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Barnabé: Robinhood chain uses ETH as native gas, bringing 27M users onchain✨ FRESH

Robinhood's chain uses $ETH as its native gas token, meaning every transaction requires holding and spending ETH. This cements ETH as the native onchain asset across the programmable economy and brings 27M users onchain.

Published Jul 8, 2026Barnabé MonnotCrypto

powdr yulc: formally verified Yul-to-EVM compiler in Lean✨ FRESH

powdr has released an early version of yulc, an experimental formally verified Yul-to-EVM compiler written in Lean. If it compiles a program, the EVM bytecode provably computes what the Yul semantics say. The main correctness theorem is already machine-checked for a subset of Yul.

Published Jul 3, 2026powdr labsResearch

Georgios Konstantopoulos: use Incur for agentic CLIs in TypeScript✨ FRESH

Georgios flags Incur as a gamechanger for building agentic CLIs in TypeScript.

Published Jul 10, 2026Georgios KonstantopoulosAI

GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) rolling out✨ FRESH

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) is starting to roll out in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Published Jul 9, 2026OpenAIAI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent powered by Codex and GPT-5.6✨ FRESH

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new agent in ChatGPT powered by Codex and GPT-5.6. It can take action across apps and files, stay on a project for hours, and turn a goal into finished work.

Published Jul 9, 2026OpenAIAI

TypeScript 7 is officially released✨ FRESH

TypeScript 7 is officially released.

Published Jul 8, 2026TypeScriptX Post

Jarred Sumner: rewriting Bun in Rust✨ FRESH

Jarred Sumner announces that Bun is being rewritten in Rust.

Published Jul 8, 2026Jarred SumnerX Post

Barnabé Monnot: bring CL-native inclusion lists to the Gnosis-Ethereum bridge✨ FRESH

CL clients are now shipping natively. Barnabé wants to bring the design to the Gnosis-Ethereum bridge and sees @ethlabs_org playing a role in bringing it to the larger Ethereum ecosystem.

Published Jul 1, 2026Barnabé MonnotX Post

Vitalik: Lean Ethereum strawmap update from Berlin✨ FRESH

Vitalik outlines the Lean Ethereum roadmap after the Berlin researcher meeting: recursive STARKs as enshrined verification, quantum-safe replacements, decoupled availability and finality, multidimensional gas, new state types (keyed nonces, ring buffers, UTXOs), and RISC-V or leanISA as a first-class VM alongside EVM. strawmap.org has the updated diagram.

Published Jul 4, 2026Vitalik ButerinX Post

DC on the slop.computer podcast with Austin Griffith✨ FRESH

Austin Griffith recaps a slop.computer podcast episode with dcbuilder: software is easy to make but do not rebuild good open source, and it is time to upgrade from markdown files to ontologies for representing data.

Published Jul 2, 2026Austin GriffithX Post

Lighter burns 15,638,702 LIT✨ FRESH

Lighter has executed the burn of 15,638,702 LIT, permanently removing the tokens from circulation.

Published Jul 10, 2026

LighterX Post

Chasing Microseconds: Lighter's Latency Engineering

Lighter has dropped end-to-end p99 latency from 280 ms to 55 ms, tx processing p99 to under 1 ms, and hot path apply time to 100 to 250 µs. On June 5 the exchange hit 811M transactions in a day, averaging 9,388 TPS with 20,740 TPS peaks.

Published Jul 8, 2026

LighterX Post

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series AHiring22

Prime Intellect has raised a $130M Series A led by Radical Ventures, with NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investors, to build the Open Superintelligence Stack for training, deploying, and continuously improving custom models.

Published Jul 8, 2026

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World Chain v2.4.0: Full Block Access Lists✨ FRESHHiring22

World Chain v2.4.0 ships Full Block Access Lists, an out-of-protocol sidecar to Flashblocks that enables parallel pre-processing of full blocks (shard by shard) before consensus validation. Lower validator hardware requirements and stronger decentralization.

Published Jul 3, 2026djosiris.eth

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Ethereum Foundation publishes Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions✨ FRESH

A non-technical primer from the EF Global Policy Strategy team, aimed at policymakers and institutions. Covers how Ethereum works, how it is governed, and how it compares to other L1s on resilience, economic security, client diversity, counterparty risk, and ecosystem.

Published Jul 1, 2026Ethereum FoundationCrypto

Venice raises $65m Series A led by Dragonfly at $1B valuation✨ FRESH

Venice announces its first outside capital raise, a $65m Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B equity valuation. The company reached profitability in Q1 and will use the round to vertically integrate compute via its first datacenter build. Venice remains the largest holder of its VVV token.

Published Jul 1, 2026Erik VoorheesFunding

BPI: China-linked group helped block or delay $23.6B in US AI data center investment

New Bitcoin Policy Institute research identifies the Party for Socialism and Liberation, tied to Shanghai-based Neville Singham, as a critical mobilizer in 21 anti-data-center campaigns across 14 states. The efforts have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in US AI investment, including 10 data center moratoria, one permanent ban, and four scrapped AI projects.

Published Jun 30, 2026Sam LymanAI

Neuralink implants electrode threads through the intact dura for the first time

In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial procedure at UHN Toronto Western Hospital, Neuralink threaded its electrodes straight through the dura into the cortex without cutting the membrane. The participant was controlling a cursor with their thoughts within an hour of surgery.

Published Jun 30, 2026NeuralinkAI

Ethereum Institutional launches to drive institutional adoption of Ethereum✨ FRESH

Ethereum Institutional launches as an independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, and the wider ecosystem. Anchor funders: BitMine, SharpLink, and Joseph Lubin. Founding team previously built the Ethereum Foundation Enterprise function.

