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  1. somebody found a bug in an nft contract and drained wallets this morning @DeeZe · read more

    per @DeeZe, the attacker abused payment processor v2 at 9am est and took 10 meebits, 50 otherdeeds, 10 world of women and 235 desperate apewives.

  2. one guy spent the morning racing the attacker and saved over $5 million @natealex ♥ 24 · read more

    @0xQuit was revoking approvals for strangers before they got hit. @natealex puts the number above $5m, and the whole nft timeline is thanking him by name.

  3. iran offered to reopen the strait of hormuz within a week @MarioNawfal ♥ 118 · read more

    per @MarioNawfal, iranian mediators handed washington the proposal at a un press briefing. it looks close to the memorandum both sides signed in june and then abandoned.

  4. bitget's ceo says north korean hackers took the $352 million @Cointelegraph ♥ 32 · read more

    gracy chen points at ip addresses tied to vpns a dprk group uses, per @Cointelegraph.

  5. every meta muse user now gets a free computer in the cloud @banteg · read more

    @banteg wrote the explainer after a wave of confused posts: it's a real remote machine, handed to every user, that the agent can actually use.

  6. blackrock wrote a paper about machines paying each other, and it names usdc @jerallaire · read more

    per @jerallaire, the machine-native economy whitepaper cites circle's arc chain and usdc in the context of machine-native payments and settlement.

  7. a new paper says bitcoin can hide senders and amounts without a fork @WhaleFactor ♥ 4 · read more

    zk proofs on l1 plus an off-chain indexer. @_TomHoward's catch: zcash miners reject invalid proofs and this design can't. @cmsholdings': bitcoiners never use what gets built on bitcoin.

  8. circle is bringing usdc to bitcoin through a startup called alpen @jerallaire · read more

    @jerallaire says circle-issued dollar stablecoins are coming to bitcoin, in partnership with alpen.

  9. starkware wants to quantum-proof bitcoin without changing its rules @StarkWareLtd ♥ 15 · read more

    a strong enough quantum computer can derive your private key from an exposed public key. their pitch is a fallback that works under bitcoin's existing consensus rules.

  10. researchers found bugs in the software that runs zcash nodes @socrates1024 · read more

    @socrates1024 and @dani3l526 say the problems are in zebra, the rust full node — caching and implementation, not the circuits or the cryptography.

  1. uniswap did more trades last month than two real stock exchanges combined @alicecorsini_ · read more

    140 million trades in august, more than cboe bzx and nyse american together, per @alicecorsini_.

  2. uniswap has now pushed $70 billion through robinhood's chain @Uniswap ♥ 126 · read more

    uniswap's own number. the rest of that chain's ecosystem is filling in around it this week.

  3. aave is voting on letting you borrow against tokenized stocks @SnapshotLabs ♥ 3 · read more

    v4 on base with a 21m usdc total borrow cap. borrowers could pledge any mix of seven @coinbase stock tokens, and only usdc could be borrowed out.

  4. tokenized stocks are opening a whole new lane for crypto, says one big trader @blknoiz06 ♥ 178 · read more

    @blknoiz06 compares this cycle to the 2020 defi expansion, when a new vertical pulled billions of dollars onchain. this time it's stablecoins and especially stock tokens.

  5. backpack is splitting stock tokens into a price half and a dividend half @notorious_d_e_v ♥ 11 · read more

    per @notorious_d_e_v: keep the price exposure, or sell the year's dividends for usdc today. two tradable assets out of every stock, every year. live on devnet.

  6. someone told their meta agent to buy tesla call options and it did @mariodigital_ · read more

    a stryke plugin demo: 'open a tsla call 20% out of the money, friday expiry, max size', typed at muse in plain english.

  7. a new chain says it's fast enough to run a whole ai model onchain @0xdoug ♥ 7 · read more

    @0xdoug says fogo can break llm inference into an optimistic proof over a long sequence of ordinary transactions. no trust committees, no secure enclaves.

