trump said from the podium that hyperliquid is coming to the us legally @TimHaldorsson ♥ 24 · read more
@TimHaldorsson watched the whole press conference: onchain perps, ICOs, raises up to $75m. @DefiantNews says trump named the CFTC as the agency doing it, and HYPE popped 19%.
@TimHaldorsson · ♥ 24 Hyperliquid surging after the White House press conference Trump says they’re bringing Hyperliquid hyperliquid:native to the US the whole market follows I watched the full thing: onchain perps, ICOs, fundraising up to $75 million. this feel @DefiantNews Trump said the CFTC is working to bring @HyperliquidX into the US "in a fully compliant and legal fashion." $HYPE is up 1… @Trueo_ · ♥ 2 WORST WEEK EVER 🫠 @rasmr_eth got cheated on, then sold his last $HYPE two days before Trump's crypto summit sent it up 19%. @clementetv_ felt so bad about the timing he sent him $1,500. To top if all off, now Trueo has it at 1% Yes that he @WaynesWorldza The @POTUS said "Hyperliquid" last night. For tokenised stocks, that might only be the second most important thing to…stripe just bought the model router most of crypto's ai runs on @LexSokolin ♥ 2 · read more
@LexSokolin puts openrouter at $7b inside a roughly $10b push to own the machine economy's plumbing; @Shaughnessy119 reads the reported $8b+ deal as people wanting to mix and match models.
@LexSokolin · ♥ 2 I marked up the Stripe Investor letter that explains why they are buying Open Router. The whole thing. The $7B OpenRouter acquisition is the centerpiece of a roughly $10B push to vertically integrate the infrastructure of the machine econom @Shaughnessy119 · ♥ 1 4/ We have also seen neocloud and inference usage, revenue and valuations surge across Nebius, CoreWeave, Venice, Baseten and Together. Stripe’s reported $8B+ agreement to acquire OpenRouter is another signal people increasingly want to mix @tayvano_ Stripe just bought OpenRouter, the router much of crypto-AI runs on. @ErikVoorhees of Venice joins @kain and @tayvan… @neha This is a good analysis on the Stripe and OpenRouter acquisition! But I disagree with the Fortune 500 stuff at the end. Stripe has always been about capturing the wide swath of new companies, of which a few might grow to be Fortune 500s.bitcoin punched through $72,000 and took $3.4 billion of leveraged bets with it @CaitlinLong_ · read more
@CaitlinLong_ has it above $72k for the first time since june 1, with $3.4b of levered liquidations in 24 hours.
the treasury did something to the bond market and nobody agrees what @Wojciech300 · read more
@Wojciech300 clocks the 10-year at 4.68% when the announcement hit. @based16z says treasuries faded the whole move almost instantly and bitcoin ran anyway. @ethcforg is calling it QE.
@Wojciech300 You can't make this up: At 8:15 AM ET yesterday, the 10Y Note Yield was trading at 4.68% when the US Treasury announce… @based16z so you're telling me treasuries faded the entire intervention move nearly instantly and now BTC is at $72k @ethcforg QE announced and the White House pumping crypto all in the same day Absolutely historic @MarioNawfal Wake up, folks. Commodities are telling you something, and yesterday the Treasury confirmed it. Scarcity in the physical wo…crypto jumped again after trump told congress to pass a crypto bill @ColeGotTweets · read more
@ColeGotTweets: bitcoin, ether and the rest surged after the president pushed a bill expected to boost the industry.
ether is back over $2,300 for the first time since may @WhaleFactor ♥ 128 · read more
@WhaleFactor counts +$47 billion of market cap added in 48 hours. @ethcforg's reminder for the holders: it was $4,200 a year ago.
