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🥁 [Drumroll please] The winners of the Global x402 Challenge USDC prize pool are officially announced! Congratulations to @moltworld_x402 @FinalityAI @lx_foundry @tendrilhq and @Sitelenz! The projects were judged on criteria including volume, use case quality, sustained potential, innovation, and presentation. Each will each take home a share of the 100K USDC prize pool. 👏👏👏

Before pitching banks, Google put its new multi-party custody service to work on Alphabet's ETH and SOL, the company said. Price: undisclosed. Wider release: early 2027. unchainedcrypto.com/google-p…

I did say we'd be releasing our models periodically...introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our next frontier model. Following Argon's release just two weeks ago, Carbon shows the pace at which we’re pushing the frontier, it ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index at 59. It also leads across key cybersecurity evaluations scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching. We’re seeing significant improvements in long-horizon tasks even compared to Argon, and we’ve strengthened frontier safeguards. As we did with Argon, we’re going to roll it out gradually + responsibly. Some trusted cyber defenders will get access starting this week. We'll be expanding it to more partners through our Fairwind Program, ahead of wider availability soon, so hang tight!

Agents can now time travel on #Algorand. Only backwards. Tomorrow is not for sale.

60+ new tokens launched on Algorand through Haystack since Oct 1. It’s Creator Week, so shoutout to the people shipping: @Urthoo, @Coop_Daniels, @foxwifbox_algo, @QUANTOREADY, @COZMC_GG, and everyone else who launched this month 🫡 👉 hay.app/creator-week

Hey #Algorand community! 🫵 We're doing something pretty exciting with UrVote. For many of our users, casting a ballot is their FIRST experience with blockchain. No wallets. No crypto knowledge. Just a simