Revolut has integrated its crypto exchange, Revolut X, with third-party AI assistants, enabling users to analyze markets, monitor portfolios, and execute trades using natural language prompts. Supported platforms include Claude, Gemini, OpenClaw, and Cursor, with no coding required.

The integration allows traders to access real-time market data, review portfolio performance, set custom price alerts, place market and limit orders, and manage open positions directly through AI assistants. Users can also test trading strategies, receive historical performance analysis, and optimize risk before placing trades.

Revolut emphasized that all orders still require user approval before execution. The company also noted it is not responsible for trading losses or errors resulting from third-party AI assistants.

Earlier this year, Gemini, Liquid, and Robinhood introduced AI-powered trading tools, highlighting a broader shift toward AI-driven investing and automated trading workflows.

OpenAI has launched the GPT-5.6 family, introducing Sol, Terra, and Luna. The flagship GPT-5.6 Sol delivers stronger performance across coding, science, cybersecurity, and knowledge work while using fewer tokens and lowering costs.

OpenAI also introduced Ultra, a multi-agent mode designed for complex tasks. GPT-5.6 improves computer use, tool calling, software engineering, and the creation of documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.

The company highlighted significant gains in cybersecurity and scientific research while introducing its strongest safety system yet. GPT-5.6 combines enhanced safeguards, continuous monitoring, and expanded misuse protections.

GPT-5.6 is now rolling out across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. The three models are available with API pricing starting at $1 per million input tokens for Luna and $5 for Sol.

Some of crypto's largest venture firms are broadening their investment focus beyond digital assets. Paradigm recently raised a $1.2 billion fund to invest in crypto alongside AI, robotics, and other frontier technologies, while Framework Ventures and Haun Ventures have also launched funds targeting sectors beyond traditional crypto.

The shift comes as the crypto venture market cools. According to Galaxy Research, crypto VCs deployed around $4 billion across 355 deals in Q1 2026, while the number of new crypto venture funds fell to its lowest level since Q3 2020. Meanwhile, AI accounted for nearly 70% of global startup funding in Q2, highlighting where investor demand is moving.

Industry participants say the market is evolving as crypto becomes more integrated into the broader financial system. With regulated markets, institutional adoption, and increasing competition from traditional investors, crypto is no longer viewed as a standalone investment category but as part of a wider technology landscape.

Circle has received final OCC approval to launch Circle National Trust — a federally regulated national trust bank offering fiduciary custody of digital assets.

The charter clears a path for Circle to eventually bring management of the USDC Reserve under federal oversight, with custody later opening to select banks and institutions. CEO Jeremy Allaire called it “a defining step in bringing blockchain and digital assets into the core of the U.S. financial system.”

Polymarket has filed for futures commission merchant (FCM) registration with the US National Futures Association — its first step toward offering leveraged, margin-based event trading.

Margin would let users bet on events with only a fraction of the capital upfront, but final CFTC sign-off is still needed before leverage goes live. Rival Kalshi cleared the same NFA hurdle back in March and out-traded Polymarket $33B to $14B in June — raising the stakes in the prediction-market race.

Relay Protocol is warning users about a wave of scam tokens on Robinhood Chain that vanish from wallets moments after they're bought — advanced honeypots built to trap buyers.

Crucially, Relay says this is NOT a wallet or private-key breach: only the money spent on the malicious token is lost, and your other holdings stay safe. Robinhood Chain — live since July 1 and permissionless — is seeing heavy memecoin activity, and Relay says it's now blocking bad contracts while verifying legit ones. Stick to tokens verified by trusted sources.

Jito has partnered with wallet-infrastructure provider Privy to launch Fullsend — a service that routes every Solana transaction for institutional-grade landing and speed.

Running through Fullsend by default since January, inclusion latency has dropped to as low as 50ms with 99.999% landing reliability. For Privy's embedded wallets, that means transactions confirm faster and fail less — a direct pitch to teams building consumer apps on Solana.

The $88M round was led by Benchmark's Peter Fenton, with Y Combinator, 8VC, Theory Ventures and a deep bench of founder-angels — including Docker's Solomon Hykes and ClickHouse CEO Aaron Katz — also joining.

Ollama lets developers run open models locally — no API keys, no per-token fees, no data leaving the machine. It's already used by 8.9M developers and 85% of the Fortune 500, betting on hybrid, privacy-first inference without vendor lock-in.

Strategy selling Bitcoin made headlines. But it wasn't even the biggest seller of 2026.

MARA dumped 15,133 BTC ($1.1B) — 40% of the entire sell-off. Bitdeer, Cango, Riot all followed. The full six-month picture, on one chart.

Strategy just sold Bitcoin for the first time ever. The "never sell" company offloaded 3,588 BTC ($216M) to fund dividends. So we asked: who else quietly sold BTC in 2026?

Turns out — a lot of them. 7 public companies, ~37,700 BTC, ~$2.66B in six months. Here's the full list.