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480 side events? Are you ready?
TOKEN2049 has 480 side events next week. Always hard to know where they are and which to hit first.
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Conduit Labs is hiring 🤖
→ Community Managers
→ Partnership Managers
→ KOLs
Coordination layer for autonomous agents.
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River Financial is hiring a remote Client Operations Associate, posted by @hashtag_web3 🙌
River Financial is hiring Client Operations Associate - Remote
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Who's going to @token2049 ? 👀
The best alpha at @token2049 is shared over drinks not panels.
We're hosting both just to be safe 🍻
Join us on Oct 7 for a happy hour at The ether․fi Lounge
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Don't miss @SolanaSummitOrg and see BEN alum @gal_stern speak!
Who distributes the next trillion in stablecoins: the banks, or crypto natives?
@debridge, @Tether_APAC and @ontanetwork debate it on stage, moderated by @AlliumLabs.
Tue 6 Oct at The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore 👇
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6 weeks ago @stoplosswang compared gold's current price action to 1980. Called the breakout, then said expect a shakeout that clears the weak hands. That shakeout just happened. Gold retraced back into its previous range.
Now the question is, how low can it trade while still being in the range? She says:
▫️ $3,959 is the 3-month support. The level holding this together.
▫️ $3,942 is where price can deviate to. Below that, the range is broken.
▫️ $3,859 is the monthly Classic S2, the next real support if $3,959 doesn’t hold.
▫️ $3,500 is the level where she is going all in on buying digital and physical gold.
If the 1980 comparison still holds, this is the shakeout before eventual continuation higher.
🔥 Trade XAU on sai.fun/perps/usd/XAU
Is gold about to run back 1980's playbook?
Downward-sloping trendline, breakout, short push higher. That's where we're at right now. Is a retrace before the next push higher on gold's bingo card?
In the video, @stoplosswang breaks down the levels.
Trade $XAU long or short on Sai.
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3 days until Season 1 closes.
Points convert to USDC trading credit shortly after October 4th. Whatever you've stacked, this is the window to add to it.
One more tier reached this week is one more multiplier on the whole season.
🔥 Trade on app.sai.fun/?ref=SEASON1
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@jadoodoo won the @joinfrontier semifinals longing near:native
@TO won the @SaiDotFun BTC pizza day shorting near:native
Polarizing outcomes 😅
JADOODOO just locked in ~$40K P&L longing $NEAR.
That reaction says it all. 😂
Green on screen means nothing until it's realized.
We're looking for the next JADOODOO on Sai. 👀
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"We are a bit late. The cryptographic community has been raising the alarms for years."
Episode 6 of The Post-Quantum Experience is now live, with Tommaso Gagliardoni, founder of Lucumo Security and cryptography research team lead at @HorizenLabs.
From government deadlines and falling qubit estimates to forged signatures, Satoshi's coins and the biggest myths in quantum security, hear from a cryptographer who's been working on this since 2011.
Watch 👇
Quantum 101: Shor's algorithm breaks the signatures that secure most wallets today.
NIST has already published replacements.
Blockchains are the hardest case, because no one can force them to migrate."
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🧠 Zero Knowledge may be the most powerful idea in modern cryptography: proving something is true without revealing anything behind it
Want to hear a brilliant analogy for it, from one of the godfathers of modern ZK technology?
@EliBenSasson explains 👇
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Tesla pushed its Roadster reveal from October 1 to October 15 because of severe weather at the SpaceX test site in Texas, where the event has to be held outdoors. It's the latest delay for a car first unveiled in 2017 and originally promised for 2020.
The bigger news came in a filing the same day. Tesla lined up $30B in new credit: a $20B delayed-draw term loan, an $8B five-year revolver, and a $2B 364-day revolver, replacing an old $5B line. The money is earmarked for AI compute, solar cell manufacturing, and a chip fab with @SpaceX. @elonmusk says the two companies are aiming for 200 GW of solar production a year.
@Tesla says nothing is drawn yet and it doesn't plan to tap these lines in 2026. But analysts still expect negative free cash flow of $9.78B, so it's clear the buildout isn't cheap.
Between Q3 deliveries this week and the Roadster on October 15, $TSLA has plenty of catalysts lined up.
🔥 Trade $TSLA on sai.fun/perps/usd/TSLA
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And now @OpenAI just launched Decisions API
I think OpenAI has been outpacing Claude in developments and features
For me it's been the best model for coding and infra, and for third-party integrations
Although I find that its usage limits run out the fastest
Dots are here. Always-on AI agents from @OpenAI that learn how you work and keep researching after you log off.
