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  1. 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.

  2. the 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. the 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.

  8. 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?'

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. someone 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. trump aides are building an ai government services site before the midterms @matthewstoller · read more

    matthewstoller's scoop on the new site.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  1. an oxford paper argues llms mathematically cannot invent anything @vrypan · read more

    vrypan surfaced it. the claim is impossibility, not difficulty.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. democrats hit record odds to take both chambers in november @Polymarket · read more

    polymarket has a 59% chance of a sweep, its highest yet.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. lido 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.

  10. 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.

  1. moonpay's ceo went on cnbc to say everything's going onchain @JoeQTrader · read more

    caroline pham's interview, flagged by joeqtrader.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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?

  8. 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.

  9. 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.