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Can an exchange really eat a ~$6.3B hack so users don't?
@binance says it has now replaced 90% of the stolen funds (up from ~80%). Its top 10 tokens are 100% backed and withdrawals are set to reopen Sunday.
Would you withdraw the moment they reopen: yes or no?
What if your AI agent could propose, but never sign?
@Ledger Agent Intent: agents queue proposals, you confirm or reject on your signer's Secure Screen. No access to your keys, no self-approval. Free, in beta.
Would you let an agent near your wallet?
Is your home health or hospice team tracking what changes in the next 30 days?
Which one is your team acting on first?
@CMSGov @MedicareGov @TheAllianceHome @HHCareNews @hospicebusiness @CAPCpalliative @healthcaredive
How do you lose ~$6.3B and still say user funds are safe?
@binance says hackers drained its hot wallets. It set aside $6.34B ($5B in the exact tokens stolen), ~$3B is frozen, and Proof of Reserves results are due Monday.
Do you keep crypto on an exchange: yes or no?
Day 3 of @RippleSwell wasn't about trading. It was about water. 💧 Water.org now uses Ripple Payments, $RLUSD and @Ripple custody: $3.2M+ moved, same-day settlement in Mexico and Brazil, fees down up to 66%.
Which Swell announcement mattered most to you?
Every chain has two locks: the proof math and your wallet signature.
@Starknet's STARK proofs already use hash functions. Wallets can move to Falcon-512. Now $STRK stakers and delegators have voted to study going independent. A joint working group of @StarkWareLtd and the Starknet Foundation is drafting a white paper, then a detailed proposal and more votes.
Which lock would you fix first?
A chest X-ray, read by AI, with no internet needed.
@GoogleResearch's TB screening AI is running offline at South Africa's Mponeng Gold Mine, deep underground, where miners face high tuberculosis risk.
Would you trust an AI to read your X-ray first?
Your @Uniswap swap might be filled by liquidity from outside Uniswap.
Aggregator Hooks went live Oct 22. They wrap 7 outside sources as v4 pools on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain. Per Uniswap, the swaps routed through them pay protocol fees, and getting those fees out of the TokenJar takes a $UNI burn.
Would you check where your swap was routed?
Two Fed officials just voted to HIKE, and the Fed still held. What does that tell you about where money is headed next?
FOMC (decision 8:00 AM HST today, presser 8:30 AM HST)
@federalreserve held the fed funds range at 3.75%–4.00%, a 10–2 vote.
Governor Cook and Cleveland Fed's Hammack dissented for a 25 bp hike.
The statement upgraded the economy from "solid" to "strong" and kept "Inflation remains elevated." The new line: "The accumulation of more information will help the Committee determine the policy stance."
Chair Warsh's presser: no December commitment. The 2Y yield went from 4.78% to 4.73% during the presser. The market still prices December as a hike.
PCE at 2:30 AM, then the @Bank_of_Japan_e at ~5 PM HST on the same Thursday. Which one moves crypto more: hot PCE, or a hawkish Ueda?
$BTC $ETH $XRP
On past ER cases (MIMIC-IV-ED), Microsoft's AI diagnosis panel got 80% right. Physicians: 47%.
On 304 complex NEJM cases: 83% vs 22% (no references) and 36% (with references), per @MicrosoftAI. Published in Science (doi.org/10.1126/science.aeh7…).
The fine print: past cases only, text only, generalists not specialists, no patients treated.
Will the gap hold on live patients?
"Dirt Road" is a GD-style ride through the Ripple ecosystem: 14 years of ledgers closing every few seconds, one long strange trip.
Built for @Ripple and the @XRP community. @RippleSwell @XRPLF
Ethereum core devs paused their own test upgrade.
@chain_security found 13 real-world examples: under Glamsterdam's new state-gas reservoir, a failed call that used to revert can finish and lock in "failed." Writing a new storage slot: 22,100 gas today, 110,020 with an empty reservoir.
@ethereumfndn pulled the Hoodi testnet date. Sepolia went live Oct 6. Mainnet: TBD. The Ethereum Foundation says $ETH holders have nothing to do.
How many old contracts still trust the out-of-gas revert?
Two banks on two different private ledgers. How would they ever settle with each other?
Here's one way it could work: Overledger from @quantnetwork translates in the middle, and the XRP Ledger (@XRPLF) handles the settlement, with @XRP as the bridge asset @Ripple describes in its own docs.
Which piece do you think gets adopted first?
Too much has happened this month, and there’s still more to come, esp this week.
The U.S. @federalreserve FOMC meeting is on 10.28
The @Bank_of_Japan_e policy meeting is on 10.30
@The_DTCC Tokenization Service goes live on 10.28
@RippleSwell @Ripple @XRP @XRPLF, 10.27–10.29
If the $BTC 1064/365 trends continue, then it will hit the same window when these things are happening.
◇ CPI on the 10th (10/10 anniversary)
◇ Options expiry on the 17th
◇ Fed on the 27–28th
◇ BOJ the next day
◇ Quarter-end / Mt. Gox into the 31st
◇ Midterms Nov 3
The @Ripple $XRP Swell + XRPL Apex Dev Summit: October 27-29 in NYC.
Your smart contract can't set an alarm.
Today, off-chain "keepers" send the transactions for timed jobs. @category_xyz: "An outage, an empty gas wallet or a bug" is enough to break the app.
Their proposal for @monad: book a slot in a future block, prepay the gas, and the chain runs the job itself.
PROPOSAL (Oct 22), no launch date given. "The design is not final yet."
Which bot would you retire first?
How fast is "instant" on a blockchain?
@base's Denim upgrade moves Base from one block every 2 seconds to five blocks a second (200ms). It went live on the Base Sepolia testnet on Oct 21. Mainnet, per Base's docs, is "Planning, November 2026."
The catch: apps that use the block counter as a timer will see those timers run 10x faster.
Is 200ms worth rewriting the clock?
1,946 AI agents read a mouse-brain gene atlas in 32 minutes.
@OpenAI, Scripps Research and PerturbAI gave each GPT-Rosalind agent one gene to study. Of 55 directly testable findings from the original study, the agents matched or refined 48 and partly recovered 4.
The top lead is a cholesterol question for Perry syndrome, a rare disease with Parkinson-like symptoms.
It's mouse data in a bioRxiv preprint that hasn't been peer-reviewed, and the output is hypotheses, not treatments.
General info, not medical advice.
Would you trust AI to pick the next experiment?







