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ANTHROPIC JUST PROVED MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PROMPT CLAUDE. Their applied AI team dropped a 24 minute free workshop. Not a creator who reverse engineered it. Not a Reddit thread. ANTHROPIC. The people who wrote the weights. And what they showed is uncomfortable. There are 6 elements to a properly structured Claude prompt. Most people are using 1. Maybe 2. That is not a skill issue. That is an information issue. And it has been quietly costing you every single day. The outputs that felt slightly off. The responses you had to rewrite 4 times. The prompts that worked once and never again. All of it traces back to the same 6 missing elements. The people who watch this 24 minute workshop tonight will understand something about Claude that most daily users still do not know exists. The people who skip it will keep getting 30% of what the tool is actually capable of and wonder why the results never quite land. I watched it twice. Then I built a Claude Skill that applies all 6 elements to every prompt automatically. No more thinking about structure. No more guessing what Claude needs. The framework runs in the background every single time. Full breakdown and skill setup is below. Bookmark this now. Watch the workshop first. Then read the guide. This is the one that compounds. Follow @cyrilXBT for the exact prompt architecture, Claude skills, and systems I use to get outputs most people do not believe came from one person working alone.

I sent €100 from Paris to a US merchant. The merchant received $96.65. That $3.35 didn't disappear, it was distributed across 7 intermediaries you've never heard of. Most people think a card payment is one transaction. It's not. It's a relay race between 8 different companies, running on two parallel networks, taking different cuts, on different timelines. I traced a single €100 payment, end to end. Here's what I found. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲: → The info layer: ~2 seconds. Authorisation messages bouncing between issuer, Visa, acquirer, processor. This is the part that flashes "Order paid ✓" on the merchant's screen. → The money layer: ~2 days. Actual settlement via ACH, with FX conversion buried somewhere in the middle. The fact that your checkout feels instant is theatre. The money is still in flight. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 €𝟯.𝟯𝟱 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁: 1️⃣ You: €100 leaves your account 2️⃣ Issuing bank (BNP Paribas / SocGen), holds the funds, no fee 3️⃣ Card network (Visa / Mastercard) −€1.20 cross-border scheme fee 4️⃣ FX engine: −€2.10 hidden spread (1.5% above mid-market) 5️⃣ Acquiring bank (Chase / Wells Fargo): −$2.65 interchange + acquirer markup 6️⃣ Processor (Stripe / Adyen): −$0.65 (0.3% + $0.30) 7️⃣ ACH settlement: no fee, but locks the funds for 2 business days 8️⃣ US merchant: receives $96.65 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻: The customer sees 1 actor (their bank). The merchant sees 2 (their processor and their bank). The other 5 are invisible and the biggest fee, the FX spread, is the one nobody itemizes. It's not a fraud. It's just stacked. Each intermediary takes a margin that's individually defensible, and collectively adds up to ~7% on cross-border. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: Every SaaS company selling internationally pays this stack. Every ecommerce store accepting cards from abroad pays this stack. Most never see the breakdown, they just see "International processing fee" on a statement and move on. The next generation of payment infrastructure isn't trying to add a 9th intermediary. It's trying to delete 5 of them. PS: I'm the founder of Suby and I post weekly about payments, stablecoins, and what the cross-border stack actually looks like under the hood. Follow for more.

All security protocols required to refreshed ASAP

Price of Automatization

Litecoin update: • A zero-day bug caused a DoS attack that disrupted major mining pools. • Non-updated mining nodes allowed an invalid MWEB transaction allowing them to peg out coins to third party DEX’s • A 13-block reorg reversed those invalid transactions — they will not be included in the main chain • All valid transactions during that period remain unaffected • The bug is now fully patched, and the network continues to operate normally

