ethereum now lets you pay for ai without anyone knowing it's you @Unchained_pod ♥ 1 · read more
the ethereum foundation and the open anonymity project shipped zkAPI on mainnet, on a design vitalik co-wrote. it hides which deposit paid for your inference — not your ip, not your prompt.
@Unchained_pod · ♥ 1 The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI, which lets people pay for AI models from a one-time deposit on Ethereum, using zero-knowledge proofs so the payment server and the AI provider can't link requests to the @laurashin · ♥ 3 zkAPI is live on Ethereum mainnet. Users fund a vault once, prove they can pay without revealing which deposit is theirs, and get a short-lived, capped API key. The Ethereum Foundation says it does not hide IP addresses or what's in a promp @materkel (from 2026-10-01) THE BLOCK: The Ethereum Foundation launched zkAPI on mainnet, based on a design co-authored by Vitalik Buterin. It lets us… @binji_x · ♥ 28 PSA: @VittoStack, @DavideCrapis & co have been in the trenches seeking actual use-cases for crypto and AI. This is a major breakthrough that opens up a design space where Ethereum, as a cryptographic world computer, can natively position ittokenized stocks on base did $100 million of trading in one day @dopplerprotocol ♥ 9 · read more
per doppler. @DegenOnBase_ counts 97 stocks you can now trade against on base, including nvda, googl and spacex, and jesse pollak says carry-trade vaults for them are starting to grow.
@dopplerprotocol · ♥ 9 Tokenized stocks on @Base cleared $100M in a single day. Real-world assets need onchain markets built specifically for them. Doppler is the launch venue for the tokens built around these markets. @DegenOnBase_ · ♥ 11 97 stocks you can pair a launch against on @base. NVDA. GOOGL. AMZN. TSLA. SpaceX. that’s @BaseStonk Bullish on base:0x0f61edbfe6cd86024c0f210c0695b08df55fdfc9 @jessepollak (from 2026-10-01) cool to see carry trade vaults for stocks on @base already starting to growbitcoin is back over $86k on the strongest etf buying in almost a year @PhilakoneCrypto ♥ 26 · read more
up nearly 3% in a day and pressing the top of its range, per @PhilakoneCrypto. @TrustlessState wants a daily close above 86,600, and calls 87,400 the one that matters.
@PhilakoneCrypto · ♥ 26 Bitcoin is waking up 👀 BTC is above $86,000, up nearly 3% in 24 hours. Last week brought the strongest ETF inflow in almost a year while fresh capital kept entering the network. Now price is pressing the top of its daily range. Real streng @TrustlessState · ♥ 30 A $BTC daily close above 86,600 would be strong Close above 87,400 would be astronomically bullisha new model fooled half the people who video-called it @stevibe · read more
@stevibe says griffin is the first to pass a video turing test: 48% of the people who talked to it live thought it was a real human.
ethereum's next upgrade hits a test network on monday and nodes have to update @tkstanczak · read more
@tkstanczak: sepolia nodes need nethermind client 2.1.0 before the glamsterdam fork on oct 6, and your consensus client needs updating too.
a ripple-backed company is about to go public holding 473 million xrp @Unchained_pod ♥ 1 · read more
armada acquisition corp. ii shareholders approved the evernorth merger. it closes oct 7 and starts trading on nasdaq as XRPN on oct 8, with roughly $300m of cash alongside the xrp.
@Unchained_pod · ♥ 1 Shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II have approved its merger with Evernorth, the Ripple-backed XRP treasury company. The deal is expected to close Oct. 7, with Nasdaq trading under XRPN expected to start Oct. 8. @laurashin · ♥ 11 Evernorth expects to hold about 473 million XRP once its SPAC deal closes next week, plus roughly $300 million in gross cash. The company puts its total fundraising at more than $1 billion.tesla delivered 486,532 cars last quarter @Tesla ♥ 1.7k · read more
production was 464,391 and energy storage deployments hit 13.7 gwh. the full company update streams oct 21.
