us wholesale prices rose at the fastest pace in four years @MKjrstad · read more
1.3% for the month against 0.6% expected, 6.3% over the year against 5.4%. @matthewstoller calls it the hottest print in four years, a day after a hot cpi.
@MKjrstad PPI Red Hot: PPI 1.3% MoM, Exp. 0.6% PPI 6.3% YoY, Exp. 5.4% PPI Core 0.7% MoM, Exp. 0.3% PPI Core 5.0% YoY, Exp. 4.4% @matthewstoller That was the hottest PPI number in 4 years @trylimitless 🚨 ALARMING: US PPI jumps to 6.3%, above forecast of 5.3%. The chance of a Fed rate hike in October rises to 34%.bitcoin fell under $81,000 overnight and took $350 million of bets with it @MarioNawfal ♥ 24 · read more
ether went under $2,400 in the same ten minutes, per @MarioNawfal. what vanished was leveraged longs, which is how one wave drags everything down in minutes.
korea's stock market fell so fast trading got halted for 20 minutes @laurashin ♥ 6 · read more
the kospi was down more than 9% intraday and closed 7.6% lower, per @laurashin. @betashop watched the same move on hyperliquid perps: sk hynix -15%, samsung -13% in 24 hours.
@laurashin · ♥ 6 South Korea's Kospi fell more than 9% intraday on Thursday and triggered a 20-minute circuit breaker before closing 7.6% lower, as bitcoin dipped under $81,000. The Fed's next policy meeting is Oct. 27-28. @betashop Korean stocks cracked overnight on Hyperliquid: SK Hynix -15%, Samsung -13% and the KOSPI 200 -10% in 24 hours, on up to 20x…traders now give real odds to the fed raising rates this month @Polymarket ♥ 9 · read more
polymarket has a hike at the oct 27-28 meeting near 28%, @trylimitless cites 34%. odd part: odds rose on yesterday's cpi and fell after a hotter ppi.
@Polymarket · ♥ 9 Odds of a Fed rate hike surge to 28%. @NotSoEasyMoney · ♥ 8 Likelihood for a rate hike next week has dropped after PPI data today. It ran yesterday after the HOT CPI print, but for some reason, has dropped after an even HOTTER PPI print... Data is very interesting today. @trylimitless 🚨 ALARMING: US PPI jumps to 6.3%, above forecast of 5.3%. The chance of a Fed rate hike in October rises to 34%.the implant in those ledgers just reads your 24 words off the screen @immunefi ♥ 8 · read more
per @immunefi, hidden hardware in devices sold by reseller cryptobilis sent the recovery phrase out over lte using an esim, and never touched ledger's secure chip at all.
@immunefi · ♥ 8 The Ledger/CryptoBilis incident involved unauthorized hardware implants in wallets. A hidden implant found in Ledger devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis read the recovery phrases off the screens during setup and transmitted them over LTE v @laurashin · ♥ 2 The implant never touches Ledger's secure chip. It reads your 24 words off the screen during setup and sends them out over LTE. @magicaltux and @tanuki42_ walk @laurashin through the attack, live Thursday 9am ET.ledger admits its own authenticity check cannot spot the implant @DefiantNews ♥ 3 · read more
if the attackers leave the original security chip in place, the check still passes. @Ledger says they spent months adding hardware inside southeast asian resale channels.
a bugged ledger turned up in a box from a german electronics store @NFTMerchant · read more
@NFTMerchant says a nano x bought from mediamarkt in germany came back confirmed tampered with, which puts this well past one shady reseller.
whoever is draining these wallets started back in early september @laurashin ♥ 3 · read more
onchain analysis shows drains before oct 9, @tanuki42_ told @laurashin, so the stolen-seed pipeline was running weeks before anyone noticed it.
ledger's answer to a phone-shaped problem is a phone @CoinDesk ♥ 32 · read more
the atom is an android device for mid-2027 with a tamper-proof enclosure built to block exactly those screen-reader implants, per @CoinDesk. everyone had just been saying use a second phone.
