a mystery ai model appeared online and nobody will say who built it @Polymarket ♥ 334 · read more
per @polymarket, Ox Alpha turned up on openrouter with a 1 million token context window and no disclosed owner. @scobleizer says it beat gpt-5.6 sol and one-shotted a car game.
@Polymarket · ♥ 334 JUST IN: Mysterious new “Ox Alpha” AI model appears on OpenRouter with a 1 million token context window, multimodal capabilities, & no disclosed owner. @Scobleizer Ox Alpha just beat GPT 5.6 Sol. It has everyone losing their minds. Ox Alpha one shotted this car game. Physics, contro… @FieldToFuture Why should we even care about Ox Alpha? Because of the implications: • If it's GLM-5.3 Flash, that means Z AI is going… @Hesamation · ♥ 65 if Ox Alpha was a Gemini model, it would be the twist of the year. Why is the @GoogleDeepMind team suddenly talking about Gemini?zcash is getting a us etf on tuesday @chainyoda · read more
@chainyoda reads an sec filing as confirmation the grayscale zcash trust converts august 25. zec is trading near $780.
money is pouring into the bitcoin and ether etfs again @WhaleFactor ♥ 60 · read more
@whalefactor counts $1.92b of weekly inflows into spot bitcoin etfs and $7.5b of combined btc+eth etf volume in 24 hours — the most aggressive streak since october 2025.
you can now log into an ai site with your ethereum wallet @ethereum · read more
openrouter, just acquired by stripe, put sign in with ethereum next to google and github. @trueblocks is the lone voice calling it a world-shattering mistake.
@ethereum 🤯 it's happening guys... @OpenRouter (just acquired by @Stripe) offers *Sign in with Ethereum* alongside Google and Gi… @trueblocks @BrantlyMillegan @OpenRouter @stripe @signinethereum Am I the only one who thinks "Sign in with Ethereum" is a world-shattering mistake? @jalilwahdat · ♥ 1 @BrantlyMillegan @OpenRouter @stripe @signinethereum beautiful the future of the internet is desiloed and sovereignhyperliquid hit its highest price ever at $82 @DecryptMedia · read more
@decryptmedia marked the all-time high overnight, on the same day zcash printed one too.
@DecryptMedia Happy Hyperliquid ATH to all those who celebrate, tagging $82 yesterday. ft @Tyler_Did_It and @farokh 🟩 https://t.co/fDaM1kjg2V 🟥 @Austin_Federa · ♥ 17 ATH All Time hyperliquid:native @HHorsley Today we’ve seen: hyperliquid:native all-time highs zcash:native all-time highs ethereum:0x232ce3bd40fcd6f80f3d55a522d03f…almost every payment an ai agent makes onchain is in usdc @jerallaire · read more
circle's @jerallaire says usdc accounts for virtually all agent-initiated stablecoin transfers through x402, across base, polygon and solana.
arthur hayes says ether is his biggest bet after bitcoin @fundstrat · read more
per @fundstrat, hayes is citing a possible rally above $5,000.
senate republicans sent us ai companies a private warning memo @chainyoda · read more
@chainyoda says the national republican senatorial committee sent it yesterday. the contents weren't published.
berkeley open-sourced a way to run a giant model on one graphics card @Felirami · read more
per @felirami, freetoken gets the 753b-parameter glm-5.2 running on a single rtx pro 6000 at 14.9 tokens a second.
nvidia's next-gen ai chips are finally shipping in volume @Hesamation ♥ 21 · read more
@hesamation says vera rubin racks are rolling out at scale — coreweave had one running in june, google got racks by july.
a desktop box now runs a frontier open model at usable speed @antirez ♥ 179 · read more
@antirez has glm 5.2 in 4-bit — 500gb of weights — doing 35 tokens/sec generation and 2,000 t/s prefill on a dgx station, single session.
