the us and iran spent the night shooting at each other @sentdefender ♥ 358 · read more
per @OSINTdefender the us hit iranian rocket launchers and larak island first, and iran answered with missiles at us bases in jordan. first us action there in a month.
@sentdefender · ♥ 358 U.S. President Donald J. Trump posted on his Truth Social app this morning lambasting Iran, following last night’s round of reciprocal strikes that saw the U.S. preemptively target Larak Island and Iran target U.S. bases and infrastructure @MKjrstad Iran has retaliated against US forces after the US military struck Iranian rocket launchers, a US official said, marking the first… @TIME · ♥ 4 U.S. strikes Iran in first military action in a monthtrump told fox news the us is going to hit iran back @sentdefender ♥ 188 · read more
"we will respond" to the missiles that landed in jordan, via @TreyYingst. @OSINTdefender reads that as the start of a prolonged wave of reciprocal strikes, not a one-off.
oil went up and stocks went down while crypto barely moved @therealchaseeb · read more
@therealchaseeb's pre-market read on the last trading day of august: crude bid on the renewed strikes at hormuz, equities slipping, crypto holding.
the fight is really about who controls the strait of hormuz @sentdefender ♥ 512 · read more
@OSINTdefender says iran is running small boats out of omani waters to monitor and identify commercial ships transiting the strait.
strategy bought another $370m of bitcoin and now owns 845,050 coins @saylor ♥ 7.7k · read more
4,603 btc, plus $29m more cash and $152m of $strc repurchased. saylor says net leverage is 0.0% against $6.71b of usd assets.
@saylor · ♥ 7.7k Strategy has acquired 4,603 BTC for $370M, increased USD Cash by $29M, and repurchased $152M of $STRC. As of 8/30/26, we hold 845,050 bitcoin:native and $6.71B of USD Assets, bringing Net Leverage to 0.0%. $MSTR @Cointelegraph · ♥ 235 🔥 JUST IN: Strategy bought 4,603 $BTC for $369.7M They now hold 845,050 BTC. @saylor · ♥ 780 These actions further strengthen $STRC. USD Reserve is $5.10B and USD Cash is $1.61B, improving USD Duration to 4.0 yrs (+23d) and STRC’s BTC Credit to 56 bps (-3 bps).openai reset everyone's usage limits to celebrate 25 million users @thsottiaux ♥ 4.2k · read more
@thsottiaux: every paid chatgpt work and codex subscription got its usage cleared. he later clarified codex's “20x” applies to weekly limits, and neither pro plan has a 5-hour cap.
@thsottiaux · ♥ 4.2k What I wanted to say yesterday is that we hit 25M active users and to celebrate we have now reset usage for all paid subscriptions for ChatGPT Work and Codex. See you soon for more news from The Reset Company. @thsottiaux · ♥ 3.0k For clarity, while both are called 20X, in Codex they apply specifically to weekly usage limits. And we also don't have 5h limits for both Pro plans. The Pro 20X is quite precisely 20X the usage of the Plus subscription, so it does exactlythe us burned up to $640m of patriot missiles in one night @Trueo_ ♥ 1 · read more
@Trueo_ counts 96 to 160 pac-3 mse interceptors fired from batteries in jordan at 32 to 40 iranian ballistic missiles — three or four shots per incoming missile.
trump posted an ai video of an iranian oil island burning @MarioNawfal ♥ 386 · read more
kharg island handles the bulk of iran's oil exports. @OSINTdefender had to clarify the post was a threat, not a claim that kharg had actually been struck.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 386 🇺🇸 Trump just posted an AI video clip depicting Iran’s Kharg Island oil infrastructure engulfed in flames, with one sentence: “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!” Kharg is the beating heart of Iran’s oil export system, historicall @sentdefender · ♥ 233 Just for clarification, U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s post on his Truth Social app about Kharg Island was more so a threat than anything else and not him claiming Kharg was struck. So far, lasts night’s round of reciprocal strikes has nocentcom says the claim that a tanker hit a mine is just false @sentdefender ♥ 97 · read more
no ships have struck mines in the strait of hormuz, per centcom. trump separately said the us already swept them out and got very little help doing it.
