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Polymarket bettors have wagered over $5.8 million across prediction markets asking which company will have the best AI model by end of June 2026. xAI and Anthropic lead early betting, with Google, DeepSeek, and OpenAI also attracting significant capital.

Polymarket bettors are placing over $4.3M in combined wagers on which company will have the best AI model by end of June 2026. xAI leads market interest with $995.6K in volume, followed by Anthropic ($773.5K) and DeepSeek ($470K). The 15 separate markets span major AI firms including Google, OpenAI, Alibaba, and others, signaling strong prediction market appetite for AI capability rankings in the near term.

Polymarket's TVL on Polygon fell 21.4% to $445.9M on May 1, even as the platform launched a wave of new AI prediction markets. Over $6.3M in volume flowed into markets betting on which AI company will have the best model by end of June 2026, with xAI, DeepSeek, Google, and Anthropic drawing the largest bets. The TVL decline may signal capital rotation into these trending markets rather than an exodus from the platform.

Ledger's CTO weighed in on Google's recent quantum algorithm announcement, warning that theoretical threats to Bitcoin$62,419.37 and Ethereum$1,686.33 encryption are now closer than previously expected. While the technology remains years away from operational capability, the development has reignited discussions about the long-term security of crypto wallets and blockchain signatures.

Solana$79.10 developers released the first high-throughput real-time BigQuery table for the Solana$79.10 blockchain today, enabling developers and analysts to query on-chain data at scale. The integration marks a significant infrastructure upgrade for Solana$79.10's ecosystem, complementing recent growth in DeFi activity and stablecoin liquidity on the network.

Zerion unveiled a working demo of a crypto AI agent wallet that uses x402 payment protocol to autonomously manage wallet reasoning, DeFi swaps, and LLM inference funding. The demo showcases practical implementation of AI-powered crypto agents, a key focus area for the x402 Foundation backed by Coinbase, AWS, Google, and others.

The x402 Foundation has transitioned to open, neutral, community-governed status, with major payments and tech firms including Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Google, and Amazon backing the shift. The move emphasizes decentralized governance over corporate control for the emerging agentic commerce protocol.

Polygon has joined the x402 foundation, a new initiative backed by Coinbase, AWS, Google, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa to build seamless global payment infrastructure. The foundation aims to enable frictionless money movement for agents, APIs, and applications, marking a major institutional push into blockchain-based payments.

Solana$79.10 Foundation has joined the x402 Foundation at the Linux Foundation, aligning with Amazon, Google, Mastercard, Stripe, Visa, and other tech and financial giants on open-source payment standards. The move signals Solana$79.10's push into institutional settlement infrastructure and interoperability with traditional finance players.

A prominent crypto voice criticized the Bitcoin$62,419.37 community's handling of quantum computing risk on March 31, calling out inconsistent rhetoric around Bitcoin$62,419.37's security model versus traditional banking. The debate reflects ongoing concerns about quantum threats to cryptographic security, following recent research from Google on the topic.

A crypto analyst cited Google's research to highlight that 6.7 million BTC sit in addresses vulnerable to quantum computing attacks, reviving concerns about long-term Bitcoin$62,419.37 security that Google flagged in a recent whitepaper.