Cryptocurrencies

For five months, Bitcoin has been trading below the estimated cost of its production. According to a report by JPMorgan analysts, the mining economics of the leading cryptocurrency deteriorated significantly in 2026, and 20% of miners were unprofitable as of June, RBC Crypto writes. Experts estimate that the cost for miners to produce 1 BTC was $78…

Anthropic has updated its Project Fetch experiment. The Claude Opus 4.7 model completed tasks of setting up and controlling a robot dog 20 times faster than teams of human engineers. New Frontier Red Team blog: Phase 2 of Project Fetch, where we test how well Claude can program a robodog.Opus 4.7, on its own, was ~20x faster than last year's best human team…

Researchers from the physics faculty of Vilnius University have developed a theoretical model that uses light to pre-«program» atoms without the need for external magnetic fields. According to the authors' concept, light first «programs» the atoms, and then the pre-prepared atomic medium changes the shape and polarization of complex…

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has closed the case against Celsius. A federal court approved a settlement of the lawsuit that the agency filed against the company's founder Alex Mashinsky back in 2023. By the ruling of the Southern District of New York court, Mashinsky permanently lost the right to trade on markets under CFTC oversight and will no longer…

Activity on Pump.fun, the largest memecoin launch platform on the Solana network, has plunged by 80% over the past three months, journalists at The Block noted. Last week, the seven-day average share of graduated tokens on Pump.fun fell to 0.26%. The platform's revenue in June averages $800,000 per day. For…