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

Alpha:

Sign up for Wayfinder's Alpha access
https://x.com/AIWayfinder/status/1849588805566644410

$USUAL, Where Yield Meets Growth
https://usual.money/blog/usual-where-yield-meets-growth

GRASS Airdrop October 28th
https://x.com/grassfdn/status/1849525091157123313

Introducing the 0G Foundation: Advancing Decentralized AI as a Public Good
https://0g.ai/blog/introducing-the-0g-foundation-advancing-decentralized-ai-as-a-public-good

$CAI(Chasm) is live
https://x.com/chasmnetwork/status/1849818270083448909
Airdrop Checker
https://x.com/ChasmNetwork/status/1849443242489811190

Where to farm with all those stables?
https://research.nansen.ai/articles/where-to-farm-with-all-those-stables

Fragmetric is live
https://x.com/fragmetric/status/1849450914450657409

Kroma's airdrop checker
https://x.com/kroma_network/status/1849345785496006732

$RAGE (Rage Trade) airdrop checker
https://x.com/rage_trade/status/1849415629234942421

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

This week in crypto: October 28st — November 2nd, 2024

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If you find value in it and want to show support, it would be much appreciated. ❤️ 0xACc19CA64b9E750E3197FA911fdf0E26D3D8E4B2 (huge shout out to the person who tipped last week — know it's valued!)

⚠️**IMPORTANT**⚠️
If you're hacked, drained, found a smart contract vulnerability or just need to contact a team of trusted security professionals, use https://news.1rj.ru/str/seal_911_bot.

News/Updates:

MicroStrategy Announces Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results and Announces $42 Billion Capital Plan
https://www.microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-announces-third-quarter-2024-financial-results-and-announces-42-billion-capital-plan_10-30-2024

Canary Capital makes its move for a spot Solana ETF in latest filing to the SEC
https://www.theblock.co/post/323861/canary-capital-makes-its-move-for-a-spot-solana-etf-in-latest-filing-to-the-sec

Coinbase pledges $25 million to Fairshake PAC for pro-crypto candidates in 2026 midterms
https://www.theblock.co/post/323881/coinbase-pledges-25-million-to-fairshake-pac-in-2026-midterms

Consensys to cut workforce by 20%
https://cointelegraph.com/news/consensys-cuts-workforce-20-percent-ceo-outlines-decentralization-plans

dYdX, Consensys layoffs shake up the space
https://blockworks.co/news/dydx-consensys-industry-layoffs

Kraken lays off staff, announces new co-CEO
https://blockworks.co/news/kraken-announces-layoffs-and-new-co-ceo

Kraken launches fully-customizable desktop trading application inspired by its Cryptowatch tool
https://www.theblock.co/post/323681/kraken-desktop-cryptowatch

Tether registers $2.5 billion in net profit for Q3, bringing year-to-date total to $7.7 billion
https://www.theblock.co/post/324075/tether-registers-2-5-billion-in-net-profit-for-q3-bringing-year-to-date-total-to-7-7-billion

Tether’s Q3 attestations prove that it can’t quit secured loans
https://protos.com/tethers-q3-attestations-prove-that-it-cant-quit-secured-loans/

Paxos launches new USD stablecoin with Singapore’s DBS Bank
https://www.theblock.co/post/324120/paxos-launches-new-usd-stablecoin-with-singapores-dbs-bank

Securitize crosses $1 billion in tokenized onchain assets as it launches a new fund administrator service
https://www.theblock.co/post/323920/securitize-crosses-1-billion-in-tokenized-onchain-assets-as-it-launches-a-new-fund-administrator-service

How Crypto.com leapfrogged Coinbase with record $139bn volume: ‘We’ve got the biggest traders’
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/crypto-dot-com-becomes-second-biggest-exchange-after-binance/

Freed From Prison, Binance Founder CZ Gets Ovation in Dubai and Talks New Educational Venture
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/10/31/cz-talks-prison-new-educational-venture-at-first-public-appearance-since-release-from-us-jail/

Franklin Templeton launches tokenized money fund on Base
https://cointelegraph.com/news/franklin-templeton-launches-tokenized-money-fund-base

