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Local AI is my life. I want as many people possible to experience it, but it sure feels like consumers are being priced out from being able to run LLM at home. At least nothing above 9B or limited 27B model Try putting together new PC part list for 64GB+ RAM and 24GB+ GPU, pretty sickening. Used isn’t much better either, which comes with its own challenges. There’s simply no economically sensible path available for running 27-100B+ class models, even with all the advancements made by unbelievably smart folks in the community Whether it’s intensional or simple supply demand causing this, if I was big AI I’d do everything in my power to make sure general population doesn’t get to experience the magic of running their own private, uncensored, large context 100B+ model without going bankrupt. If so, doing excellent job at it.

What we’ve been working on Since our last update on October 8th, we’ve been focused on improving the infrastructure behind robinhood:0x56910d4409f3a0c78c64dd8d0545ff0705389870. Distributions were paused from October 18th to the 29th while the system was rebuilt. Protocol fees continued to accrue throughout that period and were deployed into stocks once the new setup went live. Since October 29th, three distribution cycles have completed, sending roughly $23,600 in stocks to 4,163 wallets. The upgraded setup includes: • Fixed 36-hour cycles for a consistent distribution schedule. • Former holders made whole, with around $3,680 in banked stocks distributed to 5,366 addresses that had fallen below the 10,000 robinhood:0x56910d4409f3a0c78c64dd8d0545ff0705389870 threshold. • Built-in price protection, with stock purchases and ETH → USDG conversions limited to within 1.5% of trusted prices. The result is a more predictable, secure and scalable distribution system. Closing the volume gap A significant portion of robinhood:0x56910d4409f3a0c78c64dd8d0545ff0705389870 trading volume currently routes through pools that do not use the official fee hook, meaning those trades do not contribute to the 3% fee funding stock distributions. We have already addressed one side of this issue. Pools holding robinhood:0x56910d4409f3a0c78c64dd8d0545ff0705389870 were previously able to appear as holders and receive distributions. Those pools are now excluded, receive $0, and new pools are checked before every cycle. The remaining fee-bypass issue requires a deeper change and is already in development. We’ll have more to share on the full approach soon. The objective is simple: robinhood:0x56910d4409f3a0c78c64dd8d0545ff0705389870 trading activity should contribute to the protocol economics it was designed to support. Expanding the Index ecosystem A large part of our recent product work has also gone into Blend. Blend introduces permissionless onchain Baskets backed by tokenized assets. Each Basket represents defined quantities of its underlying assets in a single share and can be bought, sold, redeemed and integrated into other applications. For robinhood:0x56910d4409f3a0c78c64dd8d0545ff0705389870, Blend adds another source of protocol activity and revenue, expanding the ways onchain activity can ultimately flow back into stocks. What comes next The distribution infrastructure is stronger, the fee-routing issue is being addressed, and Blend is expanding the ways tokenized assets can be used across the Robinhood ecosystem. Our focus remains the same: build useful infrastructure around onchain stocks and return more of the value generated by that infrastructure back into the Index ecosystem. Stocks for everyone.

