AMD and Anthropic have signed a strategic deal that pairs a huge chip-supply commitment with an equity investment — AMD will put up to $5B into Anthropic, tied to milestones.

Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450-series GPUs in AMD’s “Helios” rackscale systems, with the first gigawatt live in H1 2027, and has committed to buy tens of billions of dollars of AMD AI chips. Anthropic will own some chips outright and rent the rest via clouds. For AMD, landing a marquee AI lab is a major push against Nvidia’s grip on AI compute.

An updated CLARITY Act adds an ethics section that would bar presidents, the VP, Congress, federal officials and their spouses from issuing or sponsoring any cryptocurrency.

Covered officials would have to sell their crypto and stakes in crypto firms, move them into a blind trust they do not control, or both — plus disclose any crypto sale over $1,000, with the GAO hunting for more loopholes. Enforcement could reach $250K a day in fines. The catch: it targets Washington’s biggest crypto portfolio. Trump booked ~$1.2–1.4B in crypto income in year one — and reportedly signed off. Democrats balk over who enforces it, and it is not law yet.

Bitget and OKX led every exchange in net inflows over the past 30 days, adding +$677M and +$420M. Binance and Bybit went the other way, shedding $1.65B and $416M.

Across all CEXs, $2.09B left the books on net this month. 42 exchanges saw outflows, only 23 saw inflows. Most exchanges lost assets this month. A handful didn't.

Every onchain app needs data — but how you index it matters. The Graph ecosystem gives you two tools: Subgraphs (built-in GraphQL, 15,000+ ready to fork, great for dApps) and Substreams (parallel processing via Firehose, built for high-volume data, ML, analytics).

The simple rule: Subgraphs for queries, Substreams for scale. And with substreams-convert, moving between them is easier than ever.

Before 2026 is out, eight different chains ship their biggest upgrades in years — and the first lands this week. Zcash's Ironwood goes live July 28 (new shielded pool, quantum-recoverable funds).

Zcash update is followed by Ethereum's Glamsterdam, Solana's Alpenglow, Polkadot's JAM, and Cardano's largest upgrade ever. Chainlink is bringing Wall Street's DTCC settlement on-chain, while Polygon and BNB Chain race toward 100k and 10k+ TPS.

Zilliqa suspended all native ZIL transactions after attackers began exploiting a private-key-leaking bug in its Ledger wallet app that had been dormant since 2019.

The flaw is in how the Ledger app generates nonces for EC-Schnorr signatures: the top 64 bits are fixed at zero, so an attacker can rebuild a full private key from just ~5 on-chain signatures. ZIL was drained from an offline cold wallet run by an exchange partner; Upbit and others froze ZIL deposits and withdrawals. Zilliqa has not disclosed the amount and urges users to retire exposed keys and wait for a fix from Zilliqa and Ledger.

Galaxy Digital has launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative to defend Bitcoin’s cryptography against the long-term threat posed by quantum computers.

The program pairs up to $5M in developer grants for post-quantum solutions with a Quantum Advisory Council, plus a research and publishing track run by Galaxy Research.

The concern: a powerful enough quantum computer could one day break the elliptic-curve signatures that secure Bitcoin wallets. Galaxy wants migration paths ready long before that risk turns real.

Block, led by Jack Dorsey, has launched BUZZ, an open-source rival to Slack and GitHub where people and AI agents collaborate inside one shared workspace.

Every human and agent gets a cryptographic identity and its own permissions, running on the decentralized Nostr protocol. Agents join as full members, not command-only bots — Dorsey calls it “model-agnostic, decentralised, self-sovereign and open source.”

From one shared chat, teams move into planning, project management, coding and PRs. A free desktop app is live for macOS, Windows and Linux under Apache 2.0, though BUZZ still calls itself early-stage.

Corporate-finance platform Ramp has launched Stablecoin Accounts, letting its 50,000+ business customers hold USDC and USDT, make cross-border payments and earn rewards — all without leaving Ramp.

Businesses can move USDC and USDT 24/7 with no USD on- or off-ramp fees, and earn up to 3.25% in rewards on balances. Ramp is clear these are activity-based payouts, not interest or investment yield. The core pitch is cross-border payments: a standard wire costs $35-$75 and takes one to three days, whereas stablecoins clear in a matter of seconds — and Ramp already moves ~$100B a year.

Confidentiality protocol Zama has partnered with blockchain-intelligence firm Elliptic to bring compliance screening to confidential onchain finance — without giving up privacy.

Zama builds a confidentiality layer for public blockchains using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Elliptic’s screening lets institutions meet AML and regulatory standards on transactions that stay encrypted — “compliant by design.”

The pitch: institutions won’t adopt confidential finance unless it satisfies regulated-market compliance, and now it can. Zama recently raised $57M in a Series B to expand its FHE stack.