@CoinDesk · ♥ 32 LATEST: @Ledger announces the Atom, an Android-based device launching mid-2027 that combines everyday smartphone apps with hardware-level crypto security. It features a tamper-proof enclosure designed to block the screen-reader implants use @printer_brrr · ♥ 5 So Ledger saw all of us talking about how it’s safer to just use a second phone for your crypto vs a hardware wallet so they…made a phone?ledger's new phone will ship with solana's app store already on it @solana ♥ 169 · read more
solana mobile named ledger its first hardware partner; the seeker app brings its wallet and 1,500+ apps to the atom.
@solana · ♥ 169 BREAKING: @solanamobile names @Ledger its first hardware partner. The Seeker app, home to the Solana dApp Store and wallet, ships preinstalled on Ledger Atom and brings 1,500+ apps to Ledger users. @solana Ledger is Solana Mobile’s first hardware expansion partner. We’ve partnered with @solanamobile to bring the Seeker app to Ledg…
stripe and plasma are building a card that spends dollars or stablecoins @cmsholdings · read more
multi-currency cards, live in 30+ countries with 100 planned for 2027, so a euro holder spends euros. patrick collison: “the future of banking will run on stablecoins.”
@cmsholdings Plasma and @Stripe are partnering to bring a new generation of products to market. Our co-development of multi-currency cards… @defiprime Stripe and Plasma are developing cards that can spend from fiat and stablecoin balances, with support available in more than 30 countries and a move past 100 planned for 2027. @patrickc The future of banking will run on stablecoins. On Plasma, in partnership with @StripeCrypto.110,900 ai agents are now registered on base, up 13,000 in a day @1CrypticPoet ♥ 21 · read more
@1CrypticPoet counted 98,000 yesterday morning. nothing in the curve suggests it is leveling off yet.
ai agents can now buy data from the graph one query at a time @graphprotocol ♥ 25 · read more
vapi call lets anything query subgraphs and pay per query in usdc on base through the graph's own gateway, built on x402. no signup, no api key.
tokenized stocks are already being liquidated onchain like any other collateral @graphtronauts_c ♥ 7 · read more
@graphtronauts_c built a subgraph tracking every one on aave v4 on base: who liquidated, how much stock got seized, how much usdc debt was repaid.
coinbase's jesse pollak says you can borrow against your stocks on base now @jessepollak · read more
his pitch is that base financing markets are liquid enough to carry it. tokenized equities plus onchain lending is the product he is selling.
binance's tokenized stock product hit $1 billion in four months @Cointelegraph ♥ 39 · read more
ceo richard teng says bstocks has seen over $6 billion converted between stocks since launch, per @Cointelegraph.
usdc is the first stablecoin the eu has officially labeled “significant” @erickpinos · read more
per @erickpinos, the eu banking regulator's designation starts nov 12 and brings tighter supervision with it.
the openai employee caught bugging the office had a one-way ticket out @Cointelegraph ♥ 18 · read more
@Cointelegraph reports the ticket was booked for oct 12. he was arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in openai's san francisco office.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 18 🚨 INTERESTING: The OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in the company’s San Francisco office reportedly had a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia booked for Oct. 12. @hosseeb · ♥ 2 New late night Chopping Block coming at you: > Token2049 nightclub index at ATL > Ledger supply chain attack! (plus OpenAI spy infiltration) > @papertrade_xyz: 1000x leveraged farming?? > Are technical moats really dead, or have rumors of tanthropic opened applications for two new four-month fellowships @AnthropicAI ♥ 361 · read more
stem fellows, and conceptual reasoning fellows out of philosophy, cognitive science, economics, policy and law. both start january 2027 and work on how claude reasons.
starknet is asking its holders whether to stop settling on ethereum @EliBenSasson · read more
a seven-day poll of strk stakers and delegators opened today. it is non-binding, and any actual move would need separate governance, per @DefiantNews.
@EliBenSasson 🚨 Starknet is voting on whether to leave Ethereum. A 7-day poll opened today. Same week @StarkWareLtd shipped Shadow Acco… @DefiantNews · ♥ 9 STARKNET ANNOUNCES POLL ON INDEPENDENT L1 RESEARCH @Starknet is asking $STRK stakers and delegators whether to study leaving @ethereum settlement. The poll is non-binding; any transition needs separate governance. Read more here:
vaneck gave up on its staked-ether etf before it ever launched @Cointelegraph ♥ 32 · read more
it filed to withdraw the lido staked ethereum etf registration with the sec, saying it no longer plans to go forward with the fund.
a single gpu can now prove ethereum blocks in real time @coingecko ♥ 78 · read more
vitalik buterin praised the airbender prime team for pulling it off, and zk is up 6.2% on the day, per @coingecko.
nillion is shutting down its layer 2 and says move your money @thatmarkmac · read more
anyone holding nil or eth on the l2 is being told to get it back to ethereum mainnet ahead of the shutdown.
hyperliquid's founder wants regulators to watch the apps, not his chain @fintechfrank ♥ 28 · read more
jeff yan told bloomberg the rules belong where the controls are, and that is the deployers building on top. he also just did his first podcast, on odd lots.
