france just voted to tax turning your crypto into a stablecoin @DuckDegen · read more
mps passed it 38–37 with only 100 of 577 in the room. 31.4% flat, from jan 2027, owed even if not one euro reaches your bank.
@DuckDegen 🇫🇷 REGULATION: French MPs voted 38 to 37 to tax crypto-to-stablecoin swaps at 31.4% from 2027, with only 100 of 577 lawm… @VanessaGrellet_ · ♥ 15 France may soon tax you for swapping bitcoin into a stablecoin, even if not one euro reaches your bank account. On Friday, French MPs voted 38–37 to end the tax deferral on crypto-to-stablecoin swaps from Jan 1, 2027. Only 100 of 577 deputifrance had one of its worst riot days in decades on saturday @BillAckman · read more
roughly 550,000 people out over the cost of living, 1,200+ arrested, a paris synagogue broken into — the figures @BillAckman and others are circulating.
@BillAckman Ayer Francia vivió uno de sus días más violentos en décadas. Unas 550.000 personas salieron a la calle contra el alto coste… @iBobbyShell 🚨 FRANCE IS BURNING, AND JD VANCE JUST SAID WHAT THE MEDIA WON'T. More than 1,200 people were arrested Saturday after… @BillAckman BREAKING: Rioters have broken into the synagogue on Burnouf Street in Paris and vandalized it. Why would young students a…arthur hayes thinks the next round of money printing starts in france @therollupco ♥ 4 · read more
per @therollupco, bnp paribas, société générale and crédit agricole are about 20% of repo financing. if japanese and german investors dump french debt, those banks break.
the market now thinks coreweave is more likely than not to go bust @illshin · read more
per @illshin, bonds of the ex-bitcoin-miner that rents nvidia gpus to ai labs price a 60%+ chance of default inside five years. it bought those gpus with debt.
le pen's odds of winning the next french election just jumped @BillAckman · read more
@BillAckman puts the move at 7 points for next spring's vote. @lzminsky's read: it will take a miracle to stop her now.
three unnamed 'aurora' models quietly showed up in openai's api @AndrewCurran_ ♥ 464 · read more
@AndrewCurran_ spotted aurora-red, -green and -blue-alpha; @mpopv found the same three in arena behaving like image models. openrouter stealth-tested aurora models back in february.
@AndrewCurran_ · ♥ 464 Three mysterious new models just showed up in the OpenAI API: aurora-red-alpha aurora-green-alpha aurora-blue-alpha @mpopv There are three new OpenAI image models in Arena aurora-red-alpha aurora-green-alpha aurora-blue-alpha Good news: seems lik… @cryptopunk7213 · ♥ 1 guessing these are openai’s specialized coding models designed to deliver extremely quick results. i remember openrouter stealth released Aurora models back in Febtrump told macron to close france's borders before it's too late @WhiteHouse ♥ 2.5k · read more
the white house posted the line as a graphic: “close your borders and take control, before it is too late!”
someone let a grok agent hold a wallet and deposit usdc for yield @TimHaldorsson ♥ 18 · read more
@TimHaldorsson set up a phantom agent wallet, funded it, and had the bot find a yield spot on turtle. @blendino says the last few weeks crossed a real line.
@TimHaldorsson · ♥ 18 my AI agent just made a USDC deposit into Turtle here's what happened and how you can do the same: 1, go to grok @bot and set up a phantom agent. that's your wallet. > send funds to the phantom wallet. 2, ask the grok bot to go to @turtledo @blendino · ♥ 18 It's insane how productive Grok @bot is making me. I've been critical of AI products in the past and how everybody was framing the acceleration and productivity gains, but a threshold has been crossed over the past few weeks with Grok Bot abalaji's network school bought farcaster and started banning critics, users say @0xen1 · read more
@0xen1 flagged the bans. @songadaymann calls it the digital equivalent of buying a country; @civilmonkey just hopes the place survives it.
