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For the first time, OpenAI isn’t shipping one model with thinking dials. GPT-5.6 comes as three genuinely separate LLMs—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with different training, different pricing, and different capability ceilings. The comparison that matters is Sol against Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s most capable public model right now.Sol costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 output. Fable 5 is $10 and $50—twice as expensive, now losing on several benchmarks developers actually route work through. Luna, the cheapest of the three at $1 input and $6 output, already outranks Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on coding. That last detail becomes the real problem…

Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong warned that the sky-high valuations of premium AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic face a massive structural threat. The alarm arrives amid growing investor skepticism, as both leaders compared today’s AI frenzy to the dot-com crash and past crypto bubbles. A billionaire investor says if you bet against every AI company today, you’d be rich in five years, and the CEO of Coinbase [Brian Armstrong] quietly agrees it might be a bubble.[Nikhil] “If I were to take every private company in AI and short their stock today, in five years,… pic.twitter.com/pXglaN9u7a—…

The SEC has approved a NYSE Arca rule change that raises position and exercise limits for options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, giving institutional traders more room to hedge and express larger views around the spot Bitcoin ETF market. The change increases limits for IBIT options from 250,000 contracts to 1,000,000 contracts, according to the SEC release. That is a fourfold increase, and it reflects how quickly Bitcoin ETF options have become part of the market’s trading infrastructure. This is not the kind of update that grabs attention like a new ETF launch. But for market structure, it matters. Options…

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams has proposed expanding protocol fees across Uniswap v4 and several network deployments, putting one of DeFi’s longest-running governance debates back at the centre of the market. Protocol fees are a sensitive topic for Uniswap because the exchange is one of DeFi’s most important pieces of infrastructure. It processes huge volumes, sits across multiple chains, and remains a core liquidity venue for tokens. But for years, the question has been whether that usage should translate into direct economic value for the protocol and UNI governance. The new proposal, published through Uniswap governance, targets protocol-level fee activation across…

San Francisco, CA, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Completes Third Open-Market Purchase as Contributor Network and Assets Continue to Grow Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced the completion of a third strategic purchase of Numeraire (NMR), acquiring an additional $1.2 million of the token from the open market. The purchase brings Numerai’s total NMR buybacks to $3.2 million within one year. The buyback reflects Numerai’s continued investment in the staking system that aligns thousands of independent data scientists toward improving the firm’s Stake-Weighted Meta Model, the machine learning model that powers Numerai’s…

London, United Kingdom, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover. The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties. As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional audiences, securing industry-leading protection against slashing risk for ether.fi users is critical. Over the last year, ether.fi has been systematically strengthening their stack across infrastructure, risk management, operational security and real-time defense systems.  Since ether.fi operates one of the largest validator sets on Ethereum, slashing is a…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed five Ondo tokenized stock trading pairs on its spot market in collaboration with Ondo Finance. The five companies span a supply chain that runs from semiconductor and precision component manufacturing to industrial cooling and power infrastructure supporting AI data centers, allowing users to trade these U.S. stocks using USDT on MEXC around the clock, with instant settlement and no traditional brokerage account required. The trading pairs include tokenized shares of STMicroelectronics N.V. (STMON/USDT), Fabrinet (FNON/USDT), Trane Technologies (TTON/USDT), Amphenol (APHON/USDT) and Quanta Services (PWRON/USDT).…

Dubai, UAE, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today released its Q1 2026 BTC spot execution analysis, showing that its Rapid Price Improvement (RPI) mechanism consistently delivered lower trading slippage than comparable execution measurements across major cryptocurrency exchanges. As digital asset markets continue to mature, execution quality has emerged as an increasingly important measure of market performance alongside trading fees and quoted liquidity. Bybit’s latest analysis demonstrates that improvements in market structure can materially reduce trading costs for both retail and institutional participants. Across simulated BTC/USDT spot trades ranging from US$10,000 to US$1…

Willemstad, Curaçao, July 17th, 2026, PlayNewswire Cryptocurrency has become one of the fastest-growing categories within prediction markets, as traders and investors increasingly look beyond price charts to speculate on major industry milestones. Reflecting this trend, international betting brand 1win has expanded its Markets product with a series of new cryptocurrency prediction markets covering some of the sector’s most closely watched digital assets. The new crypto-themed forecasts on 1win Markets allow users to speculate on topics, including “Crypto-related forecasts are becoming a natural extension of prediction markets, giving users another way to engage with some of the biggest narratives in the…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 16th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today released its May–June bimonthly security report, reinforcing its role as a trusted global gateway where security and trust always come first. The audit indicates that MEXC’s Futures Insurance Fund surpassed a landmark threshold of 750 million USDT as of June 29, marking a substantial 34% expansion over the preceding reporting period. Concurrently, reserve verification data confirm that the coverage ratios for BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC all remained safely above 100%, with Bitcoin delivering a reserve ratio of 269.35%. During May–June, crypto security incidents remained…