Applied Computing, a London-based startup that’s building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, the startup targets oil, gas, refining, and petrochemical systems, where a single facility can have thousands of sensors measuring everything from temperature and pressure to velocity and viscosity. While there’s a huge market for helping energy companies solve the data-tracking problem, the fragmentation presents a significant hurdle. Facilities consequently make operating decisions using less than 8% of the data available to them, says…
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Key TakeawaysThe CFTC ordered Kalshi to fulfill Michigan users’ open trades normally.Kalshi had proposed force-liquidating positions after a state court order.Michigan’s original geofencing order carried a $120,000 daily penalty. Federal order protects completed trades, not new access The Commodity Futures Trading Commission stayed an emergency Kalshi rule on Tuesday that would have force-liquidated open event-contract positions held by certain Michigan residents. Exercising emergency authority under the Commodity Exchange Act, the commission also directed the prediction market to fulfill the affected trades according to its normal practices. Kalshi filed the emergency rule July 12 after an Ingham County Circuit Court verbally…
Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 15, 2026 — MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, stood out for its RWA and TradFi products in CoinGecko’s newly released TradFi on Crypto Exchanges Report 2026. The report shows that MEXC listed 358 RWA Spot and TradFi Perpetual Futures in total between January 2025 and May 2026, leading all exchanges tracked. Over the same period, its TradFi Perpetual Futures trading volume reached $323.86 billion, the second highest in the report, and its average monthly market share climbed to 22.8% in the first five months of 2026. MEXC Ranks First in 358 RWA and TradFi…
The NEAR governance vote to review developer incentives to eliminate gas rebates serves as a useful reminder that cryptocurrencies are about more than just token prices. In some cases, the more important story is the infrastructure, regulatory, security, or product layer beneath the market noise. The point at hand is straightforward. nEAR governance has voted to eliminate the developer gas rebate. This gives the reader something concrete to work towards, rather than a vague emotional update. TL;DR NEAR governance voted to eliminate the developer gas rebate. This change affects developers who relied on protocol gas distribution. This raises broader questions…
Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher whose work includes using AI to accelerate scientific and biological discovery, is leaving the ChatGPT maker to launch a new startup focused on developing AI models for drug discovery, according to four people with knowledge of his plans. Several other OpenAI researchers are expected to join the new company. Wang is in talks to raise about $200 million at a $2 billion valuation, two of the people said. Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the funding round, according to sources. Talks are ongoing, the deal may not be final and details could change. Wang…
London, United Kingdom, July 15th, 2026, Chainwire CT3 today announced the transition of its decentralized storage infrastructure to a dedicated Storage Contracts model designed to support continued platform growth, improve infrastructure scalability, and expand storage capacity as demand increases. The transition follows rapid growth across the CT3 ecosystem, with more than 180,000 unique users having used the platform and more than 500,000 uploads completed. Each upload is linked to an NFT access key, allowing platform activity and network usage to be independently verified on-chain. Continued growth in demand for ct-3.cloud services has increased pressure on the existing infrastructure. Processing all…
British Virgin Islands, Road Town, July 14, 2026 — TxFlow L1, the Layer 1 blockchain powering a multi-application onchain financial ecosystem built around its TIP Liquidity Standards, today announced its second Channel: Probly, the first prediction-market application built on TxFlow Improvement Protocol 3 (TIP3). Following TxFlow DEX—the blockchain’s first application and a central limit order book (CLOB) decentralized exchange for perpetual trading, Probly expands the TxFlow L1 ecosystem into real-time prediction markets. At launch, the platform offers 172 live markets covering more than 7,000 events, including continuously rolling markets with durations as short as five minutes, backed by fully onchain…
Key TakeawaysCzech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its List of Unauthorized Internet Games on July 13.Internet providers have 15 days to block access; the ministry’s blocklist already covers several thousand sites.The decision is days after Gibraltar launched the world’s first dedicated prediction-market regime. Another European door closes as Gibraltar’s opens The Czech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its List of Unauthorized Internet Games on Monday, according to the country’s Institute for Gambling Regulation, which flagged the listing on Tuesday. Internet service providers now have 15 days to block access to the platform. The ministry, which maintains the list, already has…