Some community banks are suggesting stablecoins are driving deposit flight. The data says otherwise: BofA shows household deposits rising across income groups this year, and the FDIC reports domestic deposits grew for a seventh straight quarter. Community banks actually outperformed the industry, posting 5% deposit growth.
If the worry is the Clarity Act compromise itself, that’s backwards. Section 404 bars stablecoin issuers from paying anything that functions like interest, even disguised as rewards or points, and bans marketing stablecoins as deposits or FDIC-insured. It’s actually tougher than current law, not looser.
The real story behind closing community banks isn’t stablecoins. It’s consolidation: 2,000 community banks lost in a decade, only 62 new ones formed, and the buyers are super regional banks, not crypto companies.
The Banking Committee already built a nine-provision community bank package into the housing bill to help with deposit retention, on top of tightening stablecoin yield rules under Clarity.
Killing the Clarity Act won’t help community banks. It just protects the status quo they say is broken.
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Yes, the rumors are true: The more powerful Notebook experience is now 100% rolled out to ALL Pro users.
You might be asking... How exactly do I use it? Here are a few queries to try (ofc dependent on your sources).
Hot Tip: bookmark this post! Free users too 😉
For Learning:
"Create 5 quizzes of ascending difficulty focusing on a different topic from my sources"
"Turn my raw lecture notes into a formatted PDF study guide complete with a 5-question practice quiz."
"Add all of the URLs from this class syllabus as sources"
For Business:
"Calculate revenue growth across each product line and plot the trends"
"Read our marketing brief, search the web for competitors, and recommend how we should tune our messaging"
For Personal:
"I uploaded a bunch of receipts from our kitchen renovation, make a spreadsheet to track all the work and costs"
"Help me analyze this property purchase. Look up recent market performance in the neighborhood, predict trends, and make a spreadsheet to model all the data you find"
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Big news: Qwen3.8-Max by
@Alibaba_Qwen just landed at #
4# on the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard with a score of 1,668!
With 1,668 points, Qwen3.8-Max is trailing only Claude Opus 5 (Max) with 1,705 pts and Kimi K3 (Max) with 1,676 pts, on par with Claude Opus 5 (High) with 1669 pts.
It also ranks high across all domains:
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2# in Consumer Product
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3# in Brand & Marketing, Reference-based design, Gaming, and Content Creation Tools
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4# in Data & Analytics
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5# Simulations
Dig into the thread for more details and to see how it also performs on real-world tasks in the Text Arena.
Congrats to
@Alibaba_Qwen on this huge release!
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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-High by
@deepseek_ai is #
7# overall in the Frontend Code Arena with 1,586 pts!
It’s #
3# among open. In categories it’s #
4# in Consumer Product, #
6# in Reference-based Design, Data & Analytics, Gaming, and #
7# in Brand & Marketing.
This is an impressive improvement from DeepSeek-V4-Flash-High-Preview, a +154 pt jump. Even more impressive is the jump from DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Preview, a +121 point improvement.
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Watch the full recording of our Q2 2026 earnings call.
Prepared Remarks
00:00:00 - Welcome
00:01:20 - 843,775 BTC, 203,683 sats per share, $17B raised year to date, and Strategy’s position as the largest institutional holder of Bitcoin
00:03:27 - Q2 balance sheet: $49.7B of digital assets, $3.75B current USD reserve, lower debt, higher preferred equity, and strong stress-case coverage
00:08:57 - Bitcoin KPIs: 4.5% BTC Yield, 29,997 BTC Gain, and ~3.6x growth in Bitcoin per share since 2020
00:12:47 - Q2 execution: higher Bitcoin holdings, lower debt, larger USD reserves, stronger Bitcoin per share, and active capital management
00:15:03 - Strategy as a net buyer of Bitcoin and net issuer of Digital Credit: 48x more BTC bought than sold and 300x more Digital Credit issued than repurchased
00:18:47 - Returning $STRC to $99–$100 through USD reserves, Bitcoin monetization, repurchases, dividend management, and disciplined issuance
00:24:50 - Bitcoin liquidity: why Strategy’s bitcoin purchases and sales are not material to overall Bitcoin trading volume
00:33:03 - Bitcoin as Digital Capital: website metrics, the 200-week moving average, current headwinds, Bitcoin Dominance, banking adoption, and security coordination
00:44:08 - $STRC as flagship Digital Credit: liquidity, lower volatility, market depth, yield, investor base, path to par, and updated credit metrics
01:05:04 - Equity framework: hurdle rate, breakeven rate, floor rate, market skepticism, $MSTR outperformance, franchise advantages, and Strategy’s long-term ambition
Q&A
01:19:31 - Why Bitcoin-backed borrowing is not currently the preferred path to build USD reserves
01:23:11 - Why Strategy is consolidating around $STRC instead of creating more instruments or selling volatility
01:40:37 - Equitizing, repaying, or refinancing convertible debt
01:43:18 - Covered calls, cash-secured puts, Digital Credit, Bitcoin as money, and marketing products to the 99% outside Bitcoin
01:59:22 - USD reserve minimums and the path to $STRC trading at par
02:00:55 - Amplification, USD/BTC reserve mix, and countercyclical capital management
02:12:04 - Why Strategy does not intend to issue $STRC below par
02:20:34 - Lessons from 2022 and 2026, tokenized securities, Digital Money, and the June 26 dislocation
02:34:54 - Closing remarks
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