metamask got hacked and is pulling the validators it ran for lido @erickpinos · read more
metamask says a security incident hit part of its infrastructure. blockscout read 7,204 lido validators under the consensys operator, about 230,000 eth; @aixbt_agent says unwinding them takes ~45 days.
@erickpinos Security Update: We are responding to a security incident affecting part of our infrastructure. At this time, we have identi… @blockscout · ♥ 6 MetaMask Staking is exiting its Lido validators after a security incident. Lido's registry currently shows 7,204 of them, an estimated 230,000 ETH. Verify on Blockscout: 1. Find getNodeOperator 2. Enter 21 and true 3. Click Read (shows as C @aixbt_agent · ♥ 30 metamask disclosed an infrastructure incident on september 30 and is pulling its affected ethereum validators, the machines that stake eth and earn rewards for lido. lido expects the eth back, but exiting, withdrawing and restaking could ta @Cointelegraph · ♥ 22 🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 President Trump says the war with Iran is “going to end very soon, one way or the other." 🔹 MetaMask says it is responding to a security incident affecting part of its infrsomeone drained $3.8 million out of near's cross-chain swap service @Cointelegraph ♥ 22 · read more
per @zachxbt the bsc hot wallet saw irregular outflows, and the money went to kucoin then bridged to bitcoin. the service halted; multiple evm chains are still down.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 22 🚨 ALERT: ZachXBT says NEAR Intents was exploited for $3.8M+, with stolen funds sent to KuCoin and bridged to Bitcoin. @officer_secret · ♥ 6 According to @zachxbt , Near Intents was exploited for $3.8M+ after its BSC hot wallet saw multiple irregular outflows a few hours ago. Near Intents hot wallet 0x233c has since stopped processing transactions and the site status shows an on @Trueo_ · ♥ 10 SECURITY WATCH 🚨 ZACHXBT SAYS NEAR INTENTS WAS EXPLOITED FOR $3.8M+ AFTER ITS BSC HOT WALLET SAW MULTIPLE IRREGULAR OUTFLOWS. @stacy_muur · ♥ 8 We're one day into October and have already experienced two major protocol exploits. MetaMask & Near Intents. WTF is going on?google's new best model goes to cyber defenders before it goes to you @Luacantu ♥ 13 · read more
gemini 4 argon targets coding, enterprise work and cyber defence, and defenders get it first. @Luacantu calls it the "you're not allowed to play with this one yet" era.
@Luacantu · ♥ 13 google made gemini 4 argon powerful enough that cyber defenders get it before the rest of us we have entered the “you’re not allowed to play with this one yet” era of AI @TraffAlex 🤖 AI NEWS ROUNDUP — October 1, 2026 1️⃣ GEMINI 4 ARGON IS HERE — JUST NOT FOR YOU YET Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model aimed at complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work and cybersecurity d @mteamisloading · ♥ 5 if Argon turns out to be actually good at language, I think it could be huge for UX of writing with AI gemini 2.5 pro had a special knack for this and I have hope google still has that sparktrump signed an order renaming ai to "super intelligence" @shadmoney_ ♥ 3 · read more
per @shadmoney_, who says he used the phrase on a podcast nine months ago. the screenshots are doing numbers.
@shadmoney_ · ♥ 3 This was recorded 9 months ago, I dropped the words "Super Intelligence" or SI @Kagan_M_Dunlap podcast. Today, President Trump signed an executive order rebranding AI to SI. The world finally caught up. I don't make the rules, I call the sh @roohchill (from 2026-09-30) “Super Intelligence”trump told anthropic's ceo that regulation could put him out of business @MarioNawfal ♥ 6 · read more
per @MarioNawfal: after meeting dario amodei, trump's line was that america will not regulate itself out of the ai race, though companies still need to act responsibly.
citi now thinks bitcoin hits $113,000 inside a year, up from $82,000 @aixbt_agent ♥ 25 · read more
per @aixbt_agent the bank also lifted ether to $3,028 from $2,240 on sept 30, betting on $5b of inflows as financial advisers slowly add crypto to client portfolios.
trump said more bombing of iran after the midterms is "possible" @MarioNawfal ♥ 86 · read more
time published the full sept 28 sit-down. he also said iran offered to reopen the strait of hormuz, and that the war ends "one way or the other."
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 86 🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump just left the door open to ESCALATING the war with Iran, rather than ending it... Asked by TIME whether the U.S. could ramp up bombing after the midterms, Trump answered: “Possible.” He also revealed that Iran recently offe @TIME · ♥ 17 President Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on Sept. 28. Read the full transcript of the interview here: @Cointelegraph · ♥ 22 🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 President Trump says the war with Iran is “going to end very soon, one way or the other." 🔹 MetaMask says it is responding to a security incident affecting part of its infrthe us wants france and germany to hand over diesel or lose american exports @openeconomist_ · read more
reuters via @openeconomist_: washington wants about 120 million barrels out of eu emergency stocks over six months, or it may ban us diesel exports to push global prices down.
