Igor Scott

Don't know how to succeed? Sit by the river — you know what comes next.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

⚠️SUI DROPS -5% AS MAINNET SUFFERS NETWORK OUTAGE

The Sui team has confirmed a network-wide stall, with developers currently working on a solution.

The network has been down for over two hours, temporarily halting all transactions on the mainnet.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

THIS IS INSANE.

Someone sent 107 $BTC to Bitcoin burn addresses in 5 transactions.

$8,239,000 in $BTC destroyed forever.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 JUST IN: Nathan Allman, the founder and CEO of Ondo Finance, has passed away.

[ZKsync @zksync]

Update: $ZK Staking Pilot Season Report Is Out

The $ZK Staking Pilot was successful in fulfilling all its objectives:

🗳️ Increasing the total active voting power
💪 Strengthening the ZKsync governance system
🛠️ Testing the Staking infrastructure

[Igor Scott @IgorScott7]

It seems useful 🤔

[0xSerag 🌊 @0xSerag]

Over the last few weeks I've been deep in the weeds on how solopreneurs can use Claude to 100x their development and out-ship entire teams at tech giants. Here's the important things I learned about skills. Bookmark this.

Skills are the single biggest buff most devs still aren't leveraging. Vanilla prompting gets you something that looks and feels like a 'vibe-coded MVP' as opposed to a differentiated prod ready app. Its about setting aside time upfront to instruct claude instead of re-explaining what you want in every conversation until you run out of context.

Skills load in 3 levels in your SKILL.md file:
- Frontmatter (always in system prompt) — name + description, tells Claude when to use the skill.
- Body (loaded when relevant) — the actual instructions
- Linked files (loaded on demand) — references, scripts, templates, assets

Your context stays clean until Claude actually needs the skill. This is how you avoid the "Claude forgot what we discussed an hour ago" failure mode. The frontmatter is the most important part of a skill and determines if your skill gets called automatically versus you having to explicitly invoke it.

Frontmatter
name: max 64 chars, lowercase + hyphens only
description: max 1024 chars — but in Claude Code only the first 250 chars show in the skill listing. Front-load your trigger keywords.
Write in third person. Include what it does AND when to use it. Don't say things like "Helps with smart contracts", instead focus on the specific action, "Audits Solidity and Cadence contracts for reentrancy, integer overflow, and access control bugs. Use whenever the user deploys, modifies, or reviews a smart contract." If your skill isn't triggering, it's almost always the description that got messed up.

Body
Keep the body under 500 lines. Anything longer goes into references/ subfolder and gets linked from the body. The body orchestrates, it doesn't contain/explain all your detail. Treat it like a router not a textbook.

One of the most exciting aspects of skills is their composability. A skill can instruct Claude to call other skills in sequence: "When deploying a token contract, invoke tokenomics-review and security-audit in that order before suggesting the deploy command." Think about loops and pipelines when planning this out.

Folder Structure
my-skill/
├── SKILL.md ← the brain
├── scripts/ ← bash/Python Claude executes
├── references/ ← deep docs loaded on demand
└── assets/ ← Files used in app (templates, icons, fonts)

One of the most powerful patterns in skill design is creating feedback loops: score → critique → rewrite → re-score until it's perfect. Build the rubric into the skill itself. Stop accepting first drafts. This can be used for copy, messaging and app development loops where claude creates an orchestrator that pipelines work into development agents, testing, giving feedback back to the dev agents etc.

There isn't a definitive hard cap on skill count, but skill descriptions share a character budget (~1% of context in Claude Code). If you have too many skills, then your least-used skills get truncated descriptions and stop triggering reliably. Context optimization and awareness is likely going to be a key competency for builders in 2026.