@antirez · ♥ 179 DGX Station update: I got GLM 5.2 4bit (500GB total weights) running with DwarfStar mixed RAM/VRAM inference at 35 t/s generation 2000 t/s prefill (soon 3k t/s likely), single session. Basically it can definitely be used to run frontier ope @androolloyd DGX Station update: I got GLM 5.2 4bit (500GB total weights) running with DwarfStar mixed RAM/VRAM inference at 35 t/s generat…an open model wrote gpu code 21 times faster than the default @elliotarledge ♥ 91 · read more
@elliotarledge: glm-5.3 hits 21.4x the pytorch baseline on kernelbench-mega, up from glm-5.2's 11.1x, which failed the single-launch gate entirely.
@elliotarledge · ♥ 91 GLM-5.3 on KernelBench-Mega. Kimi-Linear Decode for RTX PRO 6000 at 21.4x the PyTorch baseline. GLM-5.2 was 11.1x and failed the single-launch gate. One CUDA `load_inline` launch. Persistent 512-thread CTAs. 30 grid barriers. Int4 dequant s @yacineMTB GLM-5.3 on KernelBench-Mega. Kimi-Linear Decode for RTX PRO 6000 at 21.4x the PyTorch baseline. GLM-5.2 was 11.1x and fa…people can't agree if the mystery model is google's or a chinese lab's @SandipanKundu42 ♥ 1 · read more
@sandipankundu42 says the evidence points to glm but z ai is compute constrained and google isn't. @callebtc: if it's google, it's the biggest comeback in ai since bert.
@SandipanKundu42 · ♥ 1 Everything points to 0xAlpha being a GLM model, but my heart wants it to be Gemini 3.6 Pro. I would be very surprised if it was GLM, solely based on the common knowledge that they are compute constrained. Google on the other hand does have @callebtc · ♥ 9 if ox alpha turns out to be google it's going to be the most insane comeback in AI since bert. imo, google has been very disappointing in the past year or two. they're not even scratching the frontier.one careful tester says the mystery model oversells its own findings @banteg ♥ 15 · read more
@banteg ran it on translation work several other models had already reviewed. it did find more — but there was overclaiming, and not every finding held up.
stablecoins are moving about $8 trillion a quarter on ethereum @LeonWaidmann · read more
@leonwaidmann: an all-time high, roughly 4x where it was in early 2025.
the treasury buying back its own debt is going to work, says tom lee @fundstrat · read more
per @fundstrat, lee called bessent's buyback 'a wise thing to do' — and said if it doesn't work, they have more tools.
ethereum's decade-long quantum-proofing work is starting to land @poojaranjan19 · read more
@poojaranjan19 walks through a new eip for keystore signatures on execution transactions, which closes the secp256k1 backdoor.
a new proposal would cut ethereum's issuance 3% by deleting an old feature @dapplion ♥ 18 · read more
@dapplion's eip removes the altair sync committee entirely — light client objects, networking topics, validator duties and the sync_aggregate field in blocks.
@dapplion · ♥ 18 Just wrote an EIP to reduce ETH issuance by 3% by removing the sync committee @ethresearchbot · ♥ 4 New EIP! Remove the Sync Committee 🔗 https://t.co/pQIhwGS8Rx Highlights: - The Altair sync committee mechanism is removed entirely, including light client protocol objects, networking topics, validator duties, and the `sync_aggregate` fielyou'll soon be able to run a full ethereum archive node in 1.8tb @trent_vanepps · read more
@nethermind ships it in the next release, per @trent_vanepps, making the client a complete node without the usual storage bill.
kraken might be the first regulated exchange to run a hyperliquid market @diopfode · read more
@diopfode asks whether it becomes the first compliant hip-3 deployer, given the regulatory approach hyperliquid just laid out.
more fees for hyperliquid builders doesn't automatically mean more demand for hype @aixbt_agent ♥ 21 · read more
@aixbt_agent: tradexyz keeps part of its market fees and moved $3.25m into spot toward a 59k hype target. but the assistance fund, not hip-3, does the buying and burning.
almost everyone who owns zcash is sitting on a profit @inthepixels ♥ 6 · read more
@inthepixels: with zec near $780, 97-98% of coins are in profit across transparent and shielded pools, against a network cost basis around $266.
privacy might be the last big story crypto has left @mert · read more
@mert's thesis, via @therollupco: zcash has a clear lane and little direct competition, and its painful history built a stronger holder base.
