Travis Jon Curl

#TekUtopian #Futurist #CryptoGeek @
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[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

Gold Backed Yuan and Blockchain Settlement = Solid Money!

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 China Is Officially Moving It’s Yuan Onto A New Gold Standard

China Internationalizes the Gold-Backed Yuan and Payment System for the First Time Ever.

Hong Kong’s government-owned gold clearing system launched trial operations in July 2026, providing unallocated OTC settlement linked to the Shanghai Gold Exchange to strengthen its position as an Asian gold hub.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Bloomberg Research revealed that China is building a global network of gold vaults to anchor its Yuan to the gold.

China has also announced blockchain-based payment system with BRICS, away from the dollar and backed by gold.

China Is Hoarding Gold Like There’s No Tomorrow, buying it for 20 consecutive months.

The UK, China, Japan, South Korea and India all sold U.S. Treasuries in July and re-started buying gold. South Korea started buying gold again after 13 long years.

Gold has now surpassed U.S. Treasuries as reserve asset.

Venezuela's $4 BILLION, 31 TON gold reserve is leaving London after EIGHT years.

While Hong Kong advances its central gold clearing links with Shanghai, Assetiko has issued a tokenized gold product ($XAUa) on the Blockchain that offers on-chain exposure with possible physical delivery options in the region, trade-able on RWA Marketplaces like @Trensik_com, including tokenized U.S. stocks and commodities.

The CCP’s Golden Endgame: Crash the Fiat System, Launch the Gold Yuan.

This was exactly outlined by the famous City Of London banker @LordBelgrave at the start of the year.

Washington will have no choice but to debase the U.S. dollar to get out of its debt trap.

It’s all planned for Gold.

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

Blockchain Banking coming via #BankChain

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

JUST IN: 39 U.S. state banking associations are joining forces to build a nationwide, bank-run blockchain network.

The “BankChain Alliance” is targeting a 2027 launch and will support regulated stablecoins, tokenized deposits and smart payments.

The industry-owned network will represent thousands of banks and be interoperable with other networks.

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

Great news for #Aero and #Base users!

[Aerodrome @AerodromeFi]

Coinbase Tokenized Stocks are here.

Day-one liquidity is live on Aerodrome.

More here 👇

https://t.co/eaL0LgmFkR

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

Super #BrainPower

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Singapore just switched on the world's first data center powered by living human brain cells.

Actual neurons. grown from human stem cells. sitting on electrode-fitted silicon chips. processing information.

A company called Cortical Labs takes human blood cells and reprograms them into stem cells. those stem cells are then cultured into neurons. the neurons are placed on a chip with 59 electrodes that send and receive electrical signals. the cells process those signals and respond. the system interprets those responses as computing output.

20 of these units called CL1 are now running in a rack at the National University of Singapore's Life Sciences Institute.

the full rack draws 800 to 1,000 watts.

a comparable Nvidia AI rack draws over 100,000 watts.

the neurons are a million times more energy-efficient than silicon that's not marketing copy, that's from FinalSpark, a Swiss company running the same technology.

The details that make this story impossible to look away from:

the neurons die. every six months. the modules need to be refreshed with new cells.

before becoming a commercial product, Cortical Labs taught the cells to play Pong. then Doom. 800,000 neurons completing a first-person shooter is apparently a required milestone before enterprise deployment.

the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel is an investor in Cortical Labs.

the same organization that funded the satellite mapping tech that became Google Earth, that built listening devices and spy gadgets, now funds a data center made of human neurons.

the listed use cases: drug discovery. humanoid robotics. fraud detection. cybersecurity.

one month of access to a single unit costs $2,200. half the price of renting a comparable Nvidia chip.

🤯

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

@alexanderlee314 @Google Interesting!

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

@alexanderlee314 #Trudat @alexanderlee314 , I did all the things you mentioned at an early age. Even started working at 14, USA does have a hands-off framework for go-getters to cut thier teeth!

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

GoGo Toroidal Fusion Magnets :)

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

China has fired up the world's largest superconducting magnet for nuclear fusion. Built for the CRAFT "artificial sun" project in Hefei, the toroidal-field coil weighs 582 tonnes, stores three times the energy of the equivalent magnet at the international ITER reactor, and is designed to trap a plasma hotter than 100 million degrees Celsius. Every critical part was made in China.

#China #NuclearFusion #ArtificialSun #CRAFT

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

The Future is #NEAR

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

The Machine Payments Protocol (@mpp), the agent payment protocol from @Stripe and @Tempo, now leverages NEAR Intents.

This enables any agent on MPP to settle across 30+ chains using NEAR infrastructure, paving the way for global agentic transaction volume to flow across NEAR.

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

AI compute energy limits are a real problem. One that I do not see us solving anytime soon...

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just named AI’s next crisis. It’s not a shortage. It’s a surplus nobody can switch on.

Musk: “By the end of this year, chip production will outpace the ability to turn chips on.”

For three years the world was starved for silicon. Every lab, every government, every company racing to secure the chips that decide who wins the AI era.

