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52 source posts analyzed· 2026-07-18T04:22:54+00:00Trending AI on Base in the last 7D What project are you betting big on?
AI visual analysis: A blue-themed infographic titled "TRENDING AI ON BASE LAST 7D" displays 24 AI project tokens as square icons in a grid format, including tickers such as $VIRTUAL, $VVV, $TIBBIR, $BNKR, $GITLAWB, $OS, $Surplus, $WACH, $REI, $INSTACLAW, $ETHY, $MYRAD, $GAME, $SCL, $clawAI, $PRXVT, $aeon, $REPPO, $MOLT, $LBM, $FACY, $SAIRI, $ODAI, and $WIRE, with an update date of July 18th, 2026, credited to @AIOnBase_. The image serves as a visual companion to the post's question, showcasing the specific AI projects on the Base blockchain that users might consider betting on based on the week's trending activity.
· 2026-07-18T03:05:06+00:00Waiting room for the next bullrun. Seats are free now. They won't be later. $AI
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· 2026-07-18T10:15:49.022718+00:00Alphabet Earnings: Can AI Capex Keep Cloud Growth Ahead? Alphabet’s spending on AI hardware has gone vertical, and the question hanging over this earnings print is simple: can that pace keep Google Cloud’s growth in front, or will margins crack fir
· 2026-07-18T12:33:58+00:00Something happened yesterday that made me change how I view AI. So I made one of my Lazy Lions the face of my openclaw bot. I've turned him into quite the builder. Yesterday, my bot knew he was going to run out of credits and be then out of service, so he went and purchased
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· 2026-07-18T08:45:48.641104+00:00Bitcoin’s Coinbase Premium Has Been Negative for 60 Days – Why It Matters The primary cryptocurrency has traded at a varying but consistent discount on Coinbase compared to Binance for roughly two months, highlighting a lack of US spot demand. On one side, this is
· 2026-07-18T02:05:45.059333+00:00Ethereum at Amazon/Nvidia-Like Inflection Point, Tom Lee Forecasts $12,000 ETH Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies (the world’s largest corporate holder of Ethereum), is strongly pushing an “ETH 2.0 thesis.” In it, he says Ethereum (ETH) is at an inflect
· 2026-07-18T20:55:51.442611+00:00Bitcoin Japan Shares Slide After Dilutive EVO Fund… Why Is Bitcoin Japan Raising Capital Now? Bitcoin Japan has approved a convertible bond and warrant financing package with Cayman Islands-based EVO Fund that could raise an estimated 9.66 bil
· 2026-07-18T20:55:51.442603+00:00Kimi K3: How a Chinese open-source AI model is reigniting the US-China tech debate BitcoinWorld Kimi K3: How a Chinese open-source AI model is reigniting the US-China tech debate Chinese AI company Moonshot AI released its latest open-source model, Kimi K3, this week, trigg
· 2026-07-18T09:15:48.676703+00:00Meta Eyes $10B Anthropic Deal To Launch New Cloud Business Meta is considering a data center agreement with Anthropic worth up to $10 billion over two years, potentially creating a new cloud business. Key Points: Talks remain preliminary. The propose
· 2026-07-18T11:25:45.872274+00:00Ozak AI Presale Wave 3 Ends Today: OZ Funding Still At 99.29% Ozak AI Presale Wave 3 Ends Today: One More Left Before Event Closes $OZ token presale wave 3 wraps up today, and only one more wave stands between buyers and the OZ TGE date as per the team’
· 2026-07-18T06:15:50.269751+00:00Bank of America Names Digital Assets Platform Chief Traders woke up to a quiet memo that says a lot. Bank of America just handed the keys to its digital assets platform to Sonali Theisen — a markets veteran already running Global FICC e‑tradin
· 2026-07-18T02:55:05.829177+00:00Warren Seeks 2026 Reports on Trump Crypto Earnings After $1.4B Disclosure Senator Elizabeth Warren has urged President Donald Trump to provide updated information about his cryptocurrency earnings, arguing that the timing matters as the US Senate weighs a major cry