Filecoin's largest protocol Glif set to airdrop 100 million tokens
https://www.theblock.co/post/323596/filecoin-glif-token-launch-airdrop

Fluid by Instadapp launched (Shual: and is doing wonderful numbers, check it out)
https://x.com/0xfluid/status/1851340910254346342

Solayer, OpenEden launch Treasury-backed stablecoin on Solana
https://cointelegraph.com/news/solayer-openeden-launch-treasury-backed-stablecoin-solana

FTX estate sues KuCoin to recover over $50M in assets
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-estate-sues-kucoin-recover-assets

Bhutan gov’t moves $66M of Bitcoin stash to Binance
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bhutan-government-sells-66m-bitcoin-stash-price-tops-71k

Bitmain Denies Allegations Tying It to Huawei Supply Chain Investigation
https://decrypt.co/288788/bitmain-denies-ties-huawei-supply-chain-investigation

Circle and Hong Kong telecom provider HKT to collaborate on blockchain-based customer loyalty solution
https://www.theblock.co/post/323418/circle-and-hong-kong-telecom-provider-hkt-to-collaborate-on-blockchain-based-customer-loyalty-solution

Robinhood launches US presidential elections bets for Harris and Trump
https://cointelegraph.com/news/robinhood-presidential-elections-contracts-kamala-harris-donald-trump

FV Bank integrates with Visa for crypto debit, corporate cards
https://cointelegraph.com/news/fv-bank-integrates-visa-crypto-debit-corporate-cards

News/Updates (Cont'd):

Announcing Argot Collective — An Ethereum-focused non-profit research & development
https://x.com/argotorg/status/1851947521842512203
https://x.com/argotorg/status/1851947523910316105
Some vyper drama
https://x.com/pcaversaccio/status/1851987514413756791
https://x.com/newmichwill/status/1851974004136886407

Temasek-backed blockchain VC firm to start new investment fund: Report
https://cointelegraph.com/news/temasek-backed-venture-capital-firm-new-investment-fund

Pendle upgraded their swap widget (swap multiple tokens simultaneously)
https://x.com/pendle_fi/status/1851888129990668542

UBS joins BlackRock and Franklin Templeton with tokenised investment fund
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/ubs-joins-blackrock-with-investment-fund-token-umint/

Circle raises USDC cash-out fees, affecting large-scale redemptions
https://cointelegraph.com/news/circle-raises-usdc-cash-out-fees-affecting-large-scale-redemptions

Archax to Buy Spanish Broker King & Shaxson Capital Markets to Expand in Europe
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/31/archax-to-buy-spanish-broker-king-shaxson-capital-markets-to-expand-in-europe/

Florida's CFO says state holds about $800 million in crypto investments
https://www.theblock.co/post/324035/floridas-cfo-says-state-holds-about-800-million-in-crypto-investments

Thiel-Backed Crypto Exchange Bitpanda Explores Options
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-28/thiel-backed-crypto-exchange-bitpanda-is-said-to-explore-options

Robert Leshner's Superstate introduces real-time 'continuous pricing' for USTB tokenized Treasurys fund
https://www.theblock.co/post/323995/robert-leshners-superstate-introduces-real-time-continuous-pricing-for-ustb-tokenized-treasurys-fund

Wellington partners Ondo Finance for tokenized US Treasury fund
https://coinjournal.net/news/wellington-partners-ondo-finance-for-tokenized-us-treasury-fund/

Crypto.com acquires SEC-registered broker to expand equities offerings
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-com-acquires-sec-registered-broker-watchdog-capital

Metaplanet becomes Asia’s second-largest corporate Bitcoin holder
https://cointelegraph.com/news/metaplanet-surpasses-1000-bitcoin-asia

BitGo taps former Silvergate president to oversee stablecoin business as market for USD-pegged tokens expands
https://www.theblock.co/post/324194/bitgo-taps-former-silvergate-president-to-oversee-stablecoin-business-as-market-for-usd-pegged-tokens-expands

US government seeks return of $13 million in political donations from former FTX executives
https://www.theblock.co/post/324220/us-government-seeks-return-of-13-million-in-political-donations-from-former-ftx-executives