Published Jul 1, 2026Ethereum InstitutionalCrypto

Palantir on AI sovereignty: 9 principles✨ FRESH

Palantir lays out nine principles for AI sovereignty: data retention, controlling your own weights, rejecting tokenmaxxing, and picking real expertise over politics.

Published Jul 1, 2026PalantirAI

June, private AI on your Mac (open source, MIT)

OpenSoftware launches June, a private AI for Mac bundling an agent plus chat, voice dictation into any app, automated meeting notes, and private OSS plus anonymized frontier models. Powered by Venice models, built on the OSS Hermes Agent, MIT-licensed.

Published Jun 30, 2026OpenSoftwareProduct

Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists

Anthropic introduces Claude Science, a new app designed for every stage of research. Artifacts traced to their code, environments managed on demand, and 60+ optional scientific databases. Available in beta at claude.com/science.

Published Jun 30, 2026ClaudeAI

Open USD, a stablecoin built for the internet economy

Open Standard launches Open USD, a stablecoin designed by 140+ businesses growing the internet economy. Launch partners include Visa, Aave, Plasma, Tempo, ether.fi, Polygon, Anchorage, MoneyGram, OnePay, Spark.

Published Jun 30, 2026Open StandardCrypto

Etched comes out of stealth: $800m raised, $1B+ customer contracts, first racks ship this summer

Etched announces a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, $800m raised, and SOTA throughput/latency/power efficiency on inference. Introducing Low-Voltage Inference and Cluster-Scale Memory. 400+ engineer team, Taiwan factory, first racks shipping this summer.

Published Jun 30, 2026EtchedInfrastructure

Claude Sonnet 5, our most agentic Sonnet yet

Claude Sonnet 5 makes plans, uses tools like browsers and terminals, and runs autonomously at a level that just a few months ago required larger and more expensive models. Performance is close to Opus 4.8 at lower prices, default on Free and Pro today.

Published Jun 30, 2026ClaudeAI

Lighter Tokenomics Update: buybacks now burn LIT

Since TGE the Lighter protocol has programmatically bought back ~15.5M LIT (~6.3% of circulating supply) using exchange revenues. Going forward, buybacks will permanently reduce supply through burns.

Published Jun 30, 2026

LighterX Post

OpenAI Devs tease a Codex shortcuts hardware upgrade for July 15th

OpenAI Developers posted a 9-second teaser for a hardware peripheral upgrading the Codex shortcuts experience, dropping July 15th. Replies are calling it an Elgato Stream Deck for AI.

Published Jun 29, 2026OpenAI DevelopersAI

Ethlabs week 1 FAQ: why now, who, what, ETH, and EF relationship

Ethlabs wraps its first week with a quick FAQ thread covering why they launched now, who is on the team, what they will work on, their stance on ETH, and their relationship with the Ethereum Foundation. More on priorities, workstreams, boundaries, and accountability mechanisms is coming.

Published Jun 29, 2026EthlabsCrypto

How to keep AI spend flat while token usage grows exponentially

Coinbase cut AI spend nearly in half while token usage continued to grow, via cheaper open-weight defaults (GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.7), preprocessing-aware routing, cache-aware requests (5% to 60% hit rate in LibreChat), lean context, and full usage visibility.

Published Jun 27, 2026Brian ArmstrongAI

A ten-thousand word post covering the entire tech tree behind the main lineage of obfuscation (iO) protocols

Vitalik Buterin published a survey of the indistinguishability obfuscation tech tree, mapping STARKs, random mixing assumptions, and the main iO protocol lineage.

Published Jun 29, 2026vitalik.ethResearch

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Barnabé: Robinhood chain uses ETH as native gas, bringing 27M users onchain✨ FRESH

powdr yulc: formally verified Yul-to-EVM compiler in Lean✨ FRESH

Georgios Konstantopoulos: use Incur for agentic CLIs in TypeScript✨ FRESH

GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) rolling out✨ FRESH

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent powered by Codex and GPT-5.6✨ FRESH

TypeScript 7 is officially released✨ FRESH

Jarred Sumner: rewriting Bun in Rust✨ FRESH

Barnabé Monnot: bring CL-native inclusion lists to the Gnosis-Ethereum bridge✨ FRESH

Vitalik: Lean Ethereum strawmap update from Berlin✨ FRESH

DC on the slop.computer podcast with Austin Griffith✨ FRESH

Lighter burns 15,638,702 LIT✨ FRESH

Chasing Microseconds: Lighter's Latency Engineering

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series AHiring22

World Chain v2.4.0: Full Block Access Lists✨ FRESHHiring22

Ethereum Foundation publishes Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions✨ FRESH

Venice raises $65m Series A led by Dragonfly at $1B valuation✨ FRESH

BPI: China-linked group helped block or delay $23.6B in US AI data center investment

Neuralink implants electrode threads through the intact dura for the first time

Ethereum Institutional launches to drive institutional adoption of Ethereum✨ FRESH

Palantir on AI sovereignty: 9 principles✨ FRESH

June, private AI on your Mac (open source, MIT)

Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists

Open USD, a stablecoin built for the internet economy

Etched comes out of stealth: $800m raised, $1B+ customer contracts, first racks ship this summer

Claude Sonnet 5, our most agentic Sonnet yet

Lighter Tokenomics Update: buybacks now burn LIT

OpenAI Devs tease a Codex shortcuts hardware upgrade for July 15th

Ethlabs week 1 FAQ: why now, who, what, ETH, and EF relationship

How to keep AI spend flat while token usage grows exponentially

A ten-thousand word post covering the entire tech tree behind the main lineage of obfuscation (iO) protocols

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