Pavel Durov has a big promise to keep before summer ends. Telegram\\\'s founder announced on Tuesday that the messaging app—think WhatsApp but larger, with over 1 billion monthly active users—will roll o

Google launched three new AI models today: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. That wasn\\\'t what most people expected. After unveiling Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O 2026 in May and

Google is building a chip designed for one job: running Gemini faster and cheaper. The chip, codenamed Frozen v2, was reported by The Information on Monday and gives Google a potential answer to a pr

It was a good day to own some crypto. Reports emerged late Monday that President Donald Trump agreed to the ethics provision that had been holding the Clarity Act hostage in the Senate—a major sticki

Jack Mallers has stepped down as CEO of Twenty One Capital, and investors didn\\\'t take it well. Shares of the Bitcoin treasury company—a publicly traded firm that holds Bitcoin on its balance sheet, l

Galaxy Digital on Tuesday launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative, pledging up to $5 million in developer grants, a research program, and a new advisory council to help harden the network agai

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors ju

Pakistan\\\'s top federal investigators have set up a dedicated unit to police crypto-linked crime, building out the enforcement side of a national drive to embrace digital assets. The Federal Investiga

Worldcoin\\\'s WLD token jumped after asset manager Grayscale filed to launch the first US exchange-traded fund tied to the biometric crypto project, moving to bring Sam Altman\\\'s eye-scanning venture a s

A cross-party group of UK lawmakers has launched a parliamentary inquiry into the banking problems dogging the country\\\'s crypto industry, probing why firms struggle to open accounts and why banks curb

South Korea\\\'s Bank of Korea ran a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, pilot for three months last year. Eighty-one thousand people opened wallets, but only 42% actually spent anything. The next p

Russia\\\'s State Duma, the lower house of its legislative body, takes its final two votes on the country\\\'s first comprehensive cryptocurrency law on Tuesday. The bill—titled \\\"On Digital Currency and Di

Cardano has hard forked, implementing the Van Rossem upgrade over the weekend and transitioning the network to protocol version 11. It’s not the first time Cardano has executed a hard fork—but it is

Bitcoin ETFs have posted back-to-back positive weeks for the first time since early May. The 13 U.S. spot Bitcoin funds pulled in $75.7 million in net inflows (money in exceeding money out) for the w

Ethereum treasury company Bitmine barely moved the needle on its ETH stack last week, adding just 7,430 ETH—about $14 million—as it steered capital toward buying back its own shares instead. This wee