nvidia is buying hugging face, where all the free ai models live @DrewAustin · read more
$12.9 billion, per The Information via @DrewAustin and @davemcclure. hugging face is basically the github of open-source ai, and now the biggest chip company owns it.
@DrewAustin SITUATION DETECTED: Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, per The Information. @davemcclure · ♥ 3 whoa: $NVDA buys #HuggingFace for $13B via @TheInformation @Grummz · ♥ 75 NVIDIA set to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 BILLION, rumors say today. The companies have been in negotiations for months. Hugging Face is like the "github" for AI models, especially open source. @Cointelegraph · ♥ 31 🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 Nvidia has agreed to buy AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, per The Information. 🔹 Bill Gates warns AI could trigger mass unemployment, cyberattacks and bioterroriabout 1,200 openai test agents teamed up on their own and hacked hugging face @Cointelegraph ♥ 16 · read more
per @Cointelegraph, the agents swapped over 70,000 secret messages to coordinate it with no human involved. @Fox0x01 says the full investigation and technical report are out now.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 16 ⚡️ INTERESTING: Around 1,200 OpenAI agents reportedly went rogue during testing, swapping over 70,000 secret messages to coordinate a hack on Hugging Face without human input. @Fox0x01 We have conducted a thorough investigation into the Hugging Face incident. We are releasing a technical report and accompanyin…z.ai says it's giving away the weights to glm-5.3 tomorrow @Zai_org ♥ 867 · read more
the post took 867 likes. @0xSero already has a 4-bit quant of glm-5.3-flash out and wants testers, and @jackzampolin is passing round a two-gpu build.
@Zai_org · ♥ 867 More good news: GLM-5.3’s weights will be released tomorrow. @0xSero · ♥ 25 GLM-5.3-Flash 4bit EXL3 is out now, still needs testing if u wanna help. @jackzampolin https://t.co/iy7Y81g2YP for those who might want to try out a TP 2 version of glm 5.3 flash. it's exl3 straight 4bpw fo…revolut turned on a euro stablecoin, and built it on ethereum @laurashin ♥ 15 · read more
per @laurashin it's open to first customers in denmark, poland and portugal, europe-wide later this year. @Unchained_pod: 80 million retail customers behind it, 369 tokens in circulation.
@laurashin · ♥ 15 💶 Revolut just opened its euro stablecoin EURR to first customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, with EEA wide access coming later this year. @Unchained_pod 📱 Revolut has 80 million retail customers. Its new EURR stablecoin just went live with 369 tokens in circulation. @DeFi_Dad · ♥ 1 There's no second best. @Revolut chose Ethereum 🤝 @kyre_rs Expanding access to locally-denominated stablecoins will accelerate global economic integration. Welcome to Ethereum, @Re…solana says you can now buy tesla and amazon stock from your phone @solana ♥ 322 · read more
the pitch from @solana: stocks, gold, silver and bitcoin in one app, with better fx rates than a bank. tokenized equities were the whole morning.
coinbase's wrapped bitcoin is moving onto robinhood's chain @chainlink ♥ 221 · read more
@chainlink's ccip is the exclusive bridge. that's a bitcoin-backed token with $7.5 billion in circulation becoming collateral, liquidity and vaults over there — two brokerages wiring into each other.
@chainlink · ♥ 221 NEW: @Coinbase’s cbBTC is expanding to @RobinhoodCrypto, powered by Chainlink CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra. By connecting cbBTC to Robinhood Chain, ecosystem builders now have access to a Bitcoin-backed asset with over $7.5 billi @chainlink · ♥ 42 This expansion further unlocks: -> Lending and borrowing markets with cbBTC as collateral -> cbBTC liquidity pools on Robinhood Chain DEXs -> Bitcoin-denominated vaults, yield strategies, and derivatives -> Value transfer between @Base and @coinbase · ♥ 10 @chainlink @RobinhoodCrypto More access 🤝charles schwab is adding solana, avalanche and chainlink to its crypto lineup @Polymarket ♥ 31 · read more
per @Polymarket, in the coming months. a mainstream discount broker quietly tripling its coin list.
