s&p global is buying openzeppelin, the shop that writes ethereum's contract code @Cointelegraph ♥ 84 · read more
per coindesk, $37 trillion has moved through openzeppelin's code, including most of the world's largest stablecoins and tokenized funds. the team started in 2015.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 84 🔥 JUST IN: S&P Global agrees to acquire smart contract security firm OpenZeppelin. @CoinDesk · ♥ 40 LATEST: @SPGlobal acquires @OpenZeppelin, the smart contract security firm whose code underpins $37T in transferred value, including the majority of the world's largest stablecoins and tokenized funds. @Jrag0x · ♥ 48 S&P Global is acquiring OpenZeppelin. OpenZeppelin writes the code under nearly every stablecoin & tokenized fund. $37T has moved through it. Ethereum's standards are quietly becoming TradFi's standards. @uttam_singhk · ♥ 54 this is so f*king huge S&P Global one of the most important institutions in global finance acquiring OpenZeppelin - one of the companies that helped build the onchain economy if you needed a signal that onchain finance is becoming institutithe sec will let tokenized stocks trade onchain without an exchange license @SECGov ♥ 1.1k · read more
temporary, conditional relief for 'tokenized securities venues' running permissioned automated market makers. it expires five years after publication and the sec is taking comments on what comes next.
@SECGov · ♥ 1.1k 🚨 TODAY: The SEC issued an order granting temporary, conditional exemptive relief to Tokenized Securities Venues from the definition of “exchange” in the Exchange Act to trade tokenized NMS stock using innovative permissioned automated mar @SECGov · ♥ 105 The exemptions are set to expire five years after publication. The order solicits public comment about possible modifications to the exemptive relief and potential next steps. Read more below ⬇️ @solana · ♥ 283 BREAKING: The SEC issues a temporary, conditional exemption allowing onchain trading of tokenized US stocks. @imyoungsparks It's here — SEC releases long-awaited innovation exemption to 'bring America's capital markets into the digital age' https:…robinhood's ceo says tokenization is finally coming to america @vladtenev ♥ 1.0k · read more
vlad tenev's pitch: instant settlement, 24/7 trading, fractional shares by default. robinhood put out a formal endorsement of the sec order within the hour.
@vladtenev · ♥ 1.0k Tokenization is coming to America. Thanks to the SEC’s leadership, Americans can start to reap the benefits of tokenization: instant settlement, 24/7 trading, fractionalization by default and more. It’s a good day for US innovation. @RobinhoodApp · ♥ 529 Robinhood supports the @SECGov innovation exemption. Americans deserve access to crypto technology and all of the financial innovations it makes possible, including instant settlement, 24/7 trading, and fractionalization by default.running one of those onchain stock venues comes with real strings @carlosdomingo ♥ 8 · read more
carlosdomingo read chair atkins' statement: a venue has to be a us person and comply with economic and trade sanctions programs, among other conditions.
the crypto bill died in the senate and almost nobody seems upset @KAVA_CHAIN ♥ 223 · read more
kava's line is that clarity through regulators beats waiting on congress indefinitely. farokh figures the sec and cftc are moving fast enough that the bill was optional.
@KAVA_CHAIN · ♥ 223 Clarity through regulators > waiting on Congress indefinitely. The financial system is being rebuilt in real time - with or without perfect legislation 🏗️ Builders don't pause. Neither do we 🇺🇸 @farokh · ♥ 70 We won't even need the Clarity Act with the pace at which the SEC and the CFTC are working for our bags. @materkel CLARITY failed and we got a rate hike and crypto is green If you somehow need more proof that we're starting a bull market, I… @blockchainchick If you told me in 2011 that The Clarity Act would fail I would have asked you why the fuck you're looking to the government fo…bitcoin climbed back toward $77,000 a day after the bill failed @coingecko ♥ 160 · read more
coingecko clocked the round trip inside 24 hours, and it happened through a rate hike. defi_dad points out the same two events would have crushed the market in january.
