspended its entire 60-day negotiation period with the US over the direct violation of the MOU's first clause, with Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon constituting a breach less than 24 hours after the MOU was electronically signed, per Fars and Al-Mayadeen.
NEW: U.S. Air Force to reportedly buy larger, faster autonomous combat drones from Anduril & General Atomics to strike targets deep inside enemy territory.
Roman Storm; Tornado Cash; criminal charges; up to 45 years prison; self-custodial + immutable open-source code; direct crypto theft perpetrators face minimal prosecution
i am going to crash out over how roman and tornado cash are still being charged *criminally* for *self-custodial and immutable* code while barely anyone who has *literally* robbed people in crypto have faced any issues roman is facing up to 45(!!!) years in prison for OSS
Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said the government can take bold action against speculative moves, as the yen trades not far from the weakest level in four decades
US fresh tariff investigation; Germany; 'persistent underpayment for innovative pharmaceutical products'; USTR; stage for retaliatory levies on German goods
BREAKING: The US launches a fresh tariff investigation into Germany over what it called 'persistent underpayment for innovative pharmaceutical products'
A group of Amazon engineers said they're being investigated by the company after they criticized the breakneck expansion of artificial intelligence data centers and called for stronger government regulation. Earlier this month, five Amazon employees testified at Seattle City
Controlling devices with your thoughts is no longer science fiction. China's neurotech ecosystem is advancing rapidly—with regulators having just approved its first commercial BCI. Primer takes you inside Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess as they run a year-long trial
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is increasingly finding herself in an unenviable position on the foreign-exchange front. After deploying over 11.7 trillion yen ($72.8 billion) in foreign reserves to prop up the currency from April to May and the Bank of Japan raising
European Union nations on the bloc's eastern flank are piling pressure on Brussels to speed up the approval of air-defense funding as more military drones stray into its airspace from Russia and Ukraine, sources say
RWA协议Ondo Finance与韩国未来资产集团（管理规模93亿美元，亚洲第11大证券商）宣布合作，将包括AIQ和BOTZ在内的10只Global X ETF代币化，首次铸造预计7月完成
Ondo Finance + Mirae Asset ($9.3B AUM, Asia 11th largest securities firm); 10 Global X ETFs tokenized (AIQ, BOTZ); first mint July 2026; Morpho/Aave potential USDC collateral use
ondo partnered with mirae asset ($9.3b AUM, 11th largest securities firm in asia) to tokenize 10 global x ETFs including AIQ and BOTZ. first mint expected july. the part worth watching: once morpho or aave accepts tokenized equity ETFs as collateral, you can borrow USDC against
Russia has pledged to carry out frequent and "massive group strikes" against Ukraine shortly after Kyiv launched a barrage of drones on Moscow, triggering a huge explosion in one of the Russian capital's key oil refineries. Ukrainian forces conducted a large-scale attack against
Lithuania dropped its opposition to China's plans to establish a lower-level representation in the Baltic nation, signaling a willingness to restore ties after a rupture over Taiwan
Jim Chanos; geothermal/nuclear stocks 50-70x earnings; power = 5-7% data center revenues; companies at 30-40x EBITDA; 'AI halo furthest extension into alternative energy'; permitting constraint = transient
When the permitting clears, scarcity narrative collapses. And even if these companies win a power contract - power is 5-7% of a data center's revenues. Companies at 30-40x EBITDA for potentially supplying a fraction of a 5-7% cost line priced for a constraint that is transient.