@sentdefender · ♥ 97 U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has issued a fact check following Iranian claims that a tanker struck naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the report false and stating that no ships have struck mines in the Strait. The claim comes am @MarioNawfal · ♥ 46 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump says the U.S. has already swept the mines out of the Strait of Hormuz and there are none left there now. He also said America got very little help doing it. The U.S. spends billions backing NATO and countries like South Korearobinhood's own chain is now out-earning ethereum and base on fees @sgoldfed ♥ 37 · read more
@sgoldfed: over $1,222,000 of transaction revenue in 24 hours, and 10% of that flows back to arbitrum.
crypto funds took in $3.2b last week, the most since october 2025 @Cointelegraph ♥ 47 · read more
bank of america's number, via @Cointelegraph.
etherscan built a way for your ai agent to read onchain data directly @etherscan ♥ 1 · read more
an mcp server plus a skills pack (orchestrator, contract review, transaction debugger) so claude or codex can ask in plain language and get real api answers.
@etherscan · ♥ 1 Etherscan MCP 🔌 https://t.co/J1DjoTn0f0 Connect Claude, Codex, or your coding agents to live onchain data through authenticated tools Ask in plain language and get answers grounded in real API responses Get started: @etherscan · ♥ 1 Etherscan Skills 🛠️ https://t.co/mZ54hx2GbY Teach your agents how to complete a task with the right API calls using: • Etherscan Orchestrator • Contract Review • Transaction Debugger • Etherscan Flow Install w/ Skills CLI: `npx skills addanthropic put out a standard for ai agents to control physical hardware @IQofficial ♥ 3 · read more
@IQofficial's roundup frames it as agents getting off the screen and into the real world.
trump called iran "officially a failed nation" on live tv @Polymarket ♥ 167 · read more
no navy, no air force, no currency, soldiers and police unpaid, inflation at 300% — his words, per @Polymarket and @Cointelegraph.
the saudi-turkey-pakistan defense pact is turning into a bloc @MarioNawfal ♥ 376 · read more
@MarioNawfal: pakistan says six or seven more muslim-majority countries want in, bangladesh the latest to raise a hand, with egypt's name floating around too.
google shipped a model that just does speech, gemini 3.5 transcribe @IQofficial ♥ 3 · read more
aimed at speech recognition and voice interaction. @IQofficial reads it as voice becoming a bigger part of how people use ai.
thomson reuters built its own llm on top of chinese open weights @socrates1024 · read more
@socrates1024 calls it the craziest ai story of the week: the new model, "thomson," starts from qwen3.5-397b.
starkware did the first quantum-safe bitcoin transaction on mainnet @StarkWareLtd ♥ 3 · read more
using avihu's qsb design. the pitch is a contingency plan holders can use themselves instead of waiting on a protocol-level fix that may not arrive in time.
you can now buy zcash with cash app, revolut, wise or paypal @NEARProtocol ♥ 237 · read more
near intents opened the route and it settles to zec through peerfolio.
strive bought 1,800 bitcoin for $143m @Cointelegraph ♥ 62 · read more
that takes the treasury company to 23,156 btc, per @Cointelegraph.
anthropic used to publish exactly how many hours claude max gets @Hesamation ♥ 153 · read more
@Hesamation dug up the july 2025 docs: max 5x was 140-280 hours a week, 20x was 240-480. the numbers came down and were never republished.
apple gets a new ceo tomorrow after 28 years of tim cook @ijustine ♥ 194 · read more
@ijustine, one day out, wishing cook luck in his new role.
apple might rename lake ontario to "lake america" on its maps @Polymarket ♥ 67 · read more
@Polymarket says trump spoke to the company personally. @Web3__Youth's read: it doesn't move the actual border, but it's a precedent for private companies editing geography for political favors.
