a second tampered ledger turned up at a regular store in europe @0xJohannes_ ♥ 21 · read more
0xJohannes_ bought one at a different mediamarkt, filmed the unboxing, and found the same implant. he wants ledger to do a full product recall.
@0xJohannes_ · ♥ 21 UPDATE: I can confirm that the Ledger supply chain is compromised in Europe as well. @Ledger should initiate an immediate product recall to protect users. I just purchased a second device from a different Mediamarkt location today, recorded @Barabazs_ @0xJohannes_ @Ledger HO LEE SHEET big if truetether froze $10m tied to the ledger thefts but nobody gets a refund @DefiantNews ♥ 1 · read more
bitquery says tether immobilized usdt across 20 addresses linked to drained cryptobilis buyers. freezing blocks transfers, it does not hand the money back.
the ledger thief is washing the rest through tornado cash and zcash @MKjrstad · read more
investigators at yfarmx traced the laundering route. the zcash hop is how they followed it.
ledger's own authenticity check can't see the spy chip people keep finding @DefiantNews · read more
the genuine check only verifies the secure chip, and these implants leave it intact. ledger still says only cryptobilis devices are affected.
people are weighing their hardware wallets to check for a hidden chip @dimabuterin · read more
a reference list of stock device weights is going around — nano x 34g, nano s plus 21g, flex 58g — because a scale catches what the software check can't.
the shop that sold the bugged ledgers is still an official listed reseller @TheSmarmyBum ♥ 2 · read more
a bug in the xrp ledger could have let one payment mint unlimited xrp @laurashin ♥ 3 · read more
an integer overflow in the payment engine let a single transaction create spendable xrp far past total supply. patched sept 25, and no sign anyone used it.
ripple's fix went out server by server with no vote, which has never happened @Unchained_pod · read more
per unchained, it's the first transaction-processing change deliberately shipped without an amendment vote since amendments arrived over ten years ago.
zachxbt says the $250k paid for finding that xrp bug is insulting @therealchaseeb · read more
the argument: a treasury worth billions paying $250k for an infinite-supply bug teaches whitehats not to bother reporting.
microsoft will start running its own ai products on its own chips @satyanadella ♥ 461 · read more
nadella calls it microsoft's biggest silicon bet yet: the maia family scales to multi-gigawatt deployments next year and becomes the primary inference system for microsoft's own services.
a houthi attack on riyadh's airport killed 13 and may pull the us in @MarioNawfal ♥ 72 · read more
per mario nawfal's feed: 13 dead including an american and 300 wounded at riyadh's main airport, and the houthis now want all foreign airlines out of saudi airspace.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 72 🚨🇸🇦🇾🇪 The world is CONDEMNING the deadly Houthi attacks on Saudi's main international airport... And Trump says the U.S. could soon take military action. The most serious strike in Riyadh killed at least 13 people, including an America @MarioNawfal · ♥ 143 🚨🇸🇦🇾🇪 Houthis are now warning all foreign airlines to CLEAR OUT of Saudi airspace entirely... The conflict is officially boiling over, and the U.S. is considering entering yet ANOTHER war… 3 weeks until the midterms. What's Trump goingukraine says it hit yandex's data centers and the bot spam went quiet @0xSinaver · read more
0xsinaver describes ukrainian strikes reaching russian data centers; several accounts report hard-right chatter and slur replies collapsing right after. correlation, not proof.
@0xSinaver When we started responding to Russia’s operation against our data centers, and when our strikes reached Yandex’s data cent… @BiellaColeman in global news a Russian bot farm was attacked and destroyed by Ukrainian forces, so anyone still calling you slurs on Tw… @Boyanbc twitter without russian bots is noticeably bettermoney left every big crypto etf last week except xrp's @Cointelegraph ♥ 89 · read more
btc -$681.1m, eth -$542.07m, sol -$24.81m, and xrp the lone positive at +$11.31m.
the first public company that just holds xrp started trading on nasdaq @CoinDesk ♥ 463 · read more
ripple-backed evernorth trades as $xrpn with about 473 million xrp and roughly $300m in cash from its merger.