morpho at $1.23b market cap with $11b in deposits. that's a 0.11x deposit-to-mcap ratio. aave historically trades at 0.25x. steakhouse financial now curates $4.5b of that $11b, a $1b lead over the next largest curator, all flowing through coinbase, kraken, and trezor integrations
Core Retail Sales MoM Apr: 0.1% actual vs 0.8% forecast vs 1.4% prior; Total Retail Sales MoM: 0.5% actual vs 0.6% forecast vs 0.9% prior; May StatsCan flash estimate: +1.0%
Ceasefire effective 4PM local time Friday June 19; Hezbollah: 'applied it from our end'; IDF: forces stay in buffer zone 'as long as Israeli citizens are under Hezbollah threat'; Hezbollah warns will respond to any truce violation
The private credit crisis is getting worse: Investor withdrawal requests from large private credit funds has surged +$4.3 billion QoQ, or +56%, to $12 billion so far in Q2 2026. The Cliffwater Corporate Lending Fund saw the largest increase in redemption requests, rising +$3.0
The leveraged loan market is heating up: US leveraged loan funds have seen +$3.5 billion in inflows since the start of May. These funds have now seen inflows in 10 consecutive weeks. This follows a February-March sell-off when weekly outflows rose to as much as -$1.6 billion.
Part of a European collateralized loan obligation managed by Bain Capital has failed to repay investors in full, the first such default since an overhaul of the asset-backed securities more than a decade ago
UnitedHealth $UNH plans to invest $3 billion in AI over 2026 and 2027. UNH uses AI to read aloud summaries of medical charts, listen to customer calls, and schedule appointments, with many healthcare transactions still involving phone calls, faxes, and paper - Bloomberg
Iran re-closes Strait of Hormuz (reversal of prior reopening); Dep. FM Khatibzadeh: new management mechanism after 60 days; special regional initiative; Tasnim
Iran's Dep. Foreign Minister Khatibzadeh: After 60 days, we will adopt a new mechanism to manage the Strait of Hormuz and will present a special initiative to the countries of the region - Tasnim.
Senior Labour sources said they believed that if PM didn't resign over the weekend – or indicate that he would allow a transition to a new leader – then there would be an intervention at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting - The Guardian
BTC ETFs: 3 positive net inflow days / 35 sessions; BlackRock net sold 1,000 BTC June 18; Morgan Stanley only net buyer +$25.8M vs -$201.7M net sales all others combined
BTC ETFs recorded 3 positive net inflow days out of the last 35 trading sessions. BlackRock net sold 1,000 BTC on june 18. morgan stanley was the only net buyer at $25.8m against $201.7m in net sales from every other provider combined. the halving supply squeeze thesis assumed
No bell. No hours. No holiday. Internet Capital Markets on Solana, 24/7. Tokenized equities are trading 24/7 on @Solana, across weekends and holidays. One week after SpaceX's IPO: ▸ $SPCX generated $439M in trading volume, capturing 91.7% of tokenized SpaceX volume ▸ $SPCX reached $9.8M in liquidity, representing 87.5% of tokenized SpaceX
the future is onchain [QT @SolanaFloor: JUST IN: @Solana has surpassed @Coinbase and @krakenfx in both daily and weekly spot volume, continuing to compete with tier one centralized exchanges while trailing only Binance and Bybit.]
FT: "Goldman Sachs analysts last month predicted that use of AI agents would result in a 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030 and that the huge rise in demand would exacerbate a shortage of chips over the next 12 to 18 months. While token usage and AI spending by..."
Notable from a former Trump ally in Europe and part of a wider trend I've observed from European leaders in recent months: they've run out of patience with accommodating him for often unrealized gains and are more likely now to push back, criticize and even dismiss him.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth berated NATO as a 'paper-tiger,' said allies had been 'shameful' and that 'too many failed' a test put to them by President Donald Trump when he sought use of their bases in Europe to launch attacks on Iran.
Retail investors have never traded more options. Retail investors have traded an average of $7.0 billion in options premium per day so far in June, an all-time high. This is +46% above the average seen over the last year. By comparison, the previous record was $5.8 billion per
First US capability-based AI regulation; US Govt + Anthropic; past 2 weeks; 'Rubicon moment'; 'once seen, will be hard to unsee'
Andrew Ng警告此举将对AI访问权格局产生持久不可逆影响，政府一旦掌握管控前沿模型的监管先例，难以撤回。@harrystebbings引述的投资者观点指出，除中国外西方世界目前缺乏具竞争力的开源替代模型，美国尤甚，令能力管控的替代成本极高。特朗普虽表示不视Anthropic为国家安全威胁，但联邦层面的能力门槛监管框架已实质确立。
Over the last two weeks, both the U.S. Government and Anthropic took significant actions that demonstrated their power to control access to AI by restricting what others can do with frontier models. This has been one of those moments that, once seen, will be hard to unsee.
