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Did Claude Fable 5 get dumber? Two benchmarks, two wildly different conclusions—and one routing layer that explains the whole mess. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story

DeFi lending protocol Edel disclosed a $403,000 exploit that hit the layer where tokenized stocks are trying to become DeFi collateral. Edel said no depositor would bear losses, and the team would absorb the bad debt, restore affected balances one-to-one, and rebuild the protocol’s oracle architecture for a version two release. The attack manipulated the…

Ives said the new firm will seek to build what he described as a “modern merchant bank.” Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story

A Michigan judge granted a restraining order preventing the prediction market from offering sports-related wagers for the next 14 days. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story

Bitcoin’s break below the $60,000 area has pushed digital asset markets into a more defensive phase, ending months of narrow trading and exposing a market structure that traders say could amplify the next major move. CryptoSlate’s data show the largest cryptocurrency had been moving sideways since February, when it first tested the $60,000 area. That long…

Adding SpaceX this quickly would make the Elon Musk company one of the first beneficiaries of Nasdaq’s recently adopted fast-track inclusion framework. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story

Emerging markets drive most real-world stablecoin usage, yet founder concentration and venture funding remain U.S.- and Europe-centric. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story

Stablecoin flows have crossed from crypto liquidity into the market map central banks use to track dollar funding. The Bank for International Settlements, in its June 23 Annual Economic Report chapter on innovation beyond stablecoins, argued that private dollar tokens still fall short of the core tests of money. The same official-sector push now sits alongside a working paper…

The stock’s volatile run appeared largely disconnected from company fundamentals and instead reflected a burst of social media enthusiasm. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story

A leaker found new strings inside Claude Code that hint at weekly Fable 5 usage built into subscription plans, not sold separately as before. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story