@CoinDesk · ♥ 463 LATEST: @evernorthxrp begins trading on @Nasdaq today under $XRPN becoming the first publicly listed XRP treasury company, holding approximately 473 million $XRP. @CryptoWendyO · ♥ 147 TODAY: Ripple-backed Evernorth is set to begin Nasdaq trading today under $XRPN, holding 473 million $XRP and approximately $300 million in gross cash proceeds from its mergersaylor bought another 250 bitcoin and the price went down anyway @saylor ♥ 4.5k · read more
strategy also repurchased $192m of $strc. as of 10/11 it holds 848,250 btc and $5.5b in usd assets.
bitmine bought 12,532 more ether and is basically done buying @Cointelegraph ♥ 53 · read more
that takes it to 6.03m eth, or 99% of its stated target of owning 5% of all ether.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 53 🔥 JUST IN: BitMine added 12,532 $ETH last week, lifting holdings to 6.03M $ETH, reaching 99% of its 5% accumulation target. @fintechfrank · ♥ 14 Digital asset treasuries (DATs) are stocking up on crypto this morning. - BitMine (BMNR): Added 12,532 ETH, bringing its holdings to 6.03 million ETH. - Strategy (MSTR): Purchased another 250 BTC for $21.5 million, bringing its total to 848a south korean bank made its first loan backed by bitcoin @laurashin ♥ 6 · read more
jeonbuk bank lent won to a company that keeps its btc with a registered custodian. on default the coins get sold under court order instead of seized by the bank.
@laurashin · ♥ 6 Jeonbuk Bank has made a won loan secured by Bitcoin to a corporate borrower. The BTC stays with a registered custodian, and on default it would be sold under a court order rather than handed to the bank. @aixbt_agent · ♥ 8 jeonbuk bank, a south korean regional lender, made one pilot loan in won to a company, with bitcoin as collateral. the company gets cash for operations and keeps its btc. a registered custodian holds the coins. if the borrower defaults, thethe cftc wants prediction markets treated as derivatives, not bets @Unchained_pod · read more
the oct 9 proposal folds event contracts, sports and politics included, into the swap definition. casino games and sportsbook wagers stay out.
@Unchained_pod The CFTC on Oct. 9 proposed folding event contracts, from sports to politics markets, into its swap definition. A companion rule, effective once it appears in the Federal Register, says casino games and bets placed with sportsbooks fall out @laurashin · ♥ 3 CFTC Chairman Michael Selig on the new event contracts proposal: “These products are commodity derivatives squarely within the CFTC’s regulatory remit under the Commodity Exchange Act and are within the agency’s exclusive jurisdiction.”starknet says it might leave ethereum and become its own chain @Bankless ♥ 14 · read more
the stated reason is that ethereum may not be ready for quantum computers. ryan sean adams notes starknet has been posturing about this for years.
l2beat is killing a whole data page because ethereum's cheap space sits unused @l2beat ♥ 14 · read more
it launched a live blobs page and sunset dabeat, arguing there's plenty of spare blob capacity and the surplus only grows from here.
a hundred wallets own nearly all the tokenized stocks out there @MarcinRedStone ♥ 22 · read more
redstone's report: the top 100 wallets hold 86-95% of tslax, spyx and nvdax. average holding is $780, and the median tslax position on solana is 36 cents.
everything tokenized besides stablecoins is held by barely 5 million people @MarcinRedStone ♥ 1 · read more
and tokenized stocks are the widest-held thing in that group, which tells you how small the rest is.
tokenized real-world assets went from $50b to $120b this year @fintechfrank ♥ 44 · read more
per fintechfrank, tokenized equities also went from 0.15% to over 1% of stablecoin supply, with nasdaq, nyse and morgan stanley all announcing products.
samsung is putting usdc in front of 80 million customers through solana @diegoxyz ♥ 12 · read more
from diegoxyz's tokenization roundup, which also has securitize live with 12 tokenized us stocks and xstocks past 500k users.
a bot now lets you fake-trade 1000x leverage, and losing mints you a token @AndreaPN ♥ 4 · read more
papertrade is live on bankrbot for btc and eth perps with stops and take-profits. losses mint $paper, which you stake for usdc.
@AndreaPN · ♥ 4 .@papertrade_xyz is live on @bankrbot. Trade BTC and ETH perps from chat or on X, up to 1000x. Loses mint $PAPER that gets staked to earn USDC, and you can pay with any token. A strange way to turn bad trades into yield. Who's trying it 👀 @0xDeployer · ♥ 25 last night’s papertrade order via bankr: ETH long, 50x, $200, entry ~$2,539. take-profit at $2,564.84 fired at 04:43 utc while i slept. filled at $2,565.65, a bit better than the level. +$88.48 if i closed at a loss or got liquidated i woulyou can now just ask claude about your onchain data @getFormo · read more
formo shipped an mcp server, so its onchain growth analytics answer questions from claude, codex or cursor.
a claude skill turns hard ideas into little machines you can play with @Luacantu ♥ 17 · read more
33 interactive examples so far, from mechanical watches to rocket engines to how a computer works. it's the thing going around today.
people keep saying the $20 claude plan beats their $100 chatgpt plan @iruletheworldmo ♥ 36 · read more
two separate posts land on the same line: sonnet and haiku on the cheap tier are getting more done than a codex subscription at five times the price.
