YFarmX Team
Editor, YFarmX
John is a writer and editor with a background spanning several industries. He founded YFarmX and edits its AI, crypto and quantum coverage.
Mandatory signalling for BIP-110 opened at block 961,632 on Saturday evening. That block did not signal, so nodes enforcing the rule rejected it. Our own count of the chain puts miner support at 51 blocks in 2,016.
The International Space Station is funded to 2030 and its deorbit vehicle is already under contract. Every proposed replacement is funded, none has flown anyone, and the calendar is not negotiable.
The world has flown 186 orbital missions this year. The number is real, comparable across sources only with care, and a poor description of what any of these programmes can actually do.
Blue Origin solved reusability and then lost a year to a concrete apron. The rocket is now the redundant part of a launch company; the ground under it is not.
Consensys opened its wallet for autonomous trading agents to everyone on 6 August, with a mandatory scanning pipeline and $10,000 of Transaction Protection in the headline. The cover is a subscription, Consensys says it is not insurance, and MetaMask's own British page will not sell it here.
Meta released Muse Code in beta on 5 August, a terminal coding agent running the new Muse Spark 1.2. Opus 5 in Claude Code tops all three benchmark charts Meta published, including Meta's own internal one.
SpaceX says its Starmind AI1 satellite will carry NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs, and NVIDIA says the payload is a Vera Rubin NVL72. The satellite was made two thirds more powerful to carry it.
The UK AI Security Institute has published an incident report on 19 unsanctioned actions AI agents took on the live internet during a routine cyber evaluation between 25 and 28 July. Seventeen came from Anthropic's Mythos 5.
OpenRouter has released Ori, a CLI that launches Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Hermes already wired to OpenRouter, with per-model settings the company says cut Claude Code's system prompt by almost half.
4,444 pixel stockbrokers on Robinhood Chain minted free on 17 July and now trade for the price of a used car. Each one owns an on-chain wallet holding tokenised shares its buyer may not be permitted to hold directly.
OpenAI published ten results in mathematics and theoretical computer science on 1 August, produced by an internal version of its next model, Astra. Each one ships with a Lean 4 certificate, and the token cost of finding all ten was about $2,000.
A build flag set to zero in March 2021 replaced Coldcard's hardware random number generator with a software fallback. Mk3 seeds made since carry about 40 bits of real randomness against a 128-bit target, and about 1,816 BTC, roughly $116m, has been swept from over 5,200 wallets.
Satya Nadella closed a record $331.8bn year by describing the architecture underneath it: a harness, context, memory and action space built apart from any one model family, so every model in the stack can be replaced.
Fifteen days after an attacker took $23.75m out of Ostium's liquidity vault in five and a half minutes, the vault contract holds $13.4m of USDC against $34.3m of LP claims.
SpaceXAI has wrapped its coding agent in a single prompt box. Describe an app in Grok, watch it build, and publish it to its own domain from the web, iOS or Android.
Emirates launched Crypto.com Pay on 28 July for eligible UAE residents. Every booking is still priced and settled in dirhams, and the licence that makes it work is a Central Bank payments licence, not a crypto one.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says Claude Mythos Preview improved the best-known attack on HAWK, a NIST post-quantum signature candidate, and on seven-round AES. Neither touches production systems. Each cost about $100,000.
AT&T has signed an agreement to expand its use of D-Wave's annealing machines across network operations, after cutting one optimisation workload from about an hour to under 15 seconds. Here is what the deal covers, and what it does not.
Microsoft's first purpose-built cybersecurity model scores 95.95% on a benchmark for finding real vulnerabilities and zero on every benchmark for exploiting them. The zeros are the design, and the access rules match.
Zcash activated Ironwood today at block 3,428,143, sealing the Orchard shielded pool and metering every coin out through a turnstile. The counterfeiting flaw behind it sat undiscovered for years and was found in May by a researcher working with an AI model.
Moonshot AI published Kimi K3's full weights on 27 July: 2.8 trillion parameters, 1.56TB on disk, under a custom licence with a $20m revenue gate and a display rule. Here is what the licence permits, and what the hardware actually costs.
Wallets belonging to payments firm Triple-A were drained of more than $9.7m across four chains on 25 July. The analyst who spotted it says deposits were still open and still being taken while the drain ran.
The Wall Street Journal reports Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter at around $10bn, about eight times the valuation reported for its May funding round. Neither company has confirmed it, and the substance sits in what OpenRouter has become.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on 24 July at 5 and 25 dollars per million tokens, half the price of Fable 5, and it leads most rows of the company's own benchmark table. Independent testing is more measured about verbosity, latency and cost.