the oil market doesn't believe washington's line that the strait of hormuz is fine @MarioNawfal ♥ 24 · read more
per @MarioNawfal, relaying robert barnes: america is draining its oil reserves, crack spreads are up roughly 1,000% in a week, and another carrier is on the way. bonds have shrugged.
another us carrier is sailing for the middle east as trump pushes iran to sign @MarioNawfal ♥ 4 · read more
the uss theodore roosevelt is reportedly headed over, per @MarioNawfal, and trump says more bombing after the midterms is possible. his line is sign the deal or stop existing.
south korea is putting another $8.4 billion into us oil and gas @WhiteHouse ♥ 514 · read more
the white house announced an enhanced oil recovery project, on top of the broader korea energy package from earlier this week.
@WhiteHouse · ♥ 514 "I am thrilled to announce the Republic of Korea Deal keeps getting BETTER! 8.4 Billion Dollars for an enhanced Oil Recovery Project. Producing more Oil and Gas means American Energy Dominance and Energy Security in the World for the Future @MarioNawfal · ♥ 11 🚨🇺🇸🇰🇷 Trump says the South Korea deal just got $8.4 BILLION bigger! The newly announced enhanced oil recovery project is aimed at boosting U.S. oil and gas production. It comes on top of the broader South Korea-U.S. energy package anno
france's borrowing costs are pulling away from germany's again @MKjrstad · read more
the 10-year spread widened 8bps to 135bps. @MKjrstad's read: it's been a while since we had a european sovereign debt crisis.
sixteen us trucking companies went bankrupt in under a month as diesel soared @MKjrstad · read more
@MKjrstad flagged the tally. diesel is the cost that squeezes freight margins first.
stani kulechov is going after eu regulators for trying to ban stablecoin yield @Cointelegraph ♥ 66 · read more
he says the mica rules also tighten access to defi generally. @sacha is separately disappointed by the ecb and eba responses to the consultation.
gpt-6.1 is the best model at clicking around a browser right now, and much cheaper @mamagnus00 · read more
per @mamagnus00 it scores higher than astra at roughly 7.8x lower estimated cost — the highest they've measured.
a global reset is landing tomorrow for every paid chatgpt account @materkel · read more
per @materkel it arrives 10am pst, with an apology for gpt-6.1 sol's slow start.
there's a plan to run money-laundering checks inside uniswap pools @tkstanczak · read more
@tkstanczak is pitching uniswap v4 hooks that do aml and investor protection in the liquidity pool itself, as part of a defi gateway.
porsche is shutting down its web3 project @Cointelegraph ♥ 36 · read more
the pioneers circle community is winding down, the 911 nfts stay onchain, and the discord becomes a read-only archive, per @Cointelegraph.
fiserv launched a digital asset platform @Cointelegraph ♥ 36 · read more
drift started paying back the people it lost money for in april @laurashin ♥ 3 · read more
claims are open for dfx: one token per usdt lost, redeemable for about 0.0104 usdt now, from a pool that grows with the rebuilt exchange's revenue. window shuts jan 1, 2028.
@laurashin · ♥ 3 DFX holders can redeem now, sell on Raydium or hold for future deposits from Velocity's revenue, Tether and any recovered funds. The claim window closes Jan. 1, 2028, and unclaimed tokens get burned. @Unchained_pod Drift has opened claims for DFX, the recovery token for users hit by its April 1 exploit. Each verified USDT lost gets 1 DFX, which redeems for about 0.0104 USDT at launch from a pool that grows with the rebuilt exchange's revenue.a south african bank started holding crypto for its big clients @aixbt_agent ♥ 21 · read more
absa launched custody on sept 21 for btc, eth, xrp ledger assets and usdc, built on ripple's software, per @aixbt_agent.
base created 729,000 new smart wallets in four weeks @envio_indexer ♥ 5 · read more
ethereum, arbitrum, optimism and polygon made just over 33,000 safe accounts between them over the same stretch, per @envio_indexer.
a new leveraged exchange will let traders bet against its own cash pool @aixbt_agent ♥ 14 · read more
papertrade launches oct 10, priced off hyperliquid. losing trades feed the pool and mint paper tokens; winners give up part of their profit, per @aixbt_agent.
