Whoa, this would be a big deal if it happens
NEW: OpenAI is in early talks to acquire security firm Trail of Bits, according to The Information, a move that could accelerate the AI firm's cybersecurity business.
Founded in 2012, Trail of Bits has a long track record of reviewing Web3 systems — including smart contracts, nodes, bridges, DeFi protocols, and governance — for clients such as Uniswap and Aave.
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The first Bitcoin bond is sold out.
Every institutional partner in the Genesis Bond, UTXO Management, 21shares, and HashKey Cloud, maxed out their capacity allocations.
230 BTC enrolled, 20M STX extra staked this cycle.
Tomorrow: 3% on BTC, paid in BTC, 6-month term. More 👇
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Think of it like @Stacks opening the first Bitcoin savings account.
Institutions locked 230 BTC for six months. They still control their Bitcoin, but they cannot move it during that period. In return, they earn around 3% per year, paid weekly in Bitcoin.
$STX works like the security deposit needed to open the account. The more Bitcoin institutions want to lock, the more STX also needs to be locked. This creates real demand and utility for STX.
The first account completely sold out according to @muneeb. Every institutional partner took the maximum allocation available. This shows there is demand, so the next bond will likely be much bigger.
The bigger vision is to make this 3% yield the standard savings rate for Bitcoin. If you want to earn more than that, you would need to take more risk.
For @TheFastPool, this could bring more users, $STX, and activity into the Stacks ecosystem.
The only thing to watch is that Bitcoin bondholders get paid first, while regular STX stackers earn from what remains.
Data from the first-ever bitcoin bond is in:
- Demand side sold out! Every institutional partner maxed out their capacity allocation. 21Shares, Nakamoto (through UTXO), and HashKey among early partners.
- 230 BTC enrolled in bonds. They start earning 3% BTC yield starting tomorrow! Weekly automated payments in BTC.
- New STX proportional to 230 BTC (so approx 11.5 BTC worth of STX got locked for 6 months for the bonds). We saw 20M additional STX locked from the last cycle. More STX locked is generally a healthy sign for network growth and holders.
- Next bond in roughly 4 weeks (around Oct 10). We’ll likely release larger bitcoin capacity for bond 2. This bond was limited in size to test out institutional flows on the live product. Several great learnings from working with institutional partners to help polish the UX for the next bond.
We believe this yield can become a “fed rate” equivalent for bitcoin. A $100B-$200B potential market for BTC that can earn yield in a self-custodial way.
More importantly, such a native yielding product sends flows into onchain bitcoin capital markets on Stacks. We already saw this with bond 1, where DeFi apps like Zest and pools like Fast Pool and Xverse saw increased traffic.
The value accrual to STX dynamics is now live, and proof is onchain with locked STX.
Now we scale it with capital flows. Forward!
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This little dot is Earth about 6 Billion kilometers away (3.7 billion miles) taken by Voyager 1, as it was leaving our solar system. Launched 5 Sept 1977
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“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I joined Bloomberg @crypto to discuss Strategy's return to buying Bitcoin, building a fortress balance sheet, MSCI’s index proposal, and equity market demand for Bitcoin. $MSTR
00:24 - Back to buying bitcoin:native and why the decision was not price-driven
00:43 - Fortress balance sheet: $72B of assets, $65B of Bitcoin, $7B USD Assets, and zero net debt
02:32 - Two-way capital management: net Bitcoin accumulation and operating company discipline
04:02 - Buying through the bull market: $80K, $100K, $130K, and beyond
04:39 - MSCI proposal: digital assets as operating assets and why the principle matters more than the index flow impact
07:24 - Dividend resilience: zero net leverage, USD Reserve, and equity capital flexibility
08:19 - $20B of equity capital raised, #4 issuer in the US, and continued demand for Bitcoin Treasuries
May it serve humanity well for many years to come
Beating swords into plowshares- NASA just launched a telescope whose 2.4-meter mirror was originally built to spy on Earth.
In 2012 the National Reconnaissance Office donated two unused Hubble-sized telescope assemblies that had been sitting in a warehouse after a canceled spy-satellite program.
NASA took one, pointed it the other way, and built an entire new observatory around it.
The result is Roman: same mirror size as Hubble, but a field of view more than 100 times larger. It will survey the sky in infrared looking for dark energy, map millions of galaxies, and hunt exoplanets with a coronagraph.
Today it lifted off on a Falcon Heavy and already deployed its solar arrays and sun shades. From classified reconnaissance hardware to cosmic survey machine in one donation.
