AI × crypto convergence: compute networks, agent tokens, data marketplaces.

Cryptomat weekly wrap for Jul 18-25, 2026: pulse hits 89 extreme greed, Nvidia-SK's $500B AI deal reframes miners, MARA pivots, Strategy's BTC floor at -11.34%.

Franklin Templeton Digital Assets flagged agentic AI as crypto's killer use case Wednesday, sharpening a narrative bid under ETH as it grinds toward $2,000.

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis pitched a FINRA-style self-regulator for frontier AI with a 30-day review window, and decentralized crypto AI stacks are in…

ASML will ship 65 Low-NA EUV machines in 2026, CEO Christophe Fouquet said Wednesday, easing an AI chip supply squeeze that reaches into crypto miners.

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent yanked custom AI agent features on Monday as China's new emotional AI rules kicked in, reshaping the country's AI product stack.

SK Hynix targets a $28B Nasdaq listing to fund AI memory buildout, a step that could narrow Korea's equity discount and reshape global chip financing.

Changpeng Zhao said AI agents handling trading and payments on crypto rails are months away, not years, in remarks reported Saturday by CryptoPotato.

Anthropic rejected a Chinese request for access to its Mythos model on Wednesday, sharpening US-China AI tensions and lifting interest in decentralized AI…

Cryptomat daily brief: sentiment pulse at 93 extreme greed, ETH and SOL top CryptoBeast scorers, Iran's Hormuz blockade and Fed futures record set the macro…

Dongfang Suanxin unveiled 3D-stacked AI chips on Saturday designed to route around US export controls, a move with knock-on risk for AI-adjacent crypto tokens.

World Network released Agentkit on Wednesday, a toolkit that binds autonomous AI agents to a verified human owner via World ID for agentic commerce.

World rolled out AgentKit to all verified users on Tuesday, letting AI agents act under a human's proof-of-personhood credential as bot networks scale.

Corporations are cutting AI tool budgets, CryptoBriefing reported Tuesday, and the pullback shifts the demand case for decentralized compute plays.

Jeffrey Talpins added a Micron position as AI chip capex reshapes institutional books, with spillover into crypto compute plays like Render and Bittensor.

Virtuals co-founder Jansen Teng told CoinDesk on Thursday that AI agents are moving past chat into autonomous on-chain economic actors that earn and spend.
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