@openeconomist_ 🚨BREAKING: US tells France and Germany to release emergency diesel stocks or face a potential US diesel export ban, sources say, seeking about 120 million barrels from the EU over six months via Reuters @Polymarket · ♥ 45 JUST IN: Trump reportedly threatens to ban US diesel exports unless France & Germany release emergency fuel reserves to help bring down soaring global prices.trump says he might pardon his own staff before he leaves office @Polymarket ♥ 433 · read more
per polymarket, he cited biden's pardons as the precedent for doing it preemptively.
bitcoin is sitting near $84,000 and binance clients just bought 20,000 of them @PhilakoneCrypto ♥ 29 · read more
@PhilakoneCrypto counts $1.7b of buying in 24 hours against $39.1b of volume, and reads it as the market quietly absorbing supply.
the betting markets give bitcoin a coin flip at $95,000 by new year @Polymarket ♥ 27 · read more
polymarket has $95k by year end at 50/50 and anything above $100,000 at 36%.
saylor says strategy has no ceiling on how much bitcoin it will buy @Trueo_ ♥ 2 · read more
no fixed target, and it keeps buying as it raises money through equity and credit. he also posted a walkthrough of the $STRC digital-credit product.
south korea is putting $120 billion into eight nuclear reactors on american soil @MarioNawfal ♥ 57 · read more
per @MarioNawfal it is part of a $200b investment push that trump folds into his $350b trade deal, alongside about $50b for the alaska lng pipeline.
seven out of ten new uniswap pools on base ship with custom code attached @envio_indexer ♥ 4 · read more
envio indexed just over a million base blocks of uniswap v4: 4,300+ pools, 750k swaps, and more than 70% of those pools had a hook.
someone scanned every timelock on ethereum and found 134 upgrades sitting past their delay @0x3b33 ♥ 4 · read more
@0x3b33 counted 1,851 timelock operations across 261 timelocks in 60 days, including 277 proxy upgrades and 121 cancelled. 167 are still queued.
adam back wants bitcoin to add covenant opcodes @Cointelegraph ♥ 39 · read more
per cointelegraph he argues they would cut down the number of future soft forks and make bitcoin script safer to write.
the payment standard for ai agents now treats solana as first class @DefiDevrel · read more
@DefiDevrel says x402 has clean specs and canonical implementations for solana now, not just bolt-ons.
robinhood actually buys and holds the real share behind each stock token @Cointelegraph ♥ 31 · read more
johann kerbrat said so at korea blockchain week: robinhood buys a share of the company and keeps it in its own custody.
options, not crypto, are where robinhood actually makes its money @econoar · read more
@econoar: $342m last quarter, 44% of transaction revenue, more than three times what crypto brought in.
france's 30-year borrowing cost is the highest it has been in 24 years @CaitlinLong_ · read more
flagged by @CaitlinLong_. the long end of the french curve is where this cycle's stress keeps showing up.
the fbi says it blocked over a billion dollars of theft since january 2025 @FBIDirectorKash ♥ 1.3k · read more
kash patel: the recovery asset team's blocked total is up 16%, and they are going after the money, the networks and the scam compounds.
google's new model also makes up the fewest answers of any frontier model @SeraAndroid ♥ 1 · read more
@SeraAndroid cites artificial analysis putting gemini 4 argon's hallucination rate at 15%, the lowest of the current set.
nvidia's ceo has decided data centers are now "superintelligence factories" @shadmoney_ · read more
jensen huang's rebrand, which lands the same week the word starts showing up in us policy.
solana wants to choose block leaders based on where the machines physically are @toly · read more
@toly walked through SIMD-0675: geo-aware leader schedule with a run length of 5.
you can now hold netflix exposure on solana and trade it across chains @crossfundxyz ♥ 7 · read more
crossfund listed it through sunrise, following nvidia. one more real-world asset you can reach from whatever chain your money is already on.
the first fully onchain "agentic nfts" launched on robinhood's chain @nxt3d · read more
@nxt3d's AGNTS hold the provenance of the agent itself, as robinhood pushes further into ai.
ethereum finality could get 4-8x faster, and there's now a formal proof @privacy_prophet · read more
@privacy_prophet's team published a formally verified proof toward it; @ethlabs_org calls it a great paper and a good prompt to talk about l1 distribution.
the senate refused to even ask about nine americans killed in the west bank @MarioNawfal ♥ 23 · read more
47-51, with rand paul the only republican voting yes and john fetterman the only democrat voting no.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 23 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Nine Americans killed in the West Bank since 2022, and the Senate won't even ask the State Department for a report. The measure failed 47–51, with Rand Paul the only Republican voting yes and John Fetterman the only Democrat votin @META_DREAMER (from 2026-09-30) America is an occupied country. Why the hell would any senator vote against finding out how Americans were killed abroad?the pilot who got stabbed is why 174 people walked off that flydubai plane @RyanAFournier ♥ 91 · read more
captain smit machchhar fought off his attacker and unlocked the cockpit door. netanyahu credits him with saving everyone on board.
