TRON stablecoin supply $95.3B after $554.9M weekly rise, per TokenTerminal data. Data covers seven days up to mid-October.
Key points
Increase: $554.9M increase in stablecoin market cap over seven days.
Total supply: Stablecoin supply approx $95.3B by mid-October.
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Anthropic quantum gate count vs ecdsa.fail benchmark
Anthropic reports 21M gates at 843 qubits, while ecdsa.fail reports 11.9M gates at 843 qubits, a 2× advantage for “anons”. A quoted tweet claims Claude Mythos 5 designed circuits that improve on the best published ones, sometimes by an order of magnitude.
Key points
Anthropic gets 21M gates at 843 qubits.
ecdsa.fail gets 11.9M gates at 843 qubits.
Sources
- Original post
- ecdsa.fail - Linked in the post
- yukon.org - Linked in the post
ASPIRE V1.0 open-sourced with real-robot skill discovery
ASPIRE V1.0 is open-sourced, offering full real-robot skill discovery and self-improvement, and benchmarks reached ~99% overnight. Opus 5.5 slightly edges out Astra on the robot simulation bench, and Sonnet 5.5 hits a cost-vs-capability frontier at $12 per task.
Key points
ASPIRE V1.0 released with full real robot skill discovery and self-improvement capabilities.
Benchmarks saturated to ~99% overnight after switching the backend model.
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GamersLabRise data strategy costs at 50M rows, 30K users
GamersLabRise notes that “Let AI figure it out” becomes expensive at 50 million rows for a small game with 30K monthly users over a year. They use tools and rollups to build evidence around retention, funnels, economy and more, applying AI only as a starting point.
Key points
Cost spikes when AI processes 50 million rows.
Game has 30K monthly users over a year.
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Primo humanoid robot 30 DOF; Sprite 31-joint design
Primo humanoid robot offers 30 degrees of freedom, a 3D-printable design and walking control built with NVIDIA Isaac Lab; Sprite provides a 31-joint, 95 cm tall mechanical design with open CAD files, URDF and MuJoCo models, but the trained controller checkpoint is missing.
Key points
30 degrees of freedom, 3D-printable, NVIDIA Isaac Lab walking control.
Sprite design: 31 joints, 95 cm tall, open CAD, URDF and MuJoCo models; controller checkpoint missing.
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Crypto OTC company Hong Kong loss HK$4M after WhatsApp hijack
Crypto OTC desk in Hong Kong lost more than HK$4 million (about US$514k) after scammers hijacked an employee’s WhatsApp, cloned the client group and impersonated clients. The fraud involved blocking genuine clients and colleagues and requesting a transfer.
Key points
Loss: HK$4 million (≈US$514k) stolen from the desk.
Method: Hijacked employee WhatsApp, cloned work group, impersonated clients to request transfer.
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PythNetwork offers 24/7 price feeds, no maintenance windows
PythNetwork provides continuous 24/7 price feeds with no maintenance windows. A quoted tweet notes that Hyperliquid often has a small weekend maintenance window, usually Saturday afternoon East Asian time, affecting paper-trade due to hypercore block production.
Key points
PythNetwork: round-the-clock 24/7 price feeds, no maintenance windows.
Hyperliquid: most weekends have a small semi-scheduled maintenance window, usually Saturday afternoon East Asian time.