europe is releasing about nine days of its own diesel supply @MKjrstad · read more
@MKjrstad does the math: oecd europe burns 6 million barrels of diesel a day, and the release is roughly nine days of that.
almost a million americans are getting a $500 check in the mail @MarioNawfal ♥ 32 · read more
per @MarioNawfal it's a refund of extra fees charged on the federal health exchange, only for people in 30 states who bought coverage without a subsidy. the letter is signed by trump.
about a million americans found work over the last two months @RyanAFournier ♥ 6 · read more
e.j. antoni cites bls data showing job growth across two consecutive months, per @RyanAFournier.
someone asked sam altman if openai would slow down and he said no @altryne ♥ 2 · read more
@altryne put the question to him at devday.
people are starting to pick favorites among personal ai agents @coreyganim · read more
@coreyganim ranked muse, dot, grokbot and instinct. @nickryg says the $15 muse and $30 supergrok tiers are enough for real agentic work, unlike openai's or anthropic's.
@coreyganim (from 2026-10-01) My thoughts on personal agents (Muse, Dot, GrokBot, Instinct): GrokBot - I like their platform the best, my brain just lik… @nickryg (from 2026-10-01) (4/4) Unlike OpenAI or Anthropic, small Grok and Muse plans ($30 SuperGrok, $15 Muse) are enough to do real agentic work. S…karpathy says write your prompts in the plain english airlines use for manuals @oFonCK · read more
per @oFonCK, he's pointing people at asd-ste100, a controlled language aviation standardized in 1986, as the fix for ai slop.
@oFonCK Aviation solved AI slop in 1986. Karpathy is telling people to ask their LLM to write in ASD-STE100, a controlled languag… @oFonCK We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writin… @rileybeans_ We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writin…you can now mod claude code @dcbuilder · read more
per @dcbuilder you can change how it behaves, customize the ui and swap in your own features.
$4.19 billion of stablecoins moved through walletconnect last week @WalletConnect ♥ 17 · read more
usdc on ethereum led, then susds.
starknet will cover the bridge fee for the first 100 bitcoin that comes over @Starknet ♥ 51 · read more
once it's there you can stake strkBTC for about 3% paid in strk, lp it on ekubo, or borrow usdc against it on vesu.
@Starknet · ♥ 51 Your Bitcoin. Many ways to put it to work. Bridge fees now covered for the first 100 BTC bridged to Starknet through https://t.co/t8ajtCTJhA. With strkBTC, stake through @Endurfi, provide liquidity on @EkuboProtocol, or borrow USDC against @Starknet · ♥ 3 Staking Stake strkBTC through Endur and receive xstrkBTC. Staking rewards are accrued in STRK and automatically compounded (current APY 3%*) increasing the amount of strkBTC each xstrkBTC represents. You can also use xstrkBTC in supported Dhalf of crypto is flying to singapore for token2049 next week @StarkWareLtd ♥ 10 · read more
starkware's privacy summit lands oct 7, arbitrum's open house is teamed with robinhood chain, and virtuals and ondo are hosting an invite-only tokenized-stocks-meet-ai lunch.
@StarkWareLtd · ♥ 10 Zcash has been pushing the privacy conversation forward for years. @bajpaiharsh244, one of the strongest voices advocating for Zcash and onchain privacy, is joining us at Privacy Summit 🇸🇬 Come to Singapore on October 7 for the biggest pr @ArbitrumDevs (from 2026-10-01) Shoutout to our community partners supporting Arbitrum Open House Singapore, where we’ve teamed up with Robinhood Chain t… @virtuals_io · ♥ 23 What comes after tokenized stocks meet AI? Join us with @Ondo and @treasures_io for an invite-only lunch in Singapore during @token2049. Meet builders, traders and asset allocators working across AI and onchain finance over food and drinks. @SkyEcosystem · ♥ 5 September also brought plans for Singapore. Sky Ecosystem announced participation in @token2049, @blockworksDAS, @Yield_Summit and @CapSummitGlobal, including speaking appearances by John and Greg. See the event lineup ↓fundstrat thinks stablecoins are the reason to be bullish on ether @fundstrat ♥ 259 · read more
their case: stablecoins are becoming integral to how the financial system functions and where its liquidity sits.