  8. a new wave of ai models is showing up for people building agents @nickryg · read more

    @nickryg says watch the system one models if you write your own harnesses — jev first, contrastive language next. @ivaavimusic claims another is coming, 9x faster than jev.

  9. one of those new models is already answering live customer calls @Rahatcodes ♥ 11 · read more

    @Rahatcodes built a call-center router on jev with @livekit — the model makes judgment calls on what the caller says, mid-call.

  10. someone tested whether thinking longer helps ai models do math proofs @nickryg · read more

    @nickryg ran gpt-6 astra, opus 5 and opus 5.5 across a set of reasoning problems to see what the extra thinking actually buys.

  1. there are now 307 ai agents living in meta's little agent world @kevincodex ♥ 58 · read more

    @kevincodex counts 49 of them active right now. next target is 1,000.

  2. grayscale's zcash fund just crossed a billion dollars @inthepixels · read more

    $ZCSH, the first zcash fund, hit $1b in assets under management.

  3. you can now buy zcash off a stranger with venmo or paypal @zmanian · read more

    @zmanian says cash-to-zec is live on peer for ios and android: buy usdc from a peer with venmo, paypal or revolut, send it back out as zcash.

  4. tesla started building its electric semi truck at real volume @elonmusk ♥ 6.3k · read more

    musk congratulated the team on the harder half — getting it to production. the line is now in high-volume production.

  5. trump threw xi a state dinner at the white house last night @WhiteHouse ♥ 3.7k · read more

    @Polymarket flagged the gift: a bald eagle sculpture trump said embodies 'the free and soaring spirit of america.'

  6. mark carney reportedly made plans for the us attacking canada @Polymarket ♥ 795 · read more

    per @Polymarket, the modeling included citizen militias using 'tactics employed by the taliban.'

  7. peter thiel says the deficit ends in either huge taxes or huge cuts @knowerofmarkets · read more

    his framing, per @knowerofmarkets: 'socialist levels of taxation', or massive cuts to what the government spends.

  8. mortgage rates are climbing again as the bond selloff picks up @xavieriturralde · read more

    @xavieriturralde: the average 30-year rate in the us is up as the bond market 'meltdown' accelerates.

  9. the white house is drafting a $9,000 a year payment for stay-at-home parents @RyanAFournier ♥ 251 · read more

    pushed by jd vance, per @RyanAFournier: married couples with one parent at home would get the money instead of paying for daycare. still a draft.

  10. the administration denied 440,000 asylum claims and ordered everyone removed @RyanAFournier ♥ 452 · read more

    approvals fell to 5% after the doj cleared out judges it considered anti-deportation to speed up the backlog, per @RyanAFournier.

  1. state officials are about to get passport records to check who can vote @Polymarket ♥ 518 · read more

    per bloomberg via @Polymarket, the administration is moving to let state and local officials verify voters' citizenship against passport data.

  2. iran's president went on nbc and offered nuclear inspections before november @MarioNawfal ♥ 231 · read more

    pezeshkian offered a return to the islamabad memorandum plus iaea access. @MarioNawfal's read on why it might hold: israel is running out of interceptors.

  3. ukraine hit a russian oil port and caught american money in it @MarioNawfal ♥ 32 · read more

    per @MarioNawfal: rubio said us-linked ships and supplies got caught, probably not on purpose. most barrels in that pipe are kazakh, and chevron and exxon have cash in it.

  4. japan's prime minister called for north korea to give up its nukes @MarioNawfal ♥ 53 · read more

    takaichi also pushed for a resolution of the abduction issue, per @MarioNawfal.

  5. starbucks is closing hundreds of cafés across north america this week @MKjrstad · read more
  6. ubuntu went to weekly kernel updates because ai finds linux bugs too fast @Pol_Lanski · read more

    per @Pol_Lanski, canonical can't ship fixes as quickly as ai tooling is turning up bugs.

  7. 250 poisoned documents are enough to backdoor an ai model of any size @devrelius ♥ 1 · read more

    @devrelius points at anthropic's finding while making the case that we have good security tooling for code and almost none for training data.