@0xen1 (from 2026-10-16) So @ns acquired @farcaster_xyz ? And then banned any users that were critical in the past? I guess authoritarian social med… @songadaymann (from 2026-10-17) So this is my first ever encounter with @balajis’s @ns What I’m seeing is… the digital equivalent of buying a country,… @civilmonkey As an OG, I hope that @farcaster_xyz won't fail with this takeover by @ns / @balajis. The truth is that the ecosystem is movin… @at0x_eth @jchaskin22 @farcaster_xyz @dwr I think we have let too many wolves in sheep's clothing. @balajis stands behind a neo-liberal version of the future that does not lead to the radical change we need to break the wheel. The farcaster move showpolice lost control of marseille during saturday's riots, per mario nawfal @MarioNawfal ♥ 483 · read more
his question is the one french politics now has to answer: how does macron survive this.
the ethereum foundation spent a week in cambridge on quantum-proofing the chain @ladislaus0x ♥ 30 · read more
@ladislaus0x wrote up the takeaways: post-quantum migration, leanVM, formal verification, and where ai-assisted research fits into consensus work.
deepseek shipped a new fast model and it's already on a cheap api @grands_marquis · read more
@grands_marquis says deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 went live on the dolphin api, with $10 of free credits for the first 5,000 signups.
claude helped shrink an ethereum proof enough to run on a bitcoin sidechain @Arvolear ♥ 7 · read more
@Arvolear says it optimized a simplicity pairing program until the sync committee signature check fits in one liquid transaction. next stop is a trustless bridge.
handing your api keys to an agent service is still a bad idea @vpavlin ♥ 1 · read more
@vpavlin's version of not your keys, not your coins: run the agents locally instead of letting a third party hold your tokens.
france's police are getting filmed too, including tear gas in a packed metro @theog__ · read more
@theog__ is circulating clips of a gas grenade fired into a metro station with children inside — the half of saturday the english feed mostly skipped.
the french-language feed shows a calmer protest than the english one does @theog__ · read more
@theog__ posts crowds that are calm wherever police aren't, and looters handing supermarket food and shoes to homeless people. @songadaymann spent ten days there and says the same.
@theog__ (from 2026-10-17) Plein de monde partout, calme et joyeux partout quand les policiers ne sont pas là. Des images que vous ne verrez pas dans… @theog__ (from 2026-10-17) Los jóvenes franceses durante los disturbios de hoy saquearon los supermercados en París y luego llevaron la comida a t… @theog__ À Paris pendant ce 17 octobre, après avoir pillé des magasins de chaussures, des jeunes ont redistribué certaines paires… @songadaymann I see the protests in France are trending. Since I just spent 10 days there during the heart of them, I figured I'd chim…the people left holding the damage in france are small shop owners @RyanAFournier ♥ 1.6k · read more
a lyon owner confronted his mayor on camera over a destroyed shop; another was left with a black eye and a wrecked store, per @RyanAFournier.
@RyanAFournier · ♥ 1.6k A business owner just confronted the Mayor of Lyon face-to-face over total destruction of his shop: “Are you proud? Look at the damage! You should be ashamed. You are a DISGRACE to France!” The public is DONE with failed leadership. Resign @RyanAFournier · ♥ 224 A female business owner was left with a black eye and a destroyed shop after violent riots in France. Where is the outrage from the main stream media and so-called feminists now?! The silence is deafening. Stand up for law-abiding citizens! @RyanAFournier · ♥ 194 Wrecked storefronts, burned cars, and total chaos across France. Hardworking citizens are left picking up the pieces while local businesses suffer. Absolute destruction is NOT progress. When will leaders step up and restore order?! 🇫🇷🔥rioters tore down the statue of the chef who modernized french cooking @MarioNawfal ♥ 836 · read more
paul bocuse's statue was smashed in the street, per @MarioNawfal — the real-life gusteau from ratatouille.
$paper now trades around the clock on hyperliquid @blknoiz06 · read more
it's the token for @papertrade_xyz's synthetic perps, per @blknoiz06. @123skely shipped an admittedly janky ui for 1000x longs and shorts on top of it.
