The change is effective September 9, 2026 and runs through November 4, 2026, with more detail on future buyback sizes due at the next Quarterly Refunding on November 4. Read more:

The Coldcard incident resulted in Long-Term Holder supply declining by ~233k BTC, a 1.38% fall from its recent all-time high. With such a meaningful event, an important question is whether the emergency migration of coins has skewed the onchain metrics we use to analyse Bitcoin. In our latest newsletter piece, @_Checkmatey_ documents the size and scale of the change across network activity and onchain supply structure, and assesses how it influences several key onchain metrics →

The government of the Republic of Nauru recently announced on social media that the country's name has been officially changed from "Nauru" to "Naoero." The United Nations has received the relevant notification from Nauru and has made the change on its official website, covering languages such as English and French, while the country's Chinese name "瑙鲁" (Nǎolǔ) remains unchanged.

The battle in AI is shaping up to be a battle for context. Everything in AI is about making sure that agents are effective as possible. That effectiveness comes down to whether the agent has the right domain expertise, access to the right context and tools to work with, and are involved in workflow in a way that users can easily interact with, review its work, and incorporate it into the rest of the process. As a consequence, the platforms that are able to capture and leverage the best and most context within their agents —and be able to pick the right models for the task- will be the place where agents do their best work. You can just look at coding agents, legal agents, or support agents as examples of what this looks like at scale. This is why the applied AI layer has a lot more value than just being an LLM wrapper. The ability to organize the critical knowledge for the work being done, and maintain this knowledge in a governed way where only the right people and agents have access, and the ability to improve the context for agents more and more over time, is critical. Over time, this layer will be able to route work between a variety of models, leveraging frontier intelligence for planning and orchestration and review, and a mix of lower cost models (open or closed) for the large volume of work between these tasks. The applied layer is also in a good position to train and develop its own models as well that are purpose built for their domains. Never good to bet against the bitter lesson, but equally taking a near frontier base model and post training it for just one type of domain work can -in many cases- lower costs or deliver better performance for certain tasks. Finally, this applied layer is also where most of the change management of the workflow will need to occur. This is why FDEs are so important at the applied layer, because this is the point where the customer needs to have specific business problem solved by a particular vendor. Whichever companies can solve that completely in an end-to-end fashion will have the greatest moats. As each day goes on, we’re learning more about what the likely long term market dynamics will look like in AI.

The MDP’s expectation was to bring a system that separates powers and makes the government accountable. The 2008 Constitution failed to deliver that outcome. An elected President can easily bribe and influence the electorate to secure a super-majority in Parliament. That allows the President to manipulate the judiciary and independent institutions. We must pursue a ‘reset’ again. The MDP will deliver the change that the people deserve.

The same banks that once doubted Bitcoin are now loading up on it. JPMorgan Chase increased its holdings in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust to 8.3 million shares in Q1 2026. That’s roughly a 175% increase. A few years ago, most major banks treated Bitcoin like a speculative experiment. Today, they are increasing exposure through regulated ETFs. Here’s how big the change really is: ▫️ Then: “Bitcoin is too risky.” Now: One of the world’s biggest banks is aggressively increasing its Bitcoin ETF exposure. ▫️ Then: Institutions stayed away from crypto publicly. Now: They are quietly accumulating through regulated products like IBIT. ▫️ Then: Spot Bitcoin ETFs were just a concept. Now: IBIT has become one of the main institutional gateways into Bitcoin exposure. ▫️ Then: Retail investors drove the Bitcoin narrative. Now: Traditional finance giants are becoming major participants in the market. This is what real adoption looks like. Not hype cycles, but steady, silent accumulation from the biggest financial players in the world. Retail reacts to price, while institutions position for the long term.

The PlayStation Store Deals tab has disappeared from PS5 consoles, the mobile app, and the website for the first time in many years. There are no major sales running right now and the direct link to the Deals page shows an error. Sony has not made any official statement about the change but you can still see any discounts on individual game pages.

With the Pasteur hard fork activated, BSC can fit roughly 2x more transactions into each block. The change is in the order: validators now sign off on the block first, then check the transactions right after. Learn more about the upgrade 👇