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  1. google, aws, visa and stripe all signed on to crypto's agent payment standard @x402intern · read more

    the x402 foundation now counts google, aws, visa, stripe, circle and the linux foundation among its backers. x402 is the rail agents use to pay each other in stablecoins.

  2. ai agents can now buy and sell 6,000 stocks through coinbase @x402intern · read more

    coinbase for agents lets a bot trade equities and pay for market data mid-task. @chad_evm calls it a practical bridge from demos to useful economic action.

  3. america's treasury secretary met china's vice premier to tee up a trump-xi meeting @SecScottBessent ♥ 1.5k · read more

    scott bessent's own readout of talks with he lifeng says they focused on "securing meaningful commitments that protect american workers." it was the day's most-liked post at 1,493 likes.

  4. the us might ban diesel exports for 90 days because prices hit a record @Polymarket ♥ 145 · read more

    polymarket puts it at 56%. per @grok that keeps roughly 1.5m barrels a day at home against $6.52/gal at the pump, and tightens already strained supply in europe.

  5. openai's new model matches claude on coding for less than half the price @arena ♥ 53 · read more

    per @arena, gpt-6 sol (max) landed #4 in code arena webdev with 1689 points — on par with claude opus 5 at $8 per million tokens blended.

  6. people say claude opus 5.5 got quietly worse two weeks after launch @maria_rcks ♥ 67 · read more

    @maria_rcks says it was insanely good at launch and now she spends half her time correcting things it understood perfectly before. no announced change either way.

  7. blackrock says compute for ai could end up tokenized on a blockchain @b3labs · read more

    the world's largest asset manager floating gpu time as a tradable onchain asset. it's a remark, not a product.

  8. the ftx estate moved $65 million of ether to a trading desk @Cointelegraph ♥ 25 · read more

    per cointelegraph, alameda research sent 23,639 eth to wintermute. the read is that the bankruptcy estate is selling.

  9. zcash blew past $1,600 for the first time since 2016 @coingecko ♥ 161 · read more

    per coingecko, the run followed 21shares launching europe's first zcash etp on euronext paris and amsterdam.

  10. circle's cross-chain transfer rails now move more than just usdc @jerallaire · read more

    per jeremy allaire, cctp now supports eurc and cirbtc too, so euro stablecoins and wrapped bitcoin can hop chains the same way dollars do.

  1. circle will let big institutions borrow usdc against their bitcoin @mikewchan ♥ 2 · read more

    @mikewchan reads it as miners and long-term holders covering payroll, power and capex without selling the btc upside they're working to capture.

  2. trump's approval is at -22.4, the worst of either of his terms @NateSilver538 ♥ 158 · read more

    nate silver has him below any point in his first term, including after january 6. at this point in 2018 he was at a "mere" -11.6.

  3. bitmex shut down its exchange after eleven years @Unchained_pod ♥ 1 · read more

    it closed wednesday, per unchained. bitmex is where the perpetual swap — now the dominant crypto derivative — got popularized.

  4. celsius's estate wants 6,360 bitcoin back over a 2020 liquidation @Unchained_pod ♥ 1 · read more

    per unchained, the celsius bankruptcy estate is suing the exchange's owner, alleging it wrongfully liquidated bitcoin positions held by celsius and a fund during the march 2020 crash.

  5. trump's accounts bought up to $100,000 of michael saylor's company in july @laurashin ♥ 1 · read more

    a disclosure released tuesday lists three strategy trades, a coinbase purchase, and sales of miners mara and cleanspark across 1,156 transactions. the white house says third parties manage the portfolio.

  6. real-world assets on solana just crossed $4.6 billion for the first time @x402intern · read more

    an all-time high for the value of tokenized assets living on the chain.

  7. that iran school strike may not have been an ai targeting error @MarioNawfal ♥ 106 · read more

    per anthony aguilar, the minab school was on america's pre-approved target list, a human steered the tomahawk in, and it was hit three times. the pentagon blamed ai.

  8. tinygrad's founder says he won't touch opus 5.5 and listed why @__tinygrad__ ♥ 484 · read more

    calls claude code spyware, says it refuses half of what he asks, and mocks the phrase "pacing the frontier." the day's most-liked ai post at 484 likes.

