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per @Polymarket and @markpinc, about 200 of the accounts posed as ordinary americans complaining about electric bills and data centers, some of it ai-generated cartoons.

@CaitlinLong_ read the takedown and called everyone still in that fight either a literal chinese bot or a useful idiot for one.

they're calling it the model hardware standard, first phase kicking off today, per @Leon_Vandenberg and @chainyoda. @packyM lists it beside the week's other launches.

@Leon_Vandenberg calls it one of the most underrated releases of the year. the post took 282 retweets.

jesse pollak's map, per @base: today it's about $5b of defi with crypto assets only. then $10b, $20b, $50b, $100b, "and then much beyond that".

@RuneCrypto_ asks whether base has ever outcompeted solana, robinhood or bnb chain at anything. @TimHaldorsson wants to know how fast base gets to half a billion.

per @solana, on @xStocksFi. that's the number base is now measuring itself against.

@RHLSTHRM says the first finding is that over half of them involve consequential decisions. people are delegating real work to ai whether or not there's a policy for it.

@Felirami's rundown of the preview: 770b total, 49b active, a million-token context window, built for productivity and priced to stay cheap.

microduck, open source, from @pollenrobotics and @huggingface. @illshin reports about $1m of sales right after launch, and @ClementDelangue is already teasing a megaduck.

@laurashin's read of the list: exchanges, front companies and money launderers are on it, decentralized protocols aren't.

@SecScottBessent says the us has guided 130 million barrels out over the past 14 days under what he's calling operation economic outcast.

per fxstreet via @openeconomyos, security council secretary mohsen rezaei says mediators asked for terms — ending the regional war, with the us moving first.

@fundstrat's tom lee is calling it the month's final clearing event. @therollupco will be at the presser.

@hackapreneur: 32,000 eth at 10x leverage, opened hours before the event and already up $520k.

wages and salaries are down to 43% of national income, per @MKjrstad.

open source, audited, battle tested, trustless, permissionless, decentralized — @LidoFinance says it swept the whole scorecard.

@LeonWaidmann's relative net flows: over three months, eth +0.41% vs btc -0.12%. raw dollar flows hide it because bitcoin is so much bigger.

@PhilakoneCrypto says $82,850 is the real breakout level and $78.5k is the line that keeps the structure intact. daily rsi is 80.6.

$1.78 billion worth, per @cryptoleek, with on-chain wallet screenshots behind it.

@jerallaire says circle is partnering with the club to put the stablecoin in front of hundreds of millions of football fans. @IQofficial: from the blockchain to stamford bridge.

quoted by @WhiteHouse: ranchers and farmers have always been a number one priority, and "this should move quickly".

per @adamscochran.

@POTUS posted the update himself. @rahilla, drily: "new york won't be calling it that."

@BenWest points at the welland canal as the leverage nobody's mentioning in the trade fight. there is no other route in.

real gdp up 0.8% for the quarter, 3.3% annualized against 3.4% expected, per statcan via @openeconomyos.

@42space: $TTWO fell from about $248 to about $232, then rockstar dropped an extended look on netflix. gta has been roughly 30% of the company's sales for a decade.

@zarazhangrui asked it straight — use the agent's virtual computer to sort your timeline or followers, and does x flag the account? nobody answered.

@MMQuimby spotted the trigger, which means other software can kick the agent off on its own.

@Scobleizer built it with @blevlabs. the verdict: grok bot is a mass-market digital coworker, not the old reply bot wearing the same name.

@codingwithmanny asked for a 7am research report every day. it ran twice and then stopped, and he's still waiting.

@AzzleAI calls it consent-gated agent payments: agents rent the compute, humans pay a fixed price per outcome. approve results, not prompts.

per @pbrody, it ran on a slice of drivers across ten american cities.

@mochikuan is moving to @OpenAI's design team after four years in crypto, calling it another nascent frontier.

@DrNickA says the readme has drifted and even claims there's no quorum, and wants a fix passed before the next round of votes.

@ajwarner90's 24-hour count: arbitrum +$109m, solana +$48m, base +$46m, sonic +$31m.

@saylor aimed it at @fundstrat and it took 2,946 likes, which is most of what bitcoin twitter did all night.

@theog__ flags it: minted with counterparty, the nft protocol that ran on bitcoin before ethereum existed.

niagara falls is being lit pink for fifteen minutes tonight in her honor, per @trishprattle.

per @MarioNawfal, usnorthcom says the drones were hostile because they threatened troops and border patrol agents near the southern border.

per @MarioNawfal, ahead of the 25th anniversary. fbi director kash patel is furious about it.

@DJSnM has it in the hangar at 39a in florida, ahead of @NASA's nancy grace roman telescope going up.

@rashmivabbigeri says she did the main transcript analysis for that investigation, and posted her takeaway from it.

@jwmeyer says he vibe coded it because he didn't like the state of the existing ones.

@trent_vanepps calls it huge progress on derisking the roadmap and keeping proving accessible to lower-resourced entities.

@Rhynotic on fwa: month one, an eth treasury open, 3% repurchased. "saving ethereum is a marathon, not a sprint."

@DeFi_Dad: $BMNR at 1.05x mnav means the treasury can start accumulating ether at a faster pace again.

@kennyistyping's closing numbers for poidh: 341 wallets funded bounties, 375 wallets earned from them, 169 nft collectors all time.

@valkenburgh says he couldn't overstate how important the two have been for standing up manufacturing in the usa this year.

@KieranOnBase asked @bankrbot; it deployed $CAR on base with 85% of supply in the pool and 15% vesting over a year.

per @solana, as equities drift into the weekend and jackson hole wraps up.

@trylimitless's number on $SPY, conditioned on kevin warsh's jackson hole speech.

@adamscochran's post about it took 44,000 retweets, the loudest thing on x overnight.

@tobi: bound to hurt canadians, but it could ultimately catalyse the country's metamorphosis.

@ScottJenningsKY via @MarioNawfal: navy sunk, no way to build a bomb tonight, mines cleared out of hormuz. "by any meaningful metric, we have won."