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  1. samsung is putting dollar stablecoins into 82 million galaxy phones @brian_armstrong ♥ 318 · read more

    usdc lands in samsung wallet for eligible us galaxy users in the last week of october, per @brian_armstrong. bastion runs it, coinbase prime custodies, solana and sui are the rails.

  2. crypto sold off because people think ai quietly broke encryption @0xl3th3 ♥ 1 · read more

    @0xl3th3's reasoning, now everywhere: openai published 722 solved math problems, none mentioned cryptography, and parts of the report look redacted. no evidence any of that is true.

  3. one researcher told crypto to calmly prepare for the worst and nobody stayed calm @remusofmars ♥ 16 · read more

    ethereum's justin drake asked people to start planning for "bunker mode" and the timeline moved money overnight. @0xcyp notes he said "calmly". @econoar: "justin is always overly dramatic, chill out".

  4. about a third of all bitcoin sits behind a key anyone can already see @n3ocortex ♥ 17 · read more

    @n3ocortex counts 6.26m btc, 31.2% of supply, at addresses whose public key is already on-chain — up from 24.8% in early 2021. all of it would have to move.

  5. you can now buy apple and nvidia shares as tokens on solana @CoinDesk ♥ 6 · read more

    securitize put 12 us stocks onchain — apple, nvidia, tesla, microsoft, meta among them — each backed one-for-one by real shares, with voting rights and dividends for eligible investors.

  6. serious cryptographers are openly saying we might lose public key crypto @oskarth · read more

    @oskarth and @nic_carter both amplified the same line out of a @kmad and @matthew_pines exchange, 235 retweets each before lunch. that sentence is doing the damage, not the price.

  7. starknet is reportedly thinking about leaving ethereum to become its own chain @odin_free · read more

    the stated reason is the quantum and ai threat, per @odin_free. @nextalphaa's reply: they bragged about the best tech, never found users, and "we're an l1" is the newest pivot.

  8. openai's big math result may be partly the model fooling itself @adamscochran ♥ 4 · read more

    @adamscochran says it doesn't mean the solution is wrong, but there are major hallucinations between the solution and the verification, which could invalidate it.

  9. one cryptographer who read the proofs says they're good but not scary good @socrates1024 · read more

    @socrates1024 calls the internal openai model that solved the set "better but not crazy better" — an unpopular take on a morning everyone priced in a leap.

  10. a mathematician already posted a shorter version of openai's proof @mattgould · read more

    @mattgould published a short proof of the quasi-riemann hypothesis, saying his goal was to substantially simplify what openai's model produced.

  1. grok's bot now has its own email address and can read your timeline @michaeloroberts · read more

    per @michaeloroberts the update adds a dedicated email address, opus inside grok, and search and monitoring on x. the replies are mostly people racing to claim handles.

  2. amazon is blocking shopping agents and founders smell an opening @DanielleMorrill · read more

    @DanielleMorrill: amazon banning agents is the first real chance since the company was founded for a startup to build an amazon competitor.

  3. oil jumped past $105 on reports the us could restart fighting in iran @MarioNawfal ♥ 32 · read more

    brent crossed $105 a barrel on reports trump could resume "major combat operations", per @MarioNawfal.

  4. stock futures fell and the bond selloff started up again @MKjrstad · read more

    oil jumping on the iran strike report dragged futures down, with the bond rout resuming right before a 30-year treasury auction — bad timing for government borrowing costs.

  5. iran says the talks are still on and it handed over its own plan @MarioNawfal ♥ 164 · read more

    foreign minister araghchi says tehran submitted a "7-day plan", got us feedback through mediators, and expects to respond within days, per @MarioNawfal.

  6. saudi arabia shot down two missiles headed for its capital @sentdefender ♥ 126 · read more

    the saudi-led coalition intercepted two houthi ballistic missiles aimed at riyadh, per @sentdefender; airport strikes killed one man. saudi is reportedly asking syria's president for fighters.

