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Recent shipping, raises, partnerships, and milestones from across the network.
Trustee integrates Privy wallet infrastructure for consumer crypto-finance
Trustee, which bridges digital assets and everyday finance via wallets and payments, added Privy as its embedded wallet layer for user-facing products.
Privy powers self-custodial wallet infrastructure behind Robinhood Earn
Robinhood Earn (7% APY on USDG via Morpho) uses Privy for embedded self-custody; Robinhood Chain surpassed $80M deposited in its first two weeks.
Privy case study: Unifold uses Privy for business treasury payouts and campaign rewards
Unifold distributed 50 USDC weekly to World Cup winners via Privy-powered treasury workflows, illustrating wallet infrastructure use beyond consumer wallets.
TechRadar names Brave Leo one of the most privacy-focused AI assistants available
The review highlights Leo's no-logging architecture, multi-model flexibility (Llama, Claude, DeepSeek), Skills shortcuts, and May 2026 agentic browsing early access as key differentiators.
Brave unveils BAT Roadmap 4.0 with BravePay, Rewards Card, and AI creator payments
The roadmap introduces a stablecoin payment layer, a physical/virtual Brave Rewards Card, x402/MPP agentic payment support, and a Creator Contribution Protocol for AI-driven micro-royalties to content creators.
Science to present 36-month PRIMA clinical data at EURETINA Congress in Vienna
New long-term results for the subretinal BCI implant will be shared for the first time at the Oct 1–4 retina congress, in the Late-Breaking News session.
Wikimania 2026 opens in Paris, coinciding with Wikipedia's 25th anniversary
The five-day conference (July 21–25) features sessions on AI's impact on free knowledge, a GRDC grantmaking strategy workshop, and global community gatherings across 160+ countries.
Revise Tone editing feature rolls out to all users on four Wikipedias
The A/B test (ended Jul 9) showed newcomer task-completion up 38.7% with no drop in edit quality; expansion to more language editions is planned.
UK regulator rules Wikipedia not Category 1 under Online Safety Act, places it on watch…
Ofcom's decision gives short-term relief but the Foundation warns future re-categorisation remains an "existential threat" to volunteer privacy.
Grayscale files S-1 with SEC to launch spot Worldcoin ETF on Nasdaq
The trust (ticker: GWLD) will track WLD passively via the CoinDesk Worldcoin Benchmark Rate, with BitGo as custodian and BNY Mellon as transfer agent; SEC approval still required.
WLD daily token unlock rate to drop 43% on July 24
Community grant tokens take a 50% cut (3.2M → 1.6M/day); investor/team allocations drop 32% (1.9M → 1.3M/day), per immutable on-chain contracts set at launch.
Worldcoin announces 43% cut in daily WLD token emissions starting July 24
Pre-programmed tokenomics will reduce daily unlocks from ~5.1M to ~2.9M WLD, lowering annual supply by ~803M tokens — ending the project's heaviest three-year release period.
NEAR Confidential Intents declared generally available for all builders
Any team on NEAR Intents can now offer private cross-chain execution — hiding swap origin, route, and amounts — without standing up separate privacy infrastructure, using a single API parameter.
NEAR Protocol launches upgrade 2.13 with quantum-safe signing and dynamic resharding
NEAR becomes one of the first L1s with a NIST-approved post-quantum signature scheme (ML-DSA-65/FIPS-204) live on mainnet; dynamic resharding lets shards split automatically as demand grows, supporting 1M+ TPS benchmarks.
Interactive Brokers lists NEAR token via Zerohash and Paxos
Eligible IBKR clients can now trade NEAR alongside traditional assets; the brokerage simultaneously enabled two-way USDC, PYUSD, and RLUSD stablecoin deposits and withdrawals.
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Protocol Labs’ vision for the future is built on four core focus areas that aim to harness humanity’s potential for good, navigate potential pitfalls, and ensure a future where technology empowers humanity.
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