binance bought $100 million of circle and locked in usdc for five years @jerallaire ♥ 496 · read more
the new deal replaces a two-year one from 2024 that came with $60.25m cash from circle. per @laurashin, this time binance got discounted stock and is locked up for two years.
@jerallaire · ♥ 496 Today we announced a significant expansion of our partnership with @binance, including a new 5-year deal to promote and drive $USDC adoption across Binance global platforms, and that Binance has taken a $100m strategic stake in $CRCL. As th @binance · ♥ 395 Binance invests $100M in @circle. Partnership extended 5 years. A trusted digital dollar for more people, in more places. This is a major commitment to regulated stablecoins - and on the infrastructure the next decade of finance gets built @laurashin · ♥ 7 Circle's new Binance deal runs five years. The one it replaces, from November 2024, ran two, and came with a $60.25 million upfront payment from Circle. This time Binance paid Circle $100 million for stock, at a discount, and is locked up fthe sec says tokenized stock exchanges could start applying next quarter @econoar · read more
per @econoar, sec officials expect the first firms to file to operate tokenized u.s. stock trading venues as early as next quarter.
the justice department is investigating whether binance let iran-linked trades through @Cointelegraph ♥ 40 · read more
per cointelegraph citing bloomberg, the doj is looking at whether binance failed to block certain trades in violation of iran sanctions.
alibaba says it will train a model with up to 10 trillion parameters @MTSlive ♥ 6 · read more
ceo eddie wu said 5 to 10 trillion at the apsara conference in hangzhou, per reuters. alibaba also unveiled its own zhenwu v900 chip the same day.
@MTSlive · ♥ 6 SITUATION DETECTED: Alibaba plans to train a new AI model with between 5 trillion and 10 trillion parameters, CEO Eddie Wu said Tuesday at Alibaba Cloud’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, per Reuters. @TraffAlex · ♥ 3 🤖 AI NEWS ROUNDUP — September 22, 2026 1️⃣ ALIBABA TARGETS 5-10 TRILLION PARAMETER MODEL, UNVEILS ZHENWU V900 CHIP Alibaba is going all-in on both sides of the AI stack. Speaking at the Apsara conference on Tuesday, CEO Eddie Wu said the calibaba is about to ship a whole new qwen4 model family @Felirami · read more
announced at the yunqi keynote by qwen's new llm lead: qwen4-max, plus qwen4-flash and qwen4-plus.
anthropic and openai's ceos will speak to the un security council about ai @Polymarket ♥ 170 · read more
per @polymarket, dario amodei and sam altman address a special session, alongside yoshua bengio and hugging face's clement delangue.
a prediction market moved off base to ethereum mainnet and vitalik cheered @0xDmitry · read more
trueo is a fully onchain prediction market built on uniswap. @koeppelmann says it traded fast, cheap blocks for deep liquidity and composability.
@0xDmitry Now on Ethereum Mainnet: @Trueo_ A decentralized prediction market built on Uniswap @koeppelmann · ♥ 36 .@Trueo_ just moved from Base to mainnet - trading fast blocks and lower fees for "higher integration potential" and deep liquidity. With EEZ @etheconomiczone you can have BOTH. Be on a cheap and fast L2 and STILL have full composability wi @llamaonthebrink Trueo to Move Prediction Market From Base to Ethereum, Drawing Vitalik Buterin Praise Prediction market protocol Trueo s…chainlink signed up the $40 billion it firm that runs bank plumbing @chainlink ♥ 359 · read more
infosys supports payments infrastructure for more than 1.7 billion customer accounts and is now partnering with chainlink on institutional onchain finance.
two big traditional fund managers put real strategies onchain on avalanche @avax ♥ 383 · read more
midas is bringing mwin and mglobal to avalanche — fixed income and alternative credit from $1.3t wellington and $6b fasanara.
near is putting tokenized us stocks and etfs inside its own app @NEARProtocol ♥ 320 · read more
a partnership with ondo, run confidentially and under a single account.
cme will list uniswap futures on october 19 @fintechfrank ♥ 6 · read more
pending regulatory review. standard contracts are 10,000 uni and micro ones 1,000 — another defi token getting institutional-grade futures.
coinbase now lets any app offer usdc loans against your crypto @CoinbaseDev ♥ 16 · read more
borrow with coinbase wallets handles collateral, debt, repayments and position health through its apis, starting with morpho blue on base.
