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Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled a new model it says closes the gap with leading U.S. offerings and surpasses OpenAI and Anthropic’s most capable systems on some benchmarks. Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance, the company said on Friday, but consistently outperformed other tested…

Ethereum has lost the $2,150 level as selling pressure and market uncertainty combine to erase the recovery that had been building since the February lows. The decline is not gradual — it has the character of a market meeting supply that was positioned and waiting. CryptoOnchain data has identified the origin of that supply, and…

Forecast Trend Report by Period See more mid- to long-term trend analysis Photo: Shutterstock The total market capitalization of stablecoins has fallen by more than $10 billion from its May peak, marking the steepest drop since 2023. CoinDesk reported on July 12 that the stablecoin market lost $7.7 billion in June alone, the largest monthly…

It has not been a good week for Russian crypto exchange Garantex.  Firstly, on Thursday, stablecoin issuer Tether blocked access to Garantex’s wallets that held around $28 million of the crypto exchange’s funds. On the same day, an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Secret Service seized Garantex’s official websites. At the time,…

Major cryptocurrencies rose on Tuesday as investors digested reports that the White House agreed to an ethics package accompanying the cryptocurrency Clarity Act. Some Clarity Finally? Bitcoin rallied to a 5-week high above $66,900, and is now up 13% month-to-date. Ethereum hit an intraday high of $1,950, while XRP and Dogecoin also climbed. The spike…

Today in crypto, Thailand’s central bank is working with the country’s security regulator to audit high-volume stablecoin and cash transactions in a gray money crackdown. Pakistan’s virtual assets regulator called for continued dialogue on the treatment of digital assets after meeting an Islamic scholar who backed a ruling against purchases made with crypto and Bitcoiners…