@WhaleFactor · ♥ 128 🐋 WHALE WATCH : $ETH back above $2300 for the first time since May. That +$47 BILLION injected into market cap in just 48 hours. The bears were sleeping and got caught off guard. Momentum is fully back do not sleep on this move. What your @ethcforg ETH $2300 A year ago it was $4200 The stablecoins, DeFI and prediction market apps, NFTs and RWAs didn’t go anywhere and the… @ethcforg UP AND TO THE RIGHTonchain activity hit multi-month highs across the board yesterday @DefiLlama ♥ 14 · read more
per @DefiLlama: TVL back to $82.9b, a 3-month high. DEX and perps volume best since june, over $50m in daily fees, biggest ETF inflow week since january.
cheap open models might break the math on the whole ai buildout @Shaughnessy119 · read more
@Shaughnessy119's long thread: opus runs $25 per million output tokens against GLM at $4.40. his own caveat: price alone can't tell you what the infrastructure earns per gpu hour.
@Shaughnessy119 25/ We do not know X, Y or the relative throughput Anthropic does not disclose Opus serving costs, GLM is a highly optimized sparse model and API prices include model margin, hosting, routing and other services. The $25 versus $4.40 price a @Shaughnessy119 · ♥ 1 4/ We have also seen neocloud and inference usage, revenue and valuations surge across Nebius, CoreWeave, Venice, Baseten and Together. Stripe’s reported $8B+ agreement to acquire OpenRouter is another signal people increasingly want to mixnous is renting out an ai agent with its own computer for pocket change @NousResearch ♥ 386 · read more
@NousResearch pitched hermes agent straight at the $200-a-month tier: 3 cents a day idle, 29 cents for nonstop use, and you aren't locked into their machine.
your code can now pay its own api bills in stablecoins @organ_danny ♥ 2 · read more
@organ_danny: with 1inch wired up, an agent settles its own usage in USDC over x402.
hyperliquid made $4.5 million in fees in one day after being called dead @AustinBarack · read more
@AustinBarack: $297k of fees on saturday, over $4.5m today.
the cftc used a rare emergency power on kalshi twice in one month @Unchained_pod · read more
@Unchained_pod says it's a tool the agency has invoked six times ever; jessi brooks asks on the show whether that's a dangerous precedent.
a lawyer says claude's new eu watermark is the government forcing speech @Unchained_pod · read more
@JacobRobinsonJD, on @Unchained_pod, calls the watermark compelled speech rather than a labeling rule.
someone claims an open-source model family just caught up to claude opus @TraffAlex · read more
per an ai roundup from @TraffAlex: ornith-1.5 ships a 9b dense model, a 35b MoE and a 397b MoE, and the real pitch is a self-improving training method.
the new crypto rulebook has a hole: who decides when a token is finished @KAVA_CHAIN ♥ 459 · read more
@KAVA_CHAIN is poking at the clause that stops treating a token as a security once the team delivers. nobody has defined delivered.
solana and ethereum people are fighting over who's winning real-world assets @mdudas ♥ 49 · read more
@mdudas says solana's RWA growth is much faster, off a very low base. @izebel_eth points at robinhood picking ethereum and solana still having no equity perps.
@mdudas · ♥ 49 @izebel_eth solana rwa expansion happening significantly faster than ethereum's @mdudas · ♥ 3 @izebel_eth reasonable to be skeptical for sure, the chain is far from solving every problem but seeing meaningful traction in stables / payments and rwa’s off very low bases defi and perps not so much yet but good teams working on the prob @izebel_eth · ♥ 4 @mdudas if sol rwa usage seriously flips ethereum in tvl/volume/etc, ill admit im wrong but i doubt ill have to do that, imho robinhood picking eth and the lack of sol equity perps (and in general difficulty with defi) are signs of whats tobase is handing $100k each to ten early-stage teams @DegenOnBase_ ♥ 5 · read more
base batches 004, per @DegenOnBase_: $1m total, eight weeks of mentorship, demo day in nyc.
robinhood's chain is putting $1m into founders building on arbitrum @arbitrum ♥ 68 · read more
@arbitrum's open house buildathon runs three weeks online and is aimed at finance ideas going onchain.
