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IntroductionAutonomous Market Makers (AMMs) transformed decentralized finance (DeFi) by replacing traditional order books with smart contracts that automatically provide liquidity and execute trades. Platforms like Uniswap, Curve, Balancer, and many others proved that anyone can become a liquidity provider while enabling permissionless trading around the clock.However, the next generation of AMMs is poised to become far more intelligent than today’s liquidity pools. Rather than simply following fixed mathematical formulas, future AMMs will leverage artificial intelligence, real-time market data, programmable liquidity, and cross-chain infrastructure to optimize trading, reduce risks, and maximize capital efficiency.The evolution of AMMs may redefine how liquidity functions…

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SCRYPT, the Swiss-licensed institutional digital asset infrastructure provider, has integrated BENJI, the tokenised share class of Franklin Templeton‘s Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX), into its own treasury operations. The deployment went live on 25 June 2026 and gives SCRYPT continuous, on-chain access to a yield-bearing instrument issued by one of the world’s largest asset managers, which holds approximately $1.68trillion in assets under management. The company says the move makes it one of the first Swiss-regulated digital asset infrastructure providers to manage internal liquidity through a tokenised money market fund issued by a global asset manager. It did not…

F/m Investments’ Washington, D.C., office is just a short drive from the Federal Reserve’s headquarters. But under the central bank’s new leadership, CEO Alexander Morris has found the distance feeling far greater.Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh embarked on an overhaul of the central bank’s forward-looking communication since taking the post in May. That move sounded the alarm for market participants like Morris, whose investing theses rely in part on predicting what the Fed will do with interest rates.”We’ve made a pretty good business out of decoding Fedspeak,” said Morris, referring to the jargon-heavy communication preferred by central bank leaders. “And he…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed down -1.01%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down -0.77%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down -1.49%.  September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) fell -1.02%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) fell -1.51%. Stock indexes settled sharply lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 posting a 1-week low, the Dow Jones Industrials sliding to a 2.5-week low, and the Nasdaq 100 falling to a 5-week low.  The global selloff in chipmakers continued on Friday amid concerns that massive gains fueled by the buildout of artificial intelligence have run too far to justify…

When Cuba’s national grid collapses, as it did for the third time in 10 days on Tuesday, a collective groan spreads across its cities and people wonder, again, whether the island’s antiquated electricity system may soon become unrecoverable.The 777-mile Caribbean island of 9.5 million people has been sweltering under a six-month-long oil blockade imposed by the US, part of a pressure campaign to bring down its communist government. But the parlous state of Cuba’s infrastructure goes far further back.“The backbone of the system is still the big power plants,’ said Jorge Piñon, a senior energy researcher at the University of…

Customers enter a Taco Bell restaurant on July 14, 2026 in La Cañada Flintridge, California. Mario Tama | Getty ImagesThe cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to lettuce at some Taco Bell locations may not have a significant long-term impact on the chain and other restaurant companies, according to analysts. The outbreak has currently affected more than 1,600 people across five states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The infection resembles a serious stomach bug and often begins showing up two to three weeks after people become infected by the parasite, according to the CDC. No deaths have been reported.On…

Kazakhstan scraps FX rule for state-affiliated companies – Central Banking Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Requirement for proceeds to be sold domestically was implemented when Ukraine war led to depreciation Kazakhstan’s central bank has said that a rule requiring quasi-public sector companies to sell 50% of their foreign exchange proceeds on the domestic market has been scrapped as of this week.In a statement provided to Central Banking on July 15, a spokesperson for the National Bank of Kazakhstan says the requirement was introduced as a “temporary anti-crisis measure” to boost the availability of foreign currency during…

Google Gemini AI predicts a Solana price target that skips the usual talking points and goes straight to a number that made us pause.Over 96% of global on-chain equity volume runs through Solana right now. That is not a growing market share story; that is a market that has already been won.From $74, Gemini puts the December 2026 target at $180 to $220. Stablecoin liquidity is doing real work here too, with Circle adding $500M in USDC to the network in a single move.Source: Gemini AI Solana Price PredictionThe forward-looking piece is the Alpenglow upgrade, aimed at pushing throughput into…

Key PointsSocial Security beneficiaries are likely to get an above-average benefit boost in January 2027, according to recent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) projections. But it’ll likely be less than what you were hoping for, especially with the high inflation we’ve seen so far this year.A big part of this is the very unintuitive way the government calculates Social Security COLAs. It has cost seniors in the past, and it probably will again in 2027.Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a “Double Down” signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in…