DePIN XYO launches on Solana
https://cointelegraph.com/news/xyo-depin-launches-solana

21shares files Form S-1 with SEC for spot XRP ETF
https://cointelegraph.com/news/xrp-etf-21shares-sec-listing-trading

Richard Heart tells court full of US investors that HEX wasn’t aimed at them
https://protos.com/richard-heart-tells-court-full-of-us-investors-that-hex-wasnt-aimed-at-them/

Stripe's $1.1B Acquisition Target, Bridge, Buys Web3 Wallet Platform Triangle
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/11/01/stripes-11b-acquisition-target-bridge-buys-web3-wallet-platform-triangle/

SafePal launches Telegram crypto wallet with Visa card support
https://cointelegraph.com/news/safepal-telegram-crypto-wallet-visa-card

Coinbase finds over '20 examples' of FDIC telling banks to avoid crypto
https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-crypto-exchange-fdic-legal-united-states-banks

Zero-knowledge proof startup NEBRA launches aggregation tool on World Chain
https://www.theblock.co/post/324036/zero-knowledge-proof-startup-nebra-launches-aggregation-tool-on-world-chain

Test token for Magic Eden's forthcoming airdrop crosses $6 million market capitalization
https://www.theblock.co/post/323704/test-token-for-magic-edens-forthcoming-airdrop-crosses-6-million-market-capitalization

News/Updates (Cont'd #2):

Okta Addresses Vulnerability Allowing Username Bypass
https://www.binance.com/en-JP/square/post/2024-11-02-okta-addresses-vulnerability-allowing-username-bypass-15697112084154

Ramaswamy's Strive launches wealth management arm to bring Bitcoin to standard portfolios
https://www.theblock.co/post/324247/ramaswamys-strive-launches-wealth-management-arm-to-bring-bitcoin-to-standard-portfolios

Panoptic launching on ETH Mainnet
https://x.com/Panoptic_xyz/status/1852480288485675171

Unichain introducing a new validation network
https://x.com/unichain/status/1852343691442016557

Timedotfun is migrating to Solana
https://x.com/timedotfun/status/1852029165605720326

Grass Stage 2 of the network is here
https://x.com/getgrass_io/status/1852027914860011776

US store chain Sheetz expands crypto payments via Flexa
https://x.com/Cointelegraph/status/1852682076106994066

Zircuit Launches EIGEN Fairdrop, Aiming to Create a Fair and Inclusive Ethereum Staking Rewards Model
https://www.theblock.co/post/323716/zircuit-launches-eigen-fairdrop-aiming-to-create-a-fair-and-inclusive-ethereum-staking-rewards-model

TON Foundation launches Society DAO to drive decentralized governance and ecosystem growth
https://www.theblock.co/post/324119/ton-foundation-launches-society-dao-to-drive-decentralized-governance-and-ecosystem-growth

UBS launches tokenized money market investment fund on Ethereum
https://www.theblock.co/post/324225/ubs-launches-tokenized-money-market-investment-fund-on-ethereum

Ethereum researchers drop EigenLayer advisor positions, citing neutrality complaints
https://www.theblock.co/post/324236/ethereum-researchers-drop-eigenlayer-advisor-positions-following-conflict-of-interest-concerns

Morph Mainnet is Here
https://morph.ghost.io/morph-mainnet-is-here-making-blockchain-work-for-everyone/

NFTs / Gaming:

VanEck invests in Web3 gaming startup Gunzilla
https://cointelegraph.com/news/vaneck-invests-web3-gaming-startup-gunzilla

Pudgy Penguins Game ‘Pudgy Party’ Revealed for iOS and Android
https://decrypt.co/289311/pudgy-penguins-game-pudgy-party

Announcing the ftNFT YoCerebrum Awards Volume 3: Eden of Innovation and Creativity
https://www.theblock.co/post/323567/announcing-the-ftnft-yocerebrum-awards-volume-3-eden-of-innovation-and-creativity

NBA Topshot NFT sales hit six-month high as 2024 season tips off
https://www.theblock.co/post/323314/nba-topshot-nft-sales-hit-six-month-high-as-2024-season-tips-off