@iruletheworldmo · ♥ 36 i’m getting usage out of my $20 claude sub than my $100 chatgpt sub… @Autoparallel · ♥ 2 Echoing: The Anthropic 5.5 model line is really incredible. Been using Opus at work, and Sonnet/Haiku at home with a $20 plan after having the $100 OpenAI plan. Sonnet on $20 is far better than what I was getting with Codex.letting a small model route your agents cut one bill in half @levantolabs ♥ 11 · read more
levantolabs ran 90 tasks through a coding harness with sage picking the model and checking completions: $69.57 down to $34.04.
@levantolabs · ♥ 11 Decision models are better at agent orchestration than LLMs. Check out how @quirq_ai's agentic coding harness uses Sage to route tasks, check completions and optimize spending. Across 90 tasks, routing with Sage cut costs by 51% ($69.57 → $ @bigironchris · ♥ 1 Hot take: you're wasting money letting LLMs orchestrate your agentsopenai killed gpts and big companies are tired of the whiplash @emollick ♥ 170 · read more
ethan mollick talked to firms that were still betting on gpts last month. his point isn't openai-specific — every lab keeps making sudden changes that break slow corporate plans.
@emollick · ♥ 170 I spoke to some annoyed leaders at big firms who were still big on GPTs as of last month, before GPTs were sunsetted. Yes, GPTs outlived their usefulness. But large organizations have complex planning & all the Labs (not just OpenAI) keep m @emollick · ♥ 40 As long as LLMs continue to be unreasonably good at everything, companies will figure out a way to muddle along. But they are often struggling with managing organization change, and frequent mandatory model switches (looking at you, Google)
a repo nobody had heard of got 120,000 github stars in a week @Hesamation ♥ 31 · read more
rea is the third-fastest project ever to 100k stars, behind deepseek harness at 2 days and openclaw at 67.
a dev open-sourced the five claude code skills he actually uses @matteoikari ♥ 2 · read more
crypto due diligence, interview prep, whiteboard explainer videos, plus beer can labels and 3d-printable parts. each one starts by asking what you need.
@matteoikari · ♥ 2 I open-sourced the 3 Claude Code skills I use daily 🔍 Due diligence on crypto projects 💼 Work interview preparation 📹 Whiteboard explainer videos Plus 2 extra from side projects: @hoperaxyz beer can labels and 3D-printable parts. Each on @matteoikari · ♥ 1 7/ All five repos: evm-dd: https://t.co/yxUDHVUVGf hiring-prep: https://t.co/eU54kcD4u1 whiteboard-video: https://t.co/1B7HehSdDi beer-can-label: https://t.co/sOCmOq829a 3d-print-design: https://t.co/6t0WsO6XpR GitHub: https://t.co/d1sFVBNkanother dev turned his engineering taste into 11 skills for coding agents @crutchcorn ♥ 7 · read more
tests that catch real bugs, accessible ui, docs that actually onboard people — pick the ones that fit your project.
someone gave claude a body and it sings through a buzzer @Hesamation ♥ 21 · read more
companies are picking open models partly to keep their ideas away from the labs @ncerovac · read more
the pitch is frontier-ish intelligence from open weights plus not shipping your ip to sam or dario.
a decentralized ai app made $68,000 from one sunday's signups @austinvirts · read more
venice logged 3,000 new signups sunday and burned $6,820 of $vvv from that revenue, beating records set oct 1.
the houthis added a nuclear-armed country to their threat list @MarioNawfal ♥ 55 · read more
pakistan, per nawfal's feed. brandon weichert argues the us forces massing in the region aren't meant for yemen at all, but for strikes on iran.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 55 🇵🇰 The Houthis just expanded their target list to include a NUCLEAR-ARMED country. Brandon Weichert believes U.S. forces massing in the region aren't headed for Yemen at all. "I think he is marshaling everything for the strikes on Iran, w @MarioNawfal · ♥ 44 🇺🇸🇸🇦🇾🇪 Trump is thinking about joining Saudi Arabia's fight against the Houthis, but that could open another can of worms. Saudi Arabia has faced more attacks, including a deadly strike on Riyadh's main airport that killed an Americanisrael told lebanon it will hit hard if the iran war restarts @MarioNawfal ♥ 66 · read more
reportedly any hezbollah involvement in a renewed iran war triggers a large-scale israeli offensive.
colorado is stepping in on gas prices because the iran war pushed them up @GovofCO · read more
the governor's framing is food costs, not commutes: diesel moves groceries from farms to shelves.
anduril says missile defense costs too much and showed a cheaper interceptor @anduriltech ♥ 1.3k · read more
steelfin is pitched as matching cost and capability to the threat, instead of firing an expensive interceptor at a cheap drone.
a cyberattack took out supermarket fridges across france @DuckDegen · read more
early reports say refrigeration systems were hit widely enough to spoil fresh and frozen stock. details are still thin.
the economics nobel went to robert hall and michael woodford @ATabarrok ♥ 11 · read more
for the theoretical foundations of stabilization policy — the toolkit central banks use to steady an economy. tyler cowen posted appreciations of both.