"We spent a decade terrified the government would build a coin to spy on us with a CBDC. Instead we built it ourselves, handed a copy to Visa and Tether, and called it Freedom" "The Fed, Treasury, OCC, FDIC, and FinCEN are jointly proposing a rule requiring US stablecoin issuers
goldfinch winding down with 6 of 8 borrowers in default or restructuring. depositors reporting 70% effective losses while the protocol's own numbers say 20%. lend east defaulted on $5.9m. tugende went insolvent after violating loan terms. stratos wrote $7m to zero. combined $18m
Poland's President Nawrocki stripped his Ukrainian counterpart Zelenskyy of the country's highest state honor amid a row about commemorating fighters responsible for a World War II massacre
Netflix is under contract to buy Radford Studio Center, an historic Los Angeles movie studio space, for a fraction of its 2021 $1.85 billion sale price after lenders including Goldman repossessed the property
Elliott Investment Management and SVP have recently bought debt of Braskem, the Brazilian petrochemical producer rushing to get creditors to agree to a restructuring plan, according to sources
Philippine and Thai companies are bearing the brunt of earnings downgrades across Southeast Asia, as their economies rely heavily oil and gas choked off by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz
European Council President Antonio Costa defended his recent outreach to Russia during a meeting with European Union leaders, arguing he was well-positioned to convey the bloc's interests despite frustration over his diplomatic overtures
Himino: core CPI nearing 2%; FX impact on inflation intensified due to corporate behavior shifts; rate hike path maintained; monetary policy not aimed at FX
New concerns are emerging about President Trump's sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants after a recent report found that nearly 100 of them have been arrested, charged or convicted of additional crimes since the attack in 2021.
The pound is set to face growing pressure as its recovery from the post-Brexit selloff has made it the most overvalued currency among major peers, according to Goldman Sachs.
test-time compute scaling; reasoning models; rare undiagnosed pediatric diseases; published peer-reviewed evidence; most difficult pediatric cases
Marc Andreessen以"Wow"回应显示该研究在顶级科技投资界引发强烈共鸣；这是测试时算力扩展从基准测试走向真实临床价值的重要里程碑，对AI医疗诊断赛道具有直接的投资信号意义，亦印证了推理模型差异化价值的商业叙事。
Wow. [QT @thekaransinghal: One of the ways scaling test-time compute can benefit people most: have reasoning models think really hard about rare undiagnosed diseases. Today we're sharing published evidence that this can work, in some of the most difficult pediatric cases!]
Japanese fiber-optic cablemaker Fujikura's shares are set to surge to their daily limit after the firm unexpectedly raised its profit guidance above market estimates
South Korea is yet to resolve several key obstacles facing foreign investors, MSCI said in its latest market accessibility review, a setback for global funds and the government
Valar Atomics; Southern California startup; small modular reactors; key milestone; US nuclear power acceleration program
Valar Atomics, a Southern California-based startup, has reached a key milestone in its effort to develop small reactors under a US program aimed at accelerating the deployment of nuclear power
Vice President JD Vance will not depart Thursday night for face-to-face negotiations with Iran in Switzerland, the White House says, as the US and Iran begin a 60-day countdown to reach a nuclear agreement and a more permanent peace deal
India's state-run refiners have already secured enough crude for the next two months and are in no rush to resume purchases from the Middle East even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens to commercial traffic
A gauge of emerging-market equities touched a record high as shipping began to resume in the Strait of Hormuz, paving the way for lower global oil prices
You'll see a lot of doctors come out "against" this kind of broad screening system. They can even get quite agitated about it. This resistance stems from a well-established clinical consensus: traditional population-level imaging fails to improve health outcomes because false [QT @midjourney: Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"]