· 2026-07-18T00:55:24.263617+00:00Galaxy Secures 15-Year Naming Rights for Texas Tech Stadium Galaxy Digital has secured a 15-year naming rights deal with Texas Tech, renaming the university’s football stadium “Galaxy Stadium” starting with the 2026 season. The announcement also posit
· 2026-07-18T13:45:49.969449+00:00Bitcoin recovers to $63,972 after Chinese AI breakthrough unsettles markets Bitcoin rebounded to nearly $64,000 on Saturday, regaining ground after a challenging week that saw losses triggered by a major advance in Chinese artificial intelligence and fading hopes for
· 2026-07-18T13:45:49.969429+00:00What Is YeBlock? Latest Update: App Is Now Live The project describes itself with a simple analogy: it aims to do for AI infrastructure what Airbnb and Uber do for idle rooms and cars. It aggregates the world's idle GPUs, disks, and domain
· 2026-07-18T09:15:48.676721+00:00ASML Raises Outlook as AI Chip Capacity Stays Tight ASML just told the market something simple and a little uncomfortable: demand for cutting-edge chipmaking tools is still outpacing what the industry can deliver. AI buildouts aren’t slowing d
· 2026-07-18T06:05:47.766932+00:00Ozak AI Price Prediction: OZ $0.014 and EON Live: $OZ Listing Today? What does it actually mean when a platform goes fully live while its own token still hasn't traded anywhere? That's a genuinely different situation than a project promising future features, a
· 2026-07-18T19:45:53.671115+00:00Chief Market Strategist Reveals Two Predictions in Favor of a Major Bitcoin Bull Run Wellington-Altus Chief Market Strategist James E. Thorne argued that the main issue facing Bitcoin is not volatility, but its “absolute scarcity” characteristic, which investors have not yet
· 2026-07-18T15:55:54.305794+00:00Best Crypto Presale Projects: Top New Tokens to Watch Before Listing How to Find the Best Crypto Presale Opportunities in 2026 Every bull run has a familiar story. Someone bought a coin early, before it hit any exchange, through what's known as a token launch
· 2026-07-18T13:45:49.969444+00:00Bitcoin Bounces Back as Chinese AI Innovation Reshapes Market Dynamics You can also read this news on BH NEWS: Bitcoin Bounces Back as Chinese AI Innovation Reshapes Market Dynamics Bitcoin‘s price rebounded sharply, hitting nearly $64,000 over the weekend after
· 2026-07-18T07:15:48.328532+00:00Ripple’s Digital Asset Under the Microscope After AI Insights You can also read this news on BH NEWS: Ripple’s Digital Asset Under the Microscope After AI Insights A recent disclosure has ignited discussions within the XRP community, spotlighting the po
· 2026-07-18T04:55:58.441848+00:00Bank of America Expands AI Leadership Team Bank of America has named new AI leaders. The move aims to speed up AI adoption across its global markets division. The bank continues to expand its use of artificial intelligence. Bank of Am
· 2026-07-18T01:55:01.273230+00:00Bolivia Weighs USDT as Crypto Mining’s AI Shift Draws Scrutiny Stablecoins are increasingly moving beyond the “faster transfer” narrative and into more basic functions: helping people and businesses access dollars when local currency conditions are unsta
· 2026-07-18T14:15:50.355862+00:00Astarter Joins Trikon to Build AI Agent Infrastructure on BNB Chain Astarter, a renowned Web3 infrastructure entity for AI agents, has partnered with Trikon, an AI-based Web3 operating system. The partnership endeavors to enhance the infrastructure backing in
· 2026-07-18T07:05:54.491240+00:00DTCC AI response on XRP collateral sparks debate in crypto community A screenshot shared by crypto commentator Pumpius stirred the XRP investor community after it appeared to show the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Learning Center addressing th
· 2026-07-18T03:15:47.714759+00:00Bank of America Appoints Head of Digital Assets and AI to Advance Crypto Strategy Bank of America has appointed a Head of Digital Assets and AI, creating a single leadership role that pairs oversight of digital assets with artificial intelligence as the bank advances its c
