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The AI bubble in late 2026: how big, and what to watch
Hyperscaler capex is heading for $725 billion, half the S&P 500 is AI-linked, and the funding is shifting from cash to debt. What actually decides how this ends.
Public Wi-Fi and Your Crypto Portfolio: The Threat Model Investors Still Underestimate
KeepSolid founder and CEO Vasyl Ivanov breaks down how public Wi-Fi exposes crypto wallets to passive observation, man-in-the-middle attacks, evil twin networks, and captive portal manipulation, and lays out a practical op-sec playbook.
Crypto in Kazakhstan: the laws, the taxes, and what's happening now
Kazakhstan went from an accidental mining boom and a grey zone to two regulators, a profit tax, and its own sovereign crypto reserve. Here's the full breakdown of laws, taxes, companies, and investment climate.
What's new on Intokened: recent stories, live tools, regulation map
A guided tour of Intokened right now: recent coverage across bitcoin, AI, and markets, the site's live market tools, and the country-by-country crypto regulation map, including a look at Kazakhstan's rules.
What Intokened readers are reading right now
Five of the most-viewed stories on Intokened right now, ranked by real reader traffic, plus where to check any country's current crypto legal status.
Our indicators, and what they measure
A plain-language guide to every indicator and tool on Intokened: which ones we calculate ourselves, which ones we source and explain, and where to find each one.
The CLARITY Act's September Gamble: What's Left to Fix Before Crypto's Big Vote
The Senate is expected to vote September 15 on whether to begin debating the CLARITY Act. Ethics rules, stablecoin rewards, and illicit finance remain unresolved.
$20 Billion in Investment, Institutional Players, and AI: The New Reality for Web3 Startups
Generis Web3 GTM Agency published The State of Web3 Startups 2026: $20 billion in venture investment, rising institutional adoption under MiCA, and how AI is changing how B2B buyers find vendors.
Bitcoin jumped 15% in three days. Here's the whole chain of events
In three days, Bitcoin ran from $66,000 to more than $75,000. A White House meeting, a new SEC rule, a Treasury bond decision, and the largest short squeeze in crypto history all landed in the same 72 hours, and each one explains a different part of the move.
Solana: how a project that keeps drawing attention actually works
A complete look at Solana: who built it and when, how Proof of History actually works, which real companies — Visa, Shopify, PayPal, Stripe — use its rails, what real people have said about it, and what the SOL token is for.
The Winklevoss Twins: Rowers, Zuckerberg's Rivals, Bitcoin Billionaires
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss ended up at the center of two of the last twenty years' biggest tech stories — the birth of Facebook and the birth of the bitcoin industry. We trace their path from suing Mark Zuckerberg to taking their own exchange, Gemini, public on Nasdaq.
Why 11 Crypto Card issuers vanished and the math that decides who's next
At least 11 crypto card issuers have effectively exited the market over the past year. Generis research maps three systemic failure modes — and explains why a card-only model doesn't add up without a wider ecosystem around it.
Mark Zuckerberg: the Harvard student who now spends $140 billion a year on AI
How a Harvard student built the largest social network in history, survived the Winklevoss lawsuit and a failed crypto project called Libra, and turned Meta into one of Silicon Valley's biggest AI bets — with a $140 billion-a-year AI budget.
Jensen Huang: How a Kid From a Denny's Diner Built a Giant
For thirty years, Jensen Huang told employees Nvidia was "thirty days from going out of business" — now he runs a $4.7 trillion company. The founder's story, from a Denny's diner to his first-ever X post and $1 trillion in Blackwell and Rubin chip orders.
Sam Altman: The Billionaire who doesn't own a single share of OpenAI
Sam Altman doesn't own a single share of OpenAI, yet became a billionaire in its orbit. The story of a man who went from a teenager in St. Louis to a figure promising the world superintelligence — with five days of being fired in 2023, Worldcoin, and a very public personal life.