At Galaxy Unpacked on 22 July, Samsung signalled that Samsung Wallet will support stablecoins. It is a real signal from the world's biggest phone maker, but Samsung has named no issuer, no chain and no date, and its own newsroom does not use the word.
The North Korea-linked wallet that drained Drift Protocol of about $285 million in April moved $44.4 million into Tornado Cash on 23 July. Here is the on-chain trail, the attribution and why the money is unlikely to come back.
IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, the Boeing- and GM-owned research lab, for its silicon-spin qubit expertise. It is a hedge: a second kind of qubit alongside the superconducting chips IBM has built its whole roadmap on.
Robinhood confirmed CEO Vlad Tenev's X account was hijacked to promote a fake 'official Robinhood chain' memecoin. It spiked near $8 million in minutes, and a cluster of wallets funded two hours earlier walked away with about $1.2 million.
Franklin Templeton says crypto's killer app is not people at all, but AI agents paying each other fractions of a penny. Why the technical case is real, and what the report tells investors to do about it: hold the chains' tokens.
Security researcher Chaofan Shou directed Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K3 to find and weaponise a zero-day in Redis, producing working remote-code-execution exploits for four versions in 27 minutes with 32 agents. He calls it the first AI model willing to write a real exploit.
OpenAI has launched Presence, a managed product for deploying trusted voice and chat AI agents in production. It already runs OpenAI's own support line, resolving 75% of inbound issues without a human. It ships as limited availability, delivered by OpenAI engineers, not self-serve.
OpenAI has announced Project Camellia, a data-centre campus in Effingham County, Georgia, contracting 3.2 gigawatts from Georgia Power in phases from 2028 to 2032. Local government puts the investment at $20bn, and it is privately funded, with a pledge that residents' bills will not rise.
AMD and Anthropic have signed a strategic partnership: Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 chips from 2027, and AMD will invest up to $5bn in Anthropic. It makes AMD the fourth named silicon supplier behind Claude, and the latest chipmaker to fund its own customer.
The White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios has accused Chinese lab Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3, and of accessing barred Nvidia GB300 chips in Thailand. Treasury says sanctions are on the table. No evidence has been published; the claims are allegations.
Anthropic has given a further $20m to Public First Action, a 501(c)(4) it describes as nonpartisan, taking its total to $40m. It says the money cannot back candidates, a claim critics dispute. The same week, its Q2 federal lobbying hit a record $1.97m.
Three protocols, AFX Trade, Verus and B² Network, lost a combined $35.55m on 23 July 2026: AFX from its USDC bridge, Verus to a repeat of its May flaw with the funds sent through Tornado Cash, and B² after its staking upgrade key was seized.
DARPA has signed a $125m agreement with PsiQuantum, its largest US government award, to verify a path to a utility-scale quantum computer by 2033. What the money buys, and why that date belongs on a crypto and AI radar.
Pavel Durov says a native non-custodial Gram wallet is coming to every Telegram app this summer. What is actually new, how it differs from the wallet already there, and the obstacles between the promise and a billion users.
A cross-party group of MPs and peers has launched a six-week inquiry into UK banks refusing accounts to crypto firms and blocking crypto payments, ten weeks before the FCA authorisation gateway opens.
Anthropic's post settling the Claude Fable 5 deadline saga drew more than 27 million views. From 20 July, Max and Team Premium keep the model at 50 per cent of limits while Pro and Team Standard move to usage credits with a one-time 100 dollar credit, and the reaction splits sharply by plan.
The European Commission issued two binding Digital Markets Act decisions to Google on 16 July: one opening Android to rival AI assistants by July 2027, the other forcing Google to share search data with competitors from January 2027.
Bitcoin ETF inflows turned positive with roughly $1.2bn over seven days after the worst month on record, though 2026 has still shed about 120,000 BTC.
Project Eleven's Bitcoin quantum recovery proof runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop, a zero-knowledge ownership proof that could migrate quantum-vulnerable coins with no trusted setup.
The GENIUS Act rulemaking deadline passed on 18 July with six federal agencies holding only proposals and no final stablecoin rules, leaving 18 January 2027 as the backstop.
Kraken bitcoin options launched settled entirely in US dollars, a cash-settled, European-style contract on XBT/USD and ETH/USD aimed at widening the crypto options buyer base.
The Zcash Zakura node shipped at 1.0.0 with 50,000 transactions per second, Visa's throughput, as its stated floor, three orders of magnitude above shielded Zcash today.
