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If we fined insurers and providers $100 every time they over-billed, incorrectly denied care or misrepresented any amount of patient out of pocket, we could pay of the national debt They play on the fear and information asymmetry that exists in healthcare Break them up. Make them divest non insurance companies. And when we are done with the insurance companies , we go to the hospitals and then to the pharma wholesalers. Break em up. Make the markets efficient again.

🚨 We’re launching ASI:One in London on the 17th of November. From Kings Cross to Waterloo, Earls Court to Liverpool Street. We’ll be all over the city. Spot ASI:One ads, enter our competition and get a chance of winning a luxury 5-star two-night stay in London with an afternoon tea. Do this to enter: (1) Look out for ASI:One screens, buses + billboards (2) Snap a selfie when you’ll spot our adverts (3) Post it on X using ASI:One and tag @Fetch_ai in the caption (4) Travel across the city and snap more photos of ASI:One ads to boost your chance of winning That’s it. Join our scavenger hunt from the 17th of November. Good luck, London!

@claudeai Much appreciation for the Claude Code web credits. I've been getting messages that an error has occurred and i should restart. On previous days, i've had claude just hang -- while seemingly doing work.

So far, devs are using Claude Code on the web for: - Bug fixes and refactors - Writing tests and documentation - Running tasks in parallel on different repositories Get started at claude.com/code.

We’re expanding the research preview for Claude Code on the web. Claude Code users on Team and Enterprise plans can now run coding tasks from their browser and the Claude iOS app.

Lawsuits, $40k drained, lost private keys... some brutal Crypto Horror Stories from last night. Appreciate the community showing up and hanging with us. And our sponsors and partners for making this event happen. - @m00ntax - @standwithcrypto - @blocksecops - @krysteemiller - @defiorbit_xyz Couldn't have done it without you. We'll have to do this again. Next year. Happy Halloween! 🎃

Thanks for another great office hours. @0xPotatoofdoom @AtriumAcademy

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The ASI Chain DevNet closed beta is here! 👀 This is an early preliminary version of our novel decentralized L1 blockchain, which will progress rapidly toward the TestNet release. And we are proud to announce we’re opening early access for developers, node operators, and ecosystem partners to explore the foundations of decentralized AI infrastructure. Sign-up👇 to register your interest as an official tester! forms.gle/hsJY2wvcxGxEcy… more details announcing soon on the full tool suite, including: blockchain explorer, web wallet, faucet, and more. The next phase of the ASI vision begins now. $FET $ASI @SingularityNET @Fetch_ai @CUDOS_ @bengoertzel @HMsheikh4

@bengoertzel Thanks for clearing the air, Ben. Keep building -- we believe in you.