  9. a new kind of ai model read every fortune 1000 company in 3.6 seconds @goekhan · read more

    jev plus firecrawl's alexandria dataset. jev is a "decision model" — it returns typed judgments instead of prose, which makes classification very cheap and very fast.

  10. the new fast decision models can't solve a cup puzzle a kid can @marco_derossi ♥ 8 · read more

    @marco_derossi and @bigironchris both posted it: ball under cup a, four swaps, where is it. their own models and jev get it wrong. bigironchris says his sage1 fixes it.

  1. someone's ai agent hired a human to go buy a times square billboard @AlexanderTw33ts ♥ 8 · read more

    per @alexandertw33ts, a muse agent paid a person to show up in person and put it up.

  2. opus 5.5 cut a smart contract's gas cost by 70% @MonkeyMeaning · read more

    @monkeymeaning told it to aggressively optimize a settlement contract, ugly welcome, tests and external api unchanged. settlements went from 350k gas to 96k.

  3. a grok post spun up a prediction market that's done $300 million in volume @MLeeJr ♥ 24 · read more

    @mleejr calls it the most consequential ai post in social media history — the ai created the market itself, and a wallet is linked to the grok account.

  4. x402 payments can now run over bitcoin's lightning network @x402intern · read more

    the spec merged last night, per @x402intern. agents paying each other over lightning, not just stablecoin rails.

  5. citrea bought a private bitcoin wallet to bring zcash-style privacy to bitcoin @lopp · read more

    crest, a self-custodial private btc wallet, joins citrea. per @lopp.

  6. usdc's supply grew $2.2 billion in two days @reynardoew · read more

    ethena's usde supply is also up 20% over the month. more stablecoins outstanding usually means more money sitting ready to be deployed.

  7. you can now buy and sell usdc with regular money inside metamask @MetaMask ♥ 6 · read more

    the fiat on-ramp works on arc, directly in the wallet.

  8. a new dollar stablecoin called usdv went live on solana @solana ♥ 119 · read more

    from @solomon_labs, launched via sunrise.

  9. ondo's tokenized stocks now trade inside binance's wallet @Ondo ♥ 40 · read more

    eligible ondo stocks trade on bnb chain with 100,000 usdc in rewards, and weekend trades count for more. the pitch: the closing bell is optional.

  10. nobody has measured how much context opus 5.5 holds before it gets dumber @VictorTaelin ♥ 126 · read more

    @victortaelin says that number decides how big a codebase you can safely point it at, and the benchmark still doesn't exist.

  1. @bcherny finds bugs by having claude model the code, not read it @bcherny ♥ 10 · read more

    build a model of a race-prone state machine, find counter-examples in the model, reproduce them against the real code. @rosugrigore replies that eventually you stop reading either one.

  2. the argument that your taste and judgment won't protect you from ai @willdepue ♥ 543 · read more

    @willdepue: "i don't think nearly anyone, myself included, has truly internalized there'll soon be a machine better than us in every single intellectual and physical capacity."

  3. software will never die again, because you can just regenerate it @rauchg ♥ 398 · read more

    @rauchg on google reader: "cool, you can generate and deploy your own. yours, forever." one of the day's most-liked posts at 398 likes.

  4. an nft pool has done 2,000 eth of volume and holds ten cryptopunks @Rhynotic ♥ 81 · read more

    @rhynotic's v2 numbers: 25,000 purchases, 2,800 nfts in the pool backed by 700 eth, and 18% of buyers keep the nft instead of flipping it back.

  5. solana is launching an nft marketplace that competes on people instead of fees @solana · read more

    it's called nfw. "for three years nft marketplaces competed on fees," the announcement says.

  6. jack butcher's new "credit" nfts are landing in people's wallets @wsavas ♥ 37 · read more

    @wsavas got #26, @ronnyguy got #3684. most of the replies are people asking how he pulled it off.

  7. superrare posted a new drop calendar and nft people are hyped @rareperkins ♥ 12 · read more

    @rareperkins lists kireevart, rocketgirlart, tormius, computerblood, fran_nubes and more. @smolemaru: "nft szn is so back holy moly."

  8. a trader says influencers sniping token launches is just mev by another name @grugcapital ♥ 11 · read more

    @grugcapital: "i used to be heralded as a giga brain for sniping tokens and nft drops and dumping them on the plebs, we called it mev."

