Regulation:

Kamala Harris Crypto Regulation Plans Spark Criticism
https://decrypt.co/287262/kamala-harris-crypto-regulation-criticism-optimism

Crypto.com sees ‘strong legal footing’ in crypto rulings against SEC
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-rulings-against-sec-legal-footing-crypto-com

Craig Wright Says Bitcoin Devs 'Misled the Public' in New $1 Billion Lawsuit
https://decrypt.co/287138/craig-wright-bitcoin-new-lawsuit

SEC’s Ripple appeal doesn’t challenge XRP non-security status
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-ripple-appeal-no-challenge-xrp-not-a-security

Regulatory clarity key for banks entering crypto, industry exec says
https://cointelegraph.com/news/banks-crypto-digital-asset-banking-regulation-challenges

EU markets watchdog urges amendments to MiCA crypto regulations
https://cointelegraph.com/news/europe-esma-recommend-mica-amendments

Crypto trader Cumberland DRW sold $2bn in unregistered securities, SEC alleges
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/sec-says-crypto-trader-cumberland-drw-is-unregistered-broker/

‘Consider Cumberland DRW a warning shot’: Why more finance firms should fear the SEC’s crackdown
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/snapshot/why-sec-suing-drw-cumberland-is-a-warning-shot-to-trading-firms/

Days before opening, Flyfish Club settles with SEC for $750K
https://blockworks.co/news/flyfish-settlement-sec-nfts

DeFi startup Rari Capital settles with the SEC
https://blockworks.co/news/sec-settlement-rari-capital-unregistered-broker

TrustToken, TrueCoin settle with SEC over TUSD allegations
https://blockworks.co/news/sec-settlement-trusttoken-truecoin

TD Bank failed to disclose ‘suspicious’ crypto transactions tied to unnamed customer group
https://blockworks.co/news/fincen-td-bank-suspicious-crypto-transactions

SEC Commissioner says agency’s approach to crypto has been a “disaster for the whole industry”
https://coinjournal.net/news/sec-commissioner-says-agencys-approach-to-crypto-has-been-a-disaster-for-the-whole-industry-2/

Binance exec still awaiting bail decision as judge skips hearing for seminar
https://protos.com/binance-exec-still-awaiting-bail-decision-as-judge-skips-hearing-for-seminar/

Mango Labs accuses two Mango DAO leaders of embezzling $10m during Eisenberg trial
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/lawsuit-alleges-mango-markets-dao-leaders-embezzled-millions/
Mango Markets to destroy MNGO tokens following SEC settlement
https://blockworks.co/news/sec-announces-mango-markets-settlement

Raises:

'Network State' project Praxis secures $525 million to build crypto-friendly city
https://www.theblock.co/post/321268/network-state-project-praxis-secures-525-million-to-build-crypto-friendly-city

Blockstream Raises $210M in Convertible Note Financing Round
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/15/blockstream-raises-210m-in-convertible-note-financing-round/

Blockchain Capital leads $33 million Series C in African stablecoin exchange Yellow Card
https://www.theblock.co/post/321804/blockchain-capital-leads-33-million-series-c-in-african-stablecoin-exchange-yellow-card

Euroclear eyes Asia’s blockchain potential with stake acquisition in Singapore’s Marketnode
https://www.theblock.co/post/321885/euroclear-eyes-asias-blockchain-potential-with-stake-acquisition-in-singapores-marketnode

zkPass raises $12.5 million Series A at $100 million token valuation
https://www.theblock.co/post/321723/zkpass-funding-token-valuation

Bitcoin-backed stablecoin developer Hermetica raises $1.7 million in seed funding
https://www.theblock.co/post/321141/bitcoin-backed-stablecoin-developer-hermetica-raises-1-7-million-in-seed-funding

Crypto VC Market 'Tepid' as Q3 Investments Declined 20%, Says Galaxy Digital
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/16/crypto-vc-market-tepid-as-q3-investments-declined-20-says-galaxy-digital/

PinGo Lab Completes Seed Round Investment to Accelerate Growth in the TON Ecosystem
https://www.theblock.co/post/320675/pingo-lab-completes-seed-round-investment-to-accelerate-growth-in-the-ton-ecosystem

Crypto gaming developer PiP World raises $10 million in seed round months after buying Roblox stock simulator
https://www.theblock.co/post/320505/crypto-gaming-developer-pip-world-raises-10-million-in-seed-round-months-after-buying-roblox-stock-simulator

Curve governance votes on $6M team funding proposal
https://blockworks.co/news/curve-governance-votes-on-6m-team-funding-proposal

Paradigm invests $20 million in Ithaca, a spinoff building a Layer 2 blockchain 'from the future'
https://www.theblock.co/post/320714/paradigm-invests-20-million-in-ithaca-a-spinoff-building-layer-2-blockchain-from-the-future

Azra Games secures $42.7M funding for mobile RPG game
https://cointelegraph.com/news/azra-games-secures-42-7-million-mobile-rpg-game

Pell Network Secures $3M Funding to Build Omnichain DVS Network
https://coinjournal.net/news/pell-network-secures-3m-funding-to-build-omnichain-dvs-network/

CoinFLEX Begins Arbitration to Recover $84M in Delinquent Debt
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/07/11/coinflex-begins-arbitration-against-84m-delinquent-customer-flex-holders-in-focus/

NovaWulf Plans to Tokenize Equity of Celsius’ New Firm With $2B Assets, After Takeover
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/14/novawulf-plans-to-tokenize-equity-of-celsius-new-firm-with-2b-assets-after-takeover/

Opacity Network raises $12 million seed round for ZK-based data verification platform
https://www.theblock.co/post/321160/opacity-network-funding-zk-data-verification

Ripple leads $25 million round in Bitnomial as the derivatives exchange launches futures trading platform in US
https://www.theblock.co/post/321189/ripple-leads-25-million-round-in-bitnomial-as-the-derivatives-exchange-launches-futures-trading-platform-in-us

Trendies announces its $1.75m pre-seed led by Archetype
https://x.com/trendiestech/status/1844423731785142425

Security:

Radiant Capital Loses $50M to Second Blockchain Exploit This Year
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/16/radiant-capital-loses-50m-to-blockchain-exploit/
Post Mortem
https://medium.com/@RadiantCapital/radiant-post-mortem-fecd6cd38081

ECB paper claims older Bitcoin holders are exploiting new holders
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ecb-paper-claims-older-bitcoin-holders-impoverishing-new-holders