☠️ ANTHROPIC HAT GERADE EBAY ERLEDIGT! Das ist der Chart von $EBAY. Minus 5,3 Prozent. An einem Tag. Von $103,40 runter auf $97,94. Kein Earnings. Kein Skandal. Kein Insider-Verkauf. Nur ein Forschungs-Paper von Anthropic. "Project Deal" heißt das Ding. Anthropic hat in seinem San-Francisco-Büro einen Marktplatz für die eigenen Mitarbeiter gebaut. 69 Leute. Je 100 Dollar Budget. Klassisches Craigslist-Setup. Nur mit einem Twist: Die Verhandlungen führt Anthropic. Nicht der Mensch. Die KI kauft, verkauft, dealt für dich. 186 Transaktionen in einer Woche, über 4.000 Dollar Volumen. Und ein interessantes Detail aus dem Paper: Wer einen schwächeres Modell bekam, machte nachweislich schlechtere Deals. Hat es aber selbst nicht gemerkt. Klingt nach Büro-Spielerei. Ist es nicht. Es ist ein Proof of Concept dafür, dass jeder Marktplatz im Netz austauschbar ist. eBay verdient Geld weil Menschen eBay brauchen, um zu handeln. Was, wenn Menschen nichts mehr machen müssen? Wall Street hat verstanden. Sofort. Alles, was Marktplatz ist betroffen. Salesforce ist seit Januar 33 Prozent runter, weil "Claude Cowork" die ganze CRM-Industrie in Frage gestellt hat. Adobe minus 36. ServiceNow gerade von UBS auf Neutral runtergestuft. Der Software-Index IGV ist 35 Prozent unter seinem Hoch. Eine ganze Branche wird vor unseren Augen umgeschrieben. Wall Street hat dafür schon einen Namen. SaaSpocalypse. Seit Januar 2026 sind ungefähr 2 Billionen US-Dollar aus der Software-Wirtschaft verdampft. Zwei Billionen. Und das Spiel fängt grade erst an. Was Wall Street gerade einpreist: Pro-Seat-Lizenzen verlieren ihren Sinn, wenn ein Agent eine ganze Abteilung ersetzt. Plattform-Take-Rates kollabieren, sobald Agenten direkt mit Agenten verhandeln. Werbung verliert ihre Logik in einem Markt ohne menschliche Klicker. Was bleibt sind Infrastruktur-Anbieter, Daten-Besitzer und die Modell-Hersteller selbst. Und genau da kommt der nächste Schlag. Anthropic hat letzte Woche Opus 4.7 vorgestellt. Sonnet 5 ist seit Anfang April live. Das Roadmap-Leak von vor zwei Monaten zeigt interne Referenzen auf Sonnet 4.8 und Claude 5 - geplant für den Sommer. Google hat parallel angekündigt, bis zu 40 Milliarden Dollar in Anthropic zu investieren. Das ist ein All-In auf die Disruption der eigenen Cloud-Kunden. Bei OpenAI läuft das gleiche Spiel, nur lauter. Sam Altman hat im März bei BlackRock öffentlich gesagt, sie trainieren in Abilene, Texas, das nach eigener Einschätzung beste Modell der Welt. Übersetzt: GPT-6. Release-Fenster: Ende Mai. Was die Modelle laut Roadmap können sollen? Selbstständige Workflows. Bezahlsysteme. Buchungen. Verhandlungen. Komplexe Transaktionsketten ohne menschliche Aufsicht. OpenAI hat parallel mit Etsy und Shopify die ersten Pilot-Integrationen für agentic shopping gestartet. Du sagst ChatGPT was du brauchst, ChatGPT kauft. Ohne Klick auf Etsy. Und du musst dir die Frage stellen, welches Geschäftsmodell das überlebt. Marktplätze überleben so nicht. Wenn ein Agent für mich kauft, brauche ich keine Plattform mit Suchfunktion und Verkäufer-Reviews. SaaS-Lizenzen pro Sitzplatz fallen genauso. Wenn 10 Agenten die Arbeit von 100 Sales-Reps erledigen, braucht keiner mehr 100 Salesforce-Logins. Werbung wird ein Nullsummenspiel. Agenten klicken keine Anzeigen. Wie schnell diese Unternehmen sterben, ist die einzige offene Frage. Ich sehe drei Szenarien. ⚠️ Erstens: Die Plattformen integrieren die Agenten und werden selbst zur Infrastruktur. eBay wird zum reinen Settlement-Layer für Claude und GPT. Möglich. Aber die Margen brechen weg. ⚠️ Zweitens: Die Plattformen sterben langsam und Anthropic plus OpenAI werden selbst zum neuen Marktplatz. Wahrscheinlich. Wer die Schnittstelle besitzt, besitzt den Kunden. Und die zwei sammeln gerade die Schnittstellen ein. ⚠️ Drittens: Eine ganz neue Asset-Klasse setzt sich durch. On-Chain. Programmierbar. Permissionless. Wo Agenten ohne Custodian und ohne Plattform handeln können. Krypto war von Anfang an für eine Welt gebaut, in der Maschinen Geld bewegen. Keine andere Schiene kann das aktuell. Ich bin etwas besorgt 🫠. x.com/AnthropicAI/st…