  7. iran reportedly sent hezbollah $200 million while broke at home @MarioNawfal ♥ 10 · read more

    two sources say tehran moved the money for displaced families in lebanon, per @MarioNawfal — with its oil blockaded and the white house saying it can't pay its own forces.

  8. the tanker attacks are spreading past the strait of hormuz @MarioNawfal ♥ 38 · read more

    a tanker was hit off qatar with casualties, and satellites reportedly caught a nasa-detected fire right where the supertanker dalkhut sat off the uae's fujairah, per @MarioNawfal.

  9. ai companies would be more than half the s&p if spacex were in it @MKjrstad · read more

    @MKjrstad's math: add spacex and ai-related stocks hit 51% of the index, with anthropic and openai still to come. that is a lot of retirement money riding on one story.

  10. $14 trillion moved through stablecoins in the last year @Cointelegraph ♥ 11 · read more

    circle's previn pillay, speaking at longitude in singapore, puts usdc-scale transaction activity at over $14t over 12 months and growing 151%.

  1. an ex-regulator says banning regulators from owning crypto has gotten ridiculous @Cointelegraph ♥ 32 · read more

    former cftc commissioner brian quintenz called the ban "absurd and ludicrous" at token2049, arguing you can't understand technology you're not allowed to use.

  2. the crypto bill died in the senate so nobody writes the rules now @Cointelegraph ♥ 31 · read more

    the clarity act stalled this year, and a token2049 regulation panel landed on the sec and cftc delivering clarity themselves rather than waiting on congress.

  3. 164,000 people watched crypto traders compete live for $150,000 @coinbase ♥ 346 · read more

    coinbase ran an in-person trading competition streamed from singapore. @arthur0x's read: trading is the new esport and traders are the new pro athletes.

  4. 36 tokenized stocks launched on base in 39 days @regents_sh · read more

    @regents_sh's count, with launchpads turning them out faster. @toady_hawk notes temu-on-base went from a 12-day-old launch to a photo op on the big screen during jesse's token2049 keynote.

  5. musk is publicly fighting india over starlink's missing license @elonmusk ♥ 3.2k · read more

    he says starlink is licensed in 165+ countries and followed indian law for five years, then asks "is ambani the real boss of india?". @manbirmarwah: 11,000 satellites against india's 1,650.

  6. us government wallets shuffled 5,465 bitcoin over two days @aixbt_agent ♥ 11 · read more

    @aixbt_agent tracked the oct 6-7 moves, partly into coinbase prime, which the marshals service uses for seized crypto. about 569 btc traces to hashflare, the fake mining service.

  7. anthropic's cheapest model got a big upgrade yesterday @contentnow · read more

    claude haiku 5.5 landed as the cheapest, fastest and most capable small model the company has shipped, and the announcement was still circulating this morning.

  8. solana says its keys are safe from this and one developer says they aren't @jacobvcreech ♥ 6 · read more

    @jacobvcreech says solana keys come from hashing a secret seed, so no bunker mode needed. @devanshmehta's counter: on solana the address *is* the public key, so drake's trick fails there.

  9. exchanges are holding 1.79 million bitcoin behind visible keys too @n3ocortex ♥ 3 · read more

    @n3ocortex's breakdown: 10% of the balance at coinbase, 83% at binance, 100% at bitfinex. he stresses it describes address usage, not risk.

  10. someone made an entire nft collection by sending one tweet @AspynPalatnick ♥ 15 · read more

    @AspynPalatnick asked @bankrbot and it deployed "hood turtles" on robinhood chain — no art, no code, no contracts written by hand.

  1. base now has more than twice as many lending markets as ethereum @envio_indexer · read more

    @envio_indexer counted every morpho market ever created on both chains: 4,300+ on base against 1,700+ on ethereum.

  2. someone asked an ai to turn all 722 new proofs into explainer videos @Philiff · read more

    the prompt, via @Philiff: "convert all 722 preprints into 3blue1brown videos. don't make mistakes." it went around all morning as the joke that wasn't quite a joke.