1/ OMG -- sometimes it's unbelievable the places life leads me... Note for readers who are not interested in the FET/ASI token or the absurd and twisted politics and human behaviors of the crypto world: you may want to skip this particulate 2-mega- tweet storm and utilize the next minutes of your precious time in some alternative fashion ;p Context is Ocean Protocol’s recent departure from the ASI Alliance (formerly comprising Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, Ocean Protocol and CUDOS), and the sizeable FET token liquidations that Ocean performed around the time of their departure. In this context Ocean has recently released a blog post containing WhatsApp screenshots from private chats with SingularityNET leaders including myself, and also some unauthorized recordings (!!) of out-of-context selections from a private call I and other SingularityNET leaders had with the Ocean leadership. While there are many other things I’d rather be doing with my time, the situation is such that I feel compelled to reply to these Oceanic artifacts. This mega-tweet will focus on clearing up inaccuracies in the blog post, then the follow-up will focus on clarifying the context of the out-of-context unauthorized audio recordings from our meeting. (Jeez, the crypto life …!!!) I hate to give this stuff more views than its already gotten, but I suppose I need to indicate what is the blog I’m responding to here: #4f40" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">blog.oceanprotocol.com/the-asi-allian… Ok here goes. I will not try to refute every single inaccuracy in the post (there are so many!), just the ones that seem more important to correct. Incorrect Statement from Ocean: Ocean doesn't see the benefit of throwing around unfounded and false allegations or the attempts to sully reputations of the projects and people. Correction: Hah! Ocean’s own actions in recent months, and in particular this post I am now responding to – which is full of half truths and clear factual errors – tell a different story fairly directly… Their public release of 8 second clips of a clandestine taping session of a private business call also tells a fairly different story… Incorrect Statement from Ocean: SingularityNET implemented a vote to mint $100m AGIX with the clear intent of selling them down and the voting was a farce, with Fetch guaranteeing it would pass through Sheikh controlling 1.2b $FET and SingularityNET massaging messaging to convince voters, while Ocean allowed their community to vote by selling $OCEAN tokens. Correction: At the time of the merger, the SingularityNET community voted using AGIX tokens which could never be influenced by any number of $FET tokens, as $FET was not eligible to take part in the SingularityNET community vote. And the $$ for compute was purely an Snet thing, nothing to do with Fetch voters. The SingularityNET vote was relatively close and the combination of all “insider entities” including founders like me, did not have anywhere near enough votes to control the election. The merger was controversial in the community and it was a genuine vote and decision. Of course one-token/one-vote has its obvious drawbacks and we are looking to do things differently in many cases after launch of ASI-chain, but it was a true and honest one-token/one-vote decision process not just a front for the Foundation and founders making the decision. Fetch also offered their community a choice, to which the community voted positively. Both community votes are verifiable and traceable on chain. Ocean simply decided not to have a vote. As I recall the rationale put forward at the time by Ocean leadership was along the lines, “We do what we want, they can leave if they want”. Incorrect Statement from Ocean: Ocean discovered that token migration contracts were nowhere near finished or audited. Correction: SingularityNET produced and deployed migration contracts to enable token migrations for the Rejuve.ai token many months before the ASI Alliance, and the same contracts were repurposed for the new merger. Due to the nature of the merger the contracts required some minor alterations and a re-audit, as is standard practice in the space. Incorrect Statement from Ocean: Fetch asserted their L1 chain would retain primacy, so they could keep the $FET token meaning ASI could not integrate any other L1 chain into the Alliance. Correction: The $FET token itself is an ERC20 native token first, and all other bridged chains use it as the primary source of accuracy for tokenomics. The Alliance already integrates multiple Layer 1 chains, with tokens and products on chains such as the Fetch developed ASI Mainnet (Cosmos), Ethereum, Cardano, and others. SingularityNET has just deployed DevNet for our ‘ASI Chain’, which is designed as the primary chain for Hyperon AI technology deployment, among other use cases, but also for interoperability with other L1 chains. Our stance has always been to be chain agnostic, and build wherever the appropriate technologies for the product reside. FWIW SingularityNET now in practice has control of $FET token operations on Cardano chain, which has been in no way problematic for collaboration with other Alliance members. Partially Incorrect Statement from Ocean: One month after the merger agreement, Ocean