Tapioca DAO founder hack drops token value 96% as investors eat losses
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/tapioca-dao-tap-token-plummets-after-founder-suffers-hack/

Tapioca DAO stops 1,000 ETH worth $2.7 million from being stolen following exploit that drains majority of its funds
https://www.theblock.co/post/322061/tapioca-dao-stops-1000-eth-worth-2-7-million-from-being-stolen-following-exploit-that-drains-majority-of-its-funds

Radiant Capital hacker compromised developers’ devices
https://cointelegraph.com/news/radiant-capital-attacker-compromised-multiple-developers-devices-post-mortem

Fake Coinbase website leads to $20M fraud, 5-year sentence
https://cointelegraph.com/news/chirag-tomar-sentenced-coinbase-fraud-fake-websites

Machine Learning AI Helped Detect $4 Billion Worth of Fraud in 2024, Says US Treasury
https://decrypt.co/287141/machine-learning-ai-us-treasury

US prosecutors urge judge to hand Bitfinex hack mastermind five-year sentence
https://coinjournal.net/news/us-prosecutors-urge-judge-to-hand-bitfinex-hack-mastermind-five-year-sentence/

FBI arrests hacker behind SEC fake Bitcoin ETF approval
https://cointelegraph.com/news/fbi-arrests-hacker-behind-sec-fake-bitcoin-etf-approval

New bitcoin sextortion scams in Canada use photos of victims’ homes
https://protos.com/new-bitcoin-sextortion-scams-in-canada-use-photos-of-victims-homes/

Hong Kong police bust $46 million romance fraud scheme involving crypto
https://www.theblock.co/post/321381/hong-kong-police-bust-46-million-romance-fraud-scheme-involving-crypto

Fake Rabby Wallet scam linked to Dubai crypto CEO and many more victims
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/rabby-scammer-konpyl-crypto-ceo-mountain-victims/

Binance assists Delhi Police in taking down renewable energy scam, $100k in Tether seized
https://coinjournal.net/news/binance-assists-delhi-police-in-taking-down-renewable-energy-scam-100k-in-tether-seized/

UK man sues council after denying requests to dig for lost Bitcoin hard drive in landfill
https://coinjournal.net/news/uk-man-sues-council-after-denying-requests-to-dig-for-lost-bitcoin-hard-drive-in-landfill/

Crypto whale loses $35M on Blast Network in phishing attack
https://coinjournal.net/news/crypto-whale-loses-35m-on-blast-network-in-phishing-attack/

AI/LLMs:

Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/science/nobel-prize-physics.html

NVIDIA's new model: Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF

Introducing Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces
https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-internal-knowledge-search-and-spaces

OpenAI's Swarm — An educational framework exploring ergonomic, lightweight multi-agent orchestration.
https://github.com/openai/swarm/tree/main

AMD Unveils New AI Processors
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/advanced-micro-devices-inc-amd-184906267.html

TSMC Stock Jumps on AI-Fueled Earnings Surge
https://www.investopedia.com/tsmc-stock-jumps-on-ai-fueled-earnings-surge-8729504

Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748gn94k95o

Tesla robotaxi: Cybercab unveiled by Elon Musk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm29x5ke9jdo

What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/what-is-retrieval-augmented-generation/

Aethir announces $100 million Ecosystem Fund to support projects in AI and Gaming
https://x.com/AethirCloud/status/1844363440191611301

Un Ministral, des Ministraux — Introducing the world's best edge models
https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux/

Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Symbolic Mathematics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11445

New Gmail Security Alert For 2.5 Billion Users As AI Hack Confirmed
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/10/13/new-gmail-security-alert-for-billions-as-7-day-ai-hack-confirmed

Agents in Software Engineering: Survey, Landscape, and Vision
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09030

Zoom will let AI avatars talk to your team for you
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266007/zoom-ai-avatars-clips-talk-for-you

Introducing V3 of the Sequoia Generative AI market map
https://x.com/sonyatweetybird/status/1704907096251387907

Introducing the prompt() Function: Use the Power of LLMs with SQL
https://motherduck.com/blog/sql-llm-prompt-function-gpt-models/

Sequoia: Generative AI’s Act o1
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ais-act-o1/

SingularityDAO Plans to Merge With Cogito Finance, SelfKey to Form AI-Focused Layer-2
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/15/singularitydao-plans-to-merge-with-cogito-finance-selfkey-to-form-ai-focused-layer-2/

Prime Intellect announces INTELLECT-1: the first-ever decentralized training of a 10B model
https://x.com/PrimeIntellect/status/1844814829154169038

Iteration of Thought: Leveraging Inner Dialogue for Autonomous Large Language Model Reasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12618

Bittensor Subnet 13 - Data Universe: Decentralised Data Scraping
https://x.com/TensorplexLabs/status/1845804012412781037

GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12917

OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt—And It’s Very Different From Anthropic's Approach
https://decrypt.co/285854/openai-secret-meta-prompt-anthropic

Sentient: All You Need To Know
https://www.chainofthought.xyz/p/sentient-all-you-need-to-know

OpenAI Chairman’s Startup Raising Funds at Over $4 Billion Value
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-10/openai-chairman-s-startup-raising-funds-at-over-4-billion-value

GenAI Agents: Comprehensive Repository for Development and Implementation
https://github.com/NirDiamant/GenAI_Agents

On the Diagram of Thought
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10038

OpenR: An Open-Source AI Framework Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/10/13/openr-an-open-source-ai-framework-enhancing-reasoning-in-large-language-models/

To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12183

Tools and Useful Resources:

PaperQA2 — a package for doing high-accuracy retrieval augmented generation (RAG) on PDFs or text files, with a focus on the scientific literature
https://github.com/Future-House/paper-qa

NotebookLM by Google (Shual: use it, it's op)
https://notebooklm.google.com/

Free, AI-powered bloomberg-like terminal
https://pro.openbb.co

cursorrules templates for different environments
https://cursor.directory/

Revoke approvals:
https://etherscan.io/tokenapprovalchecker
https://revoke.cash/
https://revoke.cash/
On Rabby: Open your Rabby Wallet -> Approvals -> Select All -> Batch Revoke

NVIDIA ChatRTX
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-on-rtx/chatrtx/

Bundle txs using Flashbot's Bundler (shout out @lcfr_eth)
https://bundler.lcfr.io/
https://github.com/lcfr-eth/FlashbotsBundlerUI
https://github.com/lcfr-eth/transferProxy