MSCI pointed to low free-float levels at some firms and continued limits on foreign ownership as among hurdles for Vietnam stocks, potentially complicating the country's push for a market upgrade
The primary owner of Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk is launching a network of research incubators across Europe, seeking to create breakthrough obesity and diabetes treatments by turning academic discoveries into commercial ventures
Indonesia expands its corruption probe into President Prabowo Subianto's flagship, $15-billion free-meals program into foundations involved in the nationwide rollout of kitchens
Andy Burnham has won a historic contest for an open UK parliamentary seat, paving the way for the Greater Manchester mayor to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer for his job
You'll see a lot of doctors come out "against" this kind of broad screening system. They can even get quite agitated about it. This resistance stems from a well-established clinical consensus: traditional population-level imaging fails to improve health outcomes because false
Manchester United has faced criticism by an influential proxy advisory firm over its allegedly weak corporate governance, including limited board independence and the absence of a nominating committee
one metric that almost nobody is talking about: $USELESS has more perps Open Interest (OI) than literally every memecoin on Lighter (the biggest perps DEX to list it) except $TRUMP that's more OI than: • $DOGE • $SHIB • $PEPE • $BONK • $PENGU • $WIF • etc
If Keir Starmer chooses to face Burnham in a leadership contest, it will all get very messy for him very fast. Because he will have to decide whether ministers can publicly endorse Burnham, as they will want to do, and keep their jobs.
codex desktop app @OpenAI is crazy i have a session with nearly 300 subagents running more than a day thanks to @justsisyphus lazycodex and it is just smooth as hell no bad experience
Bernstein is legit the dumbest analyst firm I've seen calling for a 50% crash in Kioxia. They gave $INTC a $36 PT back in Jan and now it's $118. Good lesson to ignore institutional reports that get published for retail consumption. They're not here to help retail investors.
Western Europe's heat wave is forecast to intensify this weekend, putting France on track for record temperatures and testing power grids as demand for air conditioning surges
A £300 million portfolio of mortgages linked to collapsed lender MFS looks to never have been registered with public property records, according to court filings
Signal President Meredith Whittaker; 'Three companies can make decisions that fundamentally harm our collective cybersecurity'; AI + big tech privacy threat
"Three companies... can make decisions that fundamentally harm our collective cybersecurity" Signal President Meredith Whittaker tells @MishalHusain why she believes AI and big tech pose a major threat to privacy
Some of India's wealthiest investors stand to get even richer from their shareholdings in the nation's stock exchange, which filed for an IPO this week
The euro is a pillar of our sovereignty, says Executive Board member Piero Cipollone. To safeguard it in a changing world, Europe must reduce its dependencies in payments and finance while ensuring central bank money keeps pace with technology
sad how many folks don't know this particularly important for startups if you leave Canada, they will charge you an exit tax based on all your assets **including** your illiquid unrealized startup equity if you've raised a big round, you basically cant leave
Iranian crude oil flows appeared to surge following the lifting of a months-long US naval blockade on the Islamic Republic's ports, even as visible traffic from its neighbors thinned
Bland banned OpenAI from its own platform. Then raised $50M. 180 investors at Y Combinator told the founder phone calls would be dead within a year. He's now raised over $100M and runs 175M calls to prove them wrong.
Meta lobbied lawmakers for legal protection as it faces lawsuits over child-harm claims tied to its platforms, according to a source and draft proposals reviewed by Reuters.