The universe just got a very expensive second life. ☮️
I don’t always visit the “For You” tab but when I do it’s for exactly 90 seconds. It’s either that or be there for 90 minutes.
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“But the beauty is in the walking—we are betrayed by destinations.”
— Gwyn Thomas
Happy to see my old friend $GUS barking again! I was there when he was born, about the same time as $Leo!
I love all my old #Stacks animal friends. Can’t forget $Max the stacks duck either! @stacksduck
blockstack:native
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Bitcoin’s next phase may not be just about price appreciation
It could be about making idle BTC productive
That’s one reason I’m paying more attention to Stacks and the role $STX could play as Bitcoin Staking develops
Stacks is building a system that allows BTC holders to potentially earn BTC-denominated yield while keeping their BTC secured on Bitcoin
The interesting part is what sits underneath it
$STX is connected to the staking architecture, meaning growth in Bitcoin Staking could create a new source of utility and demand for STX
There’s also a liquid staking angle through stBTC, which could make staked Bitcoin more flexible across the Stacks ecosystem
The ecosystem already has meaningful activity, with Stacks reporting 1.6M+ cumulative users and billions in cumulative transaction activity across its applications
So I’m not looking at $STX simply as another Bitcoin beta trade
The bigger question is
What happens if Bitcoin becomes a productive asset at scale and Stacks becomes one of the networks helping enable it?
Bitcoin Staking mainnet is the catalyst I’m watching next
Not a price prediction, just a fundamental setup worth researching
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ChatGPT Work can now use its computer and browser to sign in to websites on web and mobile, without ChatGPT ever seeing your username or password.
That means you can ask it to:
• Set up utilities for a new apartment
• Book a DMV or passport appointment
• Check reimbursement costs through your insurance
• Find and book an in-network doctor around your availability
• Check when your car registration expires and prepare the renewal paperwork
• Compare your rental insurance policy with an issue you’re emailing your landlord about
• Find and save apartment listings that match your criteria
• Restock something just by uploading a photo
• Schedule a package pickup for a return
• Cancel tickets for a rescheduled trip
• Book a vet appointment
• Submit reimbursement paperwork for medical treatments
• Check resale sites for new drops and save things you might like
• Find candidates with specific experience and draft outreach
• Take invoices from your email and submit them to your accounting software
• Draft replies to rental property inquiries
• Fill out permit applications for your small business
• Add action items to a vendor portal based on a recent client call
• Analyze the latest ad campaign for your small business
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Cross-chain swaps are live on Obsidian.
10 networks. One swap interface.
Cronos, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Robinhood Chain, Optimism, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Linea.
Pick your token, pick your network, sign once. You receive the exact token you chose on the chain you chose, wherever a compatible route exists. No manual bridge, no second app.
Every route shows expected output and estimated arrival before you sign, so you know what lands and when.
Also shipping:
• Cronos Bubble maps powered by SleuthX
• Destination gas included on eligible swaps
• Unified token catalog with pricing, 24h moves and volume across every network
• Points on cross-chain and non-Cronos swaps, one combined leaderboard, NFT boosts still apply
• Analytics V2: 24h / 7d / 30d / all-time, network filters, live swap feed, personal volume and rank
The sharpest edge in Cronos DeFi now cuts everywhere else.
ALT Obsidian Finance announcement graphic on a near-black background. On the left, ten labeled routes for Cronos, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Robinhood Chain, Optimism, BNB Chain, Avalanche and Linea converge from left to right into the Obsidian logo, a black coin with a white ring and a black hexagon center, lit with an electric blue halo. The Cronos route is highlighted in blue. A single blue beam exits the right side of the logo toward the headline, which reads "10 networks. One interface." Below it: same-chain and cross-chain swaps from one place, now live. Three smaller items read destination gas included, unified token catalog, and Analytics V2.
Reminder that you can turn off engagement buttons and numbers from posts on your timeline. I love that feature, makes the app much less cluttered.
If you click into a post and open it then you’ll see the normal engagement numbers and buttons, just not on your timelines.
"Botnets" are cool but if you add an "RO" in front, it changes the meaning in a pretty dystopian/scary way
Remote code vulnerability found in Unitree robots and the scary part is that the exploit is wormable. That means one compromised robot could infect other vulnerable robots nearby, turning a single breach into a wide compromise. Could attackers then take control of entire fleets of humanoid robots? boschko.ca/unitree-go2-rce/
Hey Max! How is the coolest duck ever liking this blockstack:native rally? It’s time to wake up don’t you think?
😎🦆 @stacksduck