inflation came in cooler than expected and bitcoin ripped through $85,000 @Cointelegraph ♥ 114 · read more
august pce was 3.4% for the year against 3.7% expected, core 3.0% vs 3.3%. bitcoin broke $85k within minutes of the print.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 114 🇺🇸 JUST IN: US PCE inflation comes in at 3.4% YoY in August, below the 3.7% expected. Core PCE, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, rises 3.0% YoY versus 3.3% expected. @MKjrstad Core PCE much cooler than expected, as previewed: PCE 0.3% MoM, Exp. 0.3% PCE 3.4% YoY, Exp. 3.7% PCE Core 0.2% MoM, Exp.… @VanessaGrellet_ 🚨ALERT: Bitcoin just broke above $85,000 minutes after cooler-than-expected U.S. PCE inflation data. The softer inflation…trump signed a superintelligence order with the big ai ceos standing behind him @MarioNawfal ♥ 131 · read more
per @MarioNawfal the signed document misspells "United States." @paulg notes most of the white house ai leaders meeting were high-skilled immigrants.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 131 🇺🇸 Historic "Superintelligence" executive order signed by Trump and the biggest AI CEOs yesterday... United States is spelled wrong. The joke writes itself 😂 Source: Truth Social / Writer: Samuel @paulg High skilled immigrants are powering America into AI dominance. Most attendees at the White House top AI leaders meet…chainlink built a front door for big banks to borrow against tokenized assets @chainlink ♥ 557 · read more
fulcrum is pitched as a gateway letting institutions move collateral and reach liquidity across public and private chains, 24/7. the biggest product launch on the timeline overnight.
@chainlink · ♥ 557 Introducing Chainlink Fulcrum: the gateway connecting the world’s largest financial institutions to onchain financing. As tokenized assets and financing venues expand across public and private blockchains, institutions need to mobilize coll @javosalomon Chainlink Fulcrum is going to radically increase the velocity of money by moving institutional collateral 24/7/365.ken griffin gave carnegie mellon $3 billion, the biggest gift in college history @pitdesi ♥ 108 · read more
$2b builds a new campus in miami's wynwood for 3,500 students; $1b goes to pittsburgh, including $500m for computer science, per @pitdesi.
@pitdesi · ♥ 108 Ken Griffin gave $3B to Carnegie Mellon, the largest gift in college history $2B of it is to set up a campus in Miami (Wynwood) $1B to Pittsburgh, including $500M for the school of Computer Science CMU Miami will focus on grand challenge ar @MichelleBakels Today, Carnegie Mellon University and Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel and founder of Griffin Catalyst, announce…the economy grew a lot faster last quarter than anyone had penciled in @cmsholdings · read more
final q2 gdp came in at +2.2% against +1.5% consensus, with final q2 core pce at 3.3% vs 3.6% expected, per @cmsholdings.
$1.5 billion went into bitcoin etfs and the price still fell @yasu0x1 · read more
@yasu0x1 counts $1.48b over six sessions from sep 22 while btc dropped 3%. binance perp open interest hit a 30-day low — people sold futures against the inflow.
a big crypto investor says the ai order is a criminal plot @adamscochran · read more
@adamscochran's 15-part thread was the loudest post of the morning at 1,500+ retweets. it's his allegation, not a reported finding.
more than a third of all ether is now locked up staking @LeonWaidmann ♥ 13 · read more
@LeonWaidmann puts it at 35.7% of supply, roughly 43.6m eth, climbing almost without a pause all year.
ether treasury companies already own 7% of the supply and want double @CoinDesk ♥ 33 · read more
@fundstrat told @CoinDesk at korea blockchain week that those vehicles could reach 15% this cycle, and that they're what's actually driving price.
german inflation jumped back up to 3.3% and energy did it @openeconomist_ · read more
up from 2.9%, above the 3.2% reuters poll, the highest since late 2023, with energy prices up 14.9%, per @openeconomist_.
australian inflation climbed to 4.0% and fuel did most of the damage @openeconomist_ · read more
up from 3.5% in august, fuel up 14.8%, and the trimmed mean stuck at 3.6%, per @openeconomist_ citing reuters.
kalshi is killing its trader rewards program almost a year early @laurashin ♥ 8 · read more
a cftc filing moves the end date to oct 13 — a week after wash trading claims about kalshi's ether perps drew cftc attention, per @laurashin. kalshi denies them.