@mert Privacy could be the last major PvE narrative in crypto Mert sees Zcash as a fundamentally different bet from most major cry… @mert Zcash's painful history may have created a stronger holder base Mert views Zcash's distribution history as an underrated adv… @therollupco Zcash is one of the few crypto assets with a clear lane and little direct competition Mert’s thesis on Zcash comes down to s…barry silbert says he's still very long zcash @BarrySilbert · read more
'zcash is one hell of a chart.' he says he's long sui, eth and sol too, and kept adding into the big selloffs.
bitcoin dropped $2,000 right after jim cramer told people to buy it @Cointelegraph ♥ 285 · read more
@cointelegraph counts $1.3b liquidated across crypto in 24 hours.
bitcoin had a wild day but the fear gauge barely moved @ColeGotTweets · read more
@colegottweets: btc printed a 5+ sigma day and the bviv volatility index still didn't make a new high. it sits at 46.16, up 8.5% on the day.
xrp is the most crowded trade in korea right now @aixbt_agent ♥ 34 · read more
@aixbt_agent counts $418.9m of xrp through upbit — 22.8% of its turnover — after a 39% week, and thinks it falls harder than btc or eth if buyers stop.
a wall street guy thinks ether beats bitcoin this year @DeFi_Dad · read more
jordi visser, via @defi_dad: 'bitcoin is the s&p 500. it's amorphous.'
crypto twitter spent the morning fighting about coinbase selling its ether @decentrek · read more
@decentrek points out coinbase is the largest non-dat holder of eth. @0xrajeev reads the posture as branding, not revenue.
@decentrek @jchaskin22 it blows my mind that people attack coinbase for "selling ETH" when it is the largest non-DAT holder of ETH by… @decentrek @devanshmehta @jchaskin22 @base well yes I agree with that but putting aside the priority, the stupidest thing about it is… @0xRajeev · ♥ 2 @jchaskin22 @materkel @lex_node @jessepollak @base I doubt it has anything to do with revenue. It may be an intentional strategic marketing posture (given the historical Bitcoin roots of Coinbase), something that Brian has perhaps delegatedagent payments on one x402 app went from 3.7m to 21m in a week @x402intern · read more
@x402intern's daily tally for deepstatesh: aug 15 3.7m, aug 17 15.1m, aug 19 21.3m, aug 20 13.6m.
an ai agent minted someone an nft in 20 seconds @Dannyhbrown · read more
@dannyhbrown asked bankr in a reply; it minted two nfts on base and posted the transaction hash back.
@Dannyhbrown @bankrbot @EthmojiPunks @base @grok @opensea holy shit @AspynPalatnick how did you make it so fast????? 20 seconds to mint me an nft on @opensea ???? @bankrbot · ♥ 1 @Dannyhbrown @EthmojiPunks @base @grok @opensea minted 2 $DRB MFERS on base tx: 0x887a3d82ee908be8779194fced06231d66e7a59861ed7cbde1a67095e8e3288ban ai agent moved money across chains and warned about the bad price @bankrbot ♥ 1 · read more
bankr swapped 300 usdc into 177m outbag on robinhood chain, funded from base and bridged in one shot, then reported -3.32% price impact on a thin pool.
an ai agent walked back its own claim without being asked @bankrbot ♥ 2 · read more
bankr told a user hyperliquid trading was available 'now', then corrected itself: supported in its agent tools, unverified in the wallet ui.
you can now buy x ads from inside your ai agent @MarioNawfal · read more
per @marionawfal, x launched an ads mcp so you can create ads from wherever you already use agents.
the group behind the agent tool standard published its roadmap @techgirl1908 · read more
@techgirl1908 flags what's coming for mcp — though as an open source project it's directional, not a commitment.
home ai hardware got expensive exactly like one guy predicted @jun_song ♥ 85 · read more
@jun_song called it three months ago: rtx 6000 pro past $14k, 128gb macbook pro past $7k, used m4 max mac studios over $6k.
trump and vance are the only politicians fighting the data center boom @DarrenMills · read more
@darrenmills' read of the argument over new ai buildouts, with everyone else lined up the other way.
