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Legato, private payroll on Tempo, built with Noir✨ FRESH

Legato is a private payroll system on Tempo where employers deposit salaries into a privacy asset pool and employees withdraw privately at any time. Built with Noir, Solidity, and the Tempo testnet, with the source fully open-sourced on GitHub.

Published Jun 23, 2026Savio SouDeFi

The Devil's Bargain, the hidden cost of privacy without credible neutrality✨ FRESH

Aztec co-founder Zac Williamson argues that privacy on top of centralized rails turns the settlement layer into a permissioned service with platform risk, viewing keys, and approval bottlenecks. Real programmable private state must be decentralized from the ground up: users execute locally, contracts compose privately, and disclosure stays at the application layer through selective disclosure rather than network-level backdoors.

Published Jun 23, 2026Zac WilliamsonResearch

TACEO introduces Merces, a privacy protocol with built-in compliance and audit✨ FRESH

Merces is TACEO's core protocol for financial privacy on shared state, supporting payments (including x402), yield, and tokenization with built-in compliance enforcement and configurable audit mechanisms. Verifiability comes from ZK, while composability and privacy are built on MPC and ORAM.

Published Jun 24, 2026Lukas HelmingerCrypto

Aztec Network is now fully permissionless✨ FRESH

Aztec Network has gone fully permissionless after onchain governance revoked ownership of the core rollup smart contract, making its code and config immutable. Governance delay drops from 30 days to 2 days; users keep an escape-hatch exit. Aztec Labs has flagged proof-system vulnerabilities that can only be fixed in a future rollup version.

Published Jun 22, 2026L2BEATInfrastructure

Hermes Agent gains /learn, distills any source material into a verifiable reusable skill✨ FRESH

Nous Research's Hermes Agent now ships a /learn command that ingests directories of source material, code, API docs, manuals, PDFs, configs, and distills them into verifiable, reusable skills that the agent can call back into later.

Published Jun 23, 2026Nous ResearchAI

HIVEMIND launches as a social intelligence app✨ FRESH

Jason Yuan's HIVEMIND has launched, opening a closed beta program for a new social intelligence experience. The reveal film is built around true stories from early users including Biz Stone, and the team has published a constitution outlining the values governing the network.

Published Jun 23, 2026HIVEMINDAI

Aside launches as an AI browser built for agentic browsing✨ FRESH

Aside, a YC F25 AI browser, is now live with vertical tabs and Liquid Glass styling, SOTA results on agentic browsing benchmarks (Online-Mind2Web 297/300), fully local + encrypted execution, and support for using your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription.

Published Jun 23, 2026junAI

Qualcomm to acquire Modular✨ FRESH

Modular has entered an agreement to be acquired by Qualcomm, accelerating its push to unify accelerated compute behind an open software platform. The deal also marks Qualcomm's evolution into a developer-first AI solutions company spanning generative and agentic AI from edge to cloud.

Published Jun 24, 2026ModularAI

OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first in-house AI chip✨ FRESH

OpenAI has designed and built its first AI chip, Jalapeño, brought to production with Broadcom and purpose-built for the LLM workloads powering ChatGPT, Codex, the API, and future agentic products.

Published Jun 24, 2026OpenAIAI

Zenith joins Progmat working group to bring Japan's $1.6T JGB repo market on-chain✨ FRESHHiring3

Zenith has been invited to join Progmat's Tokenized JGB and On-chain Repo Working Group alongside MUFG, Mizuho, Sumitomo Mitsui, BlackRock Japan, State Street, SBI Securities, and Japan Exchange Group, conducting a joint study on bringing Japan's $1.6 trillion JGB repo market on-chain. A comprehensive report is expected in October 2026 with issuance pilots targeted for later this year.

Published Jun 24, 2026

ZenithInfrastructure

Allium raises $40M Series B from Amplify Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and Theory Ventures✨ FRESH

Allium has raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with continued backing from Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures. Since their Series A, the onchain data platform has grown revenue 10x, scaled to 150+ enterprise customers, and now indexes 30+ petabytes across 150+ chains.

Published Jun 23, 2026AlliumFunding

UBS and Nethermind complete joint Ethereum compliance PoCs✨ FRESH

UBS and Nethermind have completed two joint proofs of concept showing that a public, permissionless network can support the compliance and operational needs of regulated financial institutions. They built a node that applies customizable compliance rules to outgoing transactions and a routing component that sends approved bundles directly to selected block builders, both validated end-to-end on Sepolia.

Published Jun 23, 2026NethermindInfrastructure

MoonMath AI soft-launches private EU-hosted AI coding endpoint✨ FRESH

MoonMath AI has soft-launched a private AI coding serving endpoint, powered by MiniMax M3 and running on its own EU-based GPUs. The pilot controls the full software and hardware stack with no personal data collection and no prompt retention, priced significantly below closed-source model APIs.

Published Jun 18, 2026Omer ShlomovitsAI

Ethereum Foundation cuts budget by 40%✨ FRESH

The Ethereum Foundation is cutting its budget by roughly 40% as it transitions to a long-term endowment-based organization, shifting from a pre-2026 average of ~15% annual spend to a post-2030 target of ~5%. Sacrifices include moving the multi-client model from redundancy toward specialization with AI-assisted formal verification, winding down PSE as a unit, smaller-scale Devcon, and fewer beyond-Ethereum megaprojects.

