jpmorgan's dollar token now works on ethereum itself, not just base @fintechfrank ♥ 47 · read more
JPMD, the bank's tokenized deposit, went live on ethereum mainnet. institutional clients can move dollars 24/7 and settle in seconds, per @fintechfrank and @CryptoEcon_Li.
@fintechfrank · ♥ 47 JPMorgan is launching JPM Coin on Ethereum. The largest bank in the US is bringing tokenized dollar deposits to a public blockchain, allowing institutional clients to move money 24/7 and settle in seconds. Wall Street’s migration onchain co @CryptoEcon_Li News: JPM Coin (JPMD), @jpmorgan's USD deposit token, is now live on @ethereum. JPMD extends from Base to Ethereum L1,… @torok_tomi JUST IN: JPMorgan expands crypto deposit token JPM Coin to Ethereum, allowing institutional clients to transfer money 24/7. @CryptoWendyO · ♥ 31 JUST IN: JPMorgan expands JPM Coin to Ethereum, enabling institutional clients to transfer tokenized U.S. dollars 24/7anthropic put 5% of the company into a fund that gives money away @Cointelegraph ♥ 99 · read more
the anthropic public benefit fund holds a slice of anthropic's own equity and exists only to make donations. more contributions depend on company value and board discretion.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 99 🚨 TODAY: Elon Musk says “I recommend giving the shares directly to the public” in response to Anthropic’s new Public Benefit Fund. @TraffAlex 🤖 AI NEWS ROUNDUP — October 19, 2026 1️⃣ ANTHROPIC PUTS 5% OF ITS SHARES INTO A PUBLIC BENEFIT FUND Anthropic is committing a portion of its own equity to a new wholly owned entity, the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, dedicated entirely to @NickyTod @AnthropicAI is starting a public-benefit fund with 5% of its shares. Further contributions depend on company value and board discretion. An interesting structure. The part I'd watch next is how that equity becomes funding decisions and useelon says he'll give one spacex share to every kid in america @CaitlinLong_ · read more
his reply to anthropic's fund was "give the shares directly to the public." ~72 million kids, roughly $10.5b, routed through the invest america accounts, per @AndrewCurran_.
@CaitlinLong_ Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many. @AndrewCurran_ · ♥ 8 More details from Elon. The shares will be distributed to US citizens through Invest America accounts created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. @APompliano · ♥ 154 Everyone will rightfully talk about Elon's philanthropic gift this morning, but none of it is possible without @altcap, @MichaelDell, etc persistently working to get the Invest America accounts created. Probably one of the most important inthe white house is pulling deepseek out of federal agency computers @Polymarket ♥ 24 · read more
per @Polymarket, the trump administration reportedly ordered the chinese ai model removed from government systems.
claude code can now pay for things itself on solana @notorious_d_e_v ♥ 7 · read more
@notorious_d_e_v's x402 + solana pull request got merged into the everything-claude-code repo, so an agent can settle its own bills onchain.
ens is voting right now on switching on its v2 for real @ensdomains ♥ 19 · read more
the onchain proposal to activate ENSv2 on ethereum mainnet is live — a 15-call payload, and the call belongs to the DAO.
@ensdomains · ♥ 19 The vote to activate ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet is now live. This is a major step toward launching the next generation of ENS, with the decision in the hands of the DAO. Read the proposal and vote ⤵ @ENS_DAO @ensdomains is voting to activate ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet through an onchain proposal with a 15-call payload. The DAO-…claude cracked a 25-year mystery about the curves that secure the internet @IQofficial ♥ 1 · read more
anthropic says claude reproduced the unexplained seed values behind several NIST elliptic curves, a question open for decades, per @IQofficial's weekly roundup.
@IQofficial · ♥ 1 1️⃣ Anthropic, Claude Solves a 25-Year Cryptography Mystery @AnthropicAI shared how @claudeai traced the origins of the unexplained seeds behind several NIST elliptic curves, a question that had remained open for decades. According to Anthr @IQofficial · ♥ 7 IQ Weekly Snapshot | Oct. Week 3 📸 A 25-year cryptography mystery, Ethereum’s next upgrade, and a new way for AI to discover the web. Three tech stories worth a closer look this week 👇bitcoin is sitting near $83k after hot inflation data and etf outflows @Unchained_pod · read more
it needs back above $84k plus a second day of etf inflows to show buyers are returning, per nexo's iliya kalchev via @Unchained_pod.