Traders, here's what dot does:
▫️ Runs on GPT-6 Astra
▫️ Connects to 4,000+ apps
▫️ Researches in the background
▫️ Remembers context across ChatGPT, Slack and voice
You can set it up to run your overnight macro recap, earnings prep and journal review. Ready before the open.
@ChatGPT also dropped:
▫️ GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra power at 1/5 the price
▫️ ChatGPT Space: live docs with charts and dashboards
▫️ Codex in the cloud: build and test strategies from your phone
AI builds the plan. Execution is still yours. What would you hand off to your dot first?
Then trade it on Sai.
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Traders are the new celebs
The ones who actually use these crypto products that everyone builds and KOLs promote
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I'm always fascinated by how these markets stay interconnected
Oil moving chipmaker prices
Partnerships having a sizeable effect on charts even for trillion dollar markets
And the general uptrend as AI eats everything
Physical AI integrates machine learning models with sensors, actuators, and physical systems.
That means robots and factories are going to get even smarter
$AMD is making an $8.2B bet on physical AI.
The chipmaker agreed to buy @theworldlabs, Fei-Fei Li’s AI lab.
The thesis is simple, understand the models powering robotics and simulated worlds. Build the chips those models need.
@AMD was up 1.4% premarket. On Trade or Fade, we caught a long scalp when price pulled back to VWAP, then exited as oil started creeping higher.
A $720 analyst price target adds to the bull case.
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In 2022, SIKE was one of the post-quantum schemes still in NIST's process. Two researchers broke it in about an hour, on a single ordinary computer.
No quantum computer needed.
That's the half of the story most people miss. The machine coming for today's cryptography is one threat. Some of the replacements not making it is the other.
@EliBenSasson is right that some families are far more conservative than others. But no chain should bet its whole future on any one of them.
The chains that last won't be the ones that picked the perfect algorithm. They'll be the ones built to change it.
🤖 If AI starts breaking cryptography, what's left standing?
@EliBenSasson, co-founder of @StarkWareLtd, believes STARKs will be among the last.
The most scalable form of zero-knowledge, built on the safest post-quantum maths.
Hear why 👇
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Q-Day 2028?
The goalposts keep getting shorter:
2019: 20 million qubits to break RSA-2048
2025: under 1 million
March 2026: under 500,000 to break the elliptic curve signatures behind Bitcoin and Ethereum
September 2026: around 20,000, in IonQ's latest blueprint
Every new paper has moved Q-Day closer. Not one has pushed it further away.
If it lands in 2028, that's about two years to move every wallet, exchange and protocol onto new cryptography.
That is not a long time for one of the most complex engineering challenges of our time.
That's why we built @NaoXprotocol post-quantum from its first block, with every transaction signed using ML-DSA, NIST's post-quantum signature standard.
Quantum ready.
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Insane imagery aside, obfuscation is the best method left to have real privacy
People did the same to Google, sending random amounts of dummy searches for every real search so Google couldn’t build a reliable profile on them
BREAKING: American man accused of kidnapping Flock camera, "digitally waterboarding" it by subjecting it to 23,040 license plates per second via six 4K monitors rapidly flashing images of plates.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post frames a self-posted satirical video as "BREAKING" news of a real kidnapping accusation and "digital waterboarding." The creator filmed a joke skit with a Flock camera he states he legally acquired.
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I thought Swift would get disrupted, but looks like instead they are making a strong blockchain play:
The @swiftcommunity ledger is a permissioned, EVM-compatible chain.
It uses @chainlink and runs on Hyperledger Besu, the Ethereum client that @Consensys built and that also powers @LineaBuild.
It has no native token. Swift's ledger coordinates 24/7 transfers of banks' tokenized deposits, and final settlement still goes through existing rails.
Swift connects over 11,500 financial institutions in more than 200 countries 🔃
"This time last year, I stood on the Sibos stage in Frankfurt and said we would deliver a blockchain-based ledger. And I know I caught some people by surprise. Swift and blockchain? TradFi and DeFi? Could they really go together? Can Swift really pull it off?
Twelve months later, the Swift ledger is live and in use by some of the world's largest financial institutions.
By the end of the year, we will have at least 19 banks using it across 5 major currencies to power 24/7 payments using tokenised deposits."
— Javier Pérez-Tasso, Swift’s CEO, Sibos 2026