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Curated articles, my blog posts, and site announcements.
Curated articles, my blog posts, and site announcements.
A joint article from Baillie Gifford Digital Assets and Aave Labs on turning tokenized assets into productive, compliant collateral: the mechanism, the opportunity, and what it takes to get there.
Claude Code now supports mods that change how it behaves, customize the UI, or swap in features. Write one with a few lines of TypeScript or have Claude build it; mods ship inside plugins installed with /plugin.
e2e is a fully open source agentic testing framework. Mix deterministic and agentic APIs, supports web and mobile, brings your own agent and infrastructure, and runs locally or in CI.
The statue of Prometheus was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase in 100 days. Atelier Missor plans to start building a new city in a few months.

Accountable introduces Protocol Transparency Ratings: any Proof of Solvency dashboard can now be graded by RockawayX based on how much protocols choose to showcase, making disclosure levels visible and comparable.
DHH argues writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies, but the future of making software has never been brighter.
One step closer to 4-8x faster Ethereum finality: a formally verified proposal for a decoupled consensus protocol in I*, a future Ethereum upgrade, covering key consensus-relevant details.
Cosign is a curated professional network for the startup community, with a startup directory, a Cosign graph of who you worked with and who shaped your career, and durable reputation that attaches great endorsements instead of letting them disappear into the feed.
Vitalik Buterin lays out the true meaning of what is planned for Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota: a hybrid architecture combining blockchains and modern cryptography, covering FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, and advanced mempool improvements.

EXO Labs published the DGX Spark Handbook, a guide for running inference locally on NVIDIA DGX Spark.

Praxis met with President Yamandu Orsi to discuss Praxis Uruguay.
TACEO Merces is live as the privacy layer for onchain finance, with bank infrastructure, asset managers, and cross-chain protocols already integrating.
In 12 weeks C5R built a research facility run entirely by AI: AI designs, executes, and observes experiments end-to-end across biology, chemistry, and materials science. SciUniverse benchmarks AI ability to do real-world scientific research.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says KYC should collect less personal data and use zero-knowledge proofs to verify compliance without revealing names, income, or addresses.
ChatGPT Voice can now use plugins like email, calendar, and Slack, be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile. Rolling out globally today.
Claude found a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA with a CRISPR-like repeating structure. Only a handful of known systems share its features, all able to cut, copy, and paste DNA; much more work remains.
BitZ by Remco Bloemen and collaborators is now public. It combines boolean and integer relations with free range checks and efficient binary field commitments, so proof systems are no longer tied to a particular finite field, and it exceeded expectations on real world tasks.
Grok 4.7 is here, a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed.
X posts a short teaser: timeline, ticker, trade.
L2BEAT shipped a new feature that answers who each tracked privacy protocol is private from, against 5 different adversaries.
One engineer and a team of agents ported the GitHub Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines of production code while retaining code quality.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open weights models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 46, landing on the Intelligence vs Cost per Task Pareto frontier at $0.13 per task.
MiMo-V2.6 Pro performs on par with Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks, scores 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest among open-source models, with open weights, technical report, and RL environments released.
Erik Torenberg introduces The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.
Claude Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.
OpenAI proposes that the US lead a standards effort to give people outside AI labs a real say in how the technology develops, prevent concentration of power, and help countries and companies compare evidence and learn from failures.
Nethermind Client 2.0.0 changes how the node stores Ethereum state: archive nodes drop from ~30 TB to ~2 TB, users choose the history to keep, and blocks process 2-3x faster on a fresh node. Breaking changes; read the notes before upgrading.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna both launch today with API prices 50% lower than GPT-5.6. Build with Sol, scale with Luna.

Praxis is building a new city in Uruguay. Construction has begun and residents move in 2027.
Mio is an AI employee the whole team shares, in beta since July. It has saved teams thousands of hours and completed tens of thousands of tasks, with $100 free credits for the first 100 companies.
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