That bottleneck is ending. A harder one is replacing it.

Musk: “The chips are going to be piling up and not be able to be turned on.”

Billions of dollars in the most advanced AI hardware ever built. Sitting dark.

Not because the chips don’t work. Because there isn’t enough electricity to run them.

You can’t print a power plant the way you print a chip.

The fabs scaled. The grid didn’t. Now the hardware everyone fought over is hitting a wall capital can’t buy its way through.

Compute becomes abundant. Electricity becomes the most valuable commodity on earth.

Physics doesn’t care about your chip architecture if your data center can’t pull the megawatts.

Every mind that has ever existed was limited by what it could eat. Ours ran on grain. This one runs on the grid.

That has never been solved by thinking. Only by building.

The war isn’t about who can print the most silicon. It’s about who can plug it in.

Whoever solves energy first doesn’t just win. They own the rails everyone else has to rent.

The losers stack chips in warehouses, waiting for power that never arrives.

We built a trillion dollar engine and forgot the fuel.

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

@alexanderlee314 Wow, cool buddy!

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

Thanks Elon, I waited 40 years for this global mobile coverage!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just spent seventeen billion dollars to make every cell tower on Earth a relic.

Musk: “It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones.”

Not through towers. Not through cables. Not through any infrastructure on the ground.

Directly from orbit to the phone in your pocket.

For over a century, connectivity followed the same blueprint. Build a tower. Run a cable. Expand the network one piece of ground at a time.

Coverage went where the money was. Where the population density justified the investment.

Everywhere else got silence.

Four billion people still don’t have reliable internet.

Not because the technology doesn’t exist. Because no one could justify building a tower where they live.

Connectivity was never a technology problem. It was a geography problem disguised as one.

Musk: “The phones that are able to use the spectrum that was acquired probably start shipping in around two years.”

Two years. Then the phone in your hand connects straight to space.

No tower required. No carrier infrastructure between you and the signal.

The entire telecom industry was built on one assumption. That connectivity requires ground infrastructure.

Every carrier. Every contract. Every coverage map. All products of that assumption.

Starlink just bypassed it from orbit.

From orbit, every point on Earth is equidistant.

The word “remote” only exists because connectivity was built from the ground up.

From space, there is no remote. There is no coverage gap. There is no place on Earth harder to reach than any other.

The ground decides who gets connected based on where they are.

The sky doesn’t know the difference.

Human potential was always distributed evenly across the planet. Access to information never was.

The gap between those two facts is the greatest waste in human history.

We spent a century deciding who deserved access to information based on where they happened to be born.

Musk just made that question obsolete from 550 kilometers above the answer.

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

AI Smartphones in China now!

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨CHINA'S ZTE LAUNCHES THE WORLD'S FIRST AGENTIC AI SMARTPHONE

ZTE unveiled the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, a phone that doesn't just add AI features but executes tasks across multiple apps on its own.

Honor, StepFun, and Apple are all racing to launch rival AI phones in China the same week.

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

@Rusia_HD Of course, sign me up... I'm dreaming of Moscow regularly :)

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

Orbital Data Center Realities

[Singularity Hub @singularityhub]

Companies are racing to build data centers in orbit. The pitch is compelling. Two engineering professors who study data centers and space systems worked through what it would actually take. Here's what they found. 🧵

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

#AgenticTrading for the masses.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

⚡️ ROBINHOOD OPENS AGENTIC TRADING FOR CRYPTO

Robinhood brings AI agent trading to crypto, letting automated accounts spot and execute patterns across pricing data, news and order books 24/7.

70,000 agentic accounts are already live for equities and options in the first few weeks.

"Institutional giants have algorithms and rooms full of analysts. Where humans drown, that's where agents thrive."

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

I saw this coming!

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨LATEST: ANTHROPIC'S SHUTDOWN STEMS FROM A JAILBREAK DISCOVERED BY AMAZON RESEARCHERS

WSJ reports Amazon researchers discovered and disclosed a Fable 5 jailbreak to the DOJ, helping trigger the export controls that ultimately forced Anthropic to suspend Mythos and Fable 5 globally.

The fallout has now locked all users out of Anthropic's most advanced models.

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

Claude has been my GoTo Dev for awhile now!

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. https://t.co/oimJTP2maF

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

#AgentReady on @0xPolygon

[Polygon @0xPolygon]

Give your agent a wallet and let it do [ anything ] onchain with the Open Money Stack.

One prompt for smart wallets, embedded onramps, swaps, crosschain bridging, predictions, x402 APIs, onchain identity, & more.

Try it out with the Polygon Agent CLI: https://t.co/Rnzoi7daLU

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

China's winning AI!

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🇨🇳CHINA IS LEADING IN THE OPEN-SOURCE AI RACE

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Chinese labs are currently ahead in open-source models, citing systems like DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.5, GLM-5, and Kimi topping global leaderboards.

He stressed it is critical for the West to maintain a competitive open-source AI stack.

[Travis Jon Curl @TravisJonCurl]

Stay the course people!

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

Not selling, buying more.