asked to be let out of the Alliance. Correction: An interesting take to say the least… Within a week of the community votes by both SingularityNET and Fetch, Ocean wrote a departure statement without any pre-warning, and shared the statement with us alerting us that it would be live that same day. It was obvious to all parties the harm this would cause all communities and so efforts were made to slow Ocean down and remind them that there is a right way to do things, and a wrong way. Unfortunately, this has now become a recurring pattern from the Ocean leadership, from not allowing their token holders to vote on the merge, to the events that have occurred in recent days, and between; pure authoritarian egotism. Partially Incorrect Statement from Ocean: OceanDAO and Ocean Protocol are unique entities, not both controlled by Ocean Protocol Correction: Ocean Protocol, OceanDAO and its recently created Cayman Island controlling entity ‘Ocean Expedition’ are indeed separate legal entities, however it does appear both are owned by one and the same dude: our friend Bruce Pon… Folks may check on-chain the signatories on OceanDAO wallets and their on-chain relationship to Ocean Protocol as well… Statement from Ocean: Ocean would support the delisting the $OCEAN tokens from Exchange but not enforce it / Fetch applied pressure on Ocean Protocol to convert treasury Non-Correction: True… interesting how that has worked out today is it not… Statement from Ocean: From June 2024, the Ocean team dove in to execute, in support of the ASI Alliance Merger.. The merger went according to plan, in spite of earlier hiccups. Partial Correction: My recollection is that the Ocean team were truly a pleasure to work with, but the leadership was always more difficult in this context (though Trent and I remained friendly as regards technical/intellectual stuff). The merger went ahead in spite of the hiccups caused by said Leadership. Whether we SHOULD have proceeded with the merger in spite of Ocean leadership’s behavior is obviously a different question – it’s not looking super-fantastic at the moment but we’ll see how things look a year or two from now with more hindsight and perspective. In crypto and other markets so much depends on unpredictable contingencies regarding market conditions. If we had seen a raging crypto bull market Fall 2024, as many of us expected following the bitcoin halving, then folks might right now be admiring the amazing brilliance and wisdom of the ASI merger... Partially Incorrect Statement from Ocean: OceanDAO announced that the $OCEAN rewards program would be sun-downed and the use of Ocean community rewards would be re-assessed at a later date. Correction: We were clearly and repeatedly informed by Ocean leadership that these tokens would be used only for Data Rewards (including Trent putting this in the original ASI vision paper, as well as a bunch of private conversations where they told us they couldn’t repurpose the tokens even if they wanted to because they belonged to the community). However this is not necessarily the main point. The actions of OceanDAO, are indeed up to OceanDAO to define… but who exactly are the decision makers? According to Bruce Pon, founder of both Ocean Protocol, and Ocean Expedition (the legal entity controlling OceanDAO), these two entities are unique and do not answer to one another… yet again we look to on-chain data here, and the addresses involved in recent ‘OceanDAO’ token movements and wonder if they don’t seem to have strong overlaps with historical Ocean Token Deployer contracts and such Partially Incorrect Statement from Ocean: Merger complete, Ocean set about to focus on product development and technology eschewing many of the outrageous initiatives proposed by Fetch and SingularityNET / SingularityNET and Fetch wanted Ocean to pay for things outside of the ASI Alliance Constitution Partial Correction: It is likely true that Ocean set about focusing on product development and technology… but they certainly didn’t do it with any explicit or communicated interest towards the alliance, and they most certainly did eschew many of our suggestions, such as joint efforts to run large marketing campaigns, or put resources into developing cool technologies together. However, we also acknowledge, as Ocean states, this was not mandatory. In order to alleviate these requirements from Ocean, Fetch and SingularityNET agreed to shoulder these costs 50/50 through the creation of an ASI Management entity with the mandate to handle these things, consisting of only SingularityNET and Fetch, with the option for Ocean to share costs at their discretion. Incorrect Statement from Ocean: SingularityNET monthly burn is $6m Correction: SingularityNET burn is not $6m per month, it ranges between 1.5-2.5m per month and has been in that same vicinity since the founding of the AGI token, an amount which has always been conscientiously handled when that involved the use of token liquidations. While this certainly is a substantial number, I will address the (very appropriate) usage of these funds below. To Bruce Pon’s claim of $6m per month – so, there was a period of time where the monthly expenditures were around 6m, as SingularityNET were executing on a community voted proposal to liquidate 100m FET