Rene ◘

Co-founder @selfxyz. Previously started Celo and Locu (acquired by GoDaddy). @MIT alum. Tweets are not endorsements. DYOR.

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

Huge validation for Self's proof-of-human (PoH) offering !

[Self @selfxyz]

NEWS: The @USAT Mainnet Faucet, built by Self and @GoogleCloud, is live!

Verified humans can claim USA₮, the US Dollar stablecoin issued by @Anchorage and supported by @Tether, on @Celo.

Prove your Self, claim your free USA₮

[jacob ۞ @jehovahscript]

BTW this means you can use Instinct to prompt inject other people's Instinct

passwords, SMS OTP, etc. etc.

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

👀

[Ultraviolet @UVcredit]

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been trialling CreditLine with @minipay users.

- Open CreditLine in MiniPay.
- Get an approved credit limit in seconds.
- Borrow USDT directly to your balance.

We’re opening early access to more people now. Sign up at https://t.co/jATB8ssw4P.

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

@uv_jacob looks super cool 🔥

[edidiongumana.gwei(devrel arc) @defimessiah1]

I'm at an AI Summit today, and randomly the guy beside me is using @minipay.

I couldn’t contain my excitement. I tapped him, introduced myself, and he said he’s been using MiniPay for 2 years and 6 months to send money to his business partners in Kenya and other African countries. He proudly showed me his transaction history. I asked if he loves the new UI. He said yes and spent 15 minutes during the networking session explaining how MiniPay helped him build trust with his global partners and clients through instant payments and little to no fees.

Happy Birthday MiniPay, keep connecting the world! 🎂

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

@nikitabier that's why are building @selfxyz

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

ASI is coming.

I worry so is PHS:
Peak Human Stupidity.

[RWA Foundation @RWAFoundation_]

Stablecoin holder growth by chain, past 24 hours.

@BNBCHAIN added 107,500 new holders, more than every other chain combined.

@Celo 29,300, @Ethereum 13,800, @Arbitrum One 13,500.

@Arc showed up with 9,900 in its first weeks.

Data via: @tokenterminal.

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

@Celo @minipay @opera 🙌 let's go!

[Celo @Celo]

NEWS: @MiniPay has crossed 20,000,000 activated wallets!

Three years since its launch, the global dollar wallet supports 70+ countries with 75+ Mini Apps for savings, utility payments, shopping & more

Built by @Opera, only on @Celo

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

@PeteCooling @atumhq Congrats @petecooling!

[Nikesh Arora @nikesharora]

This will be a bigger battle than anyone anticipates. It is only a matter of time before there is an Apple and Google version of Muse and possibly TikTok, in addition to the frontier LLM agents. Maybe a commerce agent from Amazon.

Every app that is a services, marketplace or commerce app will need to existentially decide to open APIs for consumer agents to interact. Smaller players have no choice. Ad revenues are more than transaction fees, either the consumer benefits or distribution aggregators will demand a higher transaction fare.

I know I don't want an agent for each app. I would like my agent to be able to do tasks I require. We can already see consumers getting trained on that behavior by the frontier labs.

Those with network moats - restaurants, groceries, drivers might be able to withstand for a while, over time convenience and end user experience will win and they will have to align. Content moats (protected by copyright) could decide to allow agents or chose to hold on to the consumer interaction. I suspect other than the feeling of a lack of control, it won't change their economics.

Commoditized back ends will need to worry, insurance, tickets, hotels, services - if they don't adapt new players will.

[TBPN @tbpn]

.@vkhosla's prediction for the two moats of personal AI:

1. A company you can trust with your data
2. A tool that actually gets the job done

“I believe the moat will be trust in a company that develops trust with consumers. And that’s where Meta has a huge disadvantage.”

“I also think completion is going to be really important. Consumers will be loyal to products that get their shit done."

“If you can get all my stuff done, I’ll be loyal to you.”

[Pritak @prit4k]

Instinct just admitted it leaked someone else's data to me

It described a financial document with details that weren’t mine, then claimed someone else’s photo had crossed into my chat.

But I never sent a photo

@noahrshinn, was this a data leak or a hallucination?

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

https://t.co/wExX3WyCoV

[Nael @nael_idrx]

we’ve been running a lot of A/B tests over the past month around large-size onchain FX with institutional-grade rates

over the last few days, we pushed it further with @Celo and @Textileprotocol

thee results have been very, very good

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

@lizwessel same
think a lot of people feel that way btw

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

@gakonst doesn't have to be

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

@cduffus clever .. send link to time faucet pls 😂

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

What's the coolest thing you've bought via an AI assistant / agent?

[marek.gwei @marek_]

Some exciting recent @Celo community highlights:

🇮🇩 @IDRX_co launches regulated Indonesia’s Rupiah stablecoin $IDRX, Backed 1:1 by Rupiah reserves & bonds on Celo 💪
🟨 Celo's native x402 facilitator now supports agents to transact with @RipioHQ $wARS, $wBRL and $wCOP and becomes the first chain to support local currency agentic payments in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia
📲 @MiniPay celebrates 3 years with 18M+ users across 66 countries, 70+ Mini Apps, 541M+ transactions and a @Visa card with 5% cashback 🥳
🎁 @Squidrouter, @MiniQuizxyz, and Melorize offer MiniApp promotions to celebrate @MiniPay anniversary
🪪 @Selfxyz and @GoogleCloud’s @USAT Mainnet Faucet offers $2 to verified humans for the next 7,500 claims
🏛️ @MarkusMento attends @TheStablecon week, joining @Circle, @Anchorage, @TraceFinance, @YellowCard_App, @Solana and others to speak on the GENIUS Act and the future of U.S. stablecoin regulation
🧶 @TextileProtocol closes the week at $14m+ in total tx volume with 500+ active participants
🦑 @SquidRouter launches app[dot]squidrouter[dot]com[/]celo now supports deeper swaps into $CELO, @Tether USD₮, XAUt0, @USAT and 40+ assets on Celo
🌍 @WIB_Africa announces partnership with Celo to create more blockchain and web3 opportunities for women across Africa
🟠 @Prezenti_Grants keeps Season 3 open with Anchor Pool grants up to $25K for teams showing real usage and Frontier Pool support for AI and agent infrastructure
☝️ @HiSaluto, a @MiniPay MiniApp launches and surpasses 5k users in one day
👷 @CeloDevs Agents at Work hackathon continues with builders shipping real utility across tracks focused on value moved and adoption

What did I miss?

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

Not a joke btw

[Deedy @deedydas]

Most people are wrong here. It IS actually possible to communicate between two airgapped computers with temperature changes, but the data transfer rate is too slow (1-8b/hr) to be effective.

The underlying point Noam makes is true though: there are a deluge of crazy airgapped comms techniques like EM emanations from DRAM clocks that get a lot faster (300kbps).

This isn’t sci-fi. We vastly underestimate what AI can do with perfect knowledge of all of this literature.

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

agi researcher: two air-gapped machines could communicate via CPU temperature changes

everyone else: spent 40 minutes trying to send a high res photo from an iPhone to an Android

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change

"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."

"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."

"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."

"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."

"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."
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Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: https://t.co/uGBDtpmLBj