@CoinbaseDev · ♥ 16 Introducing Borrow with @CoinbaseDev Wallets, a simple way to bring crypto-backed USDC loans directly into your app. Browse products, open collateralized positions, and manage them over time. Starting with @Morpho Blue on @Base ↓ @CoinbaseDev Adding DeFi borrowing to your app normally means juggling collateral, debt, repayments, position health, and protocol transactions. CDP APIs handle the full position lifecycle. You can focus on the user experience.stepfun's new model is cheap and smart enough to move the price-performance line @StepFun_ai ♥ 55 · read more
step 5 preview came in at 44 on the artificial analysis intelligence index at $0.71 per task. more coming october 15.
zcash is up 32% in a week and sitting at a multi-year high @Unchained_pod ♥ 1 · read more
helius ceo mert mumtaz told unchained it isn't really the privacy — his case is that zec is a complete store of value: private, quantum-resistant, and it scales.
@Unchained_pod · ♥ 1 Zcash is up about 32% on the week and sitting at a multi-year high, and the easy explanation is privacy. Helius CEO @Mert Mumtaz says that's not it: "I wouldn't say for Zcash it's the privacy aspect specifically." His case is store-of-value @laurashin · ♥ 31 Why is Zcash outrunning Monero if both are privacy coins? On Unchained, Helius CEO @Mert Mumtaz argued the ZEC rally is really about being a "complete" store of value: privacy plus quantum-resistance plus scale. "You can't actually have thehyperliquid is holding $7.64 billion of usdc and starts buybacks october 3 @dgogel · read more
per @dgogel, the first aqav2 buybacks land before the u.s. onshore launch.
an ethereum dev thinks most core client teams will be gone in three years @fede_intern ♥ 32 · read more
@fede_intern argues there's no real money and not much status left in core work, and ai made writing a client much less special.
one read: top coding models stalled while open ones caught up @nickryg · read more
@nickryg's argument is that nothing huge has landed since opus 4.8, and open-source models are closing the gap from below.
someone thinks the binance deal is really circle paying away its yield @bsturisky ♥ 1 · read more
@bsturisky reads between the lines and sees a yield-sharing agreement. if so, circle's one business keeps getting taxed by whoever distributes it.
@bsturisky · ♥ 1 Reading in between the lines this is a yield agreement where Circle pays Binance a portion of the yield on deposited USDC. If I’m a $CRCL bull I don’t like this; Circle has one business and the sharks are all coming… @bsturisky this obviously isn’t the first case of a distributor sticking with USDC because of a yield agreement Hyperliquid, and then most are kept privatethe crypto fear and greed index hit 78, deep into extreme greed @Cointelegraph ♥ 40 · read more
an open-weights model running locally beat cloud jev at tetris @TraffAlex · read more
per @traffalex, a system one model called laya outperformed cloud-based jev on a tetris built with grok 4.7.
the jev benchmark now has 47 challengers and the original still wins @exiledsurfer · read more
jevbench v1.3.0 puts original jev at 74.4, though @exiledsurfer says some competitors are getting close.
tesla's 67th cybercab just joined the austin robotaxi fleet @johnkrausphotos · read more
stanford is accused of using ai to change students' race and gender in photos @Polymarket · read more
per @polymarket, the university is also alleged to have made some students appear thinner.
netanyahu went after new york's mayor on his way to the un @MarioNawfal ♥ 63 · read more
he called mamdani shameful for supporting hamas and for inciting riots against new york jews, hours before the general assembly.
zelensky showed up at the un with a us drone deal ready to sign @MarioNawfal ♥ 60 · read more
per @marionawfal, he arrived with drones, money, air defenses and de-escalation on the agenda, meeting trump, european leaders and senators.
vance says gas costs a dollar more because of iranian missiles @MarioNawfal ♥ 4 · read more
the white house is pinning higher pump prices on tehran's attacks on commercial shipping, with no hedging.
rubio is calling the greenland deal a fantastic achievement @MarioNawfal ♥ 72 · read more
"multiple american presidents understood the geographic importance of greenland. this is the first president that actually has done something about it."
adam cochran says a senator took bribes and trump's fbi buried it @adamscochran ♥ 364 · read more
he says scott reed of the susan collins super-pac illegally raised money from a government contractor through a shell company, in exchange for offering contracts.