Last night, my lawyers moved to sanction World Liberty Financial @worldlibertyfi for failing to disclose, until months into my litigation against the company, that it is a citizen of the UAE 🇦🇪 . #WLFI #USD1 For those who are new to this dispute, I was one of World Liberty’s earliest and largest investors.  In November 2024, I agreed to buy $30 million of $WLFI tokens under a Token Purchase Agreement with World Liberty, and I later increased my total investment to $45 million.  In April, I sued World Liberty, alleging that the company induced my investment through fraud and then unlawfully froze my tokens. My Token Purchase Agreement gives me the right to bring my claims in either California federal or state court.  I chose federal court. Federal courts can hear a case like mine only when the two sides come from different places.  Foreign plaintiffs like me can sue an American defendant in federal court, but foreign plaintiffs generally cannot sue a foreign defendant there.  For these purposes, a company like World Liberty takes on the citizenship of each of its owners, so a single foreign owner makes the company foreign.  In other words, so long as World Liberty and all of its owners were American, my case could be heard in federal court. The federal court’s rules required World Liberty to file a disclosure at the start of the case identifying every one of its owners and where each is a citizen.  World Liberty’s disclosure identified only one entity—World Liberty itself—and listed Florida as its sole citizenship.  Its lawyers certified that they were unaware of anyone else who needed to be disclosed. World Liberty then moved to compel arbitration, seeking to pull my case out of open court and into secret arbitration proceedings.  I opposed that motion, and my lawyers spent months and hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting it.  At a hearing in August, the Court signaled that it was not persuaded that my claims belonged in arbitration.  Instead, the Court ruled that certain of my claims should stay in open court, and certain claims should be sent to arbitration, and ordered the parties to meet and confer to come up with a proposed agreement on which claims stay in open court and which ones go to arbitration. Less than a week later, World Liberty suddenly “corrected” its disclosure.  Where it had previously listed only one member in its ownership chain, it now listed 22, and claimed citizenship in Florida, Delaware, Puerto Rico, and the UAE.  World Liberty now says that the federal court has no jurisdiction over my case, since its UAE citizenship means there are foreign parties on both sides of the case. The irony is hard to miss.  World Liberty’s gold paper declares that “[b]y design, World Liberty Financial is not organized offshore,” and that it is “an American, tax-paying, corporation that aims to bring DeFi to its rightful home—America.”  It promises a “US-based decentralized platform” built on “American ideals of liberty, privacy, and freedom to transact,” calls private, intermediary-free transactions “a core American value,” and boasts that “[r]ather than shying away from the United States, World Liberty Financial embraces the United States as the future CRYPTO CAPITAL OF THE PLANET.” World Liberty was proudly American 🇺🇸 when it was selling tokens.  It discovered its UAE 🇦🇪 roots only when it needed a way out of an American federal courtroom. World Liberty presumably always knew who its owners were.  Its lawyers claim that they learned about the company’s UAE citizenship only after they filed the original disclosure.  As my motion explains, if that is true, then either World Liberty’s lawyers failed to conduct appropriate diligence, or World Liberty did not give its lawyers a straight answer.  When we asked how this happened, World Liberty refused to tell us. Token holders deserve to know whether the projects they invest in are telling the truth, both to the public and to courts.  I am filing this motion to hold World Liberty and its lawyers accountable for what I believe was a misleading disclosure to the Court, and to make sure that the cost of World Liberty’s gamesmanship falls on them, not on me.  And after my sanctions motion is resolved in federal court, I will re-file my lawsuit against World Liberty in California state court. I will keep fighting for the transparency this community deserves.

Astra can hand write new weights from scratch, that outperform other AI training techniques. WHAT!?!?!?!?!? They buried the lead. Improving math via a looping bug fix is very cool, but debugging & fixing weights is quite limited vs generating brand new weights. If this works, is training large AI models even needed anymore? Is this true RSI?

Astra and Opus 5.5 are good at hacking LLMs weights This is like Reverse Engineering 2.0 and I wonder what tricks could be implemented across models using it Fun times ahead

CRSHMARKET has raised a $3.5M Seed round to build the first livestream prediction market. This round was led by @6thManVentures , with participation from @recvcx, @lattice_fund, and @startinglinevc. We’re building a new way to interact with live content, where anyone can predict what happens next with 60 second settlements.

Fable 5.5 its over for video and image models 🤯 THIS IS PURE CODE (actually, not mp4 in base64) nah it's actually opus 5.5 with max effort, don't have some secret turbo access to fable 5.5 opus 5.5 was always capable of this and more. Max is overall very tryhard effort mode, it worked for almost 2 hours from single prompt, came out pretty nice! more info in comments

REMOVE ALL FUNDS FROM PUMPFUN Pumpfun is quietly degrading web3 login and will only allow users to login via email / socials This is a MASSIVE security risk as socials / email is SIGNIFICANTLY easier to hack than self custody (done correctly) They are also degrading web app functionality as it is no longer possible for users to claim fees via the web app pumpfun is seriously not getting enough backlash for this I have seen multiple crypto native protocols degrade web3 login and it’s honestly making me bearish on the entire industry

$INDEX needs a token migration. Or $SNP takes the stocks throne Payouts are cooked and no soft fix left: > Contract is non-upgradeable > Deployed before URC-5 so it can't force volume through the right pool > Holders miss 95% of the fees, payouts stuck at pathetic $5 > V3 pools keep eating a cut and locking tokens forever Only real fix is a NEW TOKEN that supports URC-5 + migration While INDEX is leaking, SNP is paying properly: > First token on URC-5 > All fees go to holders in stocks > Uniswap and Robinhood reposted it Either @TheIndexFi migrates or @standard_notion replaces them