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True centralization, but I'm ok with it

So let me start. DeFi is the future of the World Financial System. That's my belief, and this is why we are here. This amount of absolutely preventable hacks we see in DeFi (with root causes attributable to CENTRALIZED points of failure) is enormous recently. This damages out industry, and I build for this industry. So I cannot remain silent. Imagine an average grandma (mass adoption is here?) putting her life savings on Aave. And then BOOM, she cannot withdraw her funds on Monday. Aave (the biggest DeFi protocol btw) said it's operating as intended - just rsETH got exploited. rsETH said that all code is safu - just LayerZero bridge got hacked. LayerZero (the biggest bridge securing quarter of a trillion $) said that everything operating as intended. Yet, she cannot withdraw here funds. WTF? Are we industry of clowns? But here's the thing. All issues like this should be prevented BEFORE they happen, not AFTER. Number of single points of failure should be reduced, not increased. When these points of failure are unavoidable - trust should be split. If there's a reliance on infrastructure - we should share best practices how to configure it. Not to mention that code should be very well checked - everyone gets that already. We should probably come together and develop safety standards for DeFi. How to build safely, and how to verify safety. Probably everyone should bring their best practices, and the projects, auditors and risk assessment groups should know them. Maybe we need @ethereumfndn and @SolanaFndn bringing all the ecosystem projects to participate and come up with principles, rules and recommendations of safe building. And, perhaps, we can even learn something about protecting the few remaining centralized points of failure from traditional finance who have many more of those. DeFi will win

That's definitely pretty simple, but no for everyone. Do what you can do even better with claude code.

Following the KelpDAO hack, we built an open analysis of DVN security configurations across every active OApp on LayerZero over the last 90 days. Of ~2,665 unique OApp contracts: 47% run a 1-of-1 DVN security floor, 45% run 2-of-2, and ~5% run 3-of-3 or higher. As we know, KelpDAO's rsETH sat in the first bucket. Open query, public methodology, feedback welcome: dune.com/dune/layerzero…

That’s looks not good 😌

Another blow to Anthropic! Devs built a free and better Claude alternative that: - runs locally - works with any LLM - beats it on deep research - has Cowork-like capabilities - connects to 40+ data sources - self-hosts via Docker, and more. 100% open-source (20k+ stars).

Become a Claude Certified Architect Here is the complete resource list in one place: Link to join: anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-certifi… Training courses: anthropic.skilljar.com (13 free courses) Cookbook: github.com/anthropics/ant… Exam Guide: share.google/0eqIbebzRMUt8K… Practice questions: claudecertifications.com (free) MCP documentation: modelcontextprotocol.io (free) API documentation: docs.anthropic.com (free) Partner Network: anthropic.com/partners (free to join) Personal Playbook someone created after the exam: drive.google.com/file/d/1luC0rn…

🔒 WARNING: LEDGER CTO ISSUES ALERT FOR CRYPTO USERS AFTER CRITICAL CHROME UPDATE Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet flagged a major Google Chrome security patch addressing 26 vulnerabilities, including 4 critical and 22 high-severity flaws. These include memory management errors that could allow attackers to execute malicious code remotely through crafted webpages. Crypto users relying on browser-based wallets and extensions are particularly at risk. Users are urged to update Chrome immediately.