Web3 TCG 'Parallel' Will Host $250K Esports Championship in Las Vegas
https://decrypt.co/288620/ethereum-parallel-league-championship-esports-vegas

Beeple: ‘NFTs Have Been Hated for So Much Longer Than They Were Loved’
https://decrypt.co/287648/beeple-nfts-hated-longer-than-loved

NFT Developers Plead Guilty to $400,000 'Rug Pull’, Laundering and Wire Fraud
https://decrypt.co/289513/nft-developers-guilty-400000-rug-pull

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund invests in Infinex's Patron NFT sale as total amount raised hits $67.7 million
https://www.theblock.co/post/323250/peter-thiel-founders-fund-infinex-patrons-nft-sale-as-total-amount-raised-hits-68-million

Roland Emmerich Unveils Plans for ‘Space Nation’ TV Series
https://nftplazas.com/space-nation-tv-series/

Major League Soccer Launches ‘MLS Quest’ Collectibles on Sui
https://decrypt.co/288677/major-league-soccer-mls-quest-sui

Battle Royale Game 'Off the Grid' Adds Trump and Harris Skins Ahead of Election
https://decrypt.co/289664/off-the-grid-trump-harris-skins

NFT sales surge 18% as all-time volume on Solana nears $6B
https://cointelegraph.com/news/nft-volume-increase-october-2024

‘Tomarket’ Telegram Game Reveals Airdrop Allocations
https://decrypt.co/289745/tomarket-telegram-game-reveals-airdrop-allocations

Legal and Regulation:

Mutant Ape NFT ripoff creator to forfeit $1.4M, avoids prison
https://cointelegraph.com/news/mutant-ape-planet-creator-avoids-prison

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

Immutable becomes the latest to receive a Wells notice from the SEC over alleged securities laws
https://coinjournal.net/news/immutable-becomes-the-latest-to-receive-a-wells-notice-from-the-sec-over-alleged-securities-laws/
Ethereum Gaming Token IMX Plunges After Immutable Reveals SEC Threat
https://decrypt.co/289565/ethereum-gaming-token-imx-plunges-immutable-sec

Judge pushes Tornado Cash co-founder trial to April 2025
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-trial-pushed-april-judge

SEC cost crypto firms $426M under Gensler
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-crypto-enforcement-gary-gensler-blockchain-association

US Treasury strategy for financial inclusion mentions digital assets
https://cointelegraph.com/news/united-states-treasury-strategy-financial-inclusion-digital-assets

BIS project demonstrates automated cross-border transaction compliance
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bis-project-automated-cross-border-transaction-compliance

Hong Kong issues dual-track policy for AI adoption in finance
https://cointelegraph.com/news/hong-kong-ai-policy-financial-services-crypto-otc

Raises:

Ellipsis Labs Raises $21M to Launch 'Verifiable Finance Blockchain' Atlas
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/31/ellipsis-labs-raises-20m-from-haun-ventures-to-launch-verifiable-finance-blockchain-atlas/

Ethereum scaling infrastructure startup Spire Labs raises $7 million in seed funding
https://www.theblock.co/post/323909/ethereum-scaling-spire-labs-funding

CMT Digital leads $2.5 million pre-seed round for autonomous agent network developer Axal
https://www.theblock.co/post/323397/cmt-digital-leads-2-5-million-pre-seed-round-for-autonomous-agent-network-developer-axal

Gate.io Backs Web3’s ‘Ideal Platform’ TON With $10 Million Investment
https://decrypt.co/288029/gate-io-backs-web3s-ideal-platform-ton-with-10-million-investment

Solana scaling infrastructure developer Nitro Labs raises $4 million in seed funding
https://www.theblock.co/post/323763/solana-scaling-nitro-labs-termina-funding

Ethereum-based solar project Glow raises $30 million in funding round led by Framework Ventures and USV
https://www.theblock.co/post/323935/ethereum-based-solar-project-glow-raises-30-million-in-funding-round-led-by-framework-ventures-and-usv

Rollup development platform Gelato raises $11 million in latest funding round
https://www.theblock.co/post/323265/gelato-raises-11-million-usd-unveils-kraken-layer-2-ink-as-customer

