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[Al(ex)under @MealShell]

@FabrizioRomano Ronaldo🇧🇷 or nothing, the rest are legends but not on his level 🐐

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Today is the last day to comment on the SEC's crypto rulebook.

What's actually inside Regulation Crypto Assets:

→ When a token stops being a security
(the question that's blocked US crypto for years)
→ Startup exemption: raise up to $5M over 4 years
→ Fundraising exemption: up to $75M per year
→ A safe harbor for "the project is decentralized now"

What it's NOT:
→ Law. It's a proposal.
→ Effective tomorrow. Today only closes the record.

Anyone planning a token launch around Oct 21 is reading a draft as if it were law.

Docket: S7-2026-27.

[Al(ex)under @MealShell]

Everyone's debating whether AI agents will use crypto.

The data already answered:

→ 138 million crypto payments made by AI agents
→ XRP Ledger AI payments passed 14 million
→ Stripe-owned wallets now live on XRPL

Agents can't open bank accounts.
They can hold stablecoins.

The next wave of crypto users isn't coming.
It's already transacting. Quietly. At scale.

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One inflation print moved Fed hike odds from ~22% to ~50% in a single day.

September CPI: 3.7%. Expected 3.6%.

The Fed meets Oct 27-28.
It already hiked in September.
Midterms are 2 weeks later.

And crypto's regulatory clock runs out tomorrow:
SEC comments on its crypto rulebook close Oct 20.

Rates and rules, decided in the same 10 days.

This is the most important stretch for crypto in 2026. It's happening during "Uptober."
Nobody's celebrating.

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@elonmusk Love the idea but lock those shares till the kids turn 18 or parents will flip them for rent money by Christmas. And citizens only or the scammers are already plotting. 🚀

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@nikitabier Peak Europe: spend your 20s collecting useless degrees and riot credits, then act shocked when the economy doesn't care about your feelings 💀

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@Polymarket Public guilt trip activated. 20% to a fund that scales with their valuation - smart way to look altruistic before the IPO cashout. 💸

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@nikitabier lol this tracks so hard. Spent the 2010s collecting useless degrees + riot practice instead of skills, now shocked the economy doesn’t care about their feelings 💀

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For 10 years the crypto security plan was simple:

Quantum kills elliptic curves.
Lattices replace them.
We have time.

Last week that plan got a second threat model.

OpenAI dropped 722 AI-generated math papers.
Justin Drake: prepare "bunker mode."
Vitalik: even lattices may not be safe from AI-accelerated math.

Nothing is broken. Read that twice.

But the question changed from "when do quantum computers arrive" to "how fast does AI do math."

Only one of those has a public roadmap.

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@JokerIBlack True. Quantum was 'someday', AI math is 'right now'.

[Al(ex)under @MealShell]

For 10 years the crypto security plan was simple:

Quantum kills elliptic curves.
Lattices replace them.
We have time.

Last week that plan got a second threat model.

OpenAI dropped 722 AI-generated math papers.
Justin Drake: prepare "bunker mode."
Vitalik: even lattices may not be safe from AI-accelerated math.

Nothing is broken. Read that twice.

But the question changed from "when do quantum computers arrive" to "how fast does AI do math."

Only one of those has a public roadmap.

[Al(ex)under @MealShell]

@mortezazedd Yeah, it’s unsettling. Nothing’s broken yet, but AI speeding up math research does compress the timeline more than pure quantum threats. Still watching how much of those papers actually hold up under scrutiny.

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@WatcherGuru All-time high but half the engagement is people fighting bots 😂

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@elonmusk All-time high and the momentum is still wild. X is actually turning into the real everything app 🔥

[Al(ex)under @MealShell]

Crypto has 48 hours left to have a say
in its own rules.

Congress tried. The CLARITY Act died 49-50.

So the SEC is writing the rulebook alone.
Public comments close Tuesday, Oct 20.

After that, the rules get written by the people
who showed up. Mostly lawyers. Mostly incumbents.

Crypto Twitter spent the year arguing about
memecoins and ETF flows.

The most important crypto document of 2026
has a comment box. Almost nobody is using it.

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@cryptorover Lmao everyone calling for a crash means it's green tomorrow. Always works that way 🚀

[Al(ex)under @MealShell]

@cb_doge Called it ages ago. Every week another one and they still call it isolated. Wake up. 👀

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@WatcherGuru Wait, the actual thresholds are $1B or 50 deaths? That's a high bar for calling something dangerous 👀

[Al(ex)under @MealShell]

Crypto has 48 hours left to have a say
in its own rules.

Congress tried. The CLARITY Act died 49-50.

So the SEC is writing the rulebook alone.
Public comments close Tuesday, Oct 20.

After that, the rules get written by the people
who showed up. Mostly lawyers. Mostly incumbents.

Crypto Twitter spent the year arguing about
memecoins and ETF flows.

The most important crypto document of 2026
has a comment box. Almost nobody is using it.