In today's Unchained Daily newsletter:
⚛️ Bitcoin can now be made quantum-proof using rules already in the protocol.
🏦 Trump's crypto project borrowed $75M against its own token.
😤 Bessent called crypto holdouts "nihilists."
🤖 Covenant AI just quit Bittensor and called it "decentralization theatre."
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Three OG DeFi builders on what Anthropic's scariest AI model means for smart contract security. @kaiynne@tayvano_@austingriffith:
🔓 Why the Balancer V2 hack changed how Austin thinks about immutability
🧠 How skill files take an agent from clueless to crypto-native in one read
⚠️ The degen farming bot that locked Kain's funds in an Aerodrome gauge
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🚨TODAY at 1PM ET🚨
Unchained goes live with Bloomberg's James Seyffart to unpack:
• What the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF launch means for the Bitcoin ETF fee war
• Whether Morgan Stanley's offering challenge BlackRock's IBIT
• What Morgan Stanley's pending Ethereum and Solana filings signal about Wall Street's crypto push
Plus, MicroStrategy's big Q1 loss and more.
Tune in! 🎧
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After the majors and DeFi in crypto, Kavita says she's watching the next big IPOs in both crypto and AI ... plus she's keep her eyes on the price of oil, since if it goes up, it's not good for crypto. 😕
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In today’s Unchained Daily newsletter:
🛢️ Iran tries to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a bitcoin toll booth — $1 per barrel, paid in BTC
🕵️ The NYT “names” Satoshi… but the crypto crowd isn’t convinced
🏦 Morgan Stanley drops the cheapest bitcoin ETF on the market — and it’s off to a fast start
📉 Bitcoin slips below $71K as the Iran ceasefire starts to unravel
⚡ Read today’s biggest crypto news… and subscribe for more!
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"The amount of information is not digestible to the common person." Sumeera Younis thinks smart contracts can fix crypto disclosure.
Commissioner @HesterPeirce says don’t wait for regulators. @kkirkbos@TuongvyLe12 Jessi Brooks
How does the SEC prioritize crypto policy? Commissioner @HesterPeirce and Crypto Task Force Chief Sumeera Younis explain.
📋 The task force’s evolution from trust-building to rulemaking
⚖️ Why proportionate compliance matters for small builders
🤝 How the SEC-CFTC MOU prevents conflicting guidance
@kkirkbos@TuongvyLe12 Jessi Brooks
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📄 "Skill files are basically a business. It's the secret sauce for the whole company, but people are giving them away, which is what we see in crypto -- we give them away." -- Austin Griffith
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"I have a cluster of agents that looks up all the yield farming rates of the moment, and bundles up a bunch of transactions -- we as people are too lazy to do that -- but it shots mainnet to Base and does all these intricate swaps ..." -- Kain
"Right, but it's magic; magic; really dumb." 😂 -- Austin
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"If an AI is hallucinating this stuff from context, then it's not in a skill file, so you have to interrogate each bit of context in your skill file. I ask the LLM if it knows that and then remove it if they do." -- @austingriffith 🤖
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