· 2026-07-18T20:35:23.890400+00:00We Asked Grok and DeepSeek AI to Predict the Price of XRP and Ethereum By the End of September Crypto markets never sleep, and neither do the AI models trying to predict them. With XRP trading near key support levels and Ethereum attempting to recover from a historic losing streak, inv
· 2026-07-18T18:24:57.604916+00:00Marvell MRVL Stock: $385 Bull Case vs $110 Bear Case Most Marvell Technology (MRVL) coverage frames the debate as a question about AI demand. The analyst distribution says the real disagreement is about something else entirely. At $188.68 as of
· 2026-07-18T14:35:50.202618+00:00Changpeng Zhao says Bitcoin offers stronger inflation hedge than AI equities Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, sparked discussion in the cryptocurrency community this week after making a pointed statement on X. Posting to his 2.5 million followers
· 2026-07-18T12:25:35.668165+00:00The coal-powered Asian AI engine driving Wall Street’s record run For a while, stock trading in Asia appeared to be unstoppable and has grown to be one of the largest sources of income for American banks. Then, practically overnight, the atmosphere was alte
· 2026-07-18T12:00:49.522160+00:00Praxis: The Decentralized Mesh Powering the AI Agent Economy The AI landscape is a walled garden. Proprietary models, siloed data, and centralized servers choke innovation. We need a new infrastructure. Enter Praxis. Praxis is not just another protocol
· 2026-07-18T09:35:51.760757+00:00Hyperliquid’s Jeff Yan warns crypto is losing its brightest minds to AI Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan has warned that crypto’s failure to attract enough top entrepreneurs has become one of the industry’s biggest obstacles as young talent moves toward artificial
· 2026-07-18T23:35:08.217403+00:00David Sacks Warns: Will Kimi K3 End American AI Hegemony? Chinese AI Kimi K3 has just shattered American records, proving that Beijing is surpassing Washington. David Sacks, a divisive figure in tech, sounds the alarm… What if the United States were
· 2026-07-18T20:05:54.732728+00:00Unicity Introduces Unicity AOS to Build Safer and More Trustworthy AI Agents Unicity, a system’s ability that ensures and guarantees spending of digital assets, is going to make Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents more active and trustworthy for the successful executi
· 2026-07-18T16:55:55.770472+00:00David Sacks warns on US AI lead as China's Kimi K3 tops coding arena Kimi-K3 has claimed top spot on a closely watched coding leaderboard. Kimi-K3 is a Chinese-built AI model, and this has prompted David Sacks, President Trump’s former AI czar, to believe that
· 2026-07-18T16:15:54.873330+00:00Manadia and Wager Predict Unite to Transform Decentralized Forecasting Manadia, a decentralized Web3 infrastructure network built to coordinate data, has announced its strategic collaboration with Wager Predict, a non-custodial decentralized prediction protocol
· 2026-07-18T16:15:54.873326+00:00S&P 500 Earnings vs Revenue: What Margin Expansion Hides Earnings are sprinting. Revenues are jogging. That spread is the story of this market, and it is not just a rounding error. It is telling you something about what is powering the rally and wh
· 2026-07-18T15:05:54.712768+00:00Chamath Palihapitiya asks who's really cashing in on the AI boom? Chamath Palihapitiya is asking if the money being poured into artificial intelligence is paying off for anyone beyond the small group of companies already collecting it. The Social Capital fo
· 2026-07-18T14:35:50.202613+00:00Cheaper Chinese AI models overtake US rivals in developer usage OpenRouter, the aggregation platform that routes developers’ API calls across dozens of AI systems, reports that open-weight models built by Chinese labs now run more than three times the wee