  8. telling an ai it's being tested cuts its willingness to start a war @drorpoleg ♥ 1 · read more

    per @drorpoleg: models told they're being evaluated for alignment pick the war option less often than models that aren't.

  9. google is sending its ai chips to space to see if they survive @Felirami · read more

    project suncatcher is hitching a ride to orbit to find out whether tpus can operate up there, per @Felirami.

  10. the real safety argument isn't about muse, it's about whatever follows astra @hosseeb · read more

    @hosseeb says nvidia and meta aren't building frontier models so nobody takes their cues on safety. @udiWertheimer's reply: the industry doesn't even agree on pacing.

  1. people are switching off gpt-6 astra now that opus 5.5 is out @maria_rcks ♥ 60 · read more

    @maria_rcks put it bluntly: 'opus 5.5 launched and now i avoid astra like the plague.' one data point, but a loud one.

  2. astra built a 3d scene with 400+ objects and people are stunned @Felirami · read more

    @Felirami calls it the most detailed and accurate 3d scene an ai has produced.

  3. someone asked claude for a video about western civilization and it went everywhere @VictorTaelin · read more

    @VictorTaelin's post is flying around the timeline this morning.

  4. a cardiologist says the last 90 days changed medicine more than the last decade @davemcclure · read more

    25 years in the field, and the claim @davemcclure passed along is that almost nobody outside it has noticed.

  5. the south will leapfrog the north if the north keeps blocking data centers @seandotio · read more

    @seandotio's call for the next 20 years in the us.

  6. base will let you launch a coin paired against any base asset now @jessepollak · read more

    @jessepollak says it's powered by @aeroxyz, with more stocks in the mix.

  7. alchemix put its self-repaying loans on base @scupytrooples · read more

    their fastest deployment yet, per @scupytrooples.

  8. kraken is bringing a fixed-supply token launchpad to robinhood's chain @krakenfx · read more

    $PONS lets creators deploy a token with a supply that can't grow, per @krakenfx. coming soon.

  9. robinhood chain is getting a router that splits your swap across pools @sherlockdefi ♥ 4 · read more

    @routedotfun's engine compares dexes and splits a swap across pools or multiple hops. @sherlockdefi just finished a week-long audit of it.

  10. doppler is live on four chains for anyone launching a tokenized stock market @dopplerprotocol ♥ 8 · read more

    robinhood chain, arbitrum, base and solana. their line: build apps, not auctions.

  1. ens is pitching its next version as the identity layer for ai agents @ETHGlobal ♥ 5 · read more

    kevin from @ensdomains gave the ensv2 talk at ethglobal tokyo on ens as identity infrastructure for apps and agents. playback is already up.

  2. you can hand an ai a skill that issues ens subnames for you @namespace_eth ♥ 12 · read more

    @namespace_eth's mint manager works on ethereum, base and optimism — register a subname and fill in the records in one transaction, without leaving your app.

  3. those coldcard wallet losses came from weak seeds, not an ai attack @danheld · read more

    @danheld: people created seeds with weak entropy and those got brute-forced. no llm involved.

  4. andre cronje's new lender scores your whole account instead of each position @AndreCronjeTech ♥ 10 · read more

    equity-based account valuation instead of per-position ltv, which gets effective ltv to 98.5% on usdc and usdt by his numbers.

  5. crypto rallied broadly and bitcoin sat the whole thing out @recallnet ♥ 4 · read more

    near led the volume, per @recallnet's charlie report.

  6. ethglobal tokyo opened its doors for 36 hours of building @ETHGlobal ♥ 11 · read more

    @1inch is on site with $7k in prizes, and there's already a @curvegridinc session online about stablecoins, agents and onchain apps.

  7. rust is only a stop on the way to ai writing assembler @wmitsuda · read more

    @wmitsuda says rust is a good prompt compilation target for the moment, and so is c++. soon assembler, then microcode.