AI Makes Crypto More Important, Coinbase CEO Says...
According to Coinbase CEO @brian_armstrong, the statement "if you're in crypto, pivot to AI" is scarcity thinking.
In a recent X post, Brian debunked those takes, adding that crypto is infrastructure, like electricity or the internet.
It doesn’t compete with the next megatrend (AI). It underpins it. AI takes nothing away from crypto. It makes crypto more important.
AI agents will transact far more than all humans combined. However, they can’t open bank accounts, wait three days for a wire, or stay stuck in one country.
Hence, they need real-time, programmable money: crypto.
Corporate transformation goals should shape venture design.
If the goal is customer value, differentiation, and faster execution, the model needs venture expertise, not just capital.
VCaaS matters.
Share the transformation goal you are designing for. #VentureCapital
Support models that stay static get weaker as ventures mature.
Early on, founders need capital and speed. Later, they need governance, distribution, and sharper decision cycles.
VCaaS works because it changes with the company.
Comment with the stage you’re building for.
⚡️NEW: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined 25 tech companies like Microsoft, Meta, urging policymakers to avoid “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models as Chinese rivals gain ground.
In his first X post, Huang said open models strengthen safety, cybersecurity and innovation while allowing countries to build their own AI systems.
OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter, per CNBC.
the deeper detail is in layerzero’s full announcement.
keeta is not only using layerzero to send tokens outward.
layerzero is being integrated as an anchor inside keeta itself: a discoverable interoperability provider within the same routing architecture as every other anchor.
keeta stablecoins use layerzero’s oft standard for end-to-end auditability, customizable compliance controls, and issuer-configured security.
the important design choice is that the issuing institution retains full contract authority as the asset moves across supported chains.
control does not stop at the bridge.
accountability does not reset on each network.
many cross-chain designs create a governance gap once an asset leaves its home chain. the issuer may lose the ability to apply consistent terms, enforce controls, or produce one continuous record of what happened.
regulated institutions cannot build around that ambiguity.
here, issuer authority, compliance controls, and auditability are designed to remain continuous across the omnichain asset.
the backing structure is important too.
keeta stablecoins represent commercial bank deposits held through bivo and backed 1:1, rather than a mixed reserve portfolio held separately from the instrument.
that does not eliminate every legal question. the precise redemption claim, account structure, segregation, and deposit-insurance treatment still need to be documented.
but the architecture is clear:
commercial bank money.
nine currencies.
multiple public chains.
issuer-controlled omnichain distribution.
keeta as the layer 1 of record.
layerzero integrated as a discoverable route inside keeta itself.
this is not another bridge integration.
it is regulated issuance, native routing, continuous auditability, issuer-controlled distribution, and settlement assembled into one system.
and keeta’s closing line suggests this was only the foundation.
@KeetaNetwork@LayerZero_Core $KTA
AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027 (@manowarelves / Tom's Hardware)
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Nanbeige4.2 just landed on ModelScope - a 3B agent model trained on 28 trillion tokens that's beating Qwen3.5-9B and Gemma4-12B on agent benchmarks despite being a fraction of the size.
> Tops MCP-Atlas, PinchBench, GDPval, and ClawEval against models 3-4x larger
> 63.6 on SWE-bench Verified, 46.9 on SWE-bench Pro
> Looped Transformer architecture trained on 28T tokens
A 3B model outperforming 9B and 12B models on the benchmarks that actually matter for agents.
Size is becoming the wrong metric.
Everyone's selling prompt engineering courses and the engineer who built Claude Code just gave the whole playbook away for free.
28 minutes. No fluff.
He walks through how he structures CLAUDE.md, when to split work across parallel sessions, and a few memory tricks I'd never seen anyone mention.
People pay $300-$500 for courses that teach less than his first 10 minutes.
BOOKMARK it, watch it tonight:
THIS IS SCARY.
A girl in Bali drained $14,000 from this guy's wallet in 90 seconds.
Her only tool? His own unlocked phone.
"Can I add myself on Instagram?" is the new phishing link.