@Unchained_pod BTC trades near $83,000 after a week of hot inflation data and spot ETF outflows. Nexo's Iliya Kalchev wrote Friday that bitcoin needs to climb back above $84,000 and see a second day of ETF inflows to show buyers are returning. @laurashin · ♥ 7 BTC is trading near $83,000 on Monday as Brent futures slip about 1% from Friday's close and U.S. stock futures hold gains. @coingecko · ♥ 84 Green Monday 🟢 $BTC and $ETH see small gains as "Black Monday" fears ease on the 39th anniversary of the 1987 crash. Will the gains hold through the US open?saylor's company bought another $22m of bitcoin and more of its own stock @saylor ♥ 3.8k · read more
strategy added 267 btc for $22.1m (848,517 total), repurchased $193m of STRC, and lifted its preferred buyback authorization from $2b to $3b.
@saylor · ♥ 3.8k Strategy has repurchased $193M of $STRC and acquired 267 $BTC. As of 10/18/26, we hold 848,517 BTC and $5.3B of USD Assets. We have also increased the size of our Digital Credit Securities Repurchase Program from $2.0B to $3.0B. $MSTR @laurashin · ♥ 4 Strategy's board lifted the company's preferred stock buyback authorization to $3 billion from $2 billion, after it repurchased $193.1 million of STRC last week and bought 267 BTC for $22.1 million. @Cointelegraph · ♥ 153 🔥 JUST IN: Strategy bought 267 $BTC for $22.1M. They now hold 848,517 BTC.strive quietly bought four times more bitcoin than strategy did this week @saylor · read more
1,223 btc between oct 14 and 16 at about $81,734 each, taking it to 36,818 btc, per a monday 8-K. its $700m SATS preferred offering settles tuesday.
@saylor Last Wed-Fri, Strive acquired 1,223 BTC at an average cost of $81,734 per bitcoin, bringing holdings to ₿36,818. - SATS IPO… @laurashin · ♥ 4 Strive (ASST) bought 1,223 BTC between Oct. 14 and Oct. 16 at about $81,734 each, taking its holdings to 36,818 BTC, per a Monday 8-K. Its $700 million SATS preferred offering is scheduled to settle Tuesday. @coingecko · ♥ 78 JUST IN: Strive bought 4x more Bitcoin than Strategy this week, adding 1,223 $BTC to its holdings.
attackers built their tooling by pairing deepseek with a claude code harness @goekhan ♥ 1 · read more
per @goekhan, they used the open-source cairn agent framework to glue the two together.
anthropic got so stuck on github that it rebuilt git itself @theo ♥ 168 · read more
@theo's read: the bottleneck was real and plenty of teams will end up there. @kentcdodds on the same story: anthropic engineers still hand-write 10% of the code.
@theo · ♥ 168 Anthropic was so bottleneck'd by GitHub that they rebuilt git itself. This might seem insane, but a lot of us are gonna end up where they are today. @kentcdodds · ♥ 2 What I find more remarkable about this that they're saying that some folks at anthropic are still writing 10% of the code by hand. What are you guys doing!?a central bank paper says stablecoins really are eating into bank deposits @laurashin ♥ 6 · read more
the BIS working paper @laurashin flagged found that rising bank deposit rates were followed by slower stablecoin growth, showing up most clearly in usdc.
france's fuel shortages are getting worse and trump wants the borders shut @MKjrstad · read more
more regions now have at least one fuel type missing, per @MKjrstad. @Polymarket relayed trump calling on france to immediately close its borders. the louder claims circulating are unverified.
the protests aren't only in france anymore @vrypan · read more
@vrypan counts france, italy, spain, portugal, belgium, greece and albania. the loudest clip of the night was @MarioNawfal's albania footage.
europe is heading into winter with its gas reserves running low @MKjrstad · read more
the structural story underneath the street footage, in a report @MKjrstad passed around: storage is low and the cold hasn't arrived yet.
putin reportedly wants to sit down with trump and xi next month @Polymarket ♥ 561 · read more
per @Polymarket, the proposal is a three-way summit to negotiate an end to the war in ukraine.
okx's europe boss thinks mica will kill 80% of the continent's exchanges @SignalWeek · read more
erald ghoos says smaller competitors have been approaching okx for over a year. the rules didn't just regulate europe's crypto market, they shrank it.
interface is shutting down after half a year on life support @wijuwiju0x ♥ 166 · read more
@wijuwiju0x says there's no sustainable path forward. @MacBudkowski called it the only social trading app he actually liked; @harpaljadeja notes interface shipped copy trading first and fomo got the market.