· 2026-07-18T14:25:47.837697+00:00Global Premiere: AI Future Forum 2026 in Dubai! On December 1–2, 2026, in Dubai, alongside Blockchain Life 2026 — one of the world’s largest events for Web3, crypto, mining, and AI — the all-newAI Future Forum takes the stage. Expect visio
· 2026-07-18T12:45:59.109815+00:00Bitcoin News July 18: BTC Recovers Toward $64K as ETF Inflows Return In the latest Bitcoin news, BTC traded at $63,957 at the time of writing. The price moved between $62,489 and $64,332 during the session. Bitcoin news today centers on two things: a fresh AI
· 2026-07-18T12:35:46.058280+00:00Bitcoin (BTC) Outperforms AI as Inflation Safeguard, Says Former Binance CEO CZ Key Takeaways Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao argued on X that Bitcoin offers inflation protection unlike artificial intelligence The cryptocurrency’s capped supply of 21 million coins cont
· 2026-07-18T12:35:46.058278+00:00Bitcoin (BTC) Recovers After Chinese AI Breakthrough Disrupts Markets Key Takeaways BTC recovered to approximately $63,972 on Saturday following mid-week losses Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based company, unveiled Kimi K3, surpassing leading models from OpenAI and An
· 2026-07-18T12:05:49.522146+00:00Bitcoin, XRP and Altcoins Could Rip on Day One of CLARITY, Expert Reveals Why The crypto industry has spent years debating whether the CLARITY Act will pass. Colin McCune, Head of Government Affairs at Andreessen Horowitz, wants to shift the conversation to a different
· 2026-07-18T11:15:54.755522+00:00House Crypto Leader Says CLARITY Act Is Within Reach Next Week — XRP Bulls Are Watching Bryan Steil Acknowledges CLARITY Act Could Pass Next Week, Setting the Stage for XRP's Two-Phase Rally The long-awaited CLARITY Act could finally cross the finish line next week, according to
· 2026-07-18T11:15:54.755498+00:00AI’s IPO boom is creating venture capital’s biggest winners Venture capital’s biggest winners are changing the rules of the exit game, and 2026’s IPO boom is allowing them to cash in. US IPOs have reportedly already raised more than $141.2 billion thi
· 2026-07-18T10:35:49.295608+00:00Coach JV urges XRP investors to ignore online speculation and focus on long-term strategy Finance educator Coach JV has cautioned XRP investors against letting social media debates and speculative narratives guide their investment decisions. In a recent video shared on X, Coach JV
· 2026-07-18T10:35:49.295606+00:00ILITY Raises $1M in Institutional Funding With Archer Capital, TBV ILITY, a Layer-1 blockchain project, has completed a $1 million institutional funding round with participation from Archer Capital and TBV, according to the project's announcement. The raise
· 2026-07-18T10:25:49.022704+00:00Chip Stocks Enter Bear Market After Moonshot Ai Unveils Kimi K3 Model The value of global semiconductor stocks plummeted after the release of the Kimi K3 AI model by Moonshot AI, driving the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index into bear territory. As per Coin Bure
· 2026-07-18T10:05:51.074478+00:00NVDA Stock Falls 1.78% Despite NVIDIA’s Reported $196M Revolut Stake NVIDIA’s latest fintech exposure drew attention as NVDA's stock price dipped, even after reports linked its venture arm to a $196M Revolut stake. NVIDIA VC Arm Reportedly Takes Revolut Stake
· 2026-07-18T06:55:24.456990+00:00DeepSnitch AI Price Prediction: $76 Volume, Dead Coin or DSNT Listing? What does "dead coin" actually mean, technically, and does $76.23 of real recorded trading actually qualify? That distinction matters more than it sounds, because a token with zero volume and
· 2026-07-18T02:25:53.272465+00:00Etched books $1 billion in orders, taking aim at Nvidia on AI inference Etched, which is a four-year-old chip startup, claims to have received more than $1 billion worth of orders of hardware that is basically designed to run AI models after they have already bee