Cryptocurrencies

On June 13, 2026 Kyiv hosted Incrypted Conference 2026 — the annual crypto conference organized by the team of the leading Ukrainian crypto media Incrypted. The event took place at the «Parkovy» Convention and Exhibition Center and gathered about 2,000 participants. This year the conference expanded its format: for the first time the event unfolded across two parallel stages — the Main Stage for key…

The corporate pension fund Nationwide Business Corporate Pension Fund from Japan will allocate about 1% of its assets to cryptocurrencies in the 2026 financial year, Nikkei writes. The entity serves about 1,200 small and medium-sized companies and manages 21.3 billion yen (~$130 million). The investments will be made through the portfolio of a large hedge fund that includes several crypto assets.

Turkmenistan is continuing its course toward digitalizing the economy and the financial sector, despite its status as one of the most closed countries in the world. The government has approved a digital economy development program for 2026-2028, is working on a national AI strategy and is expanding digital financial services. This was reported by local media. Recall that an important…

NVIDIA recently released Nemotron 3 Ultra — the largest open AI model in the Nemotron 3 lineup. The release took place on June 4, 2026: the model's weights, training data and the training methods themselves were made openly available under a free license. The model is designed for long-running autonomous agents and complex reasoning. Unlike closed flagships…

The British literary magazine Granta will stop publishing the stories of Commonwealth Short Story Prize winners after a dispute over the possible use of AI in one of the texts, The Guardian writes. Granta stated that it will no longer take part in «external publishing partnerships» where the magazine has no editorial control. The trigger was the selection of regional…