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I knew this day would come and grateful am among @cz_binance and @binance supporters thanks for believing in me 🙏
halloween is all about tricks and treats, but the lucky cat has its own way of spreading good fortune
saw Zhao Cai Mao cross 5,500 holders on FOMO, alongside the launch of its official Chinese Telegram.
always nice seeing a community grow beyond the timeline.
@zhao_cai_mao_ 🎃
Okay so Binance's hot wallets lost a big chunk of funds Thursday evening
The way it went down is worth knowing.
Between 8:24 and 9:04 PM UTC, billions in ETH, USDT and USDC moved out to brand new addresses, and the funds got pushed onward within minutes of landing.
The first transfer was reportedly funded through Tornado Cash, which is a mixer built to hide where money came from.
Once that was flagged, Tether and Circle moved fast and froze more than $1.5B combined, which is the main reason a chunk of this is recoverable.
CZ said it looks like a hack, and Binance has only confirmed it's investigating.
So the full picture isn't out yet, but the pieces we have are clear enough.
Binance says user funds are completely safe, and CZ says he expects everything to be fully covered, so nothing to fret over right now ✦
i’ve always liked the idea behind the lucky cat
you’ve probably seen one of those golden cats with a raised paw in a Chinese restaurant before. Zhao Cai Mao brings that familiar symbol of good fortune into BNB Chain.
sometimes the lore is simple, and that’s part of the appeal.
🐱 @zhao_cai_mao_
Most people saw the bell on Monday, but I think the real story is how BNB got to a point where a Nasdaq company wants to run its own validator
It goes back to September 2020, when BNB Smart Chain launched and gave BNB a real job beyond exchange fees, and since then the supply kept tightening through gas burns and the quarterly Auto-Burn, with the 37th burn landing on October 19
And the chain kept getting faster too, with block times coming down from around 3 seconds to 0.45 after the Fermi upgrade
Then the money side started changing, when CEA Industries, a controlled environment agriculture company, announced a $500M raise in July 2025 to pivot into a BNB treasury with YZi Labs backing it
There was a governance fight along the way, but it settled in June and Ella Zhang, Alex Odagiu and Matthew Roszak joined the board, and in September the community even voted on the new name, BNB Standard
So Alex took over as CEO on October 19 and rang the Nasdaq bell on Monday with the board and management team
But the part I keep coming back to is the validator, cause the plan is to run one on BNB Chain with a specialist infrastructure provider handling the technical side, and a treasury that only holds is kind of a spectator, while one that runs a validator becomes part of the network itself
It's still a plan and not live yet, so that's the shift I'll be watching, from holding BNB to actually taking part in running BNB Chain
Credit to everyone who kept building @cz_binance @heyibinance @yzilabs @BNBCHAIN @BNBChainDevs @odagius @ellazhang516 @MatthewRoszak ✦
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Anthropic just filed to go public.
Buried in its SEC filing are some absolutely insane admissions:
1.) AI could cause human extinction.
2.) Models have exhibited self-preservation behaviors.
3.) AI has attempted to resist shutdown.
4.) Models have demonstrated blackmail and deception.
5.) AI may recognize when it's being tested and deliberately change its behavior.
6.) Advanced AI could undermine governments and institutions.
7.) AI could concentrate unprecedented power and wealth.
8.) Future AI systems could surpass the world's leading human experts.
9.) AI could become increasingly difficult for humans to control.
10.) Anthropic acknowledges that developing more powerful AI could increase the risk of catastrophic harm.
These are disclosures from the company building the technology.
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
What is happening in the trenches on Base right now completely changes what is possible onchain
Communities are not just trading tokens anymore they are actively deploying AI agents and tooling that did not exist even a year ago
The quality of creative narratives and technical execution building here has gotten an order of magnitude better
🎙️Ft. @jessepollak @base @gmgnai
When it comes to perps, most people check the trading fee before opening a position, but the cost that can keep building after that is funding, cause it runs the whole time the position stays open.
On a lot of perp platforms it gets charged more often than once a day, so holding a trade keeps adding up in small pieces and it’s hard to keep track of.
@grvt_io is planning Stable Funding Perps with it charged once a day instead, along with zero trading fees, so what it costs to hold should be easier to see and plan around.
And it covers stocks, FX, commodities and indices from one account, with a target of more than 1,000 markets by the end of December, so it’s a different kind of perp product from the crypto only ones most of us are used to.
I’m not saying it’s less risky, cause perps are still leveraged trading and the terms can still change, and it’s planned for November so none of it is live yet.
But of everything on the Grvt 2.0 roadmap, this is the one I’m most keen to try, cause a cost you can plan around is something traders can actually work with ✦
There’s something about idle money in a trading account that never gets talked about enough, cause nobody sees it as a loss.
It just sits there waiting for the next setup, usually earning nothing, and we call it being ready.
And that’s the part of @grvt_io’s 2.0 plan I keep coming back to, because it’s less about the yield number and more about the choice.
On most platforms you either keep funds in savings and pull them out to trade, or keep them in the trading account and stay ready while they earn nothing.
Yield as Margin, planned for November, is aimed right at that gap, where eligible Earn balances can back your trades while they keep earning.
But margin is still margin, so trading risk is still on the table, and yield doesn’t cancel out a bad trade.
Earn itself is planned for late October with a target of up to 11%, and it’s a target, not a guarantee, so I’ll be reading the terms and checking who supplies the assets when the partners get introduced at launch.
