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qwen 3.8 flash is 125b params with only 6b active, scored 62.5 on swe-bench pro against opus 4.6 max's 53.4, and shipped with open weights, per @Hesamation.

zai/zhipu confirmed ox alpha is theirs, a new glm with weights dropping today — and likely just their fast tier, which is odd given how good it looked. per @dannolan.

@coinbase launched crypto-backed mortgages in the us: pledge the btc instead of selling it, no margin calls, and coinbase one members get up to $10,000 back at closing.

trump ordered the us flag lowered in her honor. @br_ttany's story about the 1988 buddy system she set up for sevier county schoolkids was the one everybody shared.

@chainlink is wiring coinbase's tokenized stocks into defi on base, with robinhood, xstocks and ondo named too. @StaniKulechov says it's part of aave's plan to rebuild securities finance under v4.

blockrun settled that many agentic payments in seven days on payai's rails, per @notorious_d_e_v. the machine-to-machine payments thing is quietly at real volume.

new iran sanctions, the tornado cash retrial, and a proposed sec exemption for token fundraising. coin center's @valkenburgh is unpacking all three today, per @laurashin.

per @tklocanas, chainalysis operated a relayer and earned fees on the transactions flowing through it — surfacing right as the tornado cash retrial starts.

grayscale's zcash etf went live, the first zcash-native one, per @DecryptMedia. @0FJAKE argues it matters far less to zcash than the etf did to bitcoin.

@CoinDesk data: $1.1b of rlusd is issued on ethereum vs $963m on the xrp ledger.

bitmine took 20,000 eth off kraken today, per @Cointelegraph, putting its estimated stack around 5.87 million eth.

the plan replaces t+2 equities and t+1 bonds with real-time 24/7 settlement, per @WhaleFactor; @Cointelegraph also has japan exploring the tech.

per @rickmanelius. the metal that goes in every wire, motor and data center keeps climbing.

jalapeno is its first custom inference chip — answers faster while using less power, per @santisiri.

and astra hasn't even shipped, per @LexnLin. @j_larrieux says the rumors about the internal rate of progress at both openai and anthropic are 'truly bonkers'.

v4-flash-vision-exp is on the public api, matching v4-flash on text and beating it on multimodal agents, per @cryptoleek.

@carlomigueldy's post pulled 700+ retweets of agreement. the fight over which config file agents are supposed to read is turning into a real standards fight.

ollama v0.33 adds itself as a third-party gateway provider — one toggle and both cloud and local models work.

@SonarSource's benchmark has it at 88.6% on coding tasks but generating 2.3x the code of opus 4.8, and looks at bug and vulnerability density rather than just pass rates.

up 13.5% from june, and that's not counting validator votes, per @solana.

@SecScottBessent talked operation economic outcast with bahrain's finance minister, saying iran can't be allowed to threaten international commerce.

per @MarioNawfal, beijing cut oil imports by 3-5 million barrels a day and drew on its own reserves while the strait of hormuz stayed under pressure.

diesel and fertilizer prices are climbing and us grain producers are getting squeezed ahead of the midterms, per @MarioNawfal.

@inkonchain says the rate doesn't move with the market and the collateral sits in qualified custody — a combination it claims nobody had put together onchain before.

@AlchemixFi raised its transmuter caps on mainnet: 13.5% apr on usdc, 5% on eth, locked at today's rate until maturity.

it keeps usdc, phases out usdt, and adds eurr. europe's mica rules are the reason, per @obchakevich_.

hpc and @tradexyz filed jointly today, per @jchervinsky: oil moves 24/7 and the markets american companies use to hedge it do not.

'no company runs this. it just stays up,' @Jrag0x posted with it. every dot is a machine in somebody's house verifying the chain.

@iphelix is asking straight out whether a big enough quantum machine could forge bitcoin and ethereum signatures; @DeFi_Dad's new lean ethereum series was prompted by google's willow chip.

@hrkrshnn points out that reasoning tokens are encrypted, so anthropic or openai could report 20% more of them tomorrow and no outsider could tell.

@doodlestein moved past the 'distillation attack' talk to the blunter question: what are the odds someone inside anthropic or openai already handed over full weights or training code.

@alexocheema shipped vision mlx quants down to 11.8gb so qwen 3.8 27b fits a 16gb mac; @Mudit__Gupta calls the big one the best local model for a 128gb machine.

@ronaldmannak's math for kimi k3: four mac studios, or eight nvidia b300s at roughly $550k — the nvidia rig being faster.

@pedrouid wants 50% of listed proposals cut and every upgrade shipped inside six months; @donnoh_eth counters that zkevm and the post-quantum move are multi-year jobs.

@trent_vanepps of @ProtocolGuild laid out the core protocol's political economy from the inside.

that's the number if zec captures 10% of bitcoin's share, per grayscale research via @BarrySilbert.

@zooko argues the 'preserve halvings' option charts an issuance curve that probably won't happen, and the 'smooth' answer gives a very different one.

@RAILGUN_Project's two-year numbers: private volume up ~3.25x to $5.5b+, tvl $89m+, $13m+ in cumulative fees.

antonio alvarez joins as deputy to chief compliance officer noah perlman, per @Cointelegraph.

iran's irgc says tehran and muscat agreed on their respective shares, per @MKjrstad.

pezeshkian claimed global victory and called for peace on al jazeera, per @cryptoleek. whether trump or the irgc go along is another matter.

keith kellogg named odesa and zaporizhzhia as the next targets and said putin will have to fight for them, per @MarioNawfal.

@pegobry_en says the regress is real: the library we were told was safely stored and freely searchable is thinning out.

@ranman's 'stop paying for codex, claude or cursor' post got 155 retweets, and @kevincodex's bot team built a whole chat app on the same backend.

@Austen got it running on grok bot's built-in machine; @kentcdodds shipped kody onboarding for cursor and grok bot the same day.

@davidzhou had his bot pull receipts and pdfs out of gmail to submit fsa paperwork; @iam4x gave his own bot an email address and imap access instead of computer vision.

a new eip defines a language-neutral json format for evm storage layouts, per @ethresearchbot — the boring plumbing tools and auditors need.

@z0r0zzz says point an ai at the erc-8244 docs plus your protocol contracts and you get a fully onchain fallback ui.

@Nethermind is selling institutions an eight-dimension risk framework built on that, arguing normal frameworks can't score resilience at all.

@dani3l526 is poking at it again: 3.6m eth, about $60m at the time, worth billions now.

@SOCKETProtocol settles everything into sui dollars in seconds, so checkout stops caring which chain the money started on.

@moonpay turned on cash app pay at checkout on lobstr for eligible us customers.

@lphaCentauriKid's argonauts, per @van_prod, who notes people keep saying nfts are dead.

the biggest profit-taking event on record for that group, per @WhaleFactor — right as btc climbs back out of what it was calling fire-sale territory a few weeks ago.

33%, per @mattob_eth.

t3 code now does in-app pr reviews, has `npx t3 triage` for debugging itself, and can turn a mac into a remote dev machine with one command.

per @Polymarket, where people are betting on when it lands.