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a16z Crypto is now just a16z end of an era

the full 41:32 recording of Lighter’s Q3 Investor Update is now available to everyone a lot of interesting stuff inside: the numbers (yep, still growing), revenue (also on the rise), token unlocks and how to handle them, what’s next, risks, Lighter Domains, distribution, and

hat if Lighter powers the trading apps you already use? Lighter is starting with crypto wallets, expanding into CEXs, and eventually targeting US financial apps once regulation allows while most perp DEXs compete for users directly, Lighter is also betting on distribution

millions of attempted php2shell exploits

not a physicist, but this sounds fascinating (especially if it works as presented). can we really turn mercury into gold now? and at what scale?

don't forget to rotate your keys for Railway (strikethrough) idk, pretty much any service you're using at this point, just in case?

mmmm yes?

ideas

let's update

black Wednesday isn't over yet Railway has been hacked

php, plex, OpenCode, GitLab, LiteLLM and now Railway

BLACK WEDNESDAY for cybersecurity make is stop

trade parameters for compute? looks like they’re making it work. loop transformers keep getting more interesting. curious to see the next GLM

Anthropic is opening a research preview of Claude Duet (basically a Grok Bot / Dot type of thing, but mostly for businesses?), an always-on agent running in the cloud that claims to proactively work on your tasks not open to everyone yet! join the waitlist to get access

> “Towards broader access of our models, on September 3rd, we committed $1B in credits to frontline defenders, such as those protecting critical infrastructure. We also have been working to scale our Daybreak program to put cyber capabilities in the hands of trusted defenders,

interesting, would be nice to hear some spicy behind-the-scenes details about the latest token launch

crypto these days

so basically, Anthropic needs to keep building more powerful AI to make AI safer, while making the very risks they're trying to prevent even bigger, which means they need to build even more powerful AI to prevent those bigger risks, which creates even bigger risks, which means