You can look at practical examples of well-formatted skills in flow-ai-tools, it's a Claude plugin I've been contributing to that is packed with skills for shipping decentralized apps that are fast, secure, and capable of things impossible on most chains. You can use it to create the next unicorn Top Shot-style app, on-chain games with native verifiable randomness, finance apps using scheduled smart transactions that act proactively and reactively. It covers both the technical patterns (Cadence resources, capabilities, transaction composition) and the defi/tokenomics side (supply curves, vesting, incentive design) so your next project has solid early validation baked in. You can check out more in the walkthrough below.

[Arkham @arkham]

BLACKROCK JUST SOLD $1 BILLION OF BTC

BlackRock sold Bitcoin every single day last week. They sold a total of $1.01 BILLION of BTC.

If BlackRock is selling… who’s buying?

[Morpho 🦋 @Morpho]

Noncustodial Earn on @safepal, upgraded

Stablecoin yield curated by @SteakhouseFi and @gauntlet_xyz is now accessible to millions of Safepal users

Powered by Morpho

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Ride the ₿ear.

[Sahara AI 🔆 @SaharaAI]

‼️ It’s official ‼️

After a long wait, X finally approved our handle update!

@saharaai is now @SaharaAI 🎉

If you tag us in posts, content, or community updates, make sure to use the new handle moving forward.

[Sahara AI 🔆 @SaharaAI]

We are aware of the unusual market volatility today and are actively monitoring the situation in real time.

Our team has initiated an internal investigation of today’s market activity to better understand the drivers behind the fluctuations. At this moment, there are no security risks or product-level issues on Sahara.

Our core fundamentals, long-term vision, and strategic roadmap remain unchanged.

We will provide further updates should additional information become available.

Sahara AI Team

[avery.apt 🇺🇸 @AveryChing]

Aptos is the fastest blockchain on the planet.

And we're still never satisfied.

[Bram Cohen🌱 @bramcohen]

In case you were wondering: Yes it was causing delays to our plans in particular with SEC approvals for the government to be shut down, and yes it's a boon for it to be back open again

[Aptos @Aptos]

Aptos in October = Peak

From @worldlibertyfi's USD1 on Aptos to @Backpack Wallet integrating Aptos, @Kalshi adding Aptos support in the U.S., @BlackRock adding $500M in BUIDL on Aptos, and plenty more.

Read @MessariCrypto's latest Aptos Ecosystem Update: https://t.co/C1odaoSmEN

[Nym @nym]

Data is the new oil and you’re the well.

[Nym @nym]

Don't allow the EU to sneak through ChatControl and put a backdoor into encryption!

Nation-states will try to take your privacy away by enforcing these laws on centralized companies. Decentralization may be the only answer if all legislative efforts to stop #chatcontrol fail.

Europeans: Get a @monero and @Zcash wallet. Get NymVPN.

It will start in Europe but spread to every country.

Opt-out while you still can.

https://t.co/gDsAsySmLi

[London & UK Street News @CrimeLdn]

A woman who named Bitcoin Queen has been jailed.

Seng Hok Ling, 47, was jailed for 11 years for running a million bitcoin scam

Ling of china scammed thousands out of the Bitcoin scheme in China before fleeing to the uk under fake papers..

She has 61,000 Bitcoin worth £5bn

[Aptos @Aptos]

Cheapest in class, no rails as fast.

USDT Moves Better on Aptos.

[Igor Scott @IgorScott7]

Is it real? 🤔

[Zcash 🛡️ @Zcash]

"Privacy allows people to think freely. There's the space inside your head where you can basically think whatever you want and be fairly confident that no one is reading your mind. You can reason about the world and reason about what should happen in the world.

@feministPLT #zcash $ZEC #privacyisnormal

[Lookonchain @lookonchain]

Absolutely insane — the total stolen funds from the Balancer exploit have now surged to $116.6M. 💀
https://t.co/mZSf2EK7K5

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

MetaMask Rewards Season 1 is now LIVE! 🦊

Over $30M in rewards are up for grabs - here’s how you can secure yours. 🧵👇