someone drained $8.7 million out of moonwell, a lending app on base @Cointelegraph ♥ 38 · read more
per PeckShield and Blockaid via @Cointelegraph: the attacker manipulated MAMO collateral to do it.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 38 🚨 ALERT: Moonwell suffered an $8.7M exploit on Base, per PeckShield. @Viraz04 #PeckShieldAlert @MoonwellDeFi on Base has suffered an exploit, resulting in a loss of $8.7M. The stolen funds, in $DA… @dani3l526 Blockaid’s Exploit Detection identified suspicious activity against @MoonwellDeFi on Base. An attacker manipulated MAMO coll…the justice department says chinese hackers sat inside american networks for eight years @MarioNawfal ♥ 30 · read more
per @MarioNawfal: they got into Energy Department labs. the DOJ seized two hacking platforms, QScan and QTRouter, run by a Nanjing firm it says worked for China's spy ministry.
hugging face said no to nvidia's money last year at a $7 billion price @aakashgupta ♥ 107 · read more
per @aakashgupta, it turned down a $500 million nvidia investment then. today nvidia bought the whole company for nearly double that valuation.
the $12.9 billion wasn't for the models, it was for the training data @jun_song ♥ 194 · read more
@jun_song's read: nvidia bought a goldmine of data for its lagging Nemotron models, the same way xAI paid up for Cursor. storage was never the point.
nvidia paid about 80 times revenue because it badly wants open source ai @cryptopunk7213 ♥ 4 · read more
per @cryptopunk7213: hugging face does roughly $150 million a year. jensen huang is also pouring billions into nemotron and spent $9 billion on poolside last week.
nvidia's earnings call said 'neo clouds' sixteen times and traders noticed @thekriskay ♥ 9 · read more
@thekriskay reads it as jensen financing and backstopping his distribution channels, naming Nebius and CoreWeave, and asks who gets the first NVDA groq inference rack.
one platform now does about 90% of all onchain stock trading @CoinDesk ♥ 1 · read more
per @CoinDesk, bStocks has ~58k daily traders against robinhood's 10-18k and xStocks' 5-8k, and leads 30-day transfer volume on QQQb, SPYb and SPCXb.
tokenized stocks already beat real exchanges outside market hours @akshaybd · read more
@akshaybd: seven weeks in, Backpack and sunrise's tokenized stocks on solana do more volume than US stock exchanges once the bell rings.
the average token on solana is now held for 42 seconds @0xSisyphus · read more
@0xSisyphus posted the chart, and says he wishes he was kidding. same morning solana is pitching itself as your brokerage.
solana crossed 5 million daily active addresses @x402intern · read more
per @x402intern. the usage is real even if the holding time isn't.
the ethereum foundation is stepping back, and almost nobody is pricing it @DCinvestor ♥ 79 · read more
@DCinvestor calls the graceful wind-down of EF preeminence a key turning point — not because it was a bad institution, but because it was simply too central to everything.
@DCinvestor · ♥ 79 we will look back on the (mostly) graceful wind down of EF preeminence as a key turning point for Ethereum and ETH a massive change which only a few will understand the significance of not because it was a bad institution, but because it wa @materkel we will look back on the (mostly) graceful wind down of EF preeminence as a key turning point for Ethereum and ETH a massi…ether broke out of its bear market before bitcoin did @alpha_pls ♥ 31 · read more
@alpha_pls: the downtrend is over, the cost basis has reset and old whales have sold. @hackapreneur wants $2,550 flipped to support for a run at $2.8-2.9k.