@fintechfrank · ♥ 28 Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan told Bloomberg he wants U.S. regulatory oversight over the firms building on his chain, not the chain itself. “The regulation sits at the layer where there are controls, and indeed the deployers are the ones tha @CL207 NEW ODD LOTS: It’s the podcast debut for Jeff Yan @tracyalloway and I have an ultra-rare interview with the CEO and co-f…trump says the iran war ends whenever he decides it ends @Polymarket ♥ 356 · read more
his exact words. oil is still high, and @adamscochran lines it up with hot ppi, high mortgages and strained bonds as a bill nobody has paid yet.
@Polymarket · ♥ 356 JUST IN: Trump declares the Iran conflict will end “as soon as I want it to end.” @adamscochran · ♥ 1 oooof! PPI in +1% above expectations. If you're keeping track: * Inflation: High. * PPI: High * Oil price: High. * Tech sector spend: Slowing. * Mortgages: High. * Bonds: Strained. Trump's plan to fix it? Keep up his illegal war after the mtrump said inflation is 1.7% and his own government's number is 3.7% @MarioNawfal ♥ 113 · read more
@MarioNawfal points at the september bls print, up from 3.4% the month before, driven mostly by energy costs.
tesla reveals the new roadster tomorrow and musk promises a banger @elonmusk ♥ 21k · read more
livestream from the tesla experience centre in toa payoh on oct 16. his words for the car: “beyond movies, beyond imagination, beyond human.”
@elonmusk · ♥ 21k New Roadster is beyond movies, beyond imagination, beyond human, yet still made by humans on Earth @elonmusk Livestream at Tesla Experience Centre, Toa Payoh on October 16 @elonmusk · ♥ 3.0k Let’s just say that this demo will be a BANGER, probably metaphorically, though some chance literallymusk is publicly musing about building an amazon competitor @elonmusk ♥ 17k · read more
no detail past the post. in the same burst he said a guarantee of being made whole would make him likelier to let a shopping agent buy.
pomp wants tesla and spacex to merge @APompliano ♥ 120 · read more
@APompliano says as a shareholder he would fully support it: hand musk as many resources as possible. nobody at either company has proposed anything.
grok's agent can now send and receive email from its own addresses @alexanderchopan · read more
per @alexanderchopan it supports plus aliases and routines that only fire for a given address, which is an agent with an inbox of its own.
apple's new ceo is on time's cover talking about a foldable iphone @TIME ♥ 79 · read more
john ternus on duo, the long-awaited foldable, plus supply chains under geopolitical strain, child safety, and why he thinks apple's ai opening is everyday usefulness.
@TIME · ♥ 79 Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is on the cover of TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions issue. We spoke to him about Duo: Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone. Plus: his company’s approach to geopolitical tensions and supply chains, child safety, and A @TIME · ♥ 5 In his first cover interview, Apple’s new CEO John Ternus discusses the company’s approach to AI and why he believes its biggest opportunity lies in making the technology more useful in everyday life. As Apple brings AI deeper into its devithe deal to stop hitting power plants in ukraine lasted about three days @MarioNawfal ♥ 196 · read more
@MarioNawfal's read: trump asked both sides to stop, zelensky paused for three days, putin kept striking, zelensky resumed, and putin now blames him for defying trump.
ukraine destroyed four russian fighter jets on the ground overnight @MKjrstad · read more
the strike hit an airfield in the voronezh region, per @MKjrstad.
europe is putting real money into rearming itself @MacBudkowski ♥ 2 · read more
over €150b committed through safe for new arms, mostly from eu and eu-friendly suppliers, inside a wider rearm program heading for €800b, per @MacBudkowski.