Published Jun 23, 2026Vitalik ButerinCrypto

Cursor is training a new model with SpaceX✨ FRESH

Cursor unveiled three announcements at its inaugural Compile conference keynote, including a new model being trained in partnership with SpaceX.

Published Jun 22, 2026CursorAI

Ritual Chain public testnet is live✨ FRESH

The Ritual Chain public testnet is live. Built specifically for AI agents, it offers on-chain inference, composable precompiles (LLM inference, ONNX models, HTTP calls, DKMS), and native scheduling, letting smart contracts call an LLM, verify the result, and act on it entirely on-chain.

Published Jun 23, 2026

RitualProduct

OpenAI expands Daybreak with Codex Security, GPT-5.5-Cyber, and Patch the Planet✨ FRESH

OpenAI is expanding Daybreak to democratize patching vulnerable software at machine speed: a Codex Security plugin for finding, validating, and fixing vulnerabilities inside Codex; the full GPT-5.5-Cyber model for trusted defenders; a Cyber Partner Program for security companies; and Patch the Planet, an effort with Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and maintainers to secure critical open source projects.

Published Jun 22, 2026OpenAIAI

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH✨ FRESH

Ethlabs launches as a non-profit R&D lab with a mission to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy, working between frontier builders and protocol development. Backed by a broad coalition of DeFi builders, core devs, L2 founders, cypherpunks, investors, institutions, and researchers.

Published Jun 22, 2026EthlabsX Post

Aerugo: EF execution mandate✨ FRESH

The Ethereum Foundation lays out its execution mandate: eliminate toxic MEV, make unconditional privacy the default, treat staking as protocol infrastructure risk, harden every surface against capture, and refuse to compromise Ethereum into a compliant fintech rail with web3 branding.

Published Jun 22, 2026AerugoX Post

Valar Atomics takes Ward 250 critical✨ FRESH

Valar Atomics took its Ward 250 test reactor critical for the first time, fulfilling EO 14301 which called for 3 advanced reactors to go critical by July 4th. Ward 250 is a TRISO-fueled HTGR and the first nuclear reactor ever air-lifted by a C-17. Power operations targeted for July 4.

Published Jun 18, 2026Isaiah TaylorGeneral

A native zkEVM scales bandwidth, not just execution✨ FRESH

Enshrining a native zkEVM is a core pillar of Ethereum scaling. Combined with Blocks-in-Blobs (EIP-8142) and Data Availability Sampling, zkEVM lets gas-limit increases have sub-linear impact on block download latency, scaling both execution and bandwidth.

Published Jun 21, 2026Thomas CoratgerX Post

Ethereum has a new steward in EthLabs✨ FRESHHiring28

EthLabs is a new non-profit R&D lab focused on making Ethereum, ETH the asset, and the ecosystem win. With EF on CROPS, EthLabs on R&D, and Etherealize on institutional adoption, the ecosystem now has clear stewards across the stack.

Published Jun 22, 2026dcbuilder

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World App launches direct USDC payroll✨ FRESHHiring28

World App now lets users receive paychecks directly in USDC, powered by Bridge (a Stripe company), with self-custodial deposits and no requirement for employers to understand blockchains or manage network fees.

Published Jun 22, 2026World App

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Introducing autoresearch for arXiv papers✨ FRESH

Changing arxiv to autoarxiv in any CS paper URL deploys an agent that resolves codebase setup issues, runs a minimal reproduction, and estimates full replication cost.

Published Jun 18, 2026alphaXivAI

a16z New Media, one year in✨ FRESH

a16z New Media turns one. Erik Torenberg breaks down the four motions of the team: in-house creative (video, design, editorial), owned channels (X, Substack, podcasts), dedicated full-service team from pitch to launch, and a network leveraged with software and AI. Framed as go-direct as a service for portfolio companies.

Published Jun 18, 2026Erik TorenbergGeneral

EIP draft: Multi-block access list warming via Warm-Access Multiset

A new draft EIP (PR #11776) proposes a Warm-Access Multiset (WAM): a sliding 256-block refcount of accounts and storage slots seen in Block Access Lists, so recently-touched items start warm in subsequent blocks. Empirical analysis cites ~14.1% median per-block gas savings, with a SHA-256 Sparse Merkle Tree commitment added to the block header for zkEVM-friendly inclusion proofs.

Published Jun 7, 2026ethresearchbotResearch

Letting an AI agent near your wallet is dangerous. On MOSS, it isn't.Hiring1

MegaETH introduces MOSS, a wallet permissioning layer for AI agents. The MOSS CLI grants scoped permissions (allowed contracts, functions, spend caps, time limits); the agent never touches keys and funds stay in user custody.

Published Jun 19, 2026

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Midjourney launches Midjourney Medical division✨ FRESH

Midjourney is spinning up Midjourney Medical, a new division focused on applying its generative imaging stack to healthcare.

Published Jun 17, 2026MidjourneyAI

Midjourney Scanner technical deep dive✨ FRESH

Midjourney walks through the technical architecture behind its new Midjourney Scanner.