Middle East Conflict and Pressure on Chips Challenge Investors north The re-intensification of the Middle East war initially roiled the markets but as the session progressed, oil has pulled back and equities have stabilized. August WTI briefly traded above $75 and is now around $73.50, which is still nearly 3% higher. Most of the large Asia Pacific equity [...]
Week Ahead: US CPI, China's Q2 GDP, and Bank of Canada Meeting Featured north The US dollar was mixed last week. The combination of strong data and the central bank's hawkish hike lifted the New Zealand dollar to the top of the G10 currencies. The roughly 4.5% rally in Brent oil, the first weekly gain in five weeks, seemed to help the Norwegian krone came in a close [...]
The US Dollar Consolidates with a Softer Bias as Oil Steadies north With the fog of war still shrouding the near-term outlook, the US dollar is mostly consolidating with a softer bias against the G10 currencies. Outside of the New Zealand dollar that is still basking in yesterday's rate hike, and the Canadian dollar, which is slightly softer, the other G10 [...]
The triage is the product: running AI agents against Ethereum's protocol code north Notes from the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team on running coordinated AI agents against real protocol code, including how we organize the work, what holds up under scrutiny, and what client teams and security researchers can take from it. This post stands on its own; later posts [...]
Solana Changelog: July 9, 2026 north Agave, Firedancer, Superbank, Solana Go, and LiteSVM published new releases alongside validator, RPC, and tooling updates.