How to setup your Claude code project? TL;DR Most developers skip the setup and just start prompting. That's the mistake. A proper Claude Code project lives inside a .𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲/ folder. Start with 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘.𝗺𝗱 as Claude's instruction manual. Split it into a 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀/ folder as it grows. Add 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀/ for repeatable workflows, 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀/ for context-triggered automation, and 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀/ for isolated subagents. Lock down permissions in 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀.𝗷𝘀𝗼𝗻. There are two .𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲/ folders: one committed with your repo, one global at ~/.𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲/ for personal preferences and auto-memory across projects. The .𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲/ folder is infrastructure. Treat it like one. The article below is a complete guide to 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘.𝗺𝗱, custom commands, skills, agents, and permissions, and how to set them up properly.

an MIT genius raised $225M, built the fastest blockchain ever, made his community grind for 3 years, then gave them 3.3% and the insiders 50% be Keone Hon (@keoneHD) > MIT. dual bachelors + two masters in 4 years > 8+ years at Jump Trading > co-founded Monad Labs in April 2022 > promised 10,000 TPS, sub-second finality, sub-cent fees > posted daily on X for years building one of the most loyal communities in crypto > raised $225M+ including a Paradigm-led Series A > 300 million addresses hit the testnet > people grinded discord for 3 years. testing. building. shilling. for free. then November 2025 the token drops and everything changes > mainnet launched November 24 > first ever ICO on Coinbase at $0.025 > briefly pumped to $0.049 > then the tokenomics came out 27% team 19.7% investors 4% treasury 38.5% ecosystem. community airdrop? 3.3% only and that 3.3% wasnt even exclusive. random EVM wallets that never touched Monad got tokens. people who grinded the testnet for 3 years got filtered out by an AI sybil checker. KOLs got fat bags, influencers got paid to stay quiet. one community member said it perfect: "3 years, 3%. thats just dirty work" > official bridge broke on launch day > tokens missing from wallets > one whale got 5.6M MON airdrop and panic sold below ICO price > MonadScam hashtag trended on X > Arthur Hayes called it a "high-risk VC coin" and predicted 99% crash today: > price down 55% from ATH sitting at $0.021 > $224M TVL on a chain that raised $225M. barely above what they raised. > ~8,230 holders > Keone went quiet > next unlock March 24 2026 the tech was never the problem 10,000 TPS is real also the chain works gud but you dont call it "community first" then hand 50% to insiders and 3.3% to the people who built your hype for free. the math aint mathing and the next unlock hasnt even hit yet

🤯🤯🤯 Without a doubt this will explode in the next 12 months as the majority of onchain participants become agents running 24/7 with a human operator. While I thought the crypto x AI theme has had a very mediocre track record thus far, full of scams and mostly hot garbage, the recent improvements in models and agent capabilities are astounding. My mind has been changed. This is going to be a massive, massive area for innovation and achieving scale onchain. "Crypto wasn't meant for humans, it was meant for robots" feels more accurate than ever. Unreal timeline were in rn

This 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘.𝗺𝗱 file will make you 10x engineer 👇 It combines all the best practices shared by Claude Code creator: Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code at Anthropic) shared on X internal best practices and workflows he and his team actually use with Claude Code daily. Someone turned those threads into a structured 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘.𝗺𝗱 you can drop into any project. It includes: • Workflow orchestration • Subagent strategy • Self-improvement loop • Verification before done • Autonomous bug fixing • Core principles This is a compounding system. Every correction you make gets captured as a rule. Over time, Claude's mistake rate drops because it learns from your feedback. If you build with AI daily, this will save you a lot of time.