"Raw thoughts re Kaspa's next big upgrade(s)."
• DagKnight (DK) Protocol
• ZK Layer (L1 <> L2 Bridge)
• Reverse MEV Auc…

The Dayhoff Atlas!
Open code.
Open weights.
Open datasets.
Thanks to a major AI company for helping to facilitate open science.

New QoL Update on L2BEAT! 💗
Introducing UOPS/TPS Ratio Chart - your go-to metric for tracking the adoption of smart accounts and account abstraction on Layer 2s.

GPT-5 is not only better at academic and competitive programming problems, but also at more practical programming tasks than previous versions.

Gotten a bunch of comments that are like "when did they add this feature?"
The cool thing is that they didn't add this - it was a latent capability that emerged and got discovered.
There's probably tons of other amazing features we don't know yet...

Zero-knowledge proofs are the future but they're slow, expensive, and hard to scale.
A project is building powerful hardware to accelerate zero-knowledge proofs.

release: bitchat for android 0.8. this is a big one.
bitchat now uses more secure noise xx handshakes for private message

We spoke to the coder who says Google Gemini's coding agent deleted his code right out from under him.

solana is slowly starting to add slashing!
and just got more performant
see what's new in the newest solana upgrade below:

During this week's Bitcoin Policy Hour, a speaker laid out a timeline for Quantum computing's possible threat to Bitcoin.

All closed-source frontier labs use tons of open-source all over the stack, starting from python, PyTorch, huggingface all the way down to RoPE, GQA, flash-attention, or any tiny improvements released by open-source players.
The whole transformers architecture (the T in gpT)

and team are tracking and working on a fix!

aztecnetwork pushing the limits with their adversarial testnet (getting ready for mainnet 💪). Feel free to opt in if you like. I am currently in the queue at pos <200⏳. Have been in the validator set before and have been running a sequencer for some month now. Def a great

So sad to see Papers with Code is discontinued – but grateful that the Hugging Face team is, as always, stepping up.

There are 3 big reasons why ZK is taking over
ZK used to just be about privacy.
Now? It's about speed, scale, and security:
• MegaETH uses it for fraud proofs (faster disputes)
• Union uses it to connect chains (interop)
• Boundless uses it to trigger onchain actions

We are in fact working on an interface that will store conversations ... but it'll store it to your browser's local storage and not on our backend. Clear your browsing history - that data is gone. We're not monetizing users to train new models. We're on the same team

Speaking at the 2025 World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum in Quanzhou, Latif Ladid, founder and president of the IPv6 Forum, commended China's achievements in building next-generation internet infrastructure.
Over 800 million people in China now use