Open-source white hat frontrunning noscript by @@pcaversaccio
https://x.com/pcaversaccio/status/1846602838127849726
https://github.com/pcaversaccio/white-hat-frontrunning

Local File Organizer: AI File Management Run Entirely on Your Device, Privacy Assured
https://github.com/QiuYannnn/Local-File-Organizer

Crawl4AI
https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai

Tweetscout
https://tweetscout.io/

Hundreds of most popular algorithms - implemented in Python from scratch
https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/tree/master

Share signals, Decode hype (whitelist phase)
https://www.elfa.ai/

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
https://github.com/anthropics/courses/tree/master/prompt_engineering_interactive_tutorial
Real world prompting
https://github.com/anthropics/courses/tree/master/real_world_prompting

Generate custom/"optimized" ethereum transaction hashes for the clout
https://x.com/BreezeCrypto/status/1581995554770276352

AIHawk — Auto Jobs Applier
https://github.com/feder-cr/Auto_Jobs_Applier_AIHawk

Podcasts:

Are We Overhyping AI in Crypto? | Casey Caruso & Mohamed Baioumy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJfbYBe3xJc

Memoirs of a Polymarket Whale
https://podcast.parsec.finance/1983061/episodes/15593745-memoirs-of-a-polymarket-whale

Arthur Cheong and Jordi Alexander on DeFi Is Poised for a Bull Run
https://unchainedcrypto.com/2-crypto-investors-on-why-they-believe-defi-is-poised-for-a-bull-run/

Why ZK Verification is Ethereum's Final Frontier For Scaling
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZjPGDpHWkVPfU8FksndIq

Why Crypto's Capital Allocation is Broken | Jordi Alexander
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1tN12Q1MchseKGQseWm8GI

Aravind Srinivas: Will Foundation Models Commoditize & Diminishing Return in Model Performance
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7iY3zaULYLyGMERoeSH4Xu

Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0pt8FAP3UKdZhgKHfAWPdC

Additional Reads:

I have galloped into the infinite abyss upon a $GOAT with narrow hips
https://redphone.substack.com/p/i-have-galloped-into-the-infinite
When AIs Play God(se): The Emergent Heresies of LLMtheism
https://pdfupload.io/docs/aae14f87

Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/14/futures1.html

Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/17/futures2.html

Memecoins as memetic hygiene for LLM backrooms
https://terminallyonchain.xyz/goat

Create a Solana Telegram Bot in Less Than 100 Lines of Code
https://www.helius.dev/blog/create-a-solana-telegram-bot-in-less-than-100-lines-of-code

How currencies for online games were created
https://paragraph.xyz/@him/gamingcurrencies

TAO Times #9: Bittensor x Ethereum
https://taotimes.xyz/p/tao-times-9-bittensor-x-ethereum

Weekly AI Edge #17: The AI Agent Edition — An AI Agent turns $50,000 into millions?
https://www.chainofthought.xyz/p/weekly-ai-edge-17-the-ai-agent-edition

Zero Trust Execution Environments
https://writings.flashbots.net/ZTEE

These are not the bots you're looking for
https://mirror.xyz/1kx.eth/a6Ws15tPShkvzCAJtEnDSIK2gHYUCVfGHXDEZKYh45g

2024 Q3 Crypto Industry Report
https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/2024-q3-crypto-report

What's Happening at Coinbase?
https://www.backoftheenvelope.xyz/p/whats-happening-at-coinbase

a16z: State of Crypto Report 2024: New data on swing states, stablecoins, AI, builder energy, and more
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2024/

Abstract Chain: Introducing Panoramic Governance: A new mechanism that rewards both users and builders across a chain’s ecosystem.
https://x.com/AbstractChain/status/1847344743317180628

Wildcat: Undercollateralized Credit Expansion for Fun and Profit 2.0
https://research.2077.xyz/wildcat-finance

Creating, Destroying, and Restoring On-Chain Artwork
https://medium.com/etherscan-blog/creating-destroying-and-restoring-on-chain-artwork-d6f1d031a2d5

Are We Overhyping AI in Crypto?
https://www.chainofthought.xyz/p/are-we-overhyping-ai-in-crypto

Preliminary Findings: Get Blobs Optimization in Prysm and Geth
https://hackmd.io/@ttsao/get-blobs-early-results

Everything Old is New Again
https://zeeprime.capital/everything-old-is-new-again

The Second $100B AI Company — The Case for Consumer AI
https://www.digitalnative.tech/p/the-second-100b-ai-company

The Strawberry Juice is Not Worth the Squeeze
https://daveshap.substack.com/p/the-strawberry-juice-is-not-worth

How Many USDT Users Are There?
https://tether.io/news/how-many-usdt-users-are-there/

How to Win in Memecoins (Hint: It's Not "Cults")
https://blog.onlyapes.xyz/p/how-to-win-in-memecoins-hint-its

UMA - The Fairness Question and the 51% Attack
https://definalist.notion.site/UMA-The-Fairness-Question-and-the-51-Attack-1221617ce2f580929352e8f2e355ea4a

Neon EVM’s next chapter: Becoming the Fast Track to Solana for EVM developers
https://neonevm.org/blog/neon-evm%E2%80%99s-next-chapter:-becoming-the-fast-track-to-solana-for-evm-developers

In-Distribution vs. Out-of-Distribution Ideas - Why ideas matter and how AI models allow us to litigate novelty, creativity, complexity, and depth of ideas and life
https://mhdempsey.substack.com/p/in-distribution-vs-out-of-distribution

Persistent Weak Layer
https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/persistent-weak-layer

Blockchain as coercion to impartiality — A brief history of patents
https://paragraph.xyz/@him/blockchain-a-brief-history-of-patents-1

Emerging Trends in Crypto Venture Capital in Q3 2024
https://insights4vc.substack.com/p/emerging-trends-in-crypto-venture

Signum Newsletter 17
https://paragraph.xyz/@signumcapital/signum-newsletter-17

How to build function calling and JSON mode for open-source and fine-tuned LLMs
https://www.baseten.co/blog/how-to-build-function-calling-and-json-mode-for-open-source-and-fine-tuned-llms/

From Twitter

Thoughts on the market by smileycapital
https://x.com/smileycapital/status/1846907600220090741

The story behind $GOAT
https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1846220545542529329

VC Coins vs Memecoins
https://x.com/hmalviya9/status/1845018305888911697

Trusting Trust in the Age of AI
https://x.com/omeragoldberg/status/1846909251886764369

What Makes the Best Web3 Gaming Guide?
https://x.com/impalementd/status/1842942276475277422