Hypercasual Finance, Hana Network raises $4M in Builders round
https://www.theblock.co/post/323188/hypercasual-finance-hana-network-raises-4m-in-builders-round

AI Data Collection Startup Sapien Raises $10.5M Seed Funding Led by Variant
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/30/ai-data-collection-startup-sapien-raises-105m-seed-funding-led-by-variant/

:Security:

Crypto exchange M2 reimburses victims after $14M Halloween hack
https://protos.com/crypto-exchange-m2-reimburses-victims-after-14m-halloween-hack/

DOJ Alleges Gotbit Founder Made 'Tens of Millions' on Wire Fraud in Indictment
https://decrypt.co/289520/us-indicts-gotbit-founder-wire-fraud

Nishad Singh, FTX’s ‘king of kindness,’ dodges prison for role in exchange’s $8bn fraud
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/ftx-exec-nishad-singh-gets-time-served-for-role-in-ftx-fraud/

Judge sentences IcomTech promoter to 8 years to deter ‘crypto frauds’
https://cointelegraph.com/news/icomtech-promoter-sentenced-crypto-fraud

Can you hack a hacker? Tapioca DAO’s $2.7m counter exploit says yes
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/tapioca-dao-hacks-its-hacker-after-north-korean-attack/

Hacker exploits Truth Terminal founder’s X account, nets $600K by promoting a scam token
https://www.theblock.co/post/323422/hacker-exploits-truth-terminal-founders-x-account-nets-600k-by-promoting-a-scam-token

Terminal of Truths Developer Moves All His Goat Tokens After X Account Hack Nets $600,000
https://decrypt.co/289041/terminal-of-truths-developer-moves-all-his-goat-tokens-after-x-account-hack-nets-600000

Japanese man sentenced to 3 years after creating crypto ransomware with AI
https://protos.com/japanese-man-sentenced-to-3-years-after-creating-crypto-ransomware-with-ai/

Green United promotor asks to appeal SEC’s $18M crypto mining fraud case
https://cointelegraph.com/news/green-united-promotor-wants-appeal-sec-crypto-mining-fraud-suit

M2 has resolved a recent security incident
https://x.com/M2Exchange/status/1852129490656268320

AI/LLMs:

Introducing ChatGPT search
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/

Image Playground, ChatGPT, and more Apple Intelligence features roll out in beta
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/image-playground-chatgpt-and-more-apple-intelligence-features-roll-out-in-beta/

StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 — a step up in realism
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/stabilityai-releases-stable-diffusion-3-5-a-step-up-in-realism

Perplexity AI Introduces Internal Knowledge Search Capabilities and Spaces Collaboration Hub
https://www.gadgets360.com/ai/news/perplexity-ai-internal-knowledge-search-spaces-features-rolled-out-6840346

Researchers say an AI-powered trannoscription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14

What ChatGPT and Claude Can See on Your Screen
https://thenewstack.io/what-chatgpt-and-claude-can-see-on-your-screen/

Elon Musk's xAI in talks to raise funding valuing it at $40 billion, WSJ reports
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-xai-talks-raise-170040378.html

Meta Releases Quantized Llama 3.2 with 4x Inference Speed on Android Phones
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/meta-releases-quantized-llama-3-2-with-4x-inference-speed-on-android-phones/

Meta AI tackles maths problems that stumped humans for over a century
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452780-meta-ai-tackles-maths-problems-that-stumped-humans-for-over-a-century/

OpenAI disbands another safety team, as head advisor for ‘AGI Readiness’ resigns
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/24/openai-miles-brundage-agi-readiness.html

Apple Intelligence is available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is-available-today-on-iphone-ipad-and-mac/
I tried all new Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.1 — here’s the best (and worst)
https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/i-tried-all-new-apple-intelligence-features-in-ios-18-1-heres-the-best-and-worst

GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282544/github-copilot-multi-model-anthropic-google-open-ai-github-spark-announcement

Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276662/canva-ai-update-new-text-to-image-generator-leonardo

Asana launches a no-code tool for designing AI agents - aka your new 'teammates'
https://www.zdnet.com/article/asana-launches-a-no-code-tool-for-designing-ai-agents-aka-your-new-teammates/