@adamscochran · ♥ 364 Holy shit! The title DOESN’T do this justice it should read: “Susan Collins took Bribes; Trump FBI covered it up” -Scott Reed (of the Collins super PAC) raised money from a government contractor illegally via a shell company in exchange for @adamscochran · ♥ 696 Jfc. The next Dem President needs to put an absolute dog in charge of the DoJ. I want there to be SO many corruption investigations that the DoJ needs 5x the budget. We need to convict everyone who thought they were above the law so the mesputin called the saudi crown prince about the middle east @sentdefender ♥ 249 · read more
per @sentdefender, citing russian state media and the kremlin press pool, the two discussed the middle east conflict and saudi-related tensions.
the white house says a press pass is a privilege, not a right @RyanAFournier ♥ 547 · read more
@ryanafournier backing mike waltz: the administration is cutting legacy media access over what it calls leaks and hit pieces.
the doj fined nyu langone $8.5 million over gender care for minors @RyanAFournier ♥ 259 · read more
per @ryanafournier, the penalty came over fraudulent billing codes, and the hospital has to end the procedures.
you can now bet on what trump will actually say at the un @Polymarket ♥ 49 · read more
polymarket opened a market on the words in his general assembly speech.
one theory: in ai, being second might beat being first @DoveyWan ♥ 3 · read more
@doveywan argues llm marginal costs aren't near zero like last-gen internet businesses, so the usual first-mover network effects don't compound.
uniswap lps are starting to keep the money arbitrageurs used to take @marilyn100x ♥ 16 · read more
@marilyn100x points at stablecoins sitting at $0.998 all day on amms — someone trades them back to peg and pockets the difference while lps get a flat fee.
one crypto business quietly makes $10 million a week and nobody talks about it @blknoiz06 ♥ 445 · read more
@blknoiz06 calls its durability one of the most underappreciated trends in crypto — it holds up even with competition from every angle.
robinhood's ceo bets crypto will out-trade sports on prediction markets @DecryptMedia ♥ 4 · read more
the ceo of limitless says everyone should be using prediction markets @trylimitless ♥ 19 · read more
a startup is building the ai that does an analyst's job for big banks @patrick_oshag ♥ 55 · read more
patrick o'shaughnessy interviewed rogo founder gabe stengel about how much of an investor's work ai will eventually take over.
someone made jev play claire de lune on a piano in real time @ArshanKhanifar ♥ 6 · read more
@arshankhanifar calls it jevussy, a real-time piano player driven by jev. the repo is public.
a laptop agent ordered a book off amazon by itself in 30 seconds @varun_mathur ♥ 4 · read more
@varun_mathur ran hyperspace's agentic os locally with jev plus a frontier model and let it drive the whole purchase.
bitcoin merged a new way to encrypt the wallet data that isn't your seed @KLoaec · read more
bip138, a compact encryption scheme for non-seed wallet data, landed in the bips repository.
doom now runs in victor taelin's bend 2 language @VictorTaelin · read more
one command from the readme and it runs in your terminal.
someone shipped a tool that deletes all your old tweets @callebtc ♥ 38 · read more
written by @callebtc, open on github.
zcash added 42,000 new shielded wallets in the run-up @rickmanelius · read more
per @rickmanelius: 42k new shielded wallets, $40m in auction volume and $8m secondary.
saylor put out an interview on strategy's strc recovery @saylor · read more
he and strategy ceo phong le talk through what it means for mstr shareholders.
one prediction: tom lee sells ethereum to rich boomers on cnbc every day @DCinvestor ♥ 294 · read more
@dcinvestor thinks a very profitable tom lee on daily tv, pitching eth to seven- and eight-figure iras, is what nobody is ready for.
yearn shipped two features and three bug fixes to its v3 vaults @yearnfi ♥ 9 · read more
vaults 3.1.0 went out in june 2026 and yearn walked through the core logic upgrades.
hyperliquid is the latest chain to hand out ens subnames @namespace_eth ♥ 4 · read more
per @namespace_eth, it joins uniswap's millions of uni.eth subnames and celo's naming layer built on celo.eth.
you can't pump by moving to l1 if you're already on l1 @Jrag0x ♥ 12 · read more
@jrag0x on every ethereum l1 project watching trueo get a vitalik post for migrating.



