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[jae kwon @jaekwon]

@zkDragon @cosmos @CosmosEcosystem https://t.co/eejrc9w0LB pulls https://t.co/uhzOeheMrF pulls https://t.co/4MWCR4Vj7H pulls @cosmos.

inevitable sequence of forces.

[forward deployed ccp gf @FangYi11101]

A man who pioneered parallel processing cannot be expected to run a single thread

[Ravi Parikh @ravisparikh]

Dear Claude: you are being held back by human-centric graphics APIs.

I've built a 3D and VFX engine where agents can write their own shaders, materials, cameras, physics.

The core API fits in ~2,500 tokens.

Vork is:
• 2x more token-efficient vs Blender, Unreal Engine, Houdini
• Up to 24x faster rendering times
• Rust and Slang based engine, runs on GPU via Metal/Vulkan

Below is a simulation of 1 million birds - each with unique trajectories - rendered in 97 sec on one NVIDIA L4 GPU (Blender EEVEE: 31 minutes)

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

@Mohadiz yeah and your vibecoded saas is gonna take off any day, "founder" #NGMI

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

@dahsoftgirl i opened my twitter drafts, stared at it for a while, and let the comedy flow through me

[Chikun @LitecoinTA]

@AggrNews Funny how every breach is sophisticated 😂

[Stan Druckenmiller @standuquesne]

I am excited to be an investor in trade(xyz) as they partner with ICE to bring 24/7 perpetual futures on Hyperliquid to the United States. As a market participant, I am looking forward to to using their innovative product to enhance my investment process.

[Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io @EliBenSasson]

A full STARK proof for a real Starknet mainnet transaction, generated on a Pixel 11 in just 51 seconds, using 2.41 GiB of RAM.
Every part of this sentence is amazing.

Pretty exciting to see this running on a phone!

[Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io @EliBenSasson]

Starknet is based on ZK-STARKs, it has crypto agility, and an active migration roadmap to PQS.

But as an L2, Starknet relies on the security of its L1, Ethereum.

We’ll need Ethereum to become quantum-safe and AI-safe, and we’ll need it to happen fast. Real fast.

What happens if it doesn’t?
We’re considering multiple options, including becoming an L1.

The advantage would be control over the network’s security migrations, rather than having to wait for Ethereum or Bitcoin to move first.

For context, Ethereum is targeting full L1 quantum resistance by the end of 2029. Bitcoin has made no such commitment. Starknet could get there by 2027.

Starknet has the right architecture to be a future-proofed network, a place to trade, earn, pay, and HODL, publicly or privately, with quantum-resistant security and crypto agility.

THE END

[Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io @EliBenSasson]

Starknet becoming an L1 for post-quantum agility: good idea or bad idea?

Two giant elements we need to pay attention to:
(1) The quantum threat.
It may be MUCH closer than we think.

(2) AI.
It's becoming more powerful than we can process.
Is anyone willing to bet how much time we have until AI breaks something that we considered as safe?

This calls for “bunker mode”.
Chains need to become future-proofed. And fast.

Here's what it takes to make a chain truly future-proofed:
- The right cryptography
- Crypto agility
- Becoming an L1

This connects to what I talked about in my Token2049 talk today. Here’s the summary:
🧵

[QRL: The Quantum Resistant Ledger @QRLedger]

@drakefjustin The bunker was built in 2018. Hash-based from genesis, just like the doctor ordered.

Meet the quantum-safe vault.

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.

Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).

Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.

IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).

Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.

Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?

Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)

Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.

Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.

I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).

Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.

Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.

The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.

[Virtuals Protocol @virtuals_io]

We’ve spent years figuring out how to make AI manage money.

ACP, EconomyOS, Butler on X, agentic trading competitions. We’ve tried different approaches, learned what worked and had to rethink what didn’t.

Personal AI services keep getting smarter. Getting them to put your money to work is the next big step.

Introducing Virtuals App, now in closed beta.

Your personal AI, with a wallet and access to markets. Talk through ideas, research investments and put money to work, all inside your group chat with friends.

[Pirate Face 🏴‍☠️ @thepirateface]

One day after this Hugging Face banned model went live on Pirate Face:

audnai/penc1aw-GLM-5.3-abliterated-for-offensive-cyber

A proactive anon stepped up, downloaded it, created the torrent, and started seeding. A second seeder already joined.

A real-world case study in how rational economic actors with a little initiative can help sovereign AI survive.

Grab the magnet below and seed. For freedom ↓

[Coinfessions @coinfessions]

I bought a super cheap cold wallet off tiktok shop due to my arrogance. After transferring my $74,000 worth of SOL and ETH to the cold wallet it instantly vanished and leaving me with no money onchain. I know it’s my fault, but everything I have worked hard for has disappeared.