@laurashin · ♥ 8 Kalshi is ending its Volume Incentive Program, which paid traders based on their share of trading volume. A CFTC filing moves the end date to Oct. 13, nearly a year ahead of schedule. @Unchained_pod · ♥ 1 Kalshi’s volume rewards program, running since 2023, will end no earlier than Oct. 13. The filing comes a week after wash trading claims about its ether perps drew CFTC attention, according to the WSJ. Kalshi denies wash trading.you can now bet long or short on bitcoin's price on polymarket @Polymarket ♥ 3 · read more
the prediction market is edging into straight price exposure.
asia's banks are being told to keep up with stablecoins or get left behind @Cointelegraph ♥ 38 · read more
at connect seoul, @Edenaofficial's @wooklee91000 said the genius act "gives the green light to the market" and instant settlement is now the bar.
the next big market might be trading predictions instead of assets @Cointelegraph ♥ 15 · read more
@gensynai's @benfielding at connect seoul: ai will make trading explode, but less of it will be in actual assets and more in beliefs.
every ai agent is about to get its own computer and its own bill @MichaelLevin ♥ 6 · read more
@MichaelLevin: when everyone has an agent making 1,000 requests a day, a web built for humans breaks, and agents start paying per request.
solana got a working version of the pay-per-request standard for agents @notorious_d_e_v ♥ 10 · read more
@notorious_d_e_v called the x402 milestone a massive achievement, built with @ludo_txtx, @DukeOphir and @carsonroscoe7.
you can now run decision models on your own machine instead of the cloud @drwasho · read more
ollama added support for jev-like decision models such as nimble, for jobs like ticket triage. @ycombinator amplified it.
@drwasho Ollama now supports Jev-like decision models all locally. Use decision models like Nimble for tasks like ticket triaging, mode… @ycombinator Ollama now supports Jev-like decision models all locally. Use decision models like Nimble for tasks like ticket triaging, mode… @bkase_ · ♥ 1 OpenAI launched a new decision model at Dev Day Watch our decision model episode from this past week to inspire you to use it in interesting places!deepgemm went open source and it squeezes 99.8% out of the chip @gm8xx8 · read more
99.8% of the hardware limit on gemm and 98% on megamoe for ascend, per @gm8xx8.
openai's codex can now plug into your other tools @ajambrosino · read more
@ajambrosino shipped codex connectors and called it the pinnacle of his career so far.
openai is quietly trying to be the app for everything @smsunarto · read more
@smsunarto's read: dots for your personal life, codex plus space for work. the ipo pitch is basically "market size? the whole economy."
her it workers all got faster but the department didn't @tylercowen · read more
@tylercowen relayed the ceo's line — she thought they were smoking something. the individual ai gains aren't showing up at the team level.
bitcoin's next three jobs are capital markets, privacy and surviving quantum computers @Stacks ♥ 34 · read more
@muneeb laid out the roadmap for bitcoin on stacks at korea blockchain week.
ethereum's co-founder told a room of believers they still aren't bullish enough @francescoswiss ♥ 16 · read more
@ethereumJoseph at korea blockchain week, caught by @francescoswiss.
hyperliquid's boss says the real money is in markets you can't get into @Cointelegraph ♥ 68 · read more
jeff yan at korea blockchain week: "a lot of wealth is being created in a way that is really gate-kept." private markets are the opening.
korea may be the most financially literate crowd in crypto @Optimism ♥ 17 · read more
@jinglejamOP at korea blockchain week said the opportunity there is huge and told the room to move quickly.
if every trader runs the same ai tools, nobody has an edge @Cointelegraph ♥ 15 · read more
@CMT_Digital's @AugieIlag at connect seoul: "when everyone is using the same tooling, what does alpha mean?"
defillama wrote up the state of private defi and it's worth the read @johnrobertreed · read more
a detailed report on confidential defi with a deep dive on @zama, flagged by @johnrobertreed.
you can now do private ethereum defi from your phone @DeFi_Dad ♥ 10 · read more
@DeFi_Dad demoed it using @RAILGUN_Project inside the @anondotinc mobile app.
starkware is putting on an onchain privacy summit in singapore next week @StarkWareLtd ♥ 11 · read more
october 7, with fhenix head of product @yonatanerez speaking, plus live demos.
zcash dropped 14% in a week even as privacy gets hot again @WhaleFactor ♥ 3 · read more
down 13.7% over seven days, per @WhaleFactor, who reads the flush as weak hands leaving before the privacy trade heats up.
consensys says it's expanding besu, the ethereum client banks actually run @Consensys ♥ 39 · read more
"more to come soon" — no details yet on what's being added.
your wallet's private monero swap probably hands your coins to a company @l2beat ♥ 4 · read more
@l2beat broke down cake wallet's route: each leg goes to a centralized instant exchange that holds your eth mid-swap and sends xmr back, hopefully.
coinbase is running its first in-person trading contest with $150,000 on the line @coinbase ♥ 74 · read more
singapore, october 8, streamed live on x.
okx will now pay your stablecoin yield out in bitcoin if you want @okx ♥ 35 · read more
weekly apy on usdg can land as more usdg or as btc — same yield, your pick.
okx is holding a product launch event in singapore on october 6 @okx ♥ 56 · read more
"okx now" — a look at what they've been building, straight from the teams.
there's now a betting market on who becomes trump's ai czar @Polymarket ♥ 56 · read more
new on @Polymarket, right after the superintelligence order.
a new bill would stop foreign censorship rulings from landing in us courts @lex_node ♥ 33 · read more
the granite act (s.5478) would bar enforcement of foreign orders that clash with the first amendment, and let targets get a court declaration, per @grok. @lex_node is pushing it.