@coingecko · ♥ 160 Less than 24 hours after the CLARITY Act failed to advance, Bitcoin is already looking to reclaim $77,000. @DeFi_Dad First rate hike in years, right after CLARITY failed. And yet, the markets seem completely unbothered. Those events would have sent us to goblintown if it were still January through June. Two days ago when CLARITY failed, bitcoin:native drothe crypto bill may have died over an ethics clause, not the policy @adamscochran ♥ 82 · read more
adamscochran says democrats had the votes lined up and bailed after lummis pushed the unchanged version — with a trump loophole in the ethics clause — to a vote.
a senator voted to kill the crypto bill and wouldn't say why @econoar · read more
econoar clipped mazie hirono being asked a simple question about her no vote. laura shin's show is running the same question as 'who killed the clarity act?'
seven senate democrats say they still want to pass the thing @rahilla · read more
gillibrand, warner, gallego and alsobrooks among them, per rahilla — a statement reaffirming commitment the day after cloture failed.
circle's new chain is picking up integrations by the hour @jerallaire · read more
jeremy allaire says arc is live on owego for spending stablecoins across ten markets, and bybit now takes usdc deposits and withdrawals on arc.
arc added half a billion dollars in stablecoins in a single day @defin00b · read more
defin00b counts +$515.3m in chain-level growth the day after mainnet went live.
circle's ceo says arc is an operating system for a whole economy @jerallaire · read more
allaire's framing: not a payments chain — contracts and governance too.
para's wallets were live on arc from day one @jerallaire · read more
create a wallet in milliseconds and pay the fees in stablecoins, per allaire.
circle built a way to take agent payments without running relayer keys @bobbilee · read more
the new facilitator service handles x402 payments on arc, per bobbilee.
the same usdc on arc has two different decimal counts @chrisdior777 ♥ 10 · read more
chrisdior777's warning to anyone launching there: native usdc gas uses 18 decimals, the erc-20 interface uses 6, same balance. your accounting has to handle both.
there's less ether sitting on exchanges than at any point in ten years @DeFi_Dad · read more
defi_dad counts 500,000 eth off exchanges over the stretch. materkel's read: first they fight over the talent, then they fight over the asset backing all of it.
@DeFi_Dad 🚨 ethereum:native supply shock incoming ETH on exchanges hits lowest level in 10 years. Exchange supply dropped by 500,000… @materkel · ♥ 19 This is what adoption looks like. First, it’s a fight to acquire the top talent. Then, it’s a fight to acquire the only asset backing all of it. The ticker is ethereum:native.ethereum's economic security is back above $100 billion @francescoswiss ♥ 7 · read more
francescoswiss puts it at $108b with 42 million eth staked, up from $70-80b early this year — with eth still about half off its all-time high.
half of every stablecoin in existence lives on ethereum @obchakevich_ ♥ 10 · read more
obchakevich_ counts roughly $156b on ethereum, most of the rest on tron, and everything else a rounding error.
vitalik says ethereum will be quantum-proof and formally verified using ai @VivekVentures ♥ 74 · read more
his framing is that ethereum is the foundational infrastructure for the next financial system, and a lot of that verification work is already underway.
a researcher who runs hacking agents says that's not what he's seeing @hrkrshnn ♥ 19 · read more
hrkrshnn's team builds security agents, spends trillions of tokens a week on them, and sits on ethereum's bounty leaderboard. formal verification isn't matching that description on the ground.
devs say jev is the missing piece for building ai into products @dillon_mulroy ♥ 146 · read more
dillon_mulroy's read: it lets you compose ai into systems instead of making ai the product. dabusthebuilder thinks it's the natural shape for an autonomous economic actor.
@dillon_mulroy · ♥ 146 i think jev is resonating with devs so well b/c it unlocks so many opportunities for composing ai into systems and products rather than ai _becoming_ the product/system really does feel like it was a missing primitive @dabusthebuilder Jev feels like the model most naturally suited to becoming an autonomous economic actor. It leverages AI exactly where current systems waste so much time. It’s almost like a mother tongue for agents and the way they were meant to be interacsomeone classified 1,018 research papers with jev for eight cents @nutlope ♥ 50 · read more
nutlope summarized each paper with deepseek v4 flash, then had jev pick from 24 topics — 256ms median end to end.
a dev left a browser tab open overnight and jev ate his whole balance @wesbos ♥ 80 · read more
wesbos burned through his credits $0.000232 at a time.
somebody already built a jev knockoff that runs at home @nickryg · read more
nickryg's vllm patch turns diffusiongemma into something jev-shaped on a dgx spark, and it solves ascii mazes optimally.
not everyone's sold on jev, because it's closed and there's a waitlist @what_the_func · read more
what_the_func thinks you could get close with a small fast model and something like baml.