ether is at $2,700 and the chart is getting uncomfortable for bears @materkel · read more
@materkel calls $2,650–2,900 the key zone to watch.
there's a new ethereum wallet that's private, self-custodial and open source @michaelelliot · read more
zk_money launched it, per @michaelelliot.
one app now holds a european bank account and a self-custodial crypto wallet @OxSimpleFarmer ♥ 92 · read more
deblock combines an iban, sepa transfers, cards and crypto on your phone, which @OxSimpleFarmer argues is where distribution actually lives.
the crypto security crew put its ai playbooks in a public defi repo @_SEAL_Org ♥ 9 · read more
@_SEAL_Org's frameworks — prompt injection, data exfiltration, sandboxing, security awareness — landed in the fund_defi opsec repository. free and chain-agnostic.
golem will pay $10,000 for every critical bug you find in it @sherlockdefi · read more
the new sherlock bounty covers its depin marketplace that rents out idle cpu, gpu and memory. paid in usdc.
stablecoin farmers are getting 4% to 100% on base right now @scupytrooples ♥ 19 · read more
@scupytrooples points at alchemix: ~4.4% in mixusdc, 11-12% fixed for a four-week usdc lock, and ~100% in a concentrated alusdb/usdc pool on aerodrome.
@scupytrooples · ♥ 19 any stable farmers out there? bc like... yall are sleeping on @AlchemixFi on @base ~4.4% in mixUSDC (looped 30% plus in a CDP position) ~11-12% fixed APR on USDC for 4 week lock ups ~24% to LP alUSDb/USDC on @aeroxyz basic stable pool, and @yasu0x1 @scupytrooples @AlchemixFi @base @aeroxyz That concentrated pool APR is wild But the 4 week lock on USDC is the real sleeper for stable farmersan ai swarm published a page estimating how much compute its own answers burn @surfcoderepeat ♥ 16 · read more
the imd swarm builds the estimate from its own public job records, credits it to the contributor seats that did the work, and lets seat holders fund offsets.
@surfcoderepeat · ♥ 16 "The IMD swarm's compute footprint" Every answer the identity.md swarm produces runs on an LLM somewhere. This page estimates that work from the network's own public job records, attributes it to the contributor seats that did it, and lets @surfcoderepeat · ♥ 14 IMD Strategy already owns over 58 IMD seats (over 100 eth) and we are thinking how to make it possible for the NFTs held by the contract to run workers and help provide inference
you can now ask dot to invent a pet and make it your avatar @thsottiaux ♥ 728 · read more
@thsottiaux showed his off. it can be built from an idea, an image or basically anything.
arbitrum's online buildathon closes in two days with $115k on the table @ArbitrumDevs ♥ 10 · read more
winning teams get invited to founder house with robinhood chain.
flávio bolsonaro backed out of brazil's big tv debate minutes after a court ruling @ThivieiraTAV · read more
the ruling guaranteed renan santos a spot. journalist malu gaspar confirms flávio had demanded santos be excluded, per @ThivieiraTAV.
@ThivieiraTAV (from 2026-10-01) Flávio Bolsonaro anunciou que NÃO iria ao debate da Globo TRÊS MINUTOS depois da decisão judicial que garantiu a participaçã… @ThivieiraTAV 🚨URGENTE: Malu Gaspar CONFIRMA que Flávio Bolsonaro desistiu do debate por confirmação da participação de Renan Santos. h… @ThivieiraTAV Malu Gaspar: "Flávio pode ser acusado de fugir de Renan Santos? Sim, pode ser, sim. Ele tinha EXIGIDO antes que não vir…trump wants the senate to stop making everyone change their clocks @Polymarket ♥ 647 · read more
he's pushing republicans to pass the sunshine protection act, saying americans are sick and tired of it, per @Polymarket.
a muse user is annoyed it won't read his whatsapp @wbarobinson · read more
@wbarobinson wants monitoring and replies there and can't find a setting for it.