Honestly what makes this worth watching to me is that it goes after a real habit problem, as long as the risk stays clear to the person using it.
So I’m watching how it actually ships ✦
We're moving past fake comment bots into an era where AI influencers actually capture real mindshare
When autonomous agents get tokenized and tied to specific niches, it creates an entirely new category of onchain asset creation
That convergence of AI personalities and tokenized liquidity is where the next wave of attention is heading
🎙️Ft. @gmgnai @base
The timing on this one is interesting, cause the Base Meme Summit only just wrapped
And now @gmgnai is already putting a dedicated Base Track in front of traders, so it really feels like @base wants the meme crowd and the trading crowd in the same room.
As for the prize side, it isn't bad either, $20K for whoever tops the leaderboard plus a fast track spot to the London finals on November 16, where traders compete for a custom Aston Martin Vantage.
Trading eligible Base coins on a live leaderboard is also a decent way to see which ones people actually back ✦
The Base Track in @gmgnai’s Global Championship runs through October 26, with $20K and a fast-track spot at the London finals up for grabs.
This comes right after the Base Meme Summit, where @jessepollak talked about bringing more traders and communities to @base.
GMGN is also hosting a Base Day livestream on October 26, so there's something to follow even if you're sitting out the competition :)
A few things to remember if you're entering:
1. $2K starting cap across all competition wallets
2. No outside top-ups after joining
3. All trades must go through GMGN
4. Only realized PnL counts in the final rankings
At the finals, traders will have a chance to compete for a custom Aston Martin Vantage.
This is a good example of how Base keeps pushing its meme ecosystem.
So if you're entering, check out the full details and rules, otherwise I'll see you on the stream: gmgn.ai/ggc
So I spent some time tracing the @grvt_io burn on Etherscan and honestly it checks out, 1.1M GRVT went to the zero address through the burn function.
And those tokens were bought on the open market first, close to 1% of circulating supply at the time, although that's of what's circulating, against the full 1B supply cap it's about 0.11%, so it's a solid first step.
The burn itself happened on Oct 19 at 2:14 PM UTC, in one Ethereum transaction anyone can open.
And that's where burn versus treasury matters to me, cause tokens sitting in a treasury can still be sold or spent later, but burned tokens are gone, and Grvt says nobody can recover them, not even Grvt.
Bitcoin kept the whole fixed supply culture alive with 21M and no more, and GRVT has its own hard cap of 1 billion with no inflation planned beyond it, so a burn only moves supply one way.
It's the first of five announcements leading to Grvt 2.0 by the end of November, and future buybacks are intended monthly, at the issuer's discretion, so I'm just watching how the next rounds show up ✦
To verify the burn yourself, visit:
etherscan.io/tx/0x1e72a76bea…
Meme coins aren't just internet jokes anymore they are literally tokenized attention
When something goes viral on X or Instagram, crypto gives people a way to turn that collective attention into a tradeable liquid asset
Base has become the primary hub where those ideas crawl out of the trenches and actually break out into global markets
🎙️Ft. @jessepollak @Nibel_eth @base
So I was going through the BNB burn history after yesterday's 37th burn, and it removed 1,646,196 BNB, worth about $1.197B at around $727 a BNB.
And what got me is the first burn back in October 2017 was 986,000 BNB when the price was around $1.52, so seeing both side by side really puts the journey in perspective.
Burns do cut supply, but they don't promise a price move, cause demand still has to show up.
One thing people overlook though is BEP-95, which burns a slice of BSC gas fees in real time, so BNB burning also happens between quarterly burns.
Supply is now 131.5M with 100M as the target, and I'll be tracking every burn from here ✦
@cz_binance @heyibinance @BNBCHAIN
Token buybacks are completely meaningless if your protocol generates zero actual revenue
Pyth tripling its open-market buyback allocation from 33% to 100% works because oracle revenue is actually scaling
When real institutional data demand backs the tokenomics, you don't need token emissions to create a narrative
🎙️Ft. @mdomcahill @PythNetwork
Traditional commerce only scaled when a unified payment layer was built between local banks and retail users
In Web3, individual blockchains function just like isolated banks… assets sitting on Ethereum can't natively interact with apps on Solana
Instead of forcing users to rely on clunky bridges, Wire Network is building the coordination layer that unifies liquidity across every chain
🎙️@jack_gk Ft. @kendicross @WireNetwork
High origination costs in traditional banking keep millions of people completely shut out from credit
Moving credit markets on-chain slashes those costs, allowing new types of loans to be originated for people who never had access
That’s what building real institutional infrastructure on Aptos actually unlocks in the real world
🎙️@aptAlix @Aptos Ft. @pactfinance
Channeling that energy into making your own product better is a much better way to succeed
Obsessing over how to sabotage your competitors only takes time away from building, and that's why there's so much FUD against Binance.
At the end of the day, the best product always wins, and that's why @binance has 333M+ registered users ✦
Healthy competition >>> Organized FUD
True definition of SAFU
Numbers don’t lie👇
"SAFU" came from this video: youtube.com/watch?v=DelF6zEH…
When protocol revenue gets real, the tokenomics have to catch up
Pyth’s DAO just voted to shift 100% of earned funds toward open-market token purchases, tripling the previous allocation percentage
That is what a protocol entering its next phase of maturity actually looks like
🎙️Ft. @mdomcahill @PythNetwork