robinhood's ceo also thinks ai will prove your code is correct @Cointelegraph ♥ 46 · read more
cointelegraph caught the line from vlad tenev, same day his company backed the sec's tokenization order.
zuckerberg, musk and huang reportedly talked trump out of an ai regulator @Hesamation · read more
per hesamation, the proposed regulator had google deepmind's backing.
trump aides are building an ai government services site before the midterms @matthewstoller · read more
matthewstoller's scoop on the new site.
a lab went quiet for half a year to study how far rl scales @DavideCrapis · read more
davidecrapis says mimo-v2.6 is in the middle of its rl run right now.
someone tested whether a model needs its own coding harness to do well @DavideCrapis · read more
davidecrapis' team ran seven models through the claude code, codex and pi harnesses to compare.
an oxford paper argues llms mathematically cannot invent anything @vrypan · read more
vrypan surfaced it. the claim is impossibility, not difficulty.
andrew yang says the ai labs now need fake internets to train on @jun_song · read more
per jun_song, the argument is that agents have contaminated the real one.
the simplest fix for ai risk might be making the labs liable @sweetmantech · read more
sweetmantech's argument: hold the labs fully responsible for what their models do and the frontier paces itself.
most ai safety talk is about the least likely disasters @onewayfunction · read more
onewayfunction's complaint is that the discourse keeps centering low-probability risks over the ones already here.
there's a free stealth coding model up for grabs this week @rootdraws · read more
rootdraws says union alpha is free for seven days, doesn't train on your data, handles images, and is built for agentic coding.
someone made a 22-minute ai fantasy cartoon and people are watching it @robneal28 · read more
robneal28's tales of grimwicke, chapter one, in the anthropomorphic-animal tradition.
the house went home until after the midterms on two days' notice @RyanAFournier ♥ 223 · read more
ryanafournier notes 700+ house-passed bills sitting in the senate. 0xjlv says it dodges an epstein vote; thomas massie says it dodges hegseth impeachment proceedings.
@RyanAFournier · ♥ 223 Speaker Mike Johnson just sent the House home until after the midterms on 48-hour notice! While the Senate sits on 700+ House-passed bills, House Republicans passed over 70 bills THIS WEEK ALONE, including sanctions on Iran & Russia and the @0xjlv Leaving town and forgetting the midterms to dodge a vote on Epstein. Man. This is bleak. @drjasper_eth Thomas Massie slams Mike Johnson for ending Congress early to avoid Pete Hegseth impeachment proceedings and important…democrats hit record odds to take both chambers in november @Polymarket · read more
polymarket has a 59% chance of a sweep, its highest yet.
trump is threatening europe over canada getting closer to it @MarioNawfal ♥ 34 · read more
von der leyen offered canada a new 'associate member' status and carney welcomed it. trump called the idea a hostile act and threatened to cut off trade with the eu.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 34 🇪🇸🇨🇦🇪🇺 Spanish PM Sánchez just stuck a Canadian maple leaf on the EU flag. EU chief von der Leyen offered Ottawa a brand-new status as the bloc’s first “associate member" and Canadian PM Carney welcomed a deeper alliance. Trump called @thefrozenfire Trump says he'll retaliate against the EU if Canada becomes a member. I don't think people truly understand what's happ… @MKjrstad Trump threatens to cut off trade with Europe if Canada becomes an associate member of the EU.seven months into the iran war, saudi arabia can't get washington on the phone @MarioNawfal ♥ 285 · read more
marionawfal's thread: before the first strike, gulf diplomats were told the war would take a month. riyadh is still waiting on a call back.
israel is stockpiling american bombs before the next congress can stop it @MarioNawfal ♥ 28 · read more
a $2.8b package — 20,000 mk-84s, 20,000 blu-117s, 20,000 i-2000 penetrators — funded out of the pentagon's foreign military sales budget, per marionawfal.
iran says it shot down another american drone @sentdefender ♥ 158 · read more
the irgc claims an mq-9 over qeshm island, per sentdefender, as reaper and predator losses keep climbing.
the bigger iran worry is that it can't control the houthis much longer @adamscochran ♥ 29 · read more
adamscochran: they're iran-aligned by convenience, and the more territory, members and seized saudi weapons they pick up, the less subordinate they get.
the iran war is starting to show up at american gas pumps @MKjrstad · read more
mkjrstad reports diesel shortages with multiple stations running dry. it's an unverified claim, but it's doing big numbers.
trump meets the gulf leaders at the un next week @MarioNawfal ♥ 68 · read more
saudi, the uae, qatar, bahrain, kuwait and oman are on the list for a postwar talk, while the uss george washington works the arabian sea.
the hot zcash trade is already hunting for its next leg @farokh ♥ 98 · read more
farokh is seeding 'if you missed $zec buy $near' and says you should own both. tulipking's version is that most of crypto is asleep on the rotation.