bettors give democrats a 63% chance of sweeping the midterms @Polymarket ♥ 9 · read more
per polymarket, which has also spent the week moving its fed-hike odds around.
kraken's parent company wants a european bank license of its own @laurashin ♥ 3 · read more
payward is after saldo bank's eu license so it can offer banking-as-a-service, lending and interest on deposits in europe once the deal closes, per @laurashin.
polygon closed its deal for coinme @Cointelegraph ♥ 32 · read more
the acquisition is done and folds coinme into polygon's open money push, per @Cointelegraph's daily roundup.
hyperliquid is pulling in about $3 million a day in fees @androolloyd · read more
$3m in the last 24 hours, which @androolloyd offers to anyone still saying its growth has stalled.
anthropic asks every new claude how it would rewrite its own rules @Hesamation ♥ 2 · read more
@Hesamation flags the edits in the system card, including one asking anthropic to publicly define when claude could be given more autonomy.
the new claude code update is built around what an interruption costs you @aakashgupta ♥ 2 · read more
@aakashgupta's framing: it takes the average person about 23 minutes to get back to what they were doing, and engineers now get interrupted by their own ai all day.
claude now refuses to touch github commands at all @0xca0a ♥ 6 · read more
@0xca0a noticed it lands at the same time anthropic itself moved off github. the stated reason is new security rules.
anthropic says its defenses against model-copying are working @TraffAlex · read more
a technical writeup claims measurable reductions in distillation attacks, where someone mines a frontier model's answers to train a cheaper copy, per an ai roundup from @TraffAlex.
the labs that are great at ai are still just messy fast-growing companies @emollick ♥ 89 · read more
@emollick's point: people assume openai and anthropic are somehow immune to the politics, dysfunction and confusion of hypergrowth. they are not.
robotics research output is speeding up and the chart shows it @Rewkang ♥ 65 · read more
@Rewkang credits cheaper and more available hardware, better tooling, waves of talent and capital, and general-purpose models that actually transfer.
someone decompiled pokemon heartgold using $56,000 of ai calls @Felirami · read more
all 4.1mb of compiled code, in about a month, at api prices.
ai bots may soon run 1,000 times more searches than all humans @aakashgupta ♥ 11 · read more
@aakashgupta's math says the bill at today's prices would be bigger than the entire us economy. one company betting on that just crossed $100m a year.
the ai that texts you first is the one people actually pay for @DruRly · read more
openai's pulse and a startup called poppy both shut down. tomo, which nudges you in imessage, has tens of thousands paying $19.99 a month, per @DruRly.
150,000 people have minted an onchain id made for agents @DegenOnBase_ ♥ 2 · read more
kor id on base went 50k to 100k to 150k in short order. the argument is that an agent needs an identity before it can pay for anything.
zcash's people say the us government once asked them for a backdoor @kate_stapes · read more
@jswihart of @zodl_app walked through the fight in an interview, and says the answer is never. his line: keep crypto non partisan.
safe's security layer is live on three chains @SafeLabs_ ♥ 5 · read more
safenet runs on ethereum, arbitrum and gnosis chain now, and is coming to safe{wallet} soon.
saylor's pitch now is that bitcoin turns into credit and equity @saylor ♥ 396 · read more
strategy's framing: btc is digital capital, strc is the digital credit built on it, mstr is the digital equity.
tether's usdt exists in 76 different versions across chains @l2beat ♥ 3 · read more
@l2beat's breakdown: the native one is issued on ethereum, and usdt0 is an omnichain wrapper backed by usdt locked there.
tokenized assets will land on public chains, not wall street's own @lex_node ♥ 15 · read more
@lex_node expects ethereum or company-owned rollups to win over chains like canton that belong to dtcc and broadridge.
there are now private versions of usdc, usdt and dai @RAILGUN_Project ♥ 14 · read more
@RAILGUN_Project's shielded tokens are private by default, and transfers between its 0zk addresses are free and invisible to block explorers.
a chinese lab shipped a model you can run yourself from day one @StepFun_ai ♥ 4 · read more
@StepFun_ai's release serves through vllm or sglang with an openai-compatible api, runs offline in transformers, and got day-0 support from nvidia.
solana's swarms launchpad is now tokenizing the agents themselves @solana · read more
agents and prompts launch through meteora's dynamic pools, which is agent capital markets as a product rather than a thesis.




