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In brief DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0 on June 25 under MIT license, purpose-built for AI coding agents working in real terminal and repository environments. The 9B variant scores 69.4 on SWE-bench Verified, outperforming Google’s Gemma 4-31B (52.0). Ornith’s own model card warns the models may underperform on non-coding tasks—they are wired for developer pipelines, not general-purpose AI conversations. DeepReinforce, an AI research lab previously known for CUDA-L1 and the IterX code-agent optimization loop, released Ornith-1.0 late last week—a family of open-source coding models available on Hugging Face in four sizes based on the number of parameters: 9 billion, 31 billion, 35…

Bitmine owns 4.7% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 94% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 4,879,157 staked ETH, representing $7.7 billion at $1,569 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors Bitmine owns $74 million of Eightco, now one of the only publicly listed equities in the world…

This week the builder spotlight falls on a new Solana-based DeFi application that shipped cross-chain swap functionality. The tool lets users move assets between Solana and other networks through a streamlined interface that reduces steps for traders seeking liquidity across ecosystems. Market Snapshot Bitcoin price action over the past 7 days. Data: CoinGecko. Bitcoin trades at $60,449, off 0.05 percent, while Ethereum sits at $1,583, up 0.27 percent. Total crypto market capitalization holds at $2.17T with Bitcoin dominance at 55.8 percent. Among the top movers, SOL leads with a 2.2 percent gain, followed by XMR at 1.3 percent, DOGE at…

BitGo Holdings, one of the crypto industry’s most prominent custody and infrastructure firms, has reduced its workforce by nearly 15% as the company restructures around stablecoins, settlement, trading, security, and AI-powered infrastructure. The announcement, made by CEO and co-founder Mike Belshe on June 25, was simultaneously filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission via an 8-K disclosure, underscoring the significance of the move for the now-public company.“Today I’m sharing a hard decision: we are reducing our workforce by nearly 15%,” Belshe wrote in a post on X. “The ecosystem has evolved, and the way we build financial services has…

Hyperliquid has been added to Singapore’s Investor Alert List, putting DeFi’s permissionless pitch to a consumer-protection test: the network can keep settling trades, while the interface and public messaging around it draw regulatory scrutiny.Hyperliquid said in a June 26 statement that its appearance on the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s list was a warning-list event rather than a ban, enforcement action, or finding of wrongdoing.The project also said it had not claimed to be licensed by MAS, described itself as permissionless infrastructure, and said users retain self-custody while transactions settle transparently on-chain.The resulting pressure is applied to the user-facing layer. A…

In brief Securitize expects to begin trading next week under the ticker symbol “SECZ,” following the completion of a merger with a blank-check firm. The debut of the BlackRock-backed tokenization specialist will test Wall Street’s appetite for companies tied to the emerging market. The company’s debut on the NYSE comes as the SEC wrestles with an innovation exemption for tokenized stocks. Whether Wall Street’s interest in tokenization translates into demand for companies closely tied to the technology is set to be tested next week alongside Securitize’s expected debut.The BlackRock-backed firm, which specializes in digital representations of real-world assets, announced plans…

Galaxy Digital’s research arm has cut its estimate of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 to 50-50, down from 60% just three weeks ago, citing a Senate floor calendar that grows shorter each week and a bill that still lacks a merged text, a scheduled vote, or public commitment from leadership. The downgrade, published by Galaxy researcher Alex Thorn, is a calendar story more than a substance story. The bill itself — the CLARITY Act, short for the Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act — cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9 on May 14 and has sat…

U.S. Representative Maxine Waters may soon return to the helm of the House Financial Services Committee if Democrats perform as expected in the November elections, and she’s asking that the Department of Labor back away from a proposal that would encourage the managers of 401(k) retirement plans to offer alternative investments, including cryptocurrency.In March, the Labor Department proposed a rule to implement what President Donald Trump had ordered: that people’s 401(k) accounts be open to investments in private equity, private credit, real estate, commodities and digital assets. Waters filed a detailed, 11-page comment letter with the department this week, requesting…

Bitcoin BTC$60,330.96 found some footing around $60,000 on Friday after this week’s selloff, but the biggest gains came from decentralized finance (DeFi) and the Solana ecosystem.Leading the advance was the native token of Aave AAVE$94.26, the largest DeFi lending protocol, which jumped 19% over the past 24 hours. CoinDesk reported Thursday that crypto exchange Kraken is exploring a strategic investment tied to the lending protocol, acquiring a 15% stake at a $385 million valuation.Aave founder Stani Kulechov pushed back in an X post against the suggestion that Aave assets could be sold at a steep discount. He reiterated that all…

Palo Alto, United States, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire Toss users can now contribute real-world data to train AI and get paid for it, in a first-of-its-kind model launching in Korea ahead of global expansion. Poseidon, the data infrastructure built to source and license real-world data for AI, today announced a partnership with Toss, the mobile financial platform operated by Viva Republica, to let everyday users contribute to AI training and be paid for what they provide. It is Toss’s first move into AI data, and it opens that market to its roughly 30 million users. Frontier AI has run out…