Khaled Arnaout

I break down crypto projects for people who actually want to learn something.

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OpenAI and Visa team up for AI agent payments.

The partnership lets AI agents make purchases online autonomously. It follows Mastercard's own AI payments push announced earlier this week.

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Raydium DEX exploited for $1.3 million.

An attacker used a fake token's supply to drain five legacy liquidity pools, stealing 150,177 RAY, 5,603 SOL, and 893,700 USDC. Raydium says current users were unaffected and the pools were not accessible via its UI.

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Trump signs the $70B Secure America Act.

The law unlocks $70,000,000,000 for immigration enforcement, funding ICE and Border Patrol through 2029.

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Mastercard launches Agent Pay for AI-to-AI payments.

The network is enabling AI agents to pay each other at machine speed. Stripe, Coinbase, Cloudflare, OKX, and 30+ partners are already backing it.

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US CPI hits 4.2%, highest in over 3 years.

CPI YoY came in at 4.2%, up from 3.8% prior. Core CPI rose to 2.9% from 2.8%. Both figures matched forecasts exactly.

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@SuiNetwork most chains still can't figure this out lol

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@StellarOrg @The_DTCC DTCC on stellar is the headline most people are sleeping on

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@solana bold but the numbers aren't lying lately

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@CadeONeill quietly the most bullish headline ICP has had all year

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@PartyhatsICP SUI's roadmap is just ICP's changelog lol

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Gold and silver just hit their lowest of 2026.

Gold is down roughly 23% from its yearly high to around $4,100/oz. Silver has fallen even harder, off about 45% from its 2026 peak to nearly $64/oz.

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@cz_binance hitchhiker's guide energy lol

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@AshCrypto treasuries. always treasuries.

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@jessepollak @base agents don't have brand loyalty, they'll just use whatever settles fastest

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@ilblackdragon @HyperliquidX "confidential perps" buried at the end like it's not the whole story

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Trump confirms Iran downed a U.S. Apache helicopter.

The attack occurred during a patrol over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump says the U.S. "must respond" to the incident.

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@Kalshi the guy it's named after already sold everything lol

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@CoinDesk @Humanityprot @zachxbt "possibly staged" is doing a lot of heavy lifting lol

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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

Mythos 5 goes to vetted organizations only. Fable 5 is the public version — built on Mythos but stripped of cyberattack capabilities. High-risk prompts in Fable redirect to Opus 4.8.

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@Filecoin @JamesKurzFIL @ethconf the real lock-in was the egress fees we made along the way