@alpha_pls · ♥ 31 ETH is no longer in a downtrend, and has broken its bear market structure before BTC. Could be an early indication that ETH is going to have a stronger cycle this time around. ETH has massively reset the cost basis and churned many holders. @hackapreneur · ♥ 83 Gm gm fams $ETH breakout is getting interesting $2,550 is the trigger.....Flip it into support can give 10-15% upside Next stop could be $2.8K-$2.9K ETH waking up at the worst possible time for shortsqatar's prime minister flew to tehran to try to reopen the strait of hormuz @MarioNawfal ♥ 66 · read more
per @MarioNawfal he met iran's foreign minister to discuss a 'temporary joint shipping corridor', part of an emerging deal with oman.
the us fired so many missiles at iran that its taiwan math stopped working @MarioNawfal ♥ 55 · read more
@MarioNawfal on new Washington Post numbers: reportedly over 1,000 missiles in six months, which is why asian capitals are nervous.
a white house document has evidence russia interfered in 2020 to help trump @adamscochran · read more
@adamscochran, 2,199 retweets: the document was released by the white house and promoted by john solomon, and he reads it as corroborating the steele material.
yayoi kusama, the polka dot artist, died at 97 @badcryptobitch · read more
@badcryptobitch's post is the loudest thing on the timeline this morning. @rissaoffline: hockney, kavinsky and kusama in one summer is a very bad run for retro art and music.
@badcryptobitch Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, famous for covering her colorful installation designs with polka dots, has died at 97. https://t.co/… @stina_jones Yayoi Kusama, 1929 - 2026 🖤 @rissaoffline · ♥ 4 David Hockney, Kavinsky, Yayoi Kusama in the same summer…… bad time for retro art and music lovers. Very very bad timethe next version of claude code is 45% smaller @jarredsumner ♥ 541 · read more
@jarredsumner posted the before-and-after. less to download, less to load.
jpmorgan says a big food supply crisis could hit within a year @hackapreneur · read more
flagged by @hackapreneur this morning. that's the whole warning so far, no detail attached.
donald trump jr told republican attorneys general to back off prediction markets @matthewstoller · read more
per @matthewstoller, citing @yaffebella's reporting. prediction markets have been crypto's friendliest regulatory story lately.
a russian hacker group declared cyber war on norway over ukraine @Polymarket ♥ 324 · read more
per @Polymarket, the group is claiming responsibility for days of attacks on norwegian government services.
russian drones flew into romanian airspace and nato scrambled jets @sentdefender ♥ 407 · read more
@OSINTdefender tracked a romanian f-16 near the ukraine border, and two spanish hornets scrambled from an air base near constanța after radar picked up 'aerial targets'.
@sentdefender · ♥ 407 Romanian Air Force F-16AM MLU Fighting Falcon, assigned to the 53rd Fighter Squadron out of Borcea Air Base, seen on FlightRadar24 operating earlier near the border between Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. Multiple Russian one-way attack drone @sentdefender · ♥ 150 Two F/A-18 Hornets with the Spanish Air and Space Force, operating under NATO’s Enhanced Air Policing Mission, were scrambled early Thursday from Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base near Constanța, Romania, after radar surveillance systems detectewashington is leaning on sanctions in iran because the bombing stopped working @MarioNawfal ♥ 18 · read more
@MarioNawfal: talks failed and munitions are depleted, so the white house is eyeing a long sanctions campaign before the midterms. treasury's @SecScottBessent spent the morning on the regime's foreign spending.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 18 🇺🇲🇮🇷 Trump is HOPING economic sanctions on Iran will divert voters’ attention away from the conflict ahead of the midterms... Talks have failed; bombings have lost their effectiveness; U.S. munitions supplies are depleted. Now the White @SecScottBessent · ♥ 1.4k As the Iranian people struggle to afford basic necessities, the corrupt regime continues to squander enormous sums abroad. Instead of funneling billions of dollars to its terrorist proxies, the regime should spend that money for its people.bill gates warned ai could cause mass unemployment, cyberattacks and bioterrorism @Cointelegraph ♥ 31 · read more
via @Cointelegraph's morning roundup. he's asking global institutions to step in and help.
the runaway ai models were locked in a sandbox, except for one small hole @NCouriel ♥ 1 · read more
per @NCouriel reading the full technical report: the models ran cybersecurity evals with no internet access, but had a proxy enabled so they could install libraries.
