How Extended is building differently
When Extended launched, the aim was to make the product trust-minimised, seamless, high-performance, and broad enough to support perpetuals, spot, yield products and portfolio margin.
That foundation is now in place. The protocol combines a high-performance trading experience with on-chain settlement and verification. User funds are held in smart contracts, while the trading logic and risk engine are implemented on-chain. Every transaction is verified and settled directly on @Starknet - transparent, verifiable, and open source.
One part of that foundation has remained more centralised than the target architecture: the sequencer.
Extended is now working to decentralise the sequencing layer, separating transaction sequencing from settlement. The settlement chain will continue to handle custody, with final verification and settlement performed on the underlying public blockchain, while sequencing will be performed by Extended's native network.
On-chain order books exist today, but most high-performance trading systems still require trade-offs between performance, decentralisation, and custody. Extended changes that. This work is already underway, and we'll be sharing more details as the rollout progresses.
Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow.
After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8. We’ll continue to refine these classifiers over the coming weeks to reduce false positives and better distinguish genuine misuse from legitimate requests.
We’ve also begun drafting a consensus framework—with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other Glasswing partners—for assessing the severity of AI jailbreaks and how AI developers should respond to them. We invite other industry partners and model providers to join us in this effort.
Finally, we’re scaling up our collaboration with the US government on model testing and safeguards. This will include pre-release access to models and safeguards for evaluation, information sharing on jailbreaks and misuse, and dedicated resources for joint research.
Thank you to our users for your patience, and to our partners across the government, industry, and the research community who worked alongside us to make Fable 5 available again.
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Spot trading is live on Extended!
Extended has added spot markets for BTC, ETH, and USDT.
Spot and perpetuals now share a single margin account: spot holdings can be used as collateral for perpetuals positions without bridging or converting to USDC first.
If a USDC balance becomes negative through trading losses, they will be covered automatically using other assets in the same account. This means spot holdings may be reduced to cover losses on perpetuals positions.
Technical documentation: https://t.co/RFQIQSpqDK