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HOOTX
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Building the global infrastructure for financial sovereignty. 🦉 Built to last. Never surrender. Pure Fair Launch — Q3 2026. #Solana #Web3



















Introducing Gemma-4-31B-it-Pearl on Together AI, Pearl Research Labs’ instruction-tuned checkpoint of Gemma 4 31B powered by @prlnet Proof of Useful Work protocol. AI natives can now use this Pearl model as a serverless inference endpoint on Together AI, at a 25%+ discounted pricing.


Goldman Sachs holds 1.94M shares of Bitwise's XRP ETF worth ~$31.2M as of Q4 2025 👀 and that's just one slice. their total XRP ETF exposure across four products? $154M… roughly 73% of ALL disclosed institutional XRP ETF holdings still think institutions aren't serious about $XRP? ⏳


[New] Proofs of Useful Work from Arbitrary Matrix Multiplication (ilan komargodski and Itamar Schen and Omri Weinstein) ia.cr/2025/685


A new paper worth being excited about: proofs of useful work (pouw) by Ilan Komargodski @komargodski, Itamar Schen, and Omri Weinstein @WeinsteinOmri. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09971 tldr; a pow function involving matrix multiplication such that the miner can choose the matrices freely (eg matrices used for own AI inference)---counterintuitive that main pow properties still hold, but they do. This is the first useful pow that makes sense since the idea was proposed about a decade ago. Why definitely important: solves / significantly mitigates security budget draining threat, by adding a funding source (the usefulness) for mining. Why could be important: mitigates wastefulness of pow by plugging into a high demand computation market, namely AI inference (/training). I believe addressing this issue is vital for political feasibility of pow, it's too easy for politicians to rally public opinion against wasteful pow; admittedly feels like the pow bon ton gets a kick out of this misalignment. Possible criticism: some argue wastefulness is essential for security, and that usefulness effectively funds attacks or removes attack costs (related: arxiv.org/abs/1605.09193). One remedy is the constant wasteful overhead that still exists in pouw, but mainly I believe this is not a real threat if you successfully penetrate a huge computation market with so many diverse players; the vast scale of this market can arguably cover for model imperfections (which are inherent to the objective). Notes: (i) afaiu from the team, current pouw requires adaptation to be fit for high bps; (ii) pouw unrelated to opow/kheavyhash though shares some common goals. Congrats on this achievement pouw team, tracking your progress! x.com/Lhree/status/1…