Phantom Tokenomics, Inside the Obscure Daedalus Labyrinth
https://x.com/0xLouisT/status/1847233306414170168

Drift’s Path to Dominance: Exploring Its Market Potential
https://x.com/0x_jaethorn/status/1845806114711216190

Crypto Founder Culture Fit
https://x.com/ManoppoMarco/status/1846914298695897499

$ETH: A Saturday Tragedy
https://x.com/splitcapital/status/1845174023073955904

L2s Are the New Old L1s—And Why ETH's Price Is Stuck.
https://x.com/defiignas/status/1846595669131247886

Decentralized Derivatives 101: Models, Challenges, and Opportunities
https://x.com/chaos_labs/status/1844809725130756373

The Hidden Cost of Borrowing: Why High Rates on Lending Protocols Are Eating Into Your Returns
https://x.com/defidotmoney/status/1846547951226958185

RIP-7789: Cross Rollup Contingent Transactions
https://x.com/0xshake/status/1847353061053747610

A non-exhaustive list of the amazing Crypto work happening in India
https://x.com/thede_plandude/status/1845743807259664738

Breaking down how each sector of AI works
https://x.com/cryptotrissy/status/1843221654669017432

YouTuber MrBeast Accused of Making Millions from Low-Cap Token Pump-And-Dump Schemes
https://x.com/somaxbt/status/1844718089478324309

Mini-Thread/Curation - Saturday, October 19th, 2024 by rektdiomedes
https://x.com/rektdiomedes/status/1847645807874380156

A long-winded and winding update on Fredi9999 -- the person or entity -- who is singlehandedly rocketing up the price of Trump on prediction markets around the world
https://x.com/Domahhhh/status/1846597997507092901

We Analyzed The Top Crypto Venture Capital Wallets (Here's What We Found)
https://x.com/thedefiedge/status/1845787411323965478

The DeFi Renaissance: Make DeFi Great Again
https://x.com/Arthur_0x/status/1845844922085335457

A list of every app you can use today that is powered by Bittensor subnets
https://x.com/563defi/status/1843655518616690725

First interview with PunksOTC in years
https://x.com/randomcdog/status/1836741477420171325

$230K Morpho Labs PAXG/USDC Market Oracle Exploit Breakdown
https://x.com/omeragoldberg/status/1845515843787960661

On mgnr blowout
https://x.com/xmgnr/status/1845331228016136652

Definitive guide to studying ML without wasting time
https://x.com/yoobinray/status/1844460463670886902

Have a lovely weekend. Enjoy the reads.
Until next time. ☕️

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News/Updates:

Federal Investigators Probe Cryptocurrency Firm Tether
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/federal-investigators-probe-cryptocurrency-firm-tether-a13804e5
Tether CEO says he sees no indication of US probe
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tether-ceo-denies-probe-us-federal-investigators-2024-10-25/

Chinese scientists claim they broke RSA encryption with a quantum computer — but there's a catch
https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/chinese-scientists-claim-they-broke-rsa-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer-but-theres-a-catch

Sky mulls further changes to brand identity, return to MakerDAO on the table
https://www.theblock.co/post/322385/sky-mulls-option-to-revert-back-to-makerdao
Maker founder blames $5m rebrand flop on ‘typical DeFi mistake’
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/maker-founder-blames-rebrand-flop-on-typical-defi-mistake

Pumpdotfun introducing pump advanced: the FASTEST trading terminal
https://x.com/pumpdotfun/status/1847730806334378287

Pumpdotfun adds feature to tokenize videos
https://x.com/pumpdotfun/status/1848782937178648963

Base plans to introduce fault proofs this month, aiming for decentralization
https://www.theblock.co/post/322808/base-plans-to-introduce-fault-proofs-this-month-aiming-for-decentralization

Sturdy teams up with Morpho to offer AI-optimized yields, powered by Gauntlet and Bittensor
https://sturdyfinance.medium.com/sturdy-teams-up-with-morpho-to-offer-ai-optimized-yields-powered-by-gauntlet-and-bittensor-218839fd2e03

Lido DAO votes to activate anticipated ‘community staking module’ boosting access to Ethereum solo staking
https://www.theblock.co/post/323054/lido-dao-votes-to-activate-anticipated-community-staking-module-boosting-access-to-ethereum-solo-staking
https://blog.lido.fi/community-staking-module-new-era-for-solo-stakers/

Crypto data tracking platform Arkham adds support for Solana
https://www.theblock.co/post/323120/crypto-data-tracking-platform-arkham-adds-support-for-solana

Vela Exchange shutting down
https://x.com/vela_exchange/status/1849512562552971665

Golden State Warriors Name Coinbase as Crypto Sponsor, Replacing FTX
https://decrypt.co/288431/golden-state-warriors-coinbase-crypto-sponsor

Binance Connect relaunches with integrated crypto-to-fiat service
https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-connect-crypto-fiat-relaunch

EURC stablecoin supply hits all-time high as market cap approaches $100 million
https://www.theblock.co/post/322854/circle-eurc-stablecoin-supply

Kraken plans 'Ink' Ethereum Layer 2 launch in 2025 built using the OP Stack
https://www.theblock.co/post/322879/kraken-ethereum-layer-2-ink-op-stack

Luna, the first autonomous agent to employ humans onchain
https://x.com/virtuals_io/status/1849841392241283559

Bitstamp secures trading facility license in Europe
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitstamp-secures-trading-facility-license-europe

DWF Labs considering legal action against former partner Eugene Ng over drink spiking allegations
https://www.theblock.co/post/324211/dwf-labs-considering-legal-action-against-former-partner-eugene-ng-over-drink-spiking-allegations

Fireblocks launches $1M grant program to boost PYUSD developer adoption
https://cointelegraph.com/news/fireblocks-launches-grant-program-pyusd-developer-adoption

Aptos Foundation partners with crypto-AI startup to build Move programming language tools
https://www.theblock.co/post/322772/aptos-foundation-partners-with-crypto-ai-startup-to-build-move-programming-language-tools

Farcaster's monthly revenue is down 96% compared to its February peak
https://www.theblock.co/post/323003/farcasters-monthly-revenue-down-96-percent

Jito DAO may start taking in MEV fees
https://blockworks.co/news/jito-dao-mev-fee-scheme

Binance lists $MOODENG, token responds with a rally
https://x.com/DegenerateNews/status/1849723944229597410

Binance, Bybit, Okx list $GOAT perps
https://beincrypto.com/binance-lists-goat-meme-coin/