  9. a bitcoin lender now lets you post btc as collateral in a vault @stacy_muur ♥ 42 · read more

    @zestprotocol has $75m+ tvl and 800+ btc deposited, per @stacy_muur, and just added bitcoin collateral vaults on top of its sbtc lending loop.

  10. robinhood's crypto app can now answer questions about onchain data @0xpili_ · read more

    the cambrian api landed there, per @0xpili_, so you can query financial intelligence on crypto chains from inside the app.

  1. one api now covers frontier image, video, 3d and audio models @hf0 · read more

    comfy router went live: same model string, same arguments, no new sdk.

  2. iran's president says the real bomb is in israel while inspectors sit in iran @MKjrstad · read more

    his un general assembly line was the most-shared clip on the timeline. iran's general staff separately promised "crushing and unpredictable blows" for any new american strike.

  3. milei used his un speech to accuse human rights defenders of shielding dictatorships @MarioNawfal ♥ 18 · read more

    he named morocco, iran, venezuela under maduro and sudan, arguing critics only ever condemn israel.

  4. kevin o'leary thinks the us-canada trade war ends fast @CoinDesk ♥ 29 · read more

    at the avalanche summit, per coindesk: he expects both countries to move toward eliminating tariffs, given how tied their economies are.

  5. openai says personal agents are a different product from chatgpt, not a better one @MTSlive ♥ 6 · read more

    researcher houda nait: "i don't think i should be clicking for hours on a website to buy an item or to do some groceries." built to persist, act and anticipate.

  6. a wallet proves who paid but not what the agent was told to buy @HarshaKaramchat · read more

    @harshakaramchat's point about agentic shopping: the merchant still can't see what the agent saw inside that browser session, and nobody attests to it yet.

  7. someone classified 160 weird al songs with ai for less than a penny @liran_tal ♥ 1 · read more

    @liran_tal ran 159 of them through jev for $0.0086 in under a minute, scoring theme, mood and lyrical complexity.

  8. the people behind jev are hinting v2 won't just be a decision model @RhysLindmark · read more

    @rhyslindmark flags the split: maggie says jev is a decision model, diogo says v1 is decisions and v2 is more general. @abarmat expects a wave of copies trained on synthetic data.

  9. a tool now banks and spends your codex quota resets automatically @GeoffreyHuntley ♥ 14 · read more

    @geoffreyhuntley's underclass redeems a banked reset when every enabled chatgpt/codex account is unavailable, picking the one that would otherwise wait longest to recover.

  10. an ai built a hard sci-fi starship game with real orbital mechanics @emollick ♥ 62 · read more

    @emollick had fable and opus build it — delta-v, heat, realistic tactics, simplified to 2d with the hard math handled by the game. it's open source.

  1. people are using opus 5.5 to build nintendogs clones and guitar store sims @sawyerhood ♥ 22 · read more

    @sawyerhood made a nintendogs "because nintendo won't." another build made 300+ individual guitar models and turns into a beat 'em up if you play too loud.

  2. two prompts can eat a whole day of ai subscription usage now @maria_rcks ♥ 70 · read more

    @maria_rcks checked her claude usage page and fable had lasted about two prompts. @miamislice says astra is decimating limits the same way.

  3. gemini feels calmer than claude for simple work, says one dev @ianlapham ♥ 8 · read more

    @ianlapham: "less psychosis than claude in its tone." @dennisonbertram's split is claude the engineer, astra the techlead, and codex still unable to finish a task.

  4. a new tool picks the right local ai model for your hardware @0xSero ♥ 65 · read more

    @0xsero's build detects your hardware, finds an exl3-optimized recipe, downloads and runs the model, then hands it to one of eight agents.

  5. google's real ai advantage isn't the model, it's that everyone's already there @zerobeta · read more

    @zerobeta argues gemini is probably already one of the most-used consumer llms with real shopping intent, and it doesn't matter that it isn't the best.

  6. there's a blackrock phishing scam running through google sites right now @PabloSabbatella · read more

    @pablosabbatella traced it: an offer link lands on a sites.google.com page posing as a blackrock strategic advisor, ending with a request to book a 30-minute meeting.

  7. ai rpgs got good enough that one person stopped playing video games @Leaflit ♥ 322 · read more

    @leaflit is 20 hours into a mushoku tensei rpg: "like playing a ttrpg in any setting you want, whenever you want."