The biggest blockchain upgrades still to come in 2026

From Ethereum’s Glamsterdam and Solana’s Alpenglow, to proposed post quantum security changes for Bitcoin, 2026’s key crypto ...
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Venice AI Valued at $1 Billion as Erik Voorhees Makes the Case for Private ChatGPT Rivals

Venice reached a $1 billion valuation as founder Erik Voorhees argued AI companies should protect users' conversations.
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LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

Chinese tech company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, confirming the open-license, 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model is the same system that sp ...

Robinhood Launches Its Own Blockchain, New Stock Tokens And DeFi Products

The brokerage app is pushing deeper into tokenized finance, AI trading and crypto derivatives as it tries to capture the next ...
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Robinhood rolls out public blockchain as it expands deeper into crypto

Robinhood launched the public mainnet for its Layer 2 blockchain, Robinhood Chain, bringing tokenized stock trading live in more than 120 countries and introducing Robinhood Earn, a decentralized ...