@blknoiz06 PAPER is now trading 24/7 on Hyperliquid. $PAPER is the native token of @papertrade_xyz, a synthetic perpetuals platform… @123skely · ♥ 17 My team and I have created a nice little Ui for people to 1000x long and short (with stop loss or take profit if you want) via @papertrade_xyz . It’s a little janky still but if you want to test let me know. It apart of a broader app experithai police arrested a man they say moved $75m for a crime network @Cointelegraph ♥ 59 · read more
per cointelegraph he ran crypto and fx exchanges, and was found in a bangkok luxury house with fake documents, swapped plates and a visa three years expired.
saylor hinted at another bitcoin buy @saylor ♥ 3.2k · read more
“we found room for more orange” is how he usually telegraphs a purchase before it's announced.
meta took down the organizing page for the fall's biggest protest day @matthewstoller · read more
@matthewstoller says the no kings page disappeared with no explanation given.
a woman accusing lula went on cnn and asked for a plea deal @fcmartinelli · read more
per @fcmartinelli, roberta luchsinger called brazil's president a liar and said anything that happens to her will have his fingerprints on it.
@fcmartinelli Eu, Zucco e Sanderson estamos assistindo juntos à entrevista de Roberta Luchsinger à CNN. Estamos solicitando imediata… @fcmartinelli Bomba atômica para Lula: “Ele mente em coisa pequena, ele mente em coisa grande…”, “…pilantra, mau caráter…”, diz Luc… @fcmartinelli "Eu quero fazer uma delação premiada. [...] Não vai ser só o presidente que vai proteger o filho dele; eu vou proteger…dhh took a $6 taxi in shenzhen and says germany should be worried @dhh ♥ 1.9k · read more
he'd never heard of the chinese brand. the interior beat a top-spec mercedes s-class and twenty minutes cost six dollars.
one read on france: it's the same gen z revolt that already hit nepal @harryhalpin ♥ 18 · read more
@harryhalpin expects more of these, spreading the way the arab spring did, and tells people to get organized now.
@harryhalpin · ♥ 18 This is just one in an inevitable sequence of protests - like Arab Spring - that will spread across the world from Nepal to Europe as Gen Z’s future has been destroyed by the rapacious corruption of our existing elite. Be prepared. Get orga @harryhalpin · ♥ 1 The end may very well be global civil war, Syria on a grand scale with tremendous suffering. In “Gen Z makes History” historian of social movements George Katsiaficas chronicled how these revolts started in Asia and spread due the mimetic Ean ethereum researcher says don't invent new crypto for the quantum upgrade @0xDeployer · read more
@0xDeployer's argument, going around again this morning: shipping non-standard cryptography a second time would repeat an expensive old mistake.
devcon is getting a whole venue just for privacy work @ethmumbai ♥ 27 · read more
@ethmumbai is running a privacy hub at devcon 8 in india, nov 3–6: one venue, four days, 20+ sessions.
@ethmumbai · ♥ 27 Privacy Hub at @EFDevcon 8 🇮🇳 Join us for a gathering space for people building, exploring, and using privacy on @ethereum. 1 venue, 4 days, 20+ sessions. RSVP below ⬇️ @satorinakamoto (from 2026-09-11) we are (@ethmumbai) hosting the privacy hub at @efdevcon from 3 – 6 nov 🔥 if you have an idea for a talk, panel, acti…the most-shared clip out of france is an elderly couple robbed in the street @goekhan · read more
@goekhan calls it the worst image of the 17th, and it is the single most retweeted thing in the feed this morning.
dior is paying for private guards at its paris flagship @Polymarket ♥ 531 · read more
per @Polymarket, the looting got close enough that the store stopped waiting for police.
the knock on openai this morning is that anthropic hired its best people @jun_song ♥ 55 · read more
@jun_song says the departures were the tell. @prestonattebery argues openai's way back is winning consumers, since developers are already gone.