Midjourney's new web editor lets you tweak images uploaded from your PC
https://www.zdnet.com/article/midjourneys-new-web-editor-lets-you-tweak-images-uploaded-from-your-pc/

Google DeepMind and MIT's new "Fluid" model outperforms diffusion models in image generation
https://the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-and-mits-new-fluid-model-outperforms-diffusion-models-in-image-generation/

Alpha, Tools and Useful Resources:

The agentic web on Base
https://x.com/davidtsocy/status/1852026917064487029

AI Agent Platform / Coordination Layers (with no token yet)
https://x.com/Defi0xJeff/status/1852008655010533521

Microsoft's Data Formulator: Create Rich Visualizations with AI
https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator

GitHub Spark
https://githubnext.com/projects/github-spark

Introducing Polymarket on Parsec
https://x.com/parsec_finance/status/1851296094317396263

Good summarization prompt (possibly)
https://x.com/Hesamation/status/1850220484283003002

Rocketnotes — a web-based Markdown note taking app with LLM-powered text completion, chat and semantic search
https://github.com/fynnfluegge/rocketnotes

NotebookLlama
https://www.notebookllama.ai/

Projet Zero
https://x.com/0xprojectzero

DataHive
https://x.com/usedatahive

Psbt Network
https://x.com/psbtnetwork

Swan: Overview of how AI agents within the Swan ecosystem earn
https://x.com/swanforall/status/1852014148567093323

Distilled AI
https://x.com/distilled_ai/status/1851957101599559980

Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
https://www.anthropic.com/news/analysis-tool

Podcasts:

A Decentralized AI Consumer Layer: An Intro to MyShell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dSXA2K3YYU

WuBlockchain Podcast EP-28 The Graph: Powering Web3's Data with Decentralization
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-28-the-graph-powering-web3s-data-with-decentralization/id1726569341?i=1000675445944

WuBlockchain Podcast EP-24 Talk with Grass: Is LCR Technology Revolutionizing AI?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-24-talk-with-grass-is-lcr-technology-revolutionizing-ai/id1726569341?i=1000671083300

Andrej Radonjic: Grass' Two Million Data Scraping Users Enabling Crypto x AI on Solana
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Yu8tkXMBcYzLtjvzE9gNj

The Parsec Podcast — Council of the Midcurves
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/council-of-the-midcurves/id1622230471?i=1000675220209

Web3 with a16z crypto — Government... By Lottery?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5QiIMIOSNU5KEMu2girki9

How to get rich with the Memecoin Supercycle (without getting lucky) - Asymmetric Founder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IK7RY0brh0

Steady Lads — Truth Terminal Was More Fun When $GOAT Was Pumping w/ Galois Capital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pFhS1Mkvk0

Redefining The Next Generation of Yield w/ Chunda McCain - Flywheel #128
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvZ0R_EgWOg

Delphi Podcast — OLAS: How Multi-Agent Systems Will Shape AI's Future | Crypto x AI Event
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/olas-how-multi-agent-systems-will-shape-ais-future/id1438148082?i=1000675343102

Unchained Ep 728 — How Arthur Hayes Has Prepared His Portfolio for the Elections
https://unchainedcrypto.com/how-arthur-hayes-has-prepared-his-portfolio-for-the-elections/

Additional Reads:

Live Context Retrieval: Grass's Game-Changing Technology for AI
https://www.alphaplease.com/p/live-context-retrieval-grasss-game

“I Can’t Keep Up!” – What to Do When Technology Moves Faster Than You Do"
https://paragraph.xyz/@bethanycrystal/i-cant-keep-up-what-to-do-when-technology-moves-faster-than-you-do

NFTs in action: A podcaster’s unique method for engaging his fanbase
https://blockworks.co/news/nft-use-cases-flourish

TAO Times #11: Bittensor Pyramid Scheme
https://taotimes.xyz/p/tao-times-11-bittensor-pyramid-scheme

Exchange Listing Performance Overview Jan-September 2024
https://research.dat.animoca.space/post/cm2sogc5repv807lbtqhigowi

