degen.web

Science, Art and Tech Systems

[degen.web @validateweb3]

automation and SDLC

[Paul Solt @PaulSolt]

Build an iOS app this weekend!

Install one of these skills to make the UI look good.

And teach Codex how to make apps.

[Dami-Defi @DamiDefi]

Claude thinks. Obsidian remembers. Hermes acts. Kimi finds. Cursor builds.Five tools.

Five distinct capabilities. None of them redundant.

One coordinated stack that compounds every layer into the next.

The full build with exact prompts and setups is in the article.

[DevDanny👨‍💻 @dannyclassi_c]

I built an open-source Opus Clip. (extending snag now called clipreator)

Paste a YouTube link → get viral-ready short clips with:
- AI picks the best 30-90s moments
- Auto vertical crop (9:16)
- Dead space removal
- Word-by-word captions

Go + Whisper + Claude + ffmpeg

https://t.co/kqNSiE5uO9

[degen.web @validateweb3]

Wow! I have clicky tooo

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

My son has been using this and loves it.

[WorldofAI @intheworldofai]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI's Codex is now completely FREE to run locally with Ollama.

No API costs. No rate limits. 100% private on your machine.

You can now use both the Codex App and Codex CLI with powerful open-source models like DeepSeek V4, Gemma 4, and Qwen 3.6.

Here's how to set it up in minutes:

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES..

THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!!

The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing"..

It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point..

Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume"..

Every single firm said yes..

Here's what they recorded..

Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume"..

When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200"..

$200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume..

MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera..

"We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit"..

He said that on a recorded FBI video call..

CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely..

ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic..

All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded..

And the clients were even worse..

Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors..

$7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic..

One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook..

Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything..

When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture..

But here's the part that broke my brain..

Real people bought NexFundAI..

The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish..

When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token..

The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back..

And it gets worse..

Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day..

Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for..

Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore..

IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular..

The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected..

The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured..

And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.

[Marlene Mhangami @marlene_zw]

I genuinely thought no one was recording😂 Shocked to see this online, but here's the workshop from yesterday's Code with Claude event!

[degen.web @validateweb3]

Chess + AI, what happening here?

Teaching and learning?

[Antoine @TROOVY]

Introducing Hanta Virus

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

[Humble @Officialhumbl1]

HOW TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON OUTLIER

One thing is to create an account, another thing is to pass the onboarding quest

Here's a proven step-by-step method to open an account, success rate is high when done carefully.

I started OutlierAi early February and have made over $5K+

[z80.wei 👌☀️👌 @0xz80]

@hudsonjameson there is no local model that will meet the bar you should have for an ai assistant

[Andreas Bigger @andreaslbigger]

Introducing Edge, a high level, strongly statically typed, multi-paradigm domain specific language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
https://t.co/jaGrutMEqM

[Alex Kehr @alexkehr]

hot take: any software engineer who is not already at close to 100% ai coding output should be cut within the next 3 months

not only are they inefficient, but they’ve also shown a lack of curiosity and willingness to learn

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Did Apple just kill every iOS vibe coding app?

Apple just dropped Xcode 26.3 with agentic coding.

Claude Code + Codex are now built into Xcode.

And with MCP support.

[njokuscript.um @njokuScript]

It may seem like we're new to prediction markets, but I built the first crypto up or down market 5 years ago fully onchain and 100% verifiable using @chainlink price feeds.

This is why we're far ahead on engineering and product. I've always believed prediction markets would become an asset class. We're building the infrastructure to make that happen @ultramarketsxyz .

[Harri @Harri_obi]

As soon as I saw Paystack’s announcement about exploring stablecoins, I instinctively started making calls. Then reality kicked in; Paystack is part of Stripe, and Stripe is already charting its own stablecoin path with Tempo.

On to the next opportunity. Crypto is inevitable.

[degen.web @validateweb3]

Best time to ship is now!

[?!. @Iam_Dwiiight]

Seasons Greetings Everyone,

We’ve been working on a project for a while now, and we’d love to share it with you.

As it grows from its infant stage into maturity, we welcome you to journey with us.

Secure X: https://t.co/NFOknsU1Wj

[?!. @Iam_Dwiiight]

Seasons Greetings Everyone,

We’ve been working on a project for a while now, and we’d love to share it with you.

As it grows from its infant stage into maturity, we welcome you to journey with us.

Secure X: https://t.co/NFOknsU1Wj