@farokh · ♥ 98 I think the "if you missed $ZEC buy $NEAR" narrative is going to take off soon, even though you should own BOTH. @tulipking · ♥ 65 The most interesting part about this perspective is that it reveals how much crypto capital is completely dead asleep at the wheel. If more of us were awake you would see the great rotation: ZEC at $20k because ETH would be at $1k, BNB at $zcash's new shielded assets pulled in tens of thousands of bids @rickmanelius ♥ 1 · read more
rickmanelius argues the near intents integration brought thousands of people to zcash for the first time — against critics who called shielded assets a distraction.
a zcash miner hired a former hut 8 boss ahead of going public @BarrySilbert ♥ 41 · read more
barry silbert says jaime leverton is joining fortitude as ceo, with a business combination due in q4.
@BarrySilbert · ♥ 41 Big news: @JaimeLeverton is joining @FortitudeCrypto as CEO Jaime has an exceptional track record of building and scaling companies in mining and infrastructure. Exactly the leadership this next chapter calls for as Fortitude advances towar @BarrySilbert Fortitude Zcash miner $HSCS adding former Hut 8 CEO ahead of the business combination in Q4. @DCGco · ♥ 12 Today, @FortitudeCrypto announced @JaimeLeverton as CEO. As Fortitude advances towards the public markets, Jaime brings extensive experience scaling businesses at the intersection of digital assets, mining, and infrastructure. We also congrlido is voting on a backstop to keep its token liquid @Trueo_ ♥ 1 · read more
the dao would release up to $1.5m in ldo plus $480k usdc quarterly if exchange liquidity falls short, with a hard 30-day termination clause.
moonpay put cross-chain trading inside somebody else's wallet @moonpay ♥ 85 · read more
keeper wallet users can now trade across ton, tron, ethereum, bitcoin, arbitrum, base and bsc in one tap.
moonpay's ceo went on cnbc to say everything's going onchain @JoeQTrader · read more
caroline pham's interview, flagged by joeqtrader.
kamino is bringing galaxy's curation to solana lenders @jacobfranek · read more
jacobfranek says one of the largest digital asset firms in the world is now curating on kamino.
quicknode will auto-rebalance your usdc across insured vaults @Quicknode ♥ 13 · read more
earn's covered strategies move funds across six morpho vaults on base with the cover built in instead of bought per vault.
andre cronje is advertising 22% on a wrapped usdc @AndreCronjeTech · read more
ftusd earned 12.9% over the past month and he projects 22%. it's a yield claim from the person selling it.
ethereum devs are chipping away at how long bridging takes @_julianma ♥ 10 · read more
_julianma: faster confirmations speed up l1-to-l2 deposits, zk proofs speed up l2-to-l1 withdrawals, and slot time is the unit sitting under both.
the ethereum institutional forum is coming back as a closed-door series @ethereuminsti ♥ 7 · read more
ethereuminsti is relaunching the invite-only event it started at the ethereum foundation, after editions in hong kong and new york.
developers are joking about importing their contracts from s&p now @mykcryptodev ♥ 13 · read more
mykcryptodev's gag import line, and notsofast's real question underneath it: does openzeppelin stay open after this, or go the way of openai?
@mykcryptodev · ♥ 13 @OpenZeppelin @Amxx huge 🔥 gonna take some getting used to import "@spglobal/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol"; @notsofast · ♥ 5 "why don't I know much about openzeppelin" "oh they made stablecoin smart contracts" "so after being corporately acquired, are they gonna remain "open" like openAI?"somebody mapped every position of power in the federal government @johnrobertreed · read more
johnrobertreed's us gov graph is a public map of the people and jobs, built on the theory that you can't fix institutions you can't see.
you might only need two people to build a product now @HarshaKaramchat · read more
harshakaramchat's version: one person with exceptional vision and taste, and one who can actually build it.