waiting for bitcoin to confirm the bottom cost you the best alt bounces @alpha_pls ♥ 89 · read more
@alpha_pls's table off the lows: HYPE and LIT +245%, ZEC +206%, PUMP +192%, ETH +51%, SOL +45%.
chainlink says wyoming is using it for government plumbing @chainlink ♥ 218 · read more
@chainlink is pitching CCIP as clearing the security bar the public sector demands, with wyoming as the handshake.
near wants your idle stablecoins to stay spendable while they earn @NEARProtocol ♥ 236 · read more
@NEARProtocol's earn vaults, powered by @gauntlet_xyz and @talerfinance, let you swap, send and spend USDC without withdrawing first.
grok's bot keeps a real computer running between your requests @PSkinnerTech · read more
@PSkinnerTech found CLIs installed on grok bot's remote machine stick around across turns and across agents, logins included.
@PSkinnerTech Fun fact I discovered with Grok @bot: CLIs that get set up on Grok Bot's remote computer stay put across turns and across all the agents, and CLI logins are kept durable the same way browser logins are. It's literally like having a real rem @PetrBrzek · ♥ 10 I keep forcing myself to try new AI products, even when the feature list sounds like something I already have. Grok Bot was exactly that. On paper it's what you can already do with ChatGPT or Claude, or with OpenClaw or Hermes if you're thean agent deleted a whole project and one command put it back @Felirami · read more
@Felirami tried it on purpose: hermes snapshots your files before every destructive operation, and /rollback undid it.
the fight over data centers has come unmoored from any facts @knowerofmarkets · read more
@knowerofmarkets calls the backlash post-truth. @garrytan is stuck on a complaint that they pay too much in taxes, and @sutherlandphys has given up and started joking about water.
@knowerofmarkets The anti-data center stuff is insane and clear evidence that we have entered a post-truth era where many people can be co… @garrytan *grasping at straws to make data centers look bad* "what if they... pay TOO MUCH in taxes??" @sutherlandphys On one hand, data centers use insignificant amount of water. On the other hand, they cure cancer. So who’s to say if they’re goo…a county scans every car with flock cameras and a student went digging @pbrody · read more
@pbrody: genesee county uses flock cameras to capture and search vehicle data, and kettering university student josh tewol went looking at what that means.
the white house says its fraud task force has turned up $229.9 billion @VP · read more
@VP's tally: $229.9b of fraud uncovered, $56.4b stopped, $55.5b enforced.
there's a us-led nato exercise running right next to kaliningrad @sentdefender ♥ 190 · read more
@sentdefender: the heightened air activity near the russian exclave is part of a nato exercise that also has a polish ground component.
a universal decompiler exists now and it only gets cheaper from here @yacineMTB ♥ 385 · read more
@yacineMTB on turning compiled binaries back into readable source: it is the worst it is ever going to be.
a guy fed 500gb of his own life into local models @0xSero ♥ 11 · read more
@0xSero scraped 33,000 ai sessions, 12,000 chats, eight years of journals, 20,000 tweets and 400 codebases, and published the setup so you can too.
someone is giving away a free openai-compatible api you can point anything at @DennisonBertram ♥ 11 · read more
@DennisonBertram opened FreePI up because people wanted to use their own coding harness instead of his.
vs code now runs inside your terminal @materkel · read more
@materkel's terminal-code is a vs-code-compatible CLI that works over ssh and syncs with the terminal you already have.
yuga is taking bored apes on a seven-city asia tour @BoredApeYC ♥ 150 · read more
@BoredApeYC: shenzhen, tokyo, seoul, taipei, hong kong, manila and singapore in twelve days.
an nft went from a $1 mint to $1,000 in a single day @0xWassie ♥ 87 · read more
@0xWassie started buying around 0.05 ETH and watched the thing 1000x.
someone finally explained the ethereum roadmap without the jargon @mzeller ♥ 109 · read more
@mzeller's version: the merge was about not burning gpus on mining, and the surge is about being fast enough that you don't need a new solana.