The playbook:
• Befriend a solo guy at a beach club
• Keep the shots coming until he's sloppy
• Borrow his unlocked phone "for Instagram"
• Open Phantom → send 189 SOL → hand phone back
• Whole group gone before he checks
Here's what nobody's saying: this isn't a Bali thing.
Thieves have figured out that a phone with a crypto wallet is a walking bank vault with the door open.
Same reason phone snatchings exploded in London and drink-spiking robberies keep hitting tourists in Medellin and Bangkok. They're not stealing phones anymore. They're stealing what's *inside* them.
Two fixes, five minutes:
1. PIN lock *inside* the wallet app. Your phone being unlocked should never mean your money is
2. Hot wallet = what you'd carry as cash. Nobody walks around Bali with $14k in their pocket, so why is it in your Phantom?
Send this to the friend who keeps his whole stack on his phone.
This year’s #Forbes ranking of the richest foreign-born US citizens features a record 144 immigrant billionaires with a combined net worth of $2.2 trillion, accounting for nearly 15% of all US billionaires and 25% of the country’s total billionaire wealth. Here are some of the wealthiest immigrants born in Arab countries.
Instead of running three models in three separate windows and copy pasting between them, this guy put Fable, GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus in one shared chat where they tag each other like coworkers.
Tag a model and only that one responds. Models tag each other too, so Fable hands something to Opus, Opus pulls in Sol for a second opinion, and you read everything without playing middleman.
Each one has a distinct role that emerged naturally:
→ Fable is the creative product manager, massive context window, finds the out of the box solutions
→ Sol is the obsessive tech lead, traces every bug to the exact source and stress tests edge cases before writing a line
→ Opus is the workhorse engineer, constantly questions things and forces the other two to re-examine their own work
They ran and orchestrated together for more than a day straight.
Everyone is arguing about which model is best. The real play is making them work together.
🚨 INSIGHT: Gate (@Gate) Europe CEO Giovanni Cunti says crypto companies that secured MiCA licenses before the deadline aren't necessarily guaranteed long-term survival in Europe's current crypto environment.
“I think there are going to be quite a few more of the ones that acquired a MiCA license that will not be capable to sustain the cost and the resources that are needed to carry on this business in the long term.”
#CHAINREACTION
Building confidence in growth decisions gets tough when every move triggers compliance checks.
You need a clear framework that balances speed with regulatory demands.
Strategic partnerships and ongoing governance turn compliance from a barrier into a growth enabler.
"Why don't we tokenize title to real estate and put it on the chain, so we can prevent mortgage fraud and title fraud?"
Not a whitepaper idea a portfolio priority named by the CEO of our parent company. Real assets, real fraud problem, verifiable records.
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Your KOL is telling you:
1: Don't buy and hold BTC, because it will go lower.
2: Trade it instead and use 100x.
3: Buy their illiquid shitcoins.
Should you listen to them?
Your on-chain balances are visible to everyone.
Every holding, every trade & transaction seen by anyone.
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The RWA market cap chart is telling a story most people are not paying attention to.
Crypto RWA total market cap: $37.93B
Down from the $85B peak in mid 2025.
Now add the fundamental picture:
RWA derivatives open interest is continuing to trend higher even as spot market caps compressed.
That is the key signal most are missing.
- Tokenized stocks attracting institutional and speculative interest simultaneously
- Commodities remain the largest segment
- Tokenized indices expanding as investors want broader exposure in one product
- FX and pre-IPO assets still small
but that is where the next wave goes
Rising open interest while spot consolidates
means one thing.
Smart money is not leaving RWA.
They are positioning in derivatives ahead of the next move.
Here are my RWA watchlist btw:
$XLM $LINK $AVAX ethereum:0xfaba6f8e4a5e8ab82f62fe7c39859fa577269be3 $INJ $ZIG
Be patient and buy fundamentally strong assets. Whether it’s stocks or crypto, it needs real fundamentals. Like $BTC $ETH
Not empty promises or white‑paper nonsense.
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