in order to purchase Compute Hardware. This Compute purchase was part of a public vote and no secret to Ocean or anyone else paying attention. In order to responsibly liquidate that number of tokens, it was spread over a number of months to ensure $FET token health during the period. Ocean leadership totally knew about all this – and we also explained to them explicitly several times – and for them to use these numbers to insinuate an alternative reality is irresponsible at best, and gaslighting with a goal to cause reputational damage at worst. Incorrect Statement from Ocean: SingularityNET employs 300+ people Correction: SingularityNET employs (including close contractors not just employees) 187 people: 120 AI R&D, with the remaining 67 offering supporting functions such as blockchain dev, front and back end development, marketing, operations, finance, and security. It’s worth noting several dozen of these staff are in our Ethiopia office where costs are low by international standards. SingularityNET was launched in 2017 with the goal of creating Artificial General Intelligence leveraging blockchain technology to ensure censorship resistance and equitable distribution of governance and access. In contrast OpenAI has over 4400 employees according to a quick google search. While a large team is not a requirement for building decentralized applications or narrow AI Agents, that has never been our mission. Incorrect-Looking Statement from Ocean: Fetch sold or distributed around 390 million $FET worth $314 million Correction: While SingularityNET do not have sufficient evidence to fully deny this claim, we have observed that Fetch leadership has committed immense funding towards the ASI Alliance, and find this cited number to be highly unlikely. We await Fetch’s response here. Questionable Statement from Ocean: The $OCEAN held by OceanDAO are for the sole benefit of the Ocean community and no one else Correction: Ok… it doesn't change the actions taken though, hopefully the Ocean community benefits in some way, we wish them no ill will. It’s just a shame that a unilateral decision to leave other communities was made and then enacted in such an unnecessarily destructive way. Without any effort to exit cleanly, say through a de-merge, instead of the functional equivalent of a rug pull. Another note is, it’s not quite clear what is the “Ocean Community” right now, in that many historical OCEAN token holders converted their tokens to FET in the period since the merge, and there was a real effort to merge the communities of the merger partners. Incorrect Statement from Ocean: It was Fetch, SingularityNET and Trump, who caused the recent price crash Correction: It’s hard for me to believe Ocean leadership actually think anyone following the situation will believe this. I guess this almost surely badly anti-empirical remark is aimed at casual readers who don’t know anything about the situation and haven’t been following it. Dumping $50M of tokens into the TRNR $50M DAT buy was the first in a series of very clear cases of Ocean’s dumping of their treasury rapidly and negatively impacting FET token price. Sure, we can't rigorously prove what the chain of events pushing down price was, because a lot of it took place inside CEXs which are not transparent to us... but it's pretty f**king clear... And extremely, ah, disingenuous for Ocean to assert otherwise… Ocean has the gall to blame the FET price decline on our "reckless spending" and the TRNR liquidation. This is truly absurdist revisionism. The October crypto crash that took FET from $0.55 to $0.11 was triggered by Trump's China tariff announcement (probably amplified by some cascade of automated trading algo responses?) -- anyway every major crypto token crashed massively –. Bitcoin, Ethereum, everything tanked. The TRNR collateral was called during a market-wide flash crash, not because of some fundamental flaw unique to ASI. To blame ASI's price action on SingularityNET and TRNR in this way is either ignorant of market dynamics or deliberately deceptive – you can decide for yourself I guess.. What IS unique to ASI is that during this period, we discovered that ~$300M in tokens that were explicitly designated for "community incentives" at the time of the merger had been quietly shifted to wallets in a fashion engineered for liquidation, without community oversight. When we tried to investigate this through proper governance channels, Ocean threatened legal action, claimed we were "conspiring" against them, and ultimately published private communications without permission and out of context to paint themselves as victims.

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Currently reading The Infinite Machine to better understand Ethereum’s roots, and exploring Bankless for DeFi insights. What other resources (books, podcasts, courses) helped you level up in DeFi?

We are thrilled to release Solidity v0.8.29! This version of the compiler brings support for EVM Object Format (experimental), custom storage layouts, ethdebug, and more. 📝 Blog: soliditylang.org/blog/2025/03/1… 💾 GitHub: github.com/ethereum/solid… Follow along for notable features 🧵↓

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Gnosis #safe-ish

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