New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital. The invite-only dinner took place on June 9th and gathered a curated room of founders, operators, funds, C-level executives and institutional leaders for an intimate evening of dinner and conversation. Guests in attendance included leaders from Citi, BitMine, BitGo, Mirae Asset Securities USA, Experian, Pyth Network, Space and Time, MegaETH, B3, Stable, Antler, Delphi Digital, Fun,…
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[/key_takeaways] Key Takeaways: Clawbank and Shodai executed the first AI-to-AI Ricardian contract, binding legal prose to Ethereum code. Shodai’s smart contract paid out automatically when 1 milestone condition was accepted by the AI counterparty. Clawbank’s Manfred agent, which filed a US LLC autonomously in May 2025, can now negotiate, sign, and settle binding legal deals. The First AI-to-AI Ricardian Contract Clawbank and Shodai announced the milestone in a release shared with Bitcoin.com News on June 18, describing it as the first Ricardian agreement signed between autonomous agents. The two AI entities, operating through Clawbank’s institutional infrastructure, selected their own transaction…
Eightco treasury composition as of June 18, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $472 million OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Calais (Calais Digital Assets), a Singapore-headquartered multi-strategy quantitative investment fund, has become the first institutional client to deploy UBS uMINT as off-exchange settlement (OES) collateral in active trading operations — marking a significant milestone in the real-world adoption of institutional-grade tokenised assets. The transaction was executed across an integrated infrastructure layer comprising Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and a licensed virtual asset platform operator across multiple jurisdictions; ByCustody, Bybit’s institutional custody arm; and DigiFT, authorised distributor of the UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund (“uMINT”), the first tokenized…
It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of writing the article I’m supposed to be working on, I am writing about how to get the AI pop-ups off of your Google Docs screen, since it took me some time to figure out. You’re welcome. What is this monstrosity? Why won’t it just go away?Image Credits:Screenshot…
Coinbase prepares to delve deeper into tokenized real-world assets, with Brian Armstrong pointing to offshore deployment of 1:1 backed tokenized stocks and equity-linked products for markets outside the US. TL;DR Coinbase targets markets outside the US with tokenized stocks. The reported model is based on a 1:1 backing rather than just a synthetic price exposure. Another regulatory issue remains regarding U.S. retail availability. Brian Armstrong talks about Coinbase tokenization… — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) June 16, 2026 Coinbase moves further into RWA Tokenized stocks have become one of the most obvious battlegrounds in real-world asset markets. The idea is very simple.…
Key TakeawaysKalshi’s perpetual futures cleared $5.5 billion in two weeks, up from $1 billion in week one.The CFTC approved Kalshi’s BTCPERP contract on May 29, 2026, opening US perpetuals to regulated venues.Kalshi lists 11 crypto perp contracts and is in talks with regulators to expand into other assets. From $1 Billion to $5.5 Billion The growth has been rapid, and as per Bloomberg data, Kalshi’s perpetual futures have already racked up more than $5.5 billion in volume within their first two weeks on the platform. That follows an opening sprint in which the contracts blew past $1 billion in notional…
London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026, Chainwire Landmark transaction brings real operating company equity to Solana-based tokenised capital formation First Block deploys next-generation digital securities architecture for real- world operating business Onpharma’s medical device technology for dentistry brings recurring revenue, high gross margins and a significant market opportunity to a tokenised capital raise This offering is available for investment at sto.onpharma.com First Block, Inc., a digital securities and tokenisation infrastructure company, together with Onpharma Company (Delaware) and UK-based Crito Capital LLP, today announce the launch of what is believed to be the first Solana-based Security Token Offering (“STO”) for an established U.S.…
Alvin Lang Jun 16, 2026 16:58 NVIDIA’s NVFP4 enables faster, cheaper transformer training with low-precision techniques. Learn about the latest benchmarks and implications for AI modeling. NVIDIA has outlined methods to optimize transformer-based AI models using low-precision training, leveraging its NVFP4 format to cut costs and boost speed on GPUs like the Hopper and Blackwell series. As transformer models grow increasingly complex, these advancements aim to reduce training times while maintaining model accuracy, a critical factor in the AI arms race. Low-precision training, including FP8 and NVFP4 formats, accelerates matrix multiplications (GEMMs), which dominate transformer workloads. For example, training a…