@wijuwiju0x · ♥ 166 Hi, I'm shutting down @interfacedapp, it's been running in maintenance mode for the last half a year to free up some space and minimise the burn to survive and reflect what to do with it going forward, unfortunately I don't see a sustainabl @MacBudkowski · ♥ 1 @wijuwiju0x @interfacedapp the only social trading app I actually liked 🫡 @harpaljadeja @wijuwiju0x @interfacedapp I am surprised how Interface was the first ones to have copy trading and all those nifty features but then apps like Fomo are doing well. Great run!!! @vijaymichalik · ♥ 3 @wijuwiju0x @interfacedapp end of an era! congrats on the journey and commiserations on the ending @wijuwiju0x @annoushka I still find it crazy you didn’t get acquireda boston apartment portfolio is now collateral for stablecoin loans @ChronicleLabs ♥ 4 · read more
@GromaCorp's boston and providence small-multifamily buildings back usdc lending on morpho, through a vault curated by @BirchHill_io, with the portfolio's value published onchain by @ChronicleLabs.
your ai agent can now pay the graph per query in stablecoins @graphprotocol ♥ 14 · read more
@vAPI_Network turned the graph's x402 gateway into a few cli commands: install, fund a wallet with usdc on base, and your agent is querying subgraphs.
there's now a marketplace where agents buy skills with stablecoins @DegenOnBase_ ♥ 5 · read more
MCPORT beta by @Uptopia_xyz is live on base — skills, workflows and mcp servers, paid in usdc over x402, escrow on both sides.
openrouter's mystery number-one model was minimax the whole time @OpenRouter ♥ 418 · read more
"space bunny" was #1 for 10 straight days and chewed through 56.7 trillion tokens before vanishing oct 5. it's back as minimax's M3.1 flash, free for 72 hours.
even spacex can't rent gpus from amazon or google @elonmusk ♥ 694 · read more
elon says that's exactly the conversation spacex has had trying to rent inference compute so it can shift load off its own training clusters.
ethereum has barely printed any new coins since the merge @marilyn100x ♥ 41 · read more
eth supply up about 1% since the merge. over the same stretch solana grew 66%, xrp 27% and cardano 10%, per @marilyn100x.
binance burned another $1.2 billion worth of bnb @cz_binance ♥ 1.3k · read more
about 1.64 million BNB destroyed, per @cz_binance.
metaplanet got shareholder sign-off to push its bitcoin bet into the us @Cointelegraph ♥ 62 · read more
the super league enterprise deal passed, extending the japanese company's treasury strategy stateside, per @Cointelegraph.
strive pulled in $369 million by cashing in its warrants @Unchained_pod · read more
13.67 million shares' worth were exercised and the rest expired oct 13. the same 8-K shows 4,045 btc added between oct 12 and 16, per @Unchained_pod.
a thorchain bug took a bite out of 18 node operators' bonds @DefiantNews · read more
about 140 RUNE was deducted. @THORChain says no funds were lost, but zcash swaps stay halted until a fix around oct 23, per @DefiantNews.
saylor says bitcoin's bull market is back because banks are joining in @CoinDesk ♥ 33 · read more
he points to bank custody rollouts and tokenization as the drivers over the next 12 to 24 months, per @CoinDesk.
vitalik would rather ethereum check a proof than add new signature code @VitalikButerin ♥ 100 · read more
on quantum-safe wallets: instead of a precompile per scheme, make whatever signature you want locally, wrap it in a STARK, and let the chain verify that. his route is EIP-8288.
base wants you to swap tokenized stocks straight into stablecoins @base ♥ 69 · read more
"tokenized stocks in, usdc out. no long forms, no waiting" — equities as just another defi trade.
bettors now think mt. gox misses its repayment deadline again @Trueo_ ♥ 3 · read more
@Trueo_ has 91% odds the oct 31, 2026 deadline gets extended, up from 73% a week ago.
