Decrypt - 2026-07-22 ​
4 items collected.
1. Coinbase Wants to Be Canada's One-Stop Shop for Stocks, Crypto and Prediction Markets ​
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/22/2026, 9:13:04 PM
Categories: , Business
The company's "Everything Exchange" is heading north. No launch date set yet, but the Coinbase Canada CEO says phase two for the company is in motion.
2. Kraken Parent Company Makes Moves to Offer xStocks From Global Markets ​
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/22/2026, 8:07:34 PM
Categories: Business
Payward and fintech GTN are teaming up to bring xStocks—blockchain-based copies of real company shares—to Hong Kong, the UK, Europe, and South Korea.
3. Alibaba's New Qwen Image 3 AI Wants to Be Useful, Not Just Pretty ​
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/22/2026, 7:46:59 PM
Categories: Artificial Intelligence
Qwen Image 3.0 generates dense newspapers and infographic grids in one shot and renders text down to 10 pixels. The catch: no benchmarks, no open weights.
4. Franklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case' ​
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/22/2026, 7:04:05 PM
Categories: , , Artificial Intelligence
The asset manager argues that AI software capable of paying for things autonomously will need blockchain rails to work—and that most investors aren't positioned for it.