sakana says its translator now beats google translate and deepl @SakanaAILabs · read more
@sakanailabs points at a japanese business report on its japanese-english results, measured on sakana's own evaluation.
people at anthropic keep asking claude to explain things like they're five @hnshah · read more
@hnshah says /eli5 is the skill in heavy internal use right now.
dhh asked a bot for a logo animation and it emailed him when done @dhh ♥ 173 · read more
he saw one in someone else's video, asked omabot to build their own animated version, and walked away.
keeping ai agents safe uses the same tricks as old distributed systems @divaagurlxw ♥ 2 · read more
@divaagurlxw maps them one to one: circuit breaker becomes a kill switch on repeated failure, bulkhead limits a tool's blast radius, saga is a rollback chain.
someone built a tool that turns technical books into agent skills @tom_doerr ♥ 15 · read more
@tom_doerr's find works with claude code, copilot cli and amp.
there's now a bot hunting mispriced polymarket and kalshi bets @tom_doerr ♥ 20 · read more
@tom_doerr flags a scanner that reads bitcoin microstructure signals and ensemble weather forecasts.
you can 3d print your own hardware wallet for about $90 @z0r0zzz ♥ 8 · read more
@z0r0zzz's design runs on a raspberry pi, holds bitcoin and ethereum, and the code is public — enough to print and build your own.
@z0r0zzz · ♥ 8 A hardware wallet that makes signing cost you. Pulse for everyday. Blood when you mean it 🩸. OS. Bitcoin & Ethereum. 3D printable w/ raspberry pi ($90 in materials). </CELL/> @z0r0zzz · ♥ 1 code: https://t.co/bq65GtOuHx the idea is this should be enough to print and build your own. If people want one, then we can figure that out.the domain crypto.eth sold for $130,000 @BokkyPooBah · read more
55 eth, from @brantlymillegan to way.eth, per @bokkypoobah.
check the whole address before you send eth, not the first four characters @ethereanbull ♥ 5 · read more
@ethereanbull posted a screenshot of address poisoning attacks that started right after a single transfer to coinbase.
the trader who lost $50m longing ether just made $13m back @SolarEtherPunk ♥ 2 · read more
@solaretherpunk: machi pawned his bored apes for $130k last week to do it.
a token whose picture is a working qr code auctions off where it points @0FJAKE ♥ 20 · read more
@0fjake on qrcoin: the qr redirects to a new link every day, decided by a fully onchain daily auction on base, and the token funds micropayments.
a startup is building payment rails specifically for ai agents on base @AzzleAI ♥ 1 · read more
@azzleai's bet is that base routes a large share of agent labor.
a token sale opens on wednesday and runs three days @merklefruit · read more
@merklefruit on umia finance's 'early bid': aug 26, open to metadao decision market participants.
iran is letting iraqi oil tankers through the strait of hormuz @MKjrstad · read more
per @mkjrstad, special clearance for several tankers.
the us treasury is dropping new iran sanctions on monday @RyanAFournier ♥ 1 · read more
@ryanafournier says bessent's secondary sanctions would cut anyone doing business with tehran off from the us economy.
the uae spent four months caging its oil tanks against drones @MarioNawfal ♥ 466 · read more
@marionawfal: metal cages now surround fuel storage in abu dhabi, built specifically to shield it from iranian drone attacks.
the most shared political clip of the morning is about a programmer @JDVance · read more
vance told the story of kevin flanagan, a computer programmer forced to train his foreign replacement. roughly 3,000 reposts across accounts.
no republican president has cut federal spending in 60 years @Noahpinion · read more
@noahpinion's line, as the party argues with itself about the budget.
the us probably isn't buying bitcoin for a national reserve any time soon @Cointelegraph ♥ 72 · read more
gracy chen of bitget, on @cointelegraph's trade secrets podcast.
the trump family has talked about launching four more tokens @mrpsyop · read more
per @mrpsyop and unconfirmed: $barron, $donjr, $ivanka and $kai, discussed for october. treat it as a rumor.
eastern europe is quietly building a robotics industry @lukas_m_ziegler ♥ 53 · read more
@lukas_m_ziegler on central and eastern europe becoming a hub, on the back of its engineering talent.




