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same $25b valuation as the last round, per bloomberg and coindesk. standard chartered's venture arm came in too. okx says it didn't need the money, it picked the investors.

glamsterdam activates on sepolia at 13:53 utc with a 200 million gas limit. donnoh_eth calls it ethereum's biggest throughput increase since launch.

fincen withdrew the proposed rules that would have forced reporting on mixer transactions and self-custodied wallets, per unchained's daily newsletter.

ether.fi usd makes the $300m+ of stablecoins already sitting on the platform native to every product. hadickm calls it one of the cleanest product expansions of the cycle.

usdg goes live natively on arbitrum one today and arbitrum joins the global dollar network, where robinhood, kraken and okx already sit. arbitrum holds $3.79b in stablecoins, per the defiant.

he posed as a paying client and ate a 5% loss on every order to map the chinese crime ring moving money for lazarus group, per cointelegraph.

it opened a request for comment on its first crypto-specific rules for leveraged trading, per unchained's daily newsletter.

he said it on stage at an okx event this morning, per punk6529.

that's an estimated q3 gain, after a loss in q2, per unchained's daily newsletter.

protocol v2 replaces smart contracts based on 2019 gnosis code. canary markets run on v2 through oct 30 and new markets tentatively move over nov 2.

founder merlinegalite says it now represents more than 20% of defi active loans, five years in.

ceo arthur mensch told reuters the model the lab unveils today sits above chinese models on certain aspects, including cyber.

reportedly as early as q1 2027, per polymarket.

the notes carry no ownership or shareholder rights. payouts track per-share value at a qualifying liquidity event, and the tokens trade 24/7 or work in defi, per laura shin.

52% annualized on mstr and 38% on btc since adopting the bitcoin standard in 2020, against stocks, gold, real estate and bonds.

d_gusakov charts 0x02 validators' share jumping right as lido started mainnet consolidations, heading toward 50% of ethereum stake.

prysm v7.2.1 defaults to 200m once glamsterdam activates, but the ethereum foundation says teku 26.9.1 still defaults to 60m. check both execution and consensus layers.

usdg trades on arbitrum through uniswap's stablepair hook, where fees adapt to the market. li.fi, gmx and morpho are day-one support.

safe pro puts account management, security monitoring and transaction policy controls in one workspace, still self-custodial.

the pitch is sealing markets that have always run in the open.

ukmto issued another advisory after a verified report of a tanker being attacked, per sentdefender, who says the pace keeps increasing.

centcom issued a fact check denying the reports, after an mh-60r squawked the 7700 emergency code on flight trackers and dropped toward the water.

energy minister abdulaziz bin salman says the east-west line to yanbu on the red sea hit 5.8 million barrels a day, up from about 4 million.

the twelve b-1 lancers were moved from raf fairford over a possible iranian drone attack, axios reports, per mario nawfal's roundup.

that makes it the 6th-longest business cycle on record.

the alaska railbelt transmission project, framed as part of the administration's energy dominance push.

muneeb reads it, alongside leather, as early signs of a bitcoin builder revival.

backpack added $near and supports native usdc on near. bitwise separately launched $nrr, explained on the rollup.

less than 3% is working as collateral, per redstone's marcinredstone. the blocker is liquidations, since most issuers only redeem on business days.

aave listing coinbase-tokenized assets is on the list, and the people circulating it say that's far from everything.

one of the week's announcements in uttam_singhk's roundup, alongside okx's raise and polymarket v2.

sui basecamp runs oct 7-8 with a live trading competition, keynotes and product reveals, livestreamed from 11:30am sgt.

1pm utc+8, pulling onchain privacy people under one roof. starkware says privacy season is here.

the frontier lounge opened and a trading competition started, per therealchaseeb.

uttam_singhk's roundup of the week so far: okx's $25b raise, ether.fi's stablecoin, polymarket protocol v2, monad's private settlement.

black forest labs reports flux 3 now sits at number one on physics-iq, google deepmind's benchmark for whether video models understand the physical world.

missalsimpson shows an agentkit agent minting paper trail on seadrop at 0.09 eth and verifying it through opensea's free agent tools.

qwqiao lists alphafold and isomorphic at google, esm and bioemu at meta and microsoft, and nvidia's bionemo stack plus a joint lab with eli lilly.

devcon runs november 3-6 in mumbai.

oct 17-18 at menara ken ttdi, with core devs and stablecoin, rwa and privacy builders.

oisinkyne asks whether ethereum builds its own proving network or picks up a third party's trust assumption. one epoch takes ~30 seconds today, and slots need 12.

jacobc_eth asked grok, claude and chatgpt how to put emulators on a ps5 and got lectures. glm 5.3 just did it. he calls the rest corpo-alignment.

btc, eth, zec, xrp, sui and near, spotted by hackapreneur. no idea who, but that is a lot of conviction in one direction.