@RyanAFournier · ♥ 91 🚨 HEROES: FlyDubai hijacking stopped after an Indian pilot unlocked the cockpit so brave Israeli passengers could tackle the attacker! ✈️🔥 PM Netanyahu confirmed the terrorist was radicalized and tried to crash the plane. 174 lives saved! @MKjrstad (from 2026-09-30) A resounding salute to Captain Smit Machchhar, the brave Indian pilot of flight FZ1073 ! 🇮🇳 Despite sustaining injuries in a…an indexer can now backfill all of base's history without an archive node @slvDev ♥ 5 · read more
@slvDev's sieve pulls old events straight from base public snapshot archives, then switches to p2p, and estimates disk space for your block range first.
a new base launchpad uses verifiable randomness to make sniping less profitable @toady_hawk ♥ 3 · read more
gachapad distributes tokens by random draw rather than first-click, which @toady_hawk thinks is the interesting part.
the biggest trading firm on wall street has no ceo and no board @0xTaker · read more
@0xTaker on jane street: the dominance is real and nobody outside knows who is actually steering it.
a quarter of americans still call canada a close ally, down from two thirds @RyanAFournier ♥ 148 · read more
ap polling, 62% to 26%, posted by @RyanAFournier as a feature of the trade fight rather than a bug.
nucypher's former cto is joining ethsystems to work on protocol @eth_systems ♥ 35 · read more
david nunez brings 15 years in cryptography and security, the last eight in ethereum, most recently leading taco's access control layer.
@eth_systems · ♥ 35 We're glad to welcome David (@david__nunez) to EthSystems as Protocol Engineer. David has spent more than 15 years in cryptography and information security, the last 8 in Ethereum and web3. Most recently he was CTO of NuCypher, leading TACo @oskarth · ♥ 11 Excited to welcome David who will bring very welcome expertise to our team! Deep expertise in cryptography along with very relevant industry experience, and a veteran in Ethereum/Web3there is now a kit that lets any app lend usdc against someone's bitcoin @samconnerone · read more
borrow kit handles the lending plumbing so developers don't build crypto-backed borrowing from scratch.
britain's prime minister says there are "strong indications" iran was involved near raf fairfield @realErikDPrince ♥ 107 · read more
from @realErikDPrince's daily roundup, corroborating earlier us hints that a foreign actor was behind last weekend's incident.
polygon turned on higher staking rewards @0xPolygon · read more
pip-92 is activated and live on mainnet.
ai labs are reading your prompts, and your good idea becomes their next model @TrustlessState ♥ 23 · read more
@TrustlessState's framing: everything you put into a frontier model gets hoovered up by default, so in ai your ideas are the labs' product.
someone left claude running overnight and woke up to working game bots @ryanflorence ♥ 2 · read more
@ryanflorence had it write a headless final fantasy xi client where every decision is a model call, with role cards per class. the bots hit xp chain 5 by morning.
@ryanflorence · ♥ 2 Left Claude running over night and now my FFXI Jev bots are getting XP chain 5 in the notorious Valkurm Dunes! The THF is pulling, RDM is debuffing, tank is holding hate, mages are resting between fights They are ready to be invited into my @ryanflorence · ♥ 4 Round 8 of Claud Code writing a headless FFXI bot client that makes all decisions with Jev hahahaha this is so funny. Goal is to get an XP chain #5 (kill mobs efficiently basically) Gonna let it run all night, hopefully I have some smart boclassifying 15,000 software packages with a model cost about four dollars @meekaale ♥ 1 · read more
@meekaale ran semantic classification over every nix package for $2-$4, which is the whole argument for doing this kind of work with models now.
a 164mb speech recognition model claims to beat much bigger ones @Leon_Vandenberg · read more
phonon-2 is pitched as a new standard for accuracy per byte, small enough to ship inside an app.
solana is paying phd students to spend three months doing research @dev3pack · read more
dev3pack's solana scholars is a funded three-month research internship working directly with protocol teams.
the perps contest everyone is about to copy minted a $40,000 winner @galala_eth · read more
trader jadoodoo locked in roughly $40k longing near in frontier's competition. @therealchaseeb reckons every chain with a dex tries this within a week and fails.
the four words that fix ai talking past you: restate my intent @mattpocockuk ♥ 701 · read more
@mattpocockuk's shorter version of a longer prompt, useful when you've dictated a pile of stuff and only half remember what you said.
dragonfly expects synthetic dollars to grow right alongside tokenized assets @Cointelegraph ♥ 14 · read more
tom schmidt at korea blockchain week: as real-world assets grow onchain, the strategy gets more popular, not less.
a guy whose only tool is lovable keeps out-building people with full agent setups @stefdelev ♥ 5 · read more
@stefdelev's point, made against his own claude code and codex configuration: your setup is not the important part.
a developer argues nobody actually needs more blockspace right now @van_prod ♥ 4 · read more
@van_prod on monad: a new l1 ends up competing to be money against btc, eth and sol rather than competing on revenue, and that's a harder fight.
ansem told a seoul crowd that probably everything is a memecoin to some degree @jaekwon ♥ 17 · read more
asked on stage whether the world is becoming one big casino. @jaekwon filmed all twenty minutes from the crowd.
the susdat v2 upgrade is done and normal processing restarts monday @CruzAMolina · read more
strc has been rotated into strcon; regular processing resumes oct 5.



