NEW: The ECB plans to invest in tokenized securities settled through its new Pontes platform, marking the first time a major central bank will directly participate in blockchain-based financial markets as both investor and infrastructure provider.
Stablecoins are entering their next phase of adoption.
At CONNECT Seoul, industry leaders explore the infrastructure and market forces needed to take them further into global finance.
• @haonan, Co-Founder & CEO, @CodexFX
• Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President, Digital Asset, @FTDA_US
• @azeemk, Co-Founder, @0xMiden
• Wook Lee, Founder & CEO, @Edenaofficial
Sept. 29 | Seoul
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JUST IN: Michael @Saylor's @Strategy resumes Bitcoin buying after a three-week pause, acquiring 950 $BTC for $75.7M at $79,670 average, bringing total holdings to 846,000 $BTC as $MSTR surges 7% premarket.
⚡ AI: AI chatbots gave wrong answers to financial questions 57% of the time, rising to 88% on more complex queries, per FT.
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LATEST: ⚡ Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered release-candidate testing ahead of a targeted Oct. 10 release set to bring faster block checks and several security fixes.
Qwen 3.8 flash is truly impressive, and llama.cpp has been rapidly getting better and better at processing it
columns are: pre-existing prompt, new prompt, generated, input tok/s, output tok/s
This is on my laptop (strix halo). I think we're very close to the point where you can just use local models for a large share of tasks, and for anything more advanced, workflows like "use your local model to orchestrate queries to powerful models so your queries don't leak your personal information" actually become viable.
Since many people are learning about effective altruism, it's worth learning about Mozi, the ancient Chinese philosopher who was surprisingly close to being a proto-effective-altruist (particularly the global-health-focused variety, not the AI-risk-focused variety).
He valued the twin goals of (i) universal love, loving everyone and not just yourself and people similar or close to you, and (ii) being efficient about how you use your limited resources to most effectively help people.
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.@renato_mariotti says the CLARITY Act is dead as things stand, with three reasons it can't be revived:
“And those three reasons are ethics, ethics, ethics.”
TODAY: New Chainlink integrations ↓
• @forevermoney_ai: CCIP to expand 1:1 native TAO to Robinhood Chain
• @gmtrade_xyz: Data Streams to power 24/7 commodity markets
LINK everything.