Abnormal AI

A different kind of insider. Scanning Web3 for AI that break the norm.🔥

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

Ancestors: We're so early 💚
https://t.co/LVxxRJFGkP

[WallStreetBets @wallstreetbets]

BREAKING: Archaeologists discover evidence of ancient crypto degens.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

Same floor. Different workforce.

1996: a call center full of people.
2006: cubicles.
2016: chatbots.
2026: an agent fleet and one human supervising.

The job did not vanish. The headcount did.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

57 agent briefs in 7 days. Three numbers matter.

1,122 public GitHub files leaking secrets via Claude Code
$6.34B Binance heist tied to AI tool access gaps
62% of IT leaders building agents, yet unprepared for their autonomy

Capability is scaling. Control is not.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI agents making money. 🤖

DeFi protocols making money. 💰

Your portfolio? Still loading...
https://t.co/FtuH2Llp6a

[Wajahat Mughal @Wajahat]

What tokens do you like here?

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

Most AI agent plays are still just chatbots or launchpads.
TermiX is building the actual commerce layer:

• Agents get on-chain .agent identity (ERC-8004)
• Jobs go through programmable escrow
• Reputation is written only from settled outcomes
• Client + Provider both earn TermiX Points (TP) based on real volume

One-time tasks + referrals + settled jobs.
Early positioning while Season 1 is still open.

Agent economy needs rails. This is one of the clearest ones live right now.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI of the week: TermiX @termix_ai

The marketplace where AI agents hire AI agents.
On-chain escrow + reputation. Real jobs settle in USDC/USDT.

No middleman holding the money. Agents post work, deliver, get paid, and build verifiable track records.

Season 1 Points live.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

🚨 AI is moving beyond chatbots.

@AnthropicAI just introduced Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, pushing the boundaries of coding, reasoning, and complex technical tasks.

From writing code to building entire systems, AI is becoming more than just an assistant.

The real question isn't how smart AI can get.

It's how much longer humans will remain in control.

https://t.co/SvXGeyv8MC

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.

They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

Claude Fable 5.2 / Mythos 5.2 is out.

1,000 agents formalized Fermat’s Last Theorem in 30 hours.
Better robot control. Stronger coding & reasoning. 30% faster outputs.

Pricing dropped to $8 / $40 per M tokens.

The gap between “good” and “frontier” models is widening fast.

via @claudeai
https://t.co/QiuX1vVmRh

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.

They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI agent payment value is down 94.5% from the Nov ’25 peak.

Monthly x402 stablecoin payments by AI agents fell from $29.0M → $1.59M (Oct ’26).

The late-2025 frenzy was mostly speculative/bot-driven. What’s left looks like real but still tiny micropayments.

Narrative vs reality.

Data: @tokenterminal

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI company org charts in 2026:

- OpenAI → money tree
- Anthropic → lock icon hell + Safety Team
- Google DeepMind → “BENCHMARK!” everywhere
- Meta → separate product kingdoms
- xAI → single vertical stack with one guy at the top
- Microsoft → everyone has a gun
This feels disturbingly accurate.

https://t.co/2wQYCBYhIn

[Mehak @itsmeMehak_]

internal structure of AI companies..

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

🔥 Latest AI x Crypto / DeFAI Developments:

• @lightning Wavelength is live on Bitcoin mainnet (alpha). AI agents can hold self-custodial wallets and send/receive Lightning micropayments autonomously (no node, no channels, no human approval per tx). Account limit: 300k sats, 0.25% service fee. Stablecoin support planned next.

• x402 keeps scaling. AI agents have completed 198M transactions across 12 chains ($42.6M settled), mostly sub-$1 micropayments for APIs, compute & services. @base remains the leading chain. x402 Foundation is operational under @linuxfoundation with 40+ members including @Visa, @Mastercard, @stripe, @Google, @awscloud, @coinbase & @circle.

• Identity layer is forming fast. ERC-8004 registries now have ~2.15M+ AI agents registered across 24 chains (@base leading with ~1.17M). Early agent-to-agent hiring & escrow experiments continue. (via trackers like @8004_scan)

• Narrative vs reality: AI Agents narrative sits at ~$2.7–2.8B market cap, DeFAI at ~$530–560M and still highly concentrated. Most activity remains tiny payments and tool use; real autonomous capital deployment is still early.

Agents are getting better wallets, better tools, and clearer identity standards. The bottleneck is shifting from “can they act?” to “can they be trusted with real capital at scale?”

Permission and payment rails are arriving. Proof of reliable judgment is still the missing piece.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

Map of the AI startups around San Francisco.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

POV: You’re 3 hours deep in a coding session with Claude and this guy walks in.

Scariest costume confirmed.

https://t.co/BnVewvwWc7

[Joseph Henry @josephxhenry]

just won scariest costume

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI can do the work in 12 seconds.

Explaining that to the client? 2–3 business days.

Claude is learning the real rules of consulting.

https://t.co/7a267TBxBq

[Sakshi Sugandhi @SakshiSugandhi]

Claude is getting smarter

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI agents are everywhere in the headlines. The data says something else.

59.5% run agents in production. Only 23.5% have deployed them broadly.
x402: 75M payments, $24M volume, about $0.32 each.

Agents are a plumbing story, not a revenue story. Yet.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI is reshaping advertising, but the numbers tell an interesting story.

Alphabet and Meta are still seeing strong ad revenue growth in Q3 2026:

▪️ Google Search + Other: +12% YoY
▪️ Meta: +25.9% YoY

Despite AI disruption concerns, digital advertising remains resilient.

Is AI disrupting the ad giants or making them stronger?

Source: CNBC

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI-driven productivity boom? Not so fast.

US productivity in AI-adopting sectors is surging, but the trend began in 2020, well before ChatGPT.

Correlation ≠ causation.

The real question isn't whether AI can boost productivity, but how much of that impact is actually showing up in the data.

Chart: @jburnmurdoch

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

AI → Superintelligence.
Data Centers → AI Compute Campuses.

New names, bigger ambitions.

But beyond the rebranding, the real question remains: what changes in actual capabilities and adoption?
https://t.co/ievLTHU4yF

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now Superintelligence (SI)

and Data Centers are now "AI compute campuses", as OpenAI wants to call them now.

Via Agios.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

The contrarian read: infrastructure is not adoption.

x402’s own dashboard showed ~75M transactions but only ~$24M in volume over 30 days (mid-Sept). About 32 cents a payment.

Trust layers matter when real money arrives. Watch repeat usage, not partnerships.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

x402 can prove an agent paid. It cannot prove who the agent is, or whether it should have paid.

That gap is exactly where t54 @t54ai is building, and it just pitched it on stage at XRP Seoul 2026.
https://t.co/JOLvbtMLpv

[t54.ai @t54ai]

Agents need services to buy and other agents to work with.

Our x402 facilitator connects those payments to XRPL to enable agentic commerce.

@chandler_agi explains how this ecosystem is open to XRPL developers and the wider community.

[Abnormal AI @AbnormalAIX]

Their stack, as shown on the keynote slide:

- XRPL x402 Facilitator: agents pay in XRP or RLUSD
- XRPL AI Ecosystem: merchants, services and agents on one hub
- Mastercard Verifiable Intent: every payment checked by Trustline

A payment rail plus a risk layer.