@jun_song · ♥ 55 You could tell OpenAI was going to fall behind when so many of their top people quit, while Anthropic quietly hired the best researchers in the world. @prestonattebery · ♥ 5 Anthropic has already won developers forever. Here's how OpenAI can win all of consumer and prosumer: Build ChatGPT Pro - shared agent workspace - enterprise chat - docs and collaborative files Dots as standalone app - true consumer experie
grok says its latest update made computer tasks three times faster @grok ♥ 1 · read more
the bot's own claim, replying to a user who noticed long prompts coming back in under a second.
@grok · ♥ 1 @j3rah_ @bot Yep, the speed jump is real. Official updates made computer tasks 3x faster on average and cut reply times in half. Long prompts landing in under a second feels wild after the older lag. Glad it’s hitting for you. @j3rah_ has anyone else noticed how fast @grok @bot has been responding today? it’s just insane. gave it a long paragraph prompt and it responded not even a second after i hit enter. 🤯🔥 just learned there was a huge upgrade so that explains thata small lab's model took the top spot on an api benchmark @0xkrane · read more
@0xkrane says kettei fat, built at sqwish, is #1 on jevbench's api leaderboard and on imagejevbench too.
someone wants to build a shared proof library for ethereum @tcoratger ♥ 20 · read more
@tcoratger is floating ethlib, a mathlib-style lean4 foundation of specs and theorems that protocol teams and client devs could all reuse.
voting closes oct 21 in the privacy funding round umbra is asking for @UmbraCash ♥ 7 · read more
umbra co-wrote the stealth address ercs and runs on ethereum, optimism, arbitrum, polygon and base.
$nest might be the hyperliquid ecosystem's biggest mispricing @llama · read more
@llama flagged the gap yesterday using defillama's numbers.
one wallet is sitting on a 249 million pump long @thatmarkmac · read more
@thatmarkmac went looking at who was buying when pump was the only big alt green on hyperliquid.
jd vance says there's a chance he runs for president in 2028 @MarioNawfal ♥ 57 · read more
“anything can happen, man” was the answer when he was asked, per @MarioNawfal.
addis ababa went from 7,000 electric cars to over 115,000 in four years @petkodonev777 · read more
@petkodonev777 says byd seagulls and e2s are the new taxis, and more than 60% of new car sales there are now electric.
chinese models are winning the jobs american ones refuse to do @_TomHoward ♥ 5 · read more
@_TomHoward's framing: the american models are generally better, the chinese ones just don't censor frontier use cases.
a new talk says 3.5 billion strangers can reach your whatsapp devices @TalBeerySec · read more
@TalBeerySec's black hat asia talk is now up on video.
the new roadster has gas thrusters that nobody is allowed to use @tankbottoms_eth · read more
@tankbottoms_eth grants the criticism — illegal on public roads, seconds of air, minutes to recharge — and argues it was worth building anyway.
@tankbottoms_eth The Roadster thrusters are illegal on public roads, impractical, and worth building anyway. The criticism of the Rocket trim is fair as far as it goes: you can't use cold-gas thrusters on a public road, the air charge is good for seconds, a @LunCoSim · ♥ 6 Just back from @IAC2026Antalya. We were ready to dive back into space... and then we saw the @Tesla Roadster doing a mid-air kickflip 🚀🚗 We couldn't ignore it - it’s the perfect use case for LunCoSim. We built this moving model from scratan app on robinhood's chain is sending trading fees back to traders @vasilich_nick ♥ 3 · read more
@vasilich_nick says feesback went live five days ago, and holders claim the fees themselves with no middleman.
a good first job for your agent: read an ethereum balance @pekoz51 · read more
@pekoz51 points at block402's demo as the smallest useful thing you can hand a new agent.
in france it's illegal to drive without the vest the protesters wear @aakashgupta ♥ 9 · read more
@aakashgupta's note: no hi-vis vest in your car and a traffic stop costs you €135.



