Key TakeawaysWintermute USA registered with SEC and FINRA, opening access to regulated U.S. securities trading.Wintermute’s $10B daily volume could intensify competition with Jane Street and Citadel Securities.Wintermute targets tokenized stocks and market-maker roles over the next 3-5 years. Wintermute Challenges Jane Street, Citadel With US Securities Push Wintermute is moving deeper into traditional finance, registering its U.S. business as a broker-dealer and setting up a direct challenge to some of Wall Street’s largest market-making firms. Wintermute USA LLC is now registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The approval allows it to…
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Road Town, British Virgin Islands, August 7th, 2026, Chainwire 250+ TradFi markets join Carbon’s 530+ crypto perpetuals & 150 24/7 RWAs in one venue. Wall Street depth at listing, stable overnight rates, and on-chain settlement. Carbon, the on-chain prime broker for global markets, today opened public trading on 250+ Carbon TradFi markets spanning equities, indices, forex, and commodities. Each position is hedged 1:1 at regulated TradFi venues, making Carbon the largest TradFi-native on-chain derivatives venue. Alongside 530+ crypto perpetuals and 150 24/7 RWAs, total tradeable instruments now exceed 950 in one account. Carbon TradFi is Carbon’s own on-chain instrument. A…
Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 7th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed five new Ondo tokenized stock trading pairs on Spot, expanding user access to stocks spanning AI infrastructure, semiconductors, enterprise software and rare earth materials. The new pairs are AXTION/USDT (AXT Inc), AEHRON/USDT (Aehr Test Systems), APLDON/USDT (Applied Digital), USARON/USDT (USA Rare Earth) and SAPON/USDT (SAP SE). The pairs went live on Spot on August 6, 2026, at 13:30 (UTC), with deposits now open. Withdrawals will open on August 7, 2026, at 13:30 (UTC). Report data jointly published by MEXC and CoinGecko shows that demand…
More details continue to trickle out about OpenAI’s mysterious new hardware device — described previously as an AI-fueled smart speaker that will be the “physical manifestation” of ChatGPT. Bloomberg now reports that the device will be “donut-shaped,” designed thusly to allow users to carry it around their home and place it in different locations, like a bedside table or a kitchen counter. It will be constructed from “high-quality metal,” have a “premium look,” and (in a detail that mystifies) will have distinct “moving parts,” sources told Bloomberg. It also could be slightly more expensive than your average smart speaker, perhaps…
Aug 06, 2026 10:52 Binance invests $300M a year in compliance to expand its financial super app, intercepting $10.53B in fraud since 2021 and recovering $8.2B for users. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is doubling down on compliance as it pushes forward with its ambition to build a financial super app. The company disclosed that it invests $300 million annually in compliance operations, a figure significantly higher than what traditional financial institutions typically allocate. This effort supports the company’s broader strategy to integrate trading, payments, savings, and Web3 services into a single platform. With nearly 1…
Eightco treasury composition as of August 5, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, nearly 302 million WLD holdings, and $142M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $378 million Eightco recently participated in World Foundation’s $52.5M funding round, led by Pantera with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and additional investors OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for a potential future initial public offering Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco…
Key TakeawaysWorld Chain is deploying streamed EIP-7928 block access lists every 200 ms for parallel checks.The technology targets 1 gigagas/sec throughput on World Chain without raising validator hardware costs.The feature goes live on World Chain Mainnet Aug. 17 via a runtime flag ahead of Ethereum’s upgrade. Tackling the Decentralization Dilemma World Chain says it will introduce full block access lists on Aug. 17, becoming the “first” production layer‑2 (L2) network to stream EIP‑7928 access‑list data inside every flashblock. The rollout marks a significant step in efforts to scale blockchain throughput without increasing hardware demands on independent validators. According to a…
Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week, the company released a new terminal coding agent aimed at programmers looking for assistance with complex tasks across large software code bases. Muse Code, which is currently available in beta, can accomplish “complete software engineering tasks across large repos,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a social media post on Wednesday. Those tasks include “planning changes, writing code, validating the results,” he added. Code, which can be installed with a single command, is powered by Meta’s previously released coding model,…
Aug 04, 2026 22:26 GitHub’s Engineering Blog explores the shifting economics of code ownership and AI-driven development, with insights on Copilot and agentic workflows. GitHub’s Engineering Blog has released a new feature exploring the changing economics of software development in the AI era. Titled “The cost of saying yes has changed,” the piece examines how advances in AI tools have driven down the cost of writing code, but left the ongoing costs of maintaining and owning it largely unchanged. This insight is particularly timely as GitHub continues to position itself as the world’s largest developer platform, with over 100 million…
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, August 5th, 2026, Chainwire The former TON executive joins as Director of Strategic Partnerships to form the connections behind ChangeNOW’s next phase. Former TON executive Martin Masser joins ChangeNOW to build strategic partnerships, ecosystem relationships, and media momentum behind its next phase. Masser comes with experience across traditional banking, Web2 and Web3, including senior growth and business development roles within the TON space. At ChangeNOW, he will lead strategic relationships with blockchain networks, wallets, fintech companies, payment providers and other infrastructure partners. His appointment comes as ChangeNOW grows beyond standalone crypto services, transitioning to…