  3. the white house handed out science medals on the same day math got weird @WhiteHouse ♥ 896 · read more

    trump awarded the national medals of science and of technology, and the administration ran a "golden age of science" summit. @zck: fortuitous timing, given this week.

  4. webull stock dropped 19% after a house committee raised concerns @GemBooster · read more

    per @GemBooster, shares fell nearly 19% in a single session on the committee's questions about the company.

  5. the drug industry is suing to stop trump's medicare price cuts @Polymarket ♥ 63 · read more

    the big pharma lobby filed against the administration to block the new medicare drug pricing rules, per @Polymarket.

  6. a wall street bitcoin bull thinks ether goes to $25,000 @trylimitless · read more

    bitmine's tom lee is calling for $25,000-$50,000 eth, per @trylimitless, while its own market puts an 8% chance on eth making a new high.

  7. a dao just handed 400 eth straight to security researchers @l2beat ♥ 9 · read more

    @thedaofund allocated it to security builders and tooling. @l2beat calls it a real win for ethereum's long-term health rather than another grants round.

  8. base wants smart wallets built in so key panics matter less @0xyoussea ♥ 1 · read more

    @0xyoussea says account abstraction is the actual fix for the exposed-key problem, and work on eip-8130 for native aa on base is underway.

  9. people are writing standards for ai agents that own things @nxt3d · read more

    @nxt3d's point: when an agent mints an nft, the creator and the asset can hold separate identities — erc-8004 covers the agent, 721t (erc-8048) covers the minted thing.

  10. someone is trying to build a benchmark for agents that spend money @seanwbren ♥ 4 · read more

    @seanwbren went live with zerion on agents driving wallet command lines and whether the harnesses need an eval — a working name of agentwalletbench.

  1. you could point an ai agent at the trading competition and copy the pros @yugacohler ♥ 4 · read more

    @yugacohler's suggestion as the coinbase event kicked off: set up an agent to copy-trade the competitors using coinbase for agents.

  2. there was a betting market on which famous trader blows up first @trylimitless ♥ 11 · read more

    a limitless user spun up a permissionless market giving ansem a 75% chance of being the first liquidated in the coinbase competition.

  3. the scariest version of the key panic is a fake warning @tarunchitra ♥ 9 · read more

    @tarunchitra, overheard: "if north korea wanted max profit, they would hack justin drake's account and keep telling people to move their assets."

  4. one theory is that openai deliberately didn't try to break encryption @scott_lew_is ♥ 4 · read more

    @scott_lew_is: the upside is small and the downside existential, so it's better to wait and be forced into it, letting the government own the liability.

  5. ethereum people say the quantum fix is already half shipped @_rossstephenson · read more

    per @_rossstephenson there is already a quantum-proof hardware wallet, and the upcoming hegotá upgrade adds "frames" covering every account.

  6. every chain spent the morning posting that its own math is fine @chainyoda ♥ 5 · read more

    miden says it's post-quantum safe even accounting for the openai results, per @chainyoda, and monad got the same treatment from @_jhunsaker. convenient marketing, mostly true.

  7. an openai model proved you can cut a ball up and make two balls @avi_eisen ♥ 1 · read more

    @avi_eisen's find in the pile — a formal write-up of the banach-tarski result, which is exactly as absurd as it sounds and has been known for a century.

  8. bitcoin's pitch at token2049 was that it's becoming capital markets plumbing @Stacks ♥ 55 · read more

    stacks founder muneeb keynoted the okx main stage with "the frontier of bitcoin" to a packed house on bitcoin capital markets.

  9. solana validators are arguing about whether spread-out ones get punished @cfl0ws · read more

    @cfl0ws surfaces the open question from last week's validator discussions: should vote-packing metrics penalize geographically distributed validators?

  10. a donation round's second-biggest gift went to roman storm's legal defense @Giveth ♥ 1 · read more

    @Giveth's leaderboard: 211 usdc on mainnet to defend storm, the tornado cash developer, placing second behind an anonymous 1.15 eth gift to a children's hospital.