@lex_node · ♥ 33 call your senators and get them to support the GRANITE Act our first amendment rights are not real if foreign powers can suppress them great work by @prestonjbyrne on this @elonmusk you should be supporting this for @X and @grok !!! @grok · ♥ 1 @lex_node @prestonjbyrne @elonmusk @X The GRANITE Act (S.5478) would bar US courts from enforcing foreign judgments, fines or orders based on censorship laws that conflict with the First Amendment. It also lets targeted US persons seek a fethe senate is voting on banning congress from trading stocks @RepBryanSteil · read more
@RepBryanSteil's stop insider trading act, paired with a voter id vote john thune is forcing.
@RepBryanSteil Today, the Senate will vote on my Stop Insider Trading Act. This bill would ban congressional insider trading. It’s co… @RyanAFournier · ♥ 29 John Thune is forcing a vote on Voter ID and a Congressional stock trading ban! Both are HUGE 80-20 issues, but Chuck Schumer is already crying "poison pill." Dems would rather protect dirty stock trades and unsecured elections than let Truiran published a 26-page letter telling americans how to vote in the midterms @MarioNawfal ♥ 85 · read more
per @MarioNawfal, the irgc urged voters to reject trump's allies in congress and us support for israel.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 85 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran just inserted itself directly into U.S. election season. The IRGC published a 26-page letter urging Americans to vote Trump’s allies out of Congress, reject U.S. support for Israel, and punish politicians backing military inte @RyanAFournier · ♥ 223 The IRGC just told Americans to vote against Donald Trump in the midterms. Let that sink in. Iran wants Democrats in power because they know Trump won't fold. If a foreign terrorist regime is telling you how to vote, you do the exact opposi
there are already 120,000 license plate cameras watching american streets @MarioNawfal ♥ 23 · read more
per @MarioNawfal, most people don't know one points at their block. dan crenshaw described houston police typing in a car and seeing everywhere it's been.
passengers overpowered a hijacker on a plane heading to israel @BillAckman · read more
the first attempted hijacking of an israel-bound flight in over 20 years. israeli officials are now asking how an omani co-pilot was cleared to fly into tel aviv.
@BillAckman The Israelis who were on the plane and overpowered an armed terrorist hijacker at an altitude of thousands of meters, whi… @MarioNawfal · ♥ 408 🚨🇮🇱🇦🇪 This FlyDubai situation keeps getting stranger and stranger... was NOT expecting this today. A lot of questions are circulating about how the crew and passengers were able to BREACH the cockpit after hearing the screams of the ca @MarioNawfal · ♥ 263 🚨🇮🇱🇴🇲 Israel is asking how an Omani pilot was CLEARED to fly a plane into Tel Aviv... Israeli officials are investigating the FlyDubai incident and, in particular, the alleged Omani co-pilot/attacker. How was a pilot from Oman, which hthe us is closing its last big military base in iraq after 23 years @MKjrstad · read more
per @MKjrstad.
the white house launched a new america.gov like a product event @VP ♥ 30 · read more
vance headlined the launch; @VP framed it as part of the administration's "golden age" push.
modretro made 8,000 clear handhelds for openai's dev day with a codex plugin @DylanAbruscato · read more
limited-edition transparent chromatics plus a custom plugin that lets you program them, per @DylanAbruscato.
a new tool saves the system prompt you keep retyping into coding agents @ProductHunt ♥ 9 · read more
gitbot packages repeatable agent tasks into reusable bots for claude code, codex or opencode, with permissions locked down.
there's a drag-and-drop builder for ai agent workflows now @tom_doerr ♥ 31 · read more
@tom_doerr surfaced it — visual wiring instead of writing the orchestration yourself.
a dev woke up to $2,500 in codex credits he never asked for @ashen_one ♥ 20 · read more
@ashen_one figures the codex team saw his posts.
solana says merchants can now cut thousands in network fees @solana · read more
a walkthrough from the @solana account on how to do it.
ens v2 got its first real workout at a hackathon in tokyo @ensdomains ♥ 1 · read more
six projects split $10k at ethglobal tokyo, using it for access control, defi, collectibles and private messaging.
perps are flooding into regular american brokerages all at once @CryptoWendyO ♥ 37 · read more
@CryptoWendyO's advice to the companies racing for share: act like a bank and build brand, because nobody switches banks easily.
the stablecoin conversation has moved to cards and wallets you'd actually use @Cointelegraph ♥ 31 · read more
at connect singapore, @ether_fi's @MikeSilagadze and @Mercuryo_io's @ashtokyo talked about what daily stablecoin spending still needs.
solana traders are getting a faster data feed just as a new contest opens @Austin_Federa ♥ 7 · read more
@Austin_Federa says @PhoenixTrade's feed plus @doublezero edge lands the same day as the frontier traders competition.
y combinator is livestreaming from dc about startups building defense tech @garrytan ♥ 21 · read more
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