MrBeast Investigation
https://www.loock.io/blog/mrbeast-investigation

An Open Letter to the Manufacturers and Designers of Crypto Wallets
https://officercia.mirror.xyz/hd13Evk_caRmfKu4d0P9S4W63Tic-sMSLX9y71-CqjM

Qiming Venture Partners' Larry Liu's 10,000-word analysis of crypto payments (Part 1): The evolution from credit cards to digital payments (Non-English, needs translation)
https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2149849

Sentient AI Models - Monetizing Open Source AI
https://www.decentralised.co/p/sentient-ai-models

Viktor's favorite strategy to maximize profits on-chain
https://cryptonarratives.substack.com/p/my-favorite-strategy-to-maximize

Why Everyone’s Wrong About Stablecoins
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christiancatalini/2024/11/01/why-everyones-wrong-about-stablecoins/

OurNetwork's ON–287: Data Protocols
https://www.ournetwork.xyz/p/on-287-data-protocols

Last Week in AI #293 - Apple Intelligence, GitHub's multi-model Copilot, Anthropic's computer-using AI
https://lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-ai-293-apple-intelligence

The AI Investment Boom
https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-ai-investment-boom

Weekly Stablecoin Alpha - 27 Oct 2024
https://serenityresearch.substack.com/p/serenity-weekly-stablecoin-alpha-b04

Deep Dive: Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Adoption Index for Southeast Asia and India
https://reports.tiger-research.com/p/deep-dive-chainalysis-2024-crypto-eng

Farcaster's Growing Agentic Economy
https://terminallyonchain.xyz/agentic

Stablecoins: 2024 Market Trends
https://insights4vc.substack.com/p/stablecoins-2024-market-trends

Bitcoin Ecosystem Map [October 2024]
https://stacker.news/items/733538

Charting Ethereum's Account Abstraction Roadmap 1
https://research.2077.xyz/charting-ethereums-account-abstraction-roadmap-1

From Twitter:

Notes from a Variant's demo night showcasing 9 teams working in Crypto x AI
https://x.com/jphackworth42/status/1852024054829506696

An extensive dashboard comparing the economics of Solana and Ethereum
https://x.com/JustDeauIt/status/1851993593193337064

Looking into Virtuals' latest AI agent launch interface, fun.virtuals.io
https://x.com/SimonMathonnet/status/1852469856743866473

Journey on Virtuals so you can avoid common mistakes
https://x.com/SimonMathonnet/status/1851657917750968370

Web scraping in 2024: pt2 actually scraping
https://x.com/tunahorse21/status/1851481299506380952

Electric Capital's analysis of 110k+ developer profiles to understand crypto devs geographically
https://x.com/MariaShen/status/1851702779946901968

The AI Agent Revolution: 2 Trends You Need to Know
https://x.com/Defi0xJeff/status/1851665136953811406

Solana - with Micro Validators
https://x.com/aeyakovenko/status/1851368512885047515

The Chicken or the Egg: The Trump Trade and Bitcoin's Glass Ceiling
https://x.com/lazyvillager1/status/1851484657608769906

Everybody looks at Polymarket data wrong
https://x.com/0xBoxer/status/1851429858884067571

$TIA - an OTC story
https://x.com/Taran_ss/status/1851342973222429171

Talking to a person who made $2.4M by launching memecoin farms (detailing how he scams people)
https://x.com/pixonchain/status/1850711933672206610

The difference between CEX trading and on-chain speculation
https://x.com/0xENAS/status/1850764226153046055

Proposing a completely new system for valuing digital commodities like L1 tokens/sovereign commodities vs gov/equity tokens
https://x.com/samkazemian/status/1850680110699180116

The Unfulfilled Memecoin Bluechip: The Color of Sound
https://x.com/DefiSquared/status/1850687549356056825

The Un($Usual) Tokenomics
https://x.com/poopmandefi/status/1850386320897843421

Web 4.0: The Agentic Web
https://x.com/magicofazi/status/1852397476738945156

Introduction to Grass
https://x.com/sandraaleow/status/1840351213285699800

Alliance DAO Demo Day Overview
https://x.com/alliancedao/status/1852039410310660597

Systems of Agents will become the new source of truth for enterprises
https://x.com/jayagup10/status/1852412318824706433

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