market-microstructure

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Quantitative Trading

The AI Momentum Unwind: Quant's Worst Month

Goldman's high-beta momentum basket has just logged its worst month on record even as the S&P 500 sets fresh highs. Inside the summer 2026 quant unwind, its causes, and its echoes of August 2007.

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FinTech

AI Agents Get a Wallet: Cloudflare and the New Money Rails

Cloudflare has issued AI agents a stablecoin wallet and a verifiable identity, completing a two-sided market for agentic commerce and pushing the x402 stablecoin settlement standard into mainstream infrastructure.

12 min read

Markets

The $35bn AI Margin Call That Shook Hedge Funds

How the collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund exposed the leverage and crowding beneath the 2026 AI rally — and why it matters for markets, quants and regulators.

12 min read