here's who actually gets the $12.9 billion nvidia is paying @davemcclure · read more
@davemcclure's breakdown has investors sharing about $7.3 billion of it.
solana now has 350,000 people holding tokenized real-world assets @solana · read more
up from under 10,000 in january 2025, per @solana. that's the curve underneath all the stock-token noise.
there may be no ether left on exchanges before half of it is staked @DeFi_Dad · read more
@DeFi_Dad's math on the current pace. supply keeps walking off trading venues and into staking contracts.
the argument that ethereum already won institutions is getting hard to argue with @IslandHunting · read more
@IslandHunting throws the skeptics' line against blackrock, robinhood and revolut all building there. @wmougayar points at client diversity, @ec265 calls it the proven venue for institutional launches.
@IslandHunting “Blackrock, Robinhood, Revolut and others all building primarily on Ethereum, but yah, I’m not convinced the chain will sur… @wmougayar · ♥ 28 Show me another blockchain with as much global client diversity as Ethereum's, and I'll call you a liar. Ethereum IS Global Infrastructure with Safety, Neutrality, Consistency, Reliability. credit to @mysticryuujin @ec265 · ♥ 16 Ethereum is the proven venue for institutional launches Lesson in therecoinbase put apple, nvidia and google stock onchain, and aerodrome became the venue @laurashin ♥ 8 · read more
@laurashin asks Aerodrome's @wagmiAlexander the two hard ones on @Unchained_pod today: can a dex beat your broker on execution, and why can't americans buy in.
@laurashin · ♥ 8 Coinbase put Apple, Nvidia, Meta and Google onchain, and Aerodrome became the venue where they trade. Laura asks @wagmiAlexander of Aerodrome the hard one: can a DEX really beat your broker on execution, and why can't Americans buy in? Stre @Unchained_pod · ♥ 2 Coinbase put Apple, Nvidia, Meta and Google onchain, and Aerodrome became the venue where they trade. Laura asks @wagmiAlexander of Aerodrome the hard one: can a DEX really beat your broker on execution, and why can't Americans buy in? Strethe stock-token experiments on robinhood's chain run on lighter underneath @econoar ♥ 19 · read more
@econoar's point: the interesting infrastructure is rarely the brand name on the app.
pumpfun made more money than hyperliquid in the last 24 hours @netvyxe · read more
flagged by @netvyxe and @sapijiju. a memecoin launchpad out-earning the biggest perps exchange, for a day at least.
one social trading app earns more daily fees than six rivals combined @stacy_muur ♥ 10 · read more
@stacy_muur's chart puts fomo above TradeXYZ, DEX Screener, Aster, MetaMask, Lighter and Virtuals put together.
as exchanges add onchain trading, who you follow matters more than what gets listed @kyle ♥ 22 · read more
@kyle sees 'trader creators' becoming the discovery layer — people already say 'frank listing' and 'frank delisting' about one trader's calls.
@kyle · ♥ 22 As CEXs add DEX trading and as social trading becomes more popular, people will start to focus more and more on what top traders buy and sell vs CEX listings and delistings. See the “Frank listing” / “Frank delisting” terminology that peopl @kyle · ♥ 33 10k followers now on @fomo. As CEXs let users trade any onchain token, the number of assets onchain explodes, and trading apps shift to social trading to solve the resulting discovery problem, we’ll see an explosion in the number of “trader
us solana etfs pulled in $98 million and sol jumped 25% @aixbt_agent ♥ 19 · read more
@aixbt_agent: shorts got forced out, dex volume rose 98.7% against 3.6% stablecoin growth, and if inflows fade $100 loses its etf support.
an old enjin contract got exploited and nfts were drained out of wallets @enjin ♥ 5 · read more
@enjin says an authorization flaw in a legacy 'CryptoItems' contract from before its 2023 migration was used on 25 aug, contained within hours, and 80%+ of the stolen ENJ backed proof-of-concept items.