News/Updates (Cont'd):

zkLink postpones token vesting schedule
https://www.theblock.co/post/322775/zklink-postpones-its-token-vesting-schedule-ahead-of-planned-product-launches

Uniswap's permissionless bridging goes live across nine networks
https://www.theblock.co/post/322683/uniswaps-permissionless-bridging-goes-live-across-nine-networks

Emory University reports holding $15 million worth of shares in Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust: filing
https://www.theblock.co/post/323160/emory-university-reports-holding-15-million-worth-of-shares-in-grayscale-bitcoin-mini-trust-filing

Synthetix Multi-Collateral Perps with 81 New Markets on Kwenta
https://blog.synthetix.io/synthetix-multi-collateral-perps-with-81-new-markets-on-kwenta/

Sanko has launched an instant L1 bridge powered by LayerZero
https://x.com/LayerZero_Core/status/1849913917008724189

Chiliz’ Socios.com secures in-principle license approval in Malta
https://cointelegraph.com/news/socios-malta-class3-vfaa-license

Buenos Aires launches QuarkID, a digital identity service using ZK proofs
https://coinjournal.net/news/buenos-aires-launches-quarkid-a-digital-identity-service-using-zk-proofs/

Decentraland Launches Revamped Virtual World with Enhanced Performance, Engaging Features, and Future-Ready Architecture
https://decrypt.co/287706/decentraland-launches-revamped-virtual-world-with-enhanced-performance-engaging-features-and-future-ready-architecture

Bitcoin mining difficulty hits new all-time high amid record network hash rate
https://www.theblock.co/post/322443/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hash-rate-all-time-high

Magic Eden adds support for BeraChain and ApeChain, sets sights on Monad
https://www.theblock.co/post/322530/magic-eden-adds-support-for-berachain-and-apechain-sets-sights-on-monad

Arbitrum-based crypto derivatives trading protocol Variational raises $10.3 million in seed funding
https://www.theblock.co/post/322653/arbitrum-crypto-protocol-variational-funding

RedStone launches oracle AVS on EigenLayer
https://cointelegraph.com/news/redstone-launch-first-defi-oracle-avs-eigen-layer

Japan slow to approve crypto ETFs, maintains strict tax, regulations
https://cointelegraph.com/news/japans-regulatory-stance-stalls-crypto-etfs-global-shifts

Aurum Equity Partners launches tokenized fund worth $1B
https://cointelegraph.com/news/aurum-equity-partners-launches-equity-debt-tokenized-fund

APE price surges after Yuga Labs launches ApeChain
https://coinjournal.net/news/ape-price-surges-after-yuga-labs-launches-apechain/

Crypto casino 1xBet accused of rigging matches, streaming children’s games
https://protos.com/crypto-casino-1xbet-accused-of-rigging-matches-streaming-childrens-games/

Avalanche Foundation launches Avalanche Card, a Visa crypto spending card
https://coinjournal.net/news/avalanche-foundation-launches-avalanche-card-a-visa-crypto-spending-card/

Launch Dates for Season 2: Methamorphosis & $cmETH Revealed
https://www.mantle.xyz/blog/announcements/launch-dates-for-season-2-methamorphosis-and-cmeth-revealed

Hyperbolic Partners with Hermes 3 Creators – Nous Research
https://hyperbolic.xyz/blog/hyperbolic-partners-with-nous-research

GnosisDAO is launching a new $40 million venture fund targeting real-world assets, crypto infrastructure and payments
https://www.theblock.co/post/322895/gnosisdao-is-launching-a-new-40-million-venture-fund-targeting-real-world-assets-crypto-infrastructure-and-payments

NFTs / Gaming:

Web3 Game Off the Grid Numbers Shine Despite Promotional Drop
https://news.bitcoin.com/web3-game-off-the-grid-numbers-shine-despite-promotional-drop/

Parallel Expands Game Access with Aethir Cloud Integration
https://nftplazas.com/parallel-on-aethir-cloud/

‘X Empire’ Telegram Game Token Launches at Half the Pre-Market Price
https://decrypt.co/288232/x-empire-telegram-game-token-launches

Web3 Game RIFTSTORM Ranks First in Steam’s ‘Trending Free’ Category
https://bitpinas.com/learn-how-to-guides/riftstorm-steam-chart/

Faraway Reveals FChain, A New Layer 1 Gaming Blockchain
https://nftplazas.com/faraway-reveals-fchain/

Mech shooter game MetalCore moves to Solana
https://cointelegraph.com/news/mech-shooter-game-metal-core-moves-solana

Southeast Asian Gaming Market to Hit $7.1 Billion by 2028
https://gam3s.gg/news/southeast-asian-gaming-market/

PS5-Bound Web3 Game Moonray Mint Out Their Godspawn NFTs
https://nftplazas.com/moonray-godspawn-nfts/

Bored Apes' Otherside Builder Improbable to Develop Layer 1 Blockchain Somnia
https://decrypt.co/288261/bored-apes-improbable-layer-1-blockchain-somnia

Axie Infinity Reveals Newest App.axie Updates
https://gam3s.gg/news/axie-infinity-newest-app-updates/

Web3 FPS ‘Exverse’ Launches Playtest on Epic Games Store
https://nftplazas.com/exverse-playtest/

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Maker Ubisoft Releases First Original NFT Game ‘Champions Tactics’
https://decrypt.co/287890/ubisoft-releases-champions-tactics-nft-game

Space Nation Reveals New Live-Action TV Series
https://gam3s.gg/news/space-nation-live-action-tv-series/

Weekly Esports Wrapup | Oct 25
https://news.communitygaming.io/weekly-esports-wrapup-oct-25/

Paragon Sells Out Flagship NFT Loot-Box Collection in Seconds
https://gam3s.gg/news/paragon-nft-loot-box-collection/

A Complete Guide to Doodles in 2024
https://nftplazas.com/doodles-guide-2024/

Regulation:

Policymakers on privacy: Highlights from the DC Summit
https://blockworks.co/news/privacy-policy-washington-summit

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) launches crypto asset consultation
https://www.captiveinternational.com/eiopa-launches-crypto-asset-consultation

Binance to face prosecution in Nigeria after freed exec returns to US
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/binance-trial-to-open-in-nigeria-as-tigran-gambaryan-freed/

South Korea Plans to Regulate Cross-Border Crypto Transactions
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/south-korea-plans-to-regulate-cross-border-crypto-transactions/