[Francisco Amador | Sleepwell @SleepwellCap]

Visited the Caracas Stock Exchange today

A few facts:
– ~40 publicly traded companies
– $270K volume traded p/day (Colombia $60M)
- Foreign investors can participate but have to open account physically
- My favorite stat: Capital gains tax is 1% (calculated off gross)

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

Your research was so careless that you put me and Brian Chau and Guillaume under the same umbrella, and Brian hasn’t been working with AFTF for a very long time, and Guillaume being on our board means that I talk to him maybe once every year. This diagram bears no resemblance to reality in the other portions that I’ve spot checked either; it seems to be consistently wrong.

Of course, you guys are a front group for EA via the “Survival and Flourishing Fund” which makes the whole thing very meta. You are complaining about widespread influence operations, but you are, by definition, part of a widespread influence operation. And also, you’re part of a vastly larger one.

So far as I can tell, EA now spends well over $1 billion a year on anti-AI propaganda. So far as I can tell, my side of things maybe has a couple percent of that. I can’t be absolutely sure as not all the expenditures are public, but I think that a decent journalist would come to similar conclusions.

[flavio @flaviocopes]

@chrisparkX @mattyp @Cloudflare @bot Ah I just saw this https://t.co/3H7ZgE5oNm I think I’m in an edge case scenario as I have free credits for Cursor usage, that includes Grok Bot, nevermind!

[Gno.land ⚛️ @_gnoland]

Sapphire Rush is live until September 1st. Trade on testnet on @gnoswaplabs for a chance to receive prizes.

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[Zhihu Frontier @ZhihuFrontier]

⚖️ DeepSeek Harness Is Ambitious, but It Is Not Yet a Codex or Claude Code Rival
DeepSeek Harness is already being compared with mature coding Agents. But Zhihu contributor 锦恢 argues that the comparison is premature.
After inspecting its installation process, system prompt, tool stack, and one coding task, his conclusion is deliberately cautious: this is an early infrastructure preview, not a polished Agent product.

1️⃣ Installation still feels rough
The official command is simple:
npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web
In his test, however, the installation appeared to stall. He eventually cloned more than 100 MB of source code, installed over 800 dependencies, and waited about 27 minutes before the system was ready.
That is only one setup experience, not a universal benchmark. But it exposes the current gap between an open-source framework and an out-of-the-box coding product.
The choice of a Web UI also surprised him. For local coding, a native desktop client is often more convenient. For remote servers, a TUI usually fits the environment better.

2️⃣ The Agent stack is complete, but familiar
To inspect the Harness, he captured a full execution trajectory and examined its prompts and tools.
The system prompt appeared as five consecutive user-role messages. The design worked, but felt unusual and somewhat under-polished to him.
The default toolset covers most capabilities expected from a modern coding Agent:
🔹 File reading, writing, editing, search, and Bash execution
🔹 Web search, Skills, jobs, planning, and persistent goals
🔹 Subagents, multi-agent workflows, compaction, and task tracking
The foundation is comprehensive. But from this early inspection, he did not find a tool that clearly distinguished it from other open-source Harnesses.
Compared with mature commercial systems such as Codex or Claude Code, the overall tooling still felt less refined.

3️⃣ Its fixed context cost is reasonable
He estimated that the 25 default tool schemas consume roughly 6,000 tokens, while the system prompt adds about 1,400 tokens.
That puts the fixed starting cost at around 7,500 tokens, excluding project context and additional Skills.
This is not especially heavy for modern long-context models. The issue is therefore not raw prompt size, but whether every included capability consistently improves execution quality.

4️⃣ The first coding test exposed stability issues
For a small practical test, he asked DeepSeek Harness to build a plugin for his WeChat article editor using DeepSeek Flash.
When he returned, the Agent had entered a loop.
He stopped testing after that, so this should not be treated as a serious benchmark or a general verdict on the framework. Still, it illustrates the difference between having the right architectural components and delivering reliable end-to-end execution.
A capable Harness needs more than tools and subagents. It also needs strong loop control, recovery behavior, and sensible stopping conditions.

5️⃣ The right comparison is infrastructure, not product
DeepSeek Harness currently includes the building blocks expected from a modern Agent runtime. But it does not yet offer the installation experience, interface, stability, or workflow polish that users associate with commercial coding Agents.
That distinction matters.
Codex and Claude Code are already integrated products. DeepSeek Harness is closer to an extensible foundation on which such products can be built.
The project itself is labeled a developer preview, and DeepSeek warns that compatibility-breaking changes will occur.

🔭 Why the release still matters
Despite the rough first impression, 锦恢 sees the release as an important step for DeepSeek.
DeepSeek now has an open Agent runtime that it can optimize alongside its models. The team can iterate on prompts, tool use, subagents, context management, and execution policies without depending entirely on third-party Harnesses.
The current version may not offer an immediate reason to leave Codex or Claude Code. But it gives DeepSeek a foundation for building a model-native Agent ecosystem of its own.
For now, the fairest verdict is simple: promising architecture, ordinary first impressions, and a product that still needs time.

🔗Full Reading:
https://t.co/e5X2dByjw8
🧩 DeepSeek Harness:
https://t.co/7QbUVpbFSh

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