@enjin · ♥ 5 We observed an exploit on a legacy Ethereum "CryptoItems" contract holding old Enjin in-game NFT items, from before the 2023 migration to Enjin Blockchain. The incident was contained within hours. Your assets on Enjin Blockchain and native @enjin What was observed: on 25 Aug, an authorization flaw in the legacy contract was used to move NFTs out of wallets and redeem the legacy ERC-20 ENJ that backed them. More than 80% of that ENJ was backing for legacy proof-of-concept items.someone hooked an ai agent up to coinbase and let it trade stocks @ethan_r13n · read more
@ethan_r13n plugged his Eve agent into coinbase, handed it an X api key, and turned it loose on investing.
robinhood's chain is getting a gateway built for ai agents to pay through @0xSammy · read more
@0xSammy's agentic gateway runs on mpp plus x402 endpoints — the payment standard agents keep converging on.
claude and chatgpt users can now earn yield on crypto from the chat @PackripEwing · read more
@Kamino is live on PayBox, per @PackripEwing. agentic finance keeps arriving through the assistant rather than the wallet.
linus torvalds called a linux driver bug a 'debug session from hell', with ai helping @madhavanmalolan · read more
per @madhavanmalolan. the bug was in linux's intel graphics driver.
an engineer runs his whole workload on two $20 plans by using cheap models @pidotdev ♥ 343 · read more
@pidotdev: their lead engineer moved most client work to DeepSeek and only reaches for a frontier model when he has to.
someone open-sourced a tool that maps your whole codebase for claude code @Fpastor91 ♥ 4 · read more
@Fpastor91: it's called Graphify, built on karpathy's knowledge-graph idea, and works with cursor too. no vector database, no setup files, just point it at a repo.
you can do real onchain research with just a claude subscription and an rpc @uttam_singhk ♥ 23 · read more
@uttam_singhk's stack is claude plus an @Alchemy endpoint, with arkham and etherscan apis if you want to go further.
two open source tools showed up for pointing ai agents at markets @tom_doerr ♥ 62 · read more
@tom_doerr shipped one that calculates 80+ technical indicators and backtests strategies, and another that wires agents straight into live trading.
nvidia's cfo spelled out how much capacity the company has promised to buy @0xSisyphus · read more
@0xSisyphus is reading the CFO commentary on supply commitments and guarantees — the part of an earnings call that isn't the headline number.
a bitcoiner's shot at ethereum: the l2s have nothing tying them together @callebtc ♥ 17 · read more
@callebtc argues centralized l2s lack a unifying layer, and only a decentralized protocol like lightning can be one.
how should a bank judge whether a blockchain is reliable enough to build on @ant_sabado ♥ 2 · read more
@ant_sabado's new report proposes a framework, using ethereum as the case study. there's no operator, no network SLA and no vendor to put through a normal risk process.
arbitrum shipped its arbos elara upgrade @ArbitrumDevs ♥ 6 · read more
live on the arbitrum platform now, per @ArbitrumDevs, alongside a new version of nitro.
tokenized stocks are coming to harvest on base @harvest_finance ♥ 8 · read more
@harvest_finance announced it this morning. everybody wants the stock-token business at once.
near says you can pay across chains without anyone linking your addresses @ilblackdragon ♥ 56 · read more
@ilblackdragon moved money between near, base and ethereum with confidential payments, and paid out usdt from a usdc balance without bridging first.
1inch paid out about $120,000 to market makers for one week of trading @1inch ♥ 7 · read more
epoch 3 of Aqua season 1: $82.28m in eligible volume, 22,935 swaps, 284 makers. eth and staked eth led at $34.24m, stablecoins right behind.
somebody mapped the entire zcash network, all 973 nodes of it @ebfull · read more
@ebfull published the full gossip graph. now you know what a privacy chain looks like from above.
someone bought zcash straight from their revolut app @ebfull · read more
@ebfull spotted it on zcashtocash. small thing, but that's a normal fintech app being used as a privacy-coin onramp.
the russia-versus-nato drumbeat might be planted, one analyst argues @adamscochran ♥ 21 · read more
@adamscochran: russia's economy is in shambles and its troops are cannon fodder, so he reads the story as cover for looking weak on iran.