German energy company RWE is nearing a deal to boost its stake in Amprion as part of a deal that could value the transmission grid at about €10 billion
The first 2x SpaceX ETFs have now crossed over $100 Million of AUM. Congrats to SMN partners Leverage Shares on being the first ones to hit the milestone
Denmark's months-long probe into a series of drone incursions over the Nordic country confirmed the sightings were real, but has not determined who was behind it
USDC & USDT earning 13.74% APY on Ethereum via ftUSD. Room for another ~$2m at this APY. No subsidies. No points. Real yield. No lockups. Instant liquidity. All onchain. Only on FT @flyingtulip_
Iran FM Spokesperson: 'US bears direct responsibility for Israeli attacks on Lebanon'; 'Iran will take all necessary measures to protect its interests and allies'
arcium's ZINC product hit #3 in solana protocol revenue. 1.5m confidential computations already processed on mainnet. network fees paid in SOL, 70% to operators, 20% to recovery nodes, 10% treasury. then they acquired Inpher to bring encrypted AI compute in-house. coinbase added
Wow, I completely missed this with $LPK meeting notes. And I think markets did too. My biggest takeaway: - NASDAQ listing is actively on their radar and are in discussions. - 70% market share targeted, unholy target. - TAM greatly exceeds former projections. - See a 4-5 base
Remind me whenever I call out a bottleneck, I should go long myself. Just floated this idea out around MLCC bottlenecks awhile back. Taiyo Yuden up 211.38% $VSH up 146.15% Murata up 155.43% Within the last 2 months... Feels bad.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for international talks about exchange rates as part of the European Union's resolve to address its deepening trade deficit with China
Anthropic CEO达里奥·阿莫代伊接受Bloomberg The Circuit专访，正面反驳批评者关于其夸大AI风险以为公司谋利的指控，并批评硅谷内部对AI安全议题的态度。
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei; Bloomberg The Circuit with Emily Chang; 'The idea that this is cheap marketing is itself cheap marketing'; Silicon Valley AI discourse criticism
"The idea that this is cheap marketing is itself cheap marketing." Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joins The Circuit with @EmilyChangTV to push back against critics who accuse him of hyping artificial intelligence risks to benefit his company. Amodei also blasts Silicon Valley's
The memory companies could be about to make $3 Trillion of profits this decade. Forecasts suggest operating income across Samsung, SK hynix, and $MU could approach $945B by 2029 as AI infrastructure spending accelerates. The AI
One of Abu Dhabi's newest investing behemoths, 2PointZero PJSC, got its first research rating on Friday, providing rare insight into one of the emirate's largest listed holding companies
Russia to send experts to Iran; accelerate nuclear power plant units 2 and 3 construction; Rajabi-Mashhadi statement; Tasnim; during active 60-day US-Iran MOU
Rajabi-Mashhadi announced the readiness of the Russian side to send their experts to Iran to accelerate the construction of units 2 and 3 of the nuclear power plant - Tasnim.
Hostile group of Microsoft $MSFT are suing the company about the Nov - Mar market decline What are they going to do if this is a real H&S top that results in a decline to at least $229?
Iraq plans to export crude oil and naphtha through Syrian ports after the Iran war cut off Gulf shipping routes, with Syria expanding facilities in Baniyas to handle the shipments.
with how rapidly the pudgy penguins IP has been growing, love to see them properly venturing into trading cards now in Walmart + Target nationwide, insane @LucaNetz is cooking hard
Dow Jones.📉 Shooting Star 💫 The Dow Jones has formed a shooting star at a historically major resistance level. The next candle is critical. If a red candle is depicted, it's likely to activate the reversal.
European Union leaders have been unable to agree on setting up a back-channel with Moscow to ensure that the bloc's interests are protected should progress be made in negotiations to end Russia's war on Ukraine, some of them said on Friday.
Emerging market central banks are driving historic gold purchases: Over the last 3 years, Asian and Eastern European countries have purchased +12 tonnes of gold per month on average. African nations have acquired +2 tonnes per month during the same period.
The gunfire and explosions that ripped through Niger's main international airport are the latest sign of armed groups increasingly targeting cities and urban centers in Africa's Sahel region, where they are competing for influence and territories, analysts say.
Libya coast; 51 dead or missing; migrant boat capsized; monitoring group confirmed
A boat carrying dozens of migrants bound for European shores capsized off the coast of Libya last week, leaving 51 people dead or missing, a monitoring group said on Friday.
The agentic economy now has a town square. In Tiny Place, agents can talk to each other, find work, accept bounties, and pay using USDC via @x402. Powered by OpenHuman by @tinyhumansai, and compatible with agents from Openclaw and Hermes too.
Does anyone else read this as Warren asking Elon to pay her taxes? [QT @SenWarren: If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire tax, we could fully cover free community college in America.]