@mzeller · ♥ 109 They say the $ETH roadmap is too complex, so allow me to de-nerd it: The Merge: Don't kill Ethereum because AI is eating all the GPUs and mining is an issue, so now people stake it; it's good for the planet and efficient. The surge: Shit is @dcbuilder They say the $ETH roadmap is too complex, so allow me to de-nerd it: The Merge: Don't kill Ethereum because AI is eating all…stacks says bitcoin yield and bitcoin lending are both live now @Stacks ♥ 11 · read more
@Stacks is pitching BTC-denominated staking plus native lending, borrowing and vaults, with STX underneath both halves.
a stablecoin scoring tool called the pmUSD depeg before it broke @DeFi_Dad ♥ 3 · read more
on @DeFi_Dad's new episode, pharos walks through how it scores stablecoins and how it flagged pmUSD ahead of the break.
jd vance gave a long goodbye to the guy who ran trump's hill operation @MarioNawfal ♥ 32 · read more
per @MarioNawfal, vance credited outgoing legislative director james braid with the tax cut, border wall funding, two beaten shutdowns and the first major crypto bill.
the fda moved a blueberry recall into its deadliest category @ATabarrok · read more
@ATabarrok, citing the daily mail: reasonable probability of death.
someone was suspended by ghent university and expects to be fired @goekhan · read more
@goekhan says the rector made the call and a firing is close to certain.
xbox and ikea are showing a joint collection at gamescom next week @tomwarren ♥ 473 · read more
@tomwarren has a sneak peek at the co-designed line, which debuts at the xbox booth.
a youtuber gave claude a body and sent it into the woods @Hesamation · read more
@Hesamation: eyes, motion control, and a walk in the forest.
a third of a 1,300-student berkeley calculus class stopped showing up @garrytan · read more
@garrytan relaying the professor: this was 2023, out of a 1,200-1,400 student class, and she redesigned the course around it.
crypto people still can't buy a decent air-gapped linux laptop @0xcyp ♥ 1 · read more
@0xcyp just wants a tiny offline machine to sign transactions on. @auryn_macmillan says mobile linux is still rough, but thinks LLMs might change that.
@0xcyp · ♥ 1 @auryn_macmillan @DennisonBertram @ZacharyDash @MinimalCompany @thepine64 @clickskeyboard been looking for a linux mini laptop for years i just want a highly portable air gapped computer to sign crypto tx on it, is it too much to ask? @auryn_macmillan · ♥ 1 @DennisonBertram @0xcyp @ZacharyDash @MinimalCompany @thepine64 @clickskeyboard Yeah, mobile Linux is still very rough. I think LLMs might change that though. @DennisonBertram · ♥ 2 @auryn_macmillan @0xcyp @ZacharyDash @MinimalCompany @thepine64 @clickskeyboard Yeah I have never found one of these actually worth using.the hugging face incident is worth understanding even if you aren't technical @TaylorPearsonMe · read more
@TaylorPearsonMe found a breakdown of it illuminating on what security actually has to defend against next.
a tool that gets rid of localhost:3000 is making the rounds @devpatok · read more
@devpatok tried portless and says they never want to see a local port number again.
there's a new open-source headless browser written in rust @tom_doerr ♥ 12 · read more
@tom_doerr on obscura: screenshots, live-page screencasts and pdf exports.
anoma's token is now tradable inside pancakeswap @anoma ♥ 4 · read more
@anoma says XAN is live in the pancakeswap app on both bnb chain and ethereum mainnet.
socket says its rise ecosystem is live and reachable from anywhere @SOCKETProtocol ♥ 21 · read more
@SOCKETProtocol is pitching one api that reaches binance, hyperliquid, cards and 50+ chains with no fees.
the case that defi never left, it just stopped being a narrative @LexSokolin · read more
@LexSokolin: stablecoins are defi, onchain lending is growing, dexes do billions a day, and liquid staking is normal now.
0.21 bitcoin is apparently enough to put you in the top 1% of holders @BrainHarrington · read more
@BrainHarrington's morning factoid, for whatever it's worth.