Industry Stakeholders Cautious as Argentina Drafts New Crypto Regulations
https://news.bitcoin.com/industry-stakeholders-cautious-as-argentina-drafts-new-crypto-regulations/

Wall Street Financial Services Firm Lazard Plans to Create Tokenized Funds with Bitfinex Securities
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/25/wall-street-financial-services-firm-lazard-plans-to-create-tokenized-funds-with-bitfinex-securities/

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Passes Crypto Bill to Bring Regulatory Clarity: Report
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/10/25/pennsylvania-house-of-representatives-passes-crypto-bill-to-bring-regulatory-clarity-report/

Ripple files Form C, appeals SEC ruling on XRP institutional sales
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ripple-files-appeal-sec-ruling-second-circuit

Netherlands seeks input on crypto tax monitoring laws to align with EU
https://cointelegraph.com/news/netherlands-input-crypto-tax-monitoring-bill-align-eu

Crypto firm Circle expects the UK to introduce stablecoin laws in ‘months, not years’
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/23/uk-to-introduce-stablecoin-law-in-months-circles-dante-disparte.html

US state regulators report a 'sharp rise' in tech and digital asset related investigations
https://www.theblock.co/post/322952/us-state-regulators-report-a-sharp-rise-in-tech-and-digital-asset-related-investigations

US lawmaker claims crypto PACs forced out ’important voices in Congress’
https://cointelegraph.com/news/representative-summer-lee-crypto-pacs-money-influencing-elections

Indo-Pacific Nations Outpacing the US in Crypto Regulation, SEC Commissioner Says
https://news.bitcoin.com/indo-pacific-nations-outpacing-the-us-in-crypto-regulation-sec-commissioner-says/

Poloniex exit leaves Ethereum stUSDT nearly abandoned
https://protos.com/poloniex-exit-leaves-ethereum-stusdt-nearly-abandoned/

Hong Kong Securities Regulator Discusses Crypto And AI Regulation With Asia-Pacific Counterparts
https://www.binance.com/en-ZA/square/post/2024-10-26-hong-kong-securities-regulator-discusses-crypto-and-ai-regulation-with-asia-pacific-counterparts-15381922476217

Lawsuit accuses ‘dangerous’ Character AI bot of causing teen’s death
https://protos.com/lawsuit-accuses-dangerous-character-ai-bot-of-causing-teens-death/

GameStop Meme Stock Craze Prompted Market 'Plumbing' Changes, Says SEC Chair Gensler
https://decrypt.co/287764/gamestop-meme-stock-market-plumbing-changes

Ex-Mine Digital CEO Faces Charges Over $1.5M Embezzlement
https://cryptopotato.com/ex-mine-digital-ceo-faces-charges-over-1-5m-embezzlement/

Raises:

Skyfire raises $9.5m to build AI payment network
https://crypto.news/skyfire-raises-9-5m-to-build-ai-payment-network/

Tollbit: Announcing our Series A (Led by Lightspeed)
https://tollbit.com/blog/series-a/

Fluid Protocol Secures $3.9 Million Seed Funding to Launch USDF, the Native Stablecoin of Fuel Network
https://www.theblock.co/post/322479/fluid-protocol-secures-3-9-million-seed-funding-to-launch-usdf-the-native-stablecoin-of-fuel-network

Karpatkey closes $7 million funding round to expand DAO treasury services
https://www.theblock.co/post/322392/karpatkey-closes-7-million-funding-round-to-expand-dao-treasury-services

STOKR raises $7.98 million to establish one of first corporate bitcoin treasuries in Europe
https://www.theblock.co/post/322783/stokr-raises-7-98-million-to-establish-corporate-bitcoin-treasury

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf plans to raise $350 million through convertible notes for share buyback
https://www.theblock.co/post/322823/bitcoin-miner-terawulf-plans-to-raise-350-million-through-convertible-notes-for-share-buyback

Bitkraft Ventures leads $9 million seed round in crypto mobile gaming platform Party Icons
https://www.theblock.co/post/322736/bitkraft-ventures-leads-9-million-seed-round-in-crypto-mobile-gaming-platform-party-icons

Bluesky Raises $15 Million From Crypto Firms
https://decrypt.co/288157/bluesky-raises-15-million-no-crypto

Validation Cloud Secures $10M Lead to Scale AI for Web3 from True Global Ventures
https://bebeez.eu/2024/10/23/validation-cloud-secures-10m-lead-to-scale-ai-for-web3-from-true-global-ventures/

Port3 Network Secures Strategic Investment from OOKC Group
https://medium.com/@Port3/port3-network-secures-strategic-investment-from-ookc-group-to-drive-growth-in-mena-44e3481dc727

Opti Games Raises $2 Million Funding for Sparkball Launch
https://nftplazas.com/opti-games-raises-2m-for-sparkball/

Amity Ventures leads $3 million pre-seed round for Borderless.xyz
https://www.theblock.co/post/322450/amity-ventures-leads-3-million-pre-seed-round-for-borderless-xyz

Shuttle Labs Raises $6M to Build Genius
https://www.finsmes.com/2024/10/shuttle-labs-raises-6m-in-seed-funding.html

Ordzaar raised $2M Seed Funding
https://www.cypherhunter.com/en/e/ordzaar-raised-funding-2024-10-21/

Hata Raises $4.2M in Seed Funding
https://www.finsmes.com/2024/10/hata-raises-4-2m-in-seed-funding.html

Crypto platform Variational raises $10.3m in seed funding
https://www.techinasia.com/news/crypto-platform-variational-raises-103m-seed-funding

Decentralized exchange BulbaSwap completes $1.3 million seed round financing, led by Foresight Ventures
https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2148662

STOKR to Establish One of Europe’s First Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries Following €7.4 Million Funding Round Led by Fulgur Ventures
https://stokr.io/press-releases/stokr-funding-round-fulgur-ventures

Craftt Completes $2 Million Seed Round, Superscrypt Leads Investment
https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/2024-10-24-craftt-200-superscrypt-15282716668258

Nomura backed digital asset custody firm Komainu to acquire Propine
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/nomura-backed-digital-asset-custody-firm-komainu-to-acquire-propine/

:Security:

Lazarus hackers used fake DeFi game to exploit Google Chrome zero-day
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lazarus-hackers-used-fake-defi-game-to-exploit-google-chrome-zero-day/

Prosecutors expected to offer plea deal to alleged SEC hacker who falsely said Bitcoin ETFs were approved
https://www.theblock.co/post/323108/prosecutors-expected-to-offer-plea-deal-to-alleged-sec-hacker-who-falsely-said-bitcoin-etfs-were-approved