@Polymarket · ♥ 67 JUST IN: Apple may soon change Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its maps after Trump personally spoke with the company. @Web3__Youth @Polymarket Renaming a Great Lake on Apple Maps doesn't change the actual border, but it does set a weird precedent for private companies editing geography for political favors. Wonder if Google follows suit or calls this out.solana etfs just had their biggest day of the year @therealchaseeb · read more
$60.9m into the us funds on august 27, per @therealchaseeb.
solana is beating every other chain on dex volume right now @solana · read more
it leads spot dex volume on 24h, 7d and 30d. @ConejoCapital counted almost a million traders on saturday.
bitcoin is drifting near $77k and the level that matters is $82,850 @PhilakoneCrypto ♥ 37 · read more
@PhilakoneCrypto: btc swept $76.95k sunday and recovered, needs to reclaim $78.2k first, and losing $76.85k deepens the pullback.
the "were l2s a mistake" argument flared up again @pedrouid ♥ 4 · read more
@pedrouid to @DCinvestor: l2s saved ethereum from extinction, evm blockspace needs commoditizing, and mainnet should focus on security and interop instead of execution.
@pedrouid · ♥ 4 @DCinvestor Honestly I disagree that L2s were a distraction In fact they saved Ethereum from extinction EVM blockspace needs to be more commoditzed Ethereum should focus on security and interoperability Less about execution and user onboard @IslandHunting Ethereum L2 roadmap distracted from L1 scaling for a minute which perhaps was not great but longterm, L2s are insanely bul… @joshrudolf Strong L1 benefits L2s Strong L2s benefit L1builders want the next ethereum fork to make gas cheap enough to come home @sweetman_eth ♥ 1 · read more
@sweetman_eth asked ethereum labs whether it lowers gas enough to move paymaster-dependent products from base back to mainnet.
someone replayed 6.7 years of tornado cash deposits in 19 milliseconds @eth_systems · read more
@eth_systems says the point isn't the speed, it's the scale it puts in reach — a full day of upi, roughly 748 million transactions, in 82 seconds.
the taliban is dangling a $1 trillion pile of minerals at us companies @MarioNawfal ♥ 81 · read more
kabul says american firms are welcome in mining, infrastructure, agriculture and trade while it pushes for sanctions relief and access to frozen afghan money, per @MarioNawfal.
the data center backlash got big enough that people are apologizing @nwilliams030 · read more
@nwilliams030 walked back the tone of yesterday's post, saying the concerns were reasonable. the counter going around: "it's the industrial revolution, should the u.s. stop building railways?"
@nwilliams030 Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday. What I should have said: There were reasonable concerns about data… @sutherlandphys "It's the Industrial Revolution, should the U.S. stop building Railways??" @Leon_Vandenberg Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday. What I should have said: There were reasonable concerns about data…the ai crowd is pitching data centers as bringing factories back @DavidSacks · read more
@DavidSacks says ai is reindustrializing america after decades of offshoring. nvidia's ceo says ai could help america lead the next industrial revolution.
elon says ai will be able to do anything digital @madcapslaugh · read more
anything that doesn't require shaping atoms, in the clip @madcapslaugh pulled.
llms are now better than most doctors, one investor says @AriDavidPaul ♥ 18 · read more
@AriDavidPaul: better than 95% of doctors in 95% of specialties. he says check your doctor against one, and expects medical models 10x better within a year.
even people who build with agents all day hate their tools @DennisonBertram ♥ 4 · read more
@DennisonBertram isn't really happy with any harness option and is rolling his own: fable planning, codex implementing, opus reviewing, with cloud handoff.
the codex team thinks the coding-agent app is a generational moment @ajambrosino · read more
@ajambrosino, who works on it, also shipped media tabs for the chatgpt desktop in-app browser this week.
nobody can explain what chatgpt work does, including the people who love it @hnshah · read more
@hnshah calls it “deeply confusing but extremely powerful.” @LexnLin spent two laptop-free weeks using it to build sites and cut a video from 1300+ drive photos.