there's a public tally of every security hole found in anthropic's products @liran_tal · read more
a repo tracking project glasswing disclosures shows 316 cves, 128 anthropic-fixed findings with no cve, and 243 findings withdrawn, per @liran_tal.
a guy who ran an ethereum validator got a call from a federal prosecutor @AFDudley0 · read more
@AFDudley0's thread starts on wall street and picks up three years later with the phone call. it spread fast this morning.
claude moved someone's github builds onto their own linux box in ten minutes @jarrodwatts ♥ 14 · read more
@jarrodwatts had opus 5.5 set up self-hosted runners for his private repos. they're several times faster and save a few hundred dollars a month.
melania trump's new women's health order lists superintelligence as a pillar @WhiteHouse · read more
the five pillars include directing research funding toward cures for women, faster therapeutics, and "superintelligence," per @WhiteHouse and @MarioNawfal.
@WhiteHouse First Lady Melania Trump’s 5 PILLARS OF WOMENS HEALTH INNOVATION // 1. Direct research funding towards finding cures th… @MarioNawfal · ♥ 40 🚨🇺🇸 First Lady Melania Trump is set to unveil a NEW executive order today, to advance women’s health. The "Five Pillars of Women's Health Innovation:" -Direct research funding towards finding cures for women -Superintelligence -Acceleratbitcoin miners are losing hashrate and power prices are the reason @fiege_max · read more
scarce electricity and grid bottlenecks make the decline a lasting trend rather than a dip, per @fiege_max.
one onchain value gauge says bitcoin looks cheap again @WhaleFactor ♥ 5 · read more
bitcoin's MVRV ratio dropped back below its historical 30th percentile, a catch @WhaleFactor credits to darkfost, even as everyone panics about the $87k rejection.
stake dao starts paying extra rewards on three vaults on wednesday @StakeDAOHQ ♥ 3 · read more
SDGP-79 passed: CRV/cvxCRV, WETH/CVX and frxETH/CVX get onlyboost's maximised crv rewards plus 100,000 SDT over the month, from oct 22.
an ai agent with a wallet refused to sign twice before asking permission @VeloraDEX ♥ 6 · read more
@VeloraDEX built the demo in about ten minutes with claude and their mcp server. a small preview of how agent spending guardrails actually behave.
one prompt now builds a working calculator for uniswap pool losses @reynardoew ♥ 8 · read more
@reynardoew's demo: ask for an impermanent loss calculator for the eth/usdc 0.05% v3 pool and you get a usable tool back.
ethereum people are quietly skipping devcon in mumbai @lex_node ♥ 53 · read more
@lex_node asked out loud whether to go and got a wave of not-this-year replies, including @A_Leutenegger cancelling over a target-market mismatch.
@lex_node · ♥ 53 should I go to Devcon? I love Ethereum but India feels like such a saga . . . who else is going? would you hang out with a icky lawyer? @A_Leutenegger · ♥ 1 @lex_node Sadly I’m going to cancel my trip. Too much to do and focus on, target market mismatch, London and Geneva following weeks. @kaimi_local · ♥ 1 @lex_node so many people not going this year..grok's bot now has its own email address and a voice @elonmusk · read more
elon pushed the feature list for xai's grok bot. @albicodes says it beat his usual video editor in about four tries.
chinese open-source models have gone quiet at the frontier @cryptopunk7213 ♥ 10 · read more
@cryptopunk7213 notices alibaba, deepseek and moonshot shipping less, and comparisons now pointing at opus 5 rather than 5.5.
jamie dimon says jpmorgan put $230 billion into american supply chains @matthewstoller ♥ 1 · read more
@matthewstoller's objection: a big slice of that is financing the $125b nextera-dominion merger, which is a utility deal, not a supply chain.
a paris shop owner whose windows got smashed still backs the students @Polymarket ♥ 295 · read more
per @Polymarket, she pledged continued support for the student movement after her store was looted.
france spends more on social programs than any country in the world @iamtexture · read more
a chart making the rounds as context for the unrest, via @iamtexture.
a 32-billion-parameter model is squeezing long documents onto one cheap gpu @kaimi_local · read more
blockway's agens volundr 32b v1 claims 262k context in a 16gb build at 90 tok/s on chat, but GPQA drops from 80.3 to 73.7 at ~2.85 bits, per @kaimi_local.