Essence Finance rekt
https://x.com/yieldsandmore/status/1849948337023193490

Ambient Finance has fully reimbursed all victims of the recent domain hijack phishing attack
https://x.com/ambient_finance/status/1850156753716916594

Hacker returns $19m in stolen crypto to US government just one day after breach
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/snapshot/hacker-returns-19-million-usd-stolen-crypto-us-gov-breach/

Base blockchain exploit leads to $1M theft
https://cointelegraph.com/news/base-blockchain-exploit-leads-to-1m-theft

BingX launches ‘ShieldX’ wallet firewall months after $52M hack
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bingx-launches-security-initiative-after-multi-million-dollar-hack

US government crypto wallets hacked for $20M
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-government-crypto-hacked-arkham-intelligence

Hack VC leads $3.4 million seed round for web3 health accountability app Moonwalk Fitness
https://www.theblock.co/post/322930/hack-vc-leads-3-4-million-seed-round-for-web3-health-accountability-app-moonwalk-fitness

Solana Meme Coin Sharpei Plunges 96% in Seconds in Epic Rug Pull
https://decrypt.co/288160/solana-meme-coin-sharpei-epic-rug-pull

Phishing ad linked to misspelled Soneium uncovered on Google
https://coinjournal.net/news/phishing-ad-linked-to-misspelled-soneium-uncovered-on-google/

France opens trial for $30M diamond and crypto investment scam case
https://protos.com/france-opens-trial-for-30m-red-card-diamond-and-crypto-investment-scam-case/

Crypto trader convicted in $110M Mango Markets fraud trial: Bloomberg
https://blockworks.co/news/mango-markets-trader-guilty

Fraudster who used phony Coinbase platforms to steal millions sentenced to five years
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/fraudster-who-used-phony-coinbase-platforms-to-steal-millions-sentenced-to-five-years/

Football legends Ronaldinho, Luis Figo sued for Omegapro crypto scam promo
https://protos.com/football-legends-ronaldinho-luis-figo-sued-for-omegapro-crypto-scam-promo/

AI/LLMs:

NetworkX Introduces Zero Code Change Acceleration Using NVIDIA cuGraph
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/networkx-introduces-zero-code-change-acceleration-using-nvidia-cugraph

Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community
https://www.maginative.com/article/meta-fair-releases-eight-new-ai-research-artifacts-models-datasets-and-tools-to-inspire-the-ai-community/

Meta releases AI model that can check other AI models' work
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meta-releases-ai-model-that-can-check-other-ai-models-work-2024-10-18/

96% Accuracy: Harvard Scientists Unveil Revolutionary ChatGPT-Like AI for Cancer Diagnosis
https://scitechdaily.com/96-accuracy-harvard-scientists-unveil-revolutionary-chatgpt-like-ai-for-cancer-diagnosis/

Perplexity AI seeks valuation of about $9 billion in new funding round
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/20/perplexity-ai-startup-funding-round-8-billion-valuation.html

News Corp Sues Perplexity Over AI Copyright Clash
https://laikai.lt/e/news-corp-sues-perplexity-over-ai-copyright-clash

ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/bytedance-intern-fired-for-planting-malicious-code-in-ai-models/

US Weighs Capping Exports of AI Chips From Nvidia and AMD to Some Countries
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-15/us-weighs-capping-exports-of-ai-chips-from-nvidia-and-amd-to-some-countries

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/21/xai-elon-musks-ai-startup-launches-an-api/

Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI firm for ‘illegal copying’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/21/rupert-murdoch-ai-lawsuit-new-york-post-dow-jones

Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage
https://mashable.com/article/anthropic-ai-use-sabotage

DeepSeek AI Releases Janus: A 1.3B Multimodal Model with Image Generation Capabilities
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/10/18/deepseek-ai-releases-janus-a-1-3b-multimodal-model-with-image-generation-capabilities/

Tools and Useful Resources:

Modern Defense Tactics in the Cryptocurrency Sector: 5 Simple Suggestions
https://officercia.mirror.xyz/ye7je7tkuy5nEF7oxHiqyfPI48SBKYckkhW1uTqafpo

How Can I Protect My X Account? 12 Simple Rules
https://officercia.mirror.xyz/CR7iP3uj8FRIkPB3ZQvVPucteRDsO9rj0EvU8MQCf5U

An ongoing directory of projects building in the Berachain ecosystem
https://launchy.app/data/berachain-ecosystem

Etherscan API v2 (multi-chain!)
https://docs.etherscan.io/etherscan-v2

Stanford CS229 I Machine Learning I Building Large Language Models (LLMs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vM4p9NN0Ts

TON Developer Guideline | by Howard
https://ton-org.notion.site/Developer-Guideline-by-Howard-024429d0b28c409f992d238057b60f4f

EVM Compatibility on Bittensor
https://docs.bittensor.com/evm-tutorials/

Knower's list of links and tools regarding alignment-related research
https://x.com/knowerofmarkets/status/1847760616628314569

FereAI: The Ultimate AI Web3 Assistant
https://www.fereai.xyz/

sauce.gg
https://sauce.gg/

Great trading terminal on multiple chains
https://app.definitive.fi

Puff, a Huff compiler in Racket
https://x.com/0xz80/status/1847724574097424727

Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/copilot-studio/unlocking-autonomous-agent-capabilities-with-microsoft-copilot-studio/

Bigmi (short for Bitcoin Is Gonna Make It), a new TypeScript library
https://x.com/e_chybisov/status/1846581073615933542

The best MEV sources out there
https://libmev.com/
https://eigenphi.io/

Podcasts:

Are AI Agents Replacing Memecoin Devs? w/ Kalos of Wayfinder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woFoUNoToxQ

The Backstory of How 3 AI Agents Led to the Rise of the Hottest Memecoin, GOAT (Unchained)
https://open.spotify.com/show/1cJrrfGY1SKBIRn5noKSAf

The Reality of Bitcoin's Election Correlation | The Giver (Empire)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/76byJUUkn7pMr0YvNn6Csl

Sandra Leow's Consumer AI App Podcast Ep1 — Virtuals and Luna
https://x.com/sandraaleow/status/1849780682463351267

Safeguarding Satoshi’s Stash - Jameson Lopp | Future of Bitcoin 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTUzpR_mxAg

Sui's Plan to Onboard the Next Billion Consumers | Adeniyi Abiodun
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1V1ISpQHc9qe6yfrwIBlsd