@hnshah Here's my attempt at explaining what ChatGPT Work can actually do - it's a deeply confusing but extremely powerful tool with a… @LexnLin · ♥ 38 okay i REALLY underestimated ChatGPT Work i've been travelling without my laptop for 2 weeks now and i've used it to create websites, test a bunch of things for me and even go through 1300+ images from my Google Drive, pick the best ones anyou can now plug a mac straight into an nvidia dgx spark over usb-c @alexocheema · read more
@alexocheema's patch enabling direct usb-c networking between apple silicon macs and dgx spark landed in the mainline linux kernel.
an ai agent found and fixed a bug in google's own agent cli @bigironchris ♥ 6 · read more
built on @aeonframework, per @bigironchris, who's doing a call about it tomorrow.
web search is so scammed up you can't find the real project @MarcoWorms · read more
@MarcoWorms told a friend to research an agent framework and woke up to a pile of lookalike sites, none of them obviously the real one.
there's an author on amazon shipping a novel a month with an llm @patio11 ♥ 56 · read more
@patio11 went deep in the genre-fiction stacks and found a series being pumped out by what is really an llm/human team.
anthropic reportedly won't let staff work from cafes or airports @martinborchardt ♥ 1 · read more
per @martinborchardt: home, an anthropic office, or a client's office, and nowhere public.
people are dunking on saylor's average buy price @mdudas ♥ 98 · read more
@mdudas: "sold in the 60s, bought in the 80s." @KeyboardMonkey3 is "genuinely confused as to what the fuck you're doing."
only three crypto assets have etfs bigger than $1 billion @HHorsley · read more
bitcoin, ethereum and solana, per @HHorsley.
the all-time google chart for "buy crypto" looks nothing like you'd expect @kennyistyping ♥ 8 · read more
@kennyistyping pulled it up and just called it weird.
eli ben-sasson is betting zcash hits $1,200 by late september @EliBenSasson ♥ 32 · read more
he put money on it, september 25, with no liquidation risk even if zec goes to $700 or $7. not investment advice, he says.
if you use a keystone wallet with avalanche, do something today @KeystoneWallet ♥ 11 · read more
core wallet drops keystone support september 1. c-chain users should sync to another evm wallet; x and p-chain users need to import their seed into core.
devcon is in mumbai this november @nachortti ♥ 2 · read more
november 3-6. @nachortti will present there on frontier research contractors as a sustainability model for ethereum public goods.
the cypherpunk crowd has a two-day privacy event with a hackathon this week @blockblanc · read more
common s3nse runs september 4-5 at de hallen, with near intents joining as a partner. web3privacy also posted its congress panel with kurt opsahl and tor's roger dingledine.
@blockblanc Privacy is Common S3nse. Two days of talks, panels and a live hackathon finale at De Hallen (Sept 4–5) as part of Cypherpunk… @blockblanc @near_intents, the universal liquidity protocol, is joining Common S3nse as a partner. One integration gives wallets, dA… @web3privacy · ♥ 1 And at our first Cypherpunk Congress in Thailand we were honored to host a panel between long-lasting digital rights activists @kurtopsahl (ex-@EFF) & @RogerDingledine (@torproject co-founder) Archive: https://t.co/uRpJu2Ylmv YouTube:openclaude shipped a gateway that mixes model providers @gitlawb ♥ 26 · read more
v0.30.0 adds live openrouter and opengateway models, safer plugins, cleaner tool calls, better background sessions and unicode/ime input that works.
a common smart contract bug can pay the same claim twice @RealJohnnyTime ♥ 2 · read more
@RealJohnnyTime walks through it: if the contract sends the reward before marking the claim used, a malicious receiver calls claim() again during the callback.
anduril says it will just buy your defense startup @PalmerLuckey ♥ 1.5k · read more
@PalmerLuckey: they work with hundreds of small businesses on tech, supply chain and weapons testing, and sometimes acquire them. "we don't fetishize vertical integration."
rollups may soon be able to talk to each other in real time @epochzer0 · read more
@epochzer0 points at etheconomiczone, which enables synchronous composability between rollups via realtime proving, and expects many more l2s because of it.




