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Marathon Fusion: mercury to gold at 10x CERN record, isotope enrichment, fusion reactor in SF✨ FRESH

Marathon Fusion demonstrated high-rate alchemy turning mercury into stable gold, beating CERN record by 10x; enriched isotopes in the world most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating a 40-year Soviet record; and is building a fusion reactor in San Francisco for record power density.

Published Oct 21, 2026Marathon FusionResearch

a16z Frontier: expanding the new fund beyond crypto to frontier startups✨ FRESH

a16z is expanding the scope of its new fund beyond crypto startups to the broader category of frontier startups building new technologies and creating markets.

Published Oct 22, 2026Chris DixonFunding

Category Labs proposes Scheduled Transactions: letting contracts act on their own✨ FRESH

Design note on scheduled transactions for smart contracts, so contracts can act at a later time on their own.

Published Oct 22, 2026Category LabsInfrastructure

1Password for Agents platform: control over what personal AI agents can access✨ FRESH

1Password for Agents builds with companies including Muse, SpaceX Super Intelligence Grok, Anthropic, OpenAI, Town, Browserbase, Browser Use, Perplexity, Ramp, Tomo, and wojo, giving users the same trust and ease of use they get with 1Password directly.

Published Oct 22, 20261PasswordProduct

Kimi K3.1 Pro: Moonshot most capable 3T-class open-weight model✨ FRESH

Kimi K3.1 Pro has 1M-token context, 2.8T total and 104B active params in an MoE, is multimodal, excels at full-project coding and parametric 3D modeling, and cuts financial hallucination by 65%. K3.1 Pro Highspeed runs 2-3x faster.

Published Oct 23, 2026KimiAI

ETHPrague returns May 28-30, 2027, fully committed to hackathon and builders✨ FRESH

ETHPrague returns for its 6th year on May 28-30, 2027: three days in Prague to hack, experiment, and explore Ethereum and AI.

Published Oct 23, 2026

ETHPraguePortfolioGeneral

OpenAI releases new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model

OpenAI is releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model, informed by advice from the Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Published Oct 6, 2026OpenAIResearch

GPT-6 and Intelligent UI rolling out in ChatGPT for everyone

Intelligent UI in ChatGPT delivers fast, interactive answers that make everyday questions more visual, complex topics easier to grasp, and interactive tools available on the spot.

Published Oct 7, 2026OpenAIAI

Muse Wonder: new family of frontier models from Meta✨ FRESH

Meta introduces Muse Wonder, a new family of frontier models with state of the art performance for personal and professional agentic work.

Published Oct 12, 2026Mark ZuckerbergAI

Magnetar from Microsoft Research: the first general-purpose, post-quantum zkVM✨ FRESH

Magnetar is the first zkVM that is general purpose (RV64), post-quantum from standard hashes alone, and built for recursion. It is the fastest zkVM at 7.2-8.7 MHz on a laptop, 10-39x faster than existing zkVMs across 15 workloads.

Published Oct 15, 2026Srinath SettyResearch

Aztec announces post-quantum roadmap: fully post-quantum by end of 2030✨ FRESH

Aztec is highly quantum resistant today and defends against harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks. Migrating to a fully post-quantum system is a major challenge the protocol is prepared for, targeting full post-quantum security by the end of 2030.

Published Oct 15, 2026ZacResearch

Category Labs introduces Monad Private SettlementHiring7

Monad Private Settlement enables an onchain financial ecosystem where enterprises can run entire business processes onchain and interact on the open Monad network.

Published Oct 6, 2026Category Labs

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Tokenisation Was the Easy Part: Baillie Gifford and Aave Labs on tokenized assets as collateral

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.

Published Sep 30, 2026Baillie Gifford Digital AssetsDeFi

Claude Code can now be modded: change behavior, customize UI, swap in features

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.

Published Oct 1, 2026ClaudeDevsProduct

e2e: the agentic testing framework for any app

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.

Published Oct 1, 2026OskarProduct

Prometheus statue finished: Atelier Missor plans to build a new city

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.

Published Oct 2, 2026Atelier MissorGeneral

Accountable introduces Protocol Transparency RatingsHiring1

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.

Published Oct 1, 2026

AccountablePortfolioProduct

DHH: writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers

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.

Published Sep 24, 2026DHHAI

Formally verified proposal for decoupled consensus in a future Ethereum upgrade

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.

Published Sep 25, 2026FrancescoResearch

Erik Torenberg introduces Cosign, a curated professional network for startups

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.

Published Sep 25, 2026Erik TorenbergProduct

The cryptographic world computer: what is coming to Ethereum after HegotaHiring17

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.

Published Sep 27, 2026Vitalik Buterin

WorldPortfolioResearch

EXO Labs publishes the DGX Spark Handbook

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

Published Sep 25, 2026

ExoPortfolioProduct

Praxis meets with President Yamandu Orsi to discuss Praxis Uruguay

Praxis met with President Yamandu Orsi to discuss Praxis Uruguay.

Published Sep 25, 2026

PraxisPortfolioGeneral

TACEO Merces, the privacy layer for onchain finance, is live

TACEO Merces is live as the privacy layer for onchain finance, with bank infrastructure, asset managers, and cross-chain protocols already integrating.

Published Sep 24, 2026TACEOInfrastructure

C5R builds a research facility run entirely by AI, introduces SciUniverse benchmark

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.

Published Sep 24, 2026C5R CORPAI

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce: KYC should use zero-knowledge proofs instead of personal data

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.

Published Sep 24, 2026Solid IntelCrypto

ChatGPT Voice gains plugins, GPT-6 Astra/Sol/Luna models, and Work support

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.

Published Sep 23, 2026OpenAIProduct

Claude discovers a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in bacteriophage DNA

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.

Published Sep 23, 2026AnthropicResearch

BitZ: field-agnostic proving system combining boolean and integer relationsHiring17

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.

Published Sep 23, 2026Remco