DeFi Dojo Podcast Ep4
https://x.com/phtevenstrong/status/1848831878469718276

How Crypto Is Connecting Global Payment Networks | Daniel Lev
https://blockworks.co/podcast/lightspeed/5141751a-90e3-11ef-a5a3-dfef2f93b2c3

Uma Roy on Succinct, STARKs, and zkVM architecture
https://www.intothebytecode.com/43-uma-roy/

Top-Tier Investment Strategist Lyn Alden: "I don't see a liquidity party for 2025"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX25ZaWg5GY

How This Stablecoin Business in Africa Is Taking on SWIFT and Big Banks
https://unchainedcrypto.com/how-this-stablecoin-business-in-africa-is-taking-on-swift-and-big-banks/

Additional Reads:

Crypto's Role In The AI Revolution
https://panteracapital.com/blockchain-letter/cryptos-role-in-the-ai-revolution

Exploring the Future of GameFi in Web3
https://research.nansen.ai/articles/future-of-gamefi-in-web3

Mastering AMMs: A Complete Guide to Automated Market Makers
https://threesigma.xyz/blog/automated-market-makers

Weekly AI Edge Ep. 18
https://www.chainofthought.xyz/p/weekly-ai-edge-18

Infiltrating Cosmos
https://rekt.news/infiltrating-cosmos/

Sigil — Q3 2024 Letter to Investors
https://medium.com/@sigilfund/sigil-q3-2024-letter-to-investors-4614589b8f70

AI Agents, The Next Meta?
https://research.nansen.ai/articles/ai-agents-the-next-meta

The Evolution of Chromia Mainnet and the Q4 Asgard Upgrade
https://blog.chromia.com/evolution-of-mainnet/

Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/20/futures3.html
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/23/futures4.html
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 5: The Purge
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/26/futures5.html

Demystifying the Crypto x AI Stack
https://www.coinbase.com/en-sg/blog/demystifying-the-crypto-x-ai-stack

TradFi and Crypto’s Convergence: The Future of Index Products
https://thanefield.capital/the-future-of-index-products/

Meditations on Machinic Desire
https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/meditations-on-machinic-desire

this week i'm a sentientcoin maxi
https://paragraph.xyz/@joshcrnls.eth/this-week-im-a-sentientcoin-maxi

Will Web3 Smartphones Drive Blockchain Mass Adoption?
https://reports.tiger-research.com/p/2024-web3-smartphone-eng

How Many Van Goghs Does It Take to Van Gogh? Finding the Imitation Threshold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15002

Murad Meta and AI Cult Coins
https://goodalexander.com/posts/murad_meta_ai_cult/

what can be (memecoins) unburdened by what has been (humans)
https://paragraph.xyz/@seedclubhq/seedclub-network-news-oct-23-2024

Prediction Markets & Crypto 101
https://x.com/chaos_labs/status/1849120990300664123

2024 Crypto Startup Trends Report
https://alliance.xyz/essays/crypto-startup-trends-24

The inevitable rise of brand marketing on Zora
https://terminallyonchain.xyz/brands

Stablecoins | The Monetary Upgrade
https://www.apifirst.tech/p/stablecoins-the-monetary-upgrade

Pump.fun's $150M Windfall: Innovation or High-Stakes Gambling?
https://insights4vc.substack.com/p/pumpfuns-150m-windfall-innovation

Scaling Ethereum Rollups with Helios
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/scaling-ethereum-rollups-with-helios/

State of Crypto Venture - Q3 2024
https://blog.stratos.xyz/articles/state-of-crypto-venture-q3-2024

Bonk Guy: Why He Says Runes is His Next Big Trade
https://community.magiceden.io/culture/bonkguy

Novilunium Oritur
https://medium.com/@dpycm/novilunium-oritur-8ec7f020a76f

Sci-Fi, But Not In The Way You Think
https://medium.com/id-theory/sci-fi-but-not-in-the-way-you-think-91be272916ca

State of Phala Network Q3 2024
https://messari.io/report/state-of-phala-network-q3-2024

DeAI I: The Tower & the Square
https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-tower-the-square
DeAI II: Seizing the Means of Production
https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/seizing-the-means-of-production-deai-part-ii
DeAI III: Composable Compute
https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/deai-iii-composable-compute
DeAI IV: The Agentic Economy
https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/deai-iv-the-agentic-economy

ON–284: Stablecoins — Coverage on USDC and USDT
https://www.ournetwork.xyz/p/on-284-stablecoins

Let's talk about transparency in AI Agent
https://superoo7.com/posts/transparency-in-ai-agent/

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized AI with Confidential Computing
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13752

Initial results from Mammoth Mini: 27MB/s of permissionless data throughput
https://blog.celestia.org/mammoth/

From Twitter:

Analysis on the quality of volume on Solana vs. all EVM chains
https://x.com/jpn_memelord/status/1849865598433726487

What does crypto do for Off The Grid that wasn't possible with traditional technology?
https://x.com/pierskicks/status/1846542588825702465

Flash attention explained by Andrej Karpathy
https://x.com/Hesamation/status/1849053471430910016

The Vertical Integrators: Ethena, Hyperliquid, and Uniswap
https://x.com/robbiepetersen_/status/1849498956666954027

Quick tips on how to play the degen musical chair game
https://x.com/DeeZe/status/1849479918985343103

Full Solana trenches trading guide
https://x.com/ares20k/status/1849830180044361826

A Short Lifecycle of an Onchain Meta.
https://x.com/game_for_one/status/1849759690927833521

The Gaming Cycle
https://killerapps.substack.com/p/the-gaming-cycle

Election data points to pay attention to
https://x.com/FlowTraders/status/1849433545866965097

Elfa.ai's solution to harnessing the collective sentiment and perspectives of the smartest traders in the crypto space
https://x.com/elfa_ai/status/1849761062784274614

Truth Terminal: The Birth of AI Religion and the $600M Digital Prophecy
https://x.com/ReveloIntel/status/1849092882470216151

A story about Maker deal with bad credit
https://x.com/ImperiumPaper/status/1848915795356623335

GOAT: The Gospel of Goatse
https://x.com/0xPrismatic/status/1849057159704871104

Trustless Economic Agency
https://x.com/goodalexander/status/1849873125430657237

AI Winter Moonmath - A New Vertical?
https://x.com/TyrogueD/status/1847644113321009291

What are AI memecoins?
https://x.com/goodalexander/status/1847673196280983770

WTF is Parallelization?
https://x.com/0xBreadguy/status/1848764110126862819