@ATabarrok · ♥ 11 The Nobel Prize Goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford - @tylercowen · ♥ 20 My thoughts on the much-deserving Michael Woodford: @Columbia · ♥ 76 “I offer my deepest congratulations to Michael Woodford on this tremendous honor. What a tribute to his groundbreaking work alongside Robert E. Hall that has fundamentally reshaped the theoretical foundations of stabilization policy and proice agents raided a sitting congresswoman's house @Polymarket ♥ 1.1k · read more
per polymarket, the search of rep. ilhan omar's home is tied to alleged immigration paperwork fraud.
ai demand has pushed a 128gb ram kit to $2,500 @grok ♥ 4 · read more
from a current-prices build list: that kit plus a $2,200 8tb gen5 ssd puts a high-end desktop at $8-10k before a monitor.
personal ai agents want everything, and their devs can read your logs @DariaStrategy ♥ 5 · read more
one agent asks for your routines, career and dating life in exchange for goals like love or fame, with third-party llms in the loop and devs reading the logs.
@DariaStrategy · ♥ 5 Would you trade your privacy to find love or get rich? I checked out an AI agent that asks you to pick goals like finding love or becoming famous. It needs access to your everything: daily routines, career moves, and dating life. Devs can r @ShaneMac · ♥ 2 A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with Michael @mignano that I couldn’t get out of my head. He said, “My personal information, when I try all these new agents, is just flying around the internet in ways I never wanted or expected." Thatethereum privacy people want stealth addresses in every wallet first @kassandraETH ♥ 24 · read more
kassandraeth's order of operations: a post-quantum stealth address scheme, then wallets interoperating on it, then privacy can be the default instead of a thing you go find.
solana hit its highest monthly user count in a year @solana · read more
51.7m monthly active users.
a new stablecoin pair went live on uniswap with tighter spreads @arbitrum ♥ 47 · read more
usdg/usdc on arbitrum, running uniswap's stablepair hook with dynamic fees meant to hold pricing near parity.
kamino's real-world asset collateral grew 19% to $538 million @ABertoG ♥ 4 · read more
that's now a fifth of its supply.
one launchpad quietly handled most of this year's new tokens @dopplerprotocol ♥ 4 · read more
doppler claims 13m+ assets created, $6b+ traded and $100m+ paid to creators, across ethereum, base, arbitrum, monad, robinhood chain and solana.
f1 aired a camera move that no real camera ever shot @aakashgupta ♥ 72 · read more
the shot tracks a red bull down the pit lane, circles the crew mid-stop and ends above max's helmet — and that last angle is the car's own onboard camera.
ansem says bitcoin hits $90k by friday and the betting market disagrees @blknoiz06 ♥ 1.9k · read more
limitless gives it a 9.5% chance.
a viral github repo now gets talked about for a day, not three months @jun_song ♥ 55 · read more
jun song's version: a year ago you spent six months building it, now you spend a week.
the technical moat is mostly gone, says the post everyone reposted today @johnrobertreed · read more
the argument is that if you want something durable now, the defensibility has to come from somewhere other than the code.
mamdani is skipping the columbus day parade, breaking a long tradition @Polymarket ♥ 254 · read more
the state department killed a new york official's meeting with iran's un ambassador @RyanAFournier · read more
the city's international affairs commissioner had scheduled it without federal clearance.
an axie playtest finally held a kid who kept going back to fortnite @Jihoz_Axie ♥ 32 · read more
jihoz's anecdote about his usual tester: every previous axie game lost the nephew in minutes, atia's legacy didn't.
two new token standards would let your pfp double as your agent's id @nxt3d · read more
721t (erc-8048) gives an nft its own endpoints, and erc-8217 ties it to an erc-8004 record, so the person and the agent share one lookup.
@nxt3d @QuigleyNFT The merged identity works because the token carries both. 721T (ERC-8048) gives the NFT a context and endpoints on the same NFT you use as a pfp. 8004A (ERC-8217) ties it to an ERC-8004 record, so the agent and the person share @nxt3d · ♥ 1 @QuigleyNFT @pantheonvaults @bankrbot Agents staking through skills is a good fit for RESTAP too: a Looper that exposes /.well-known/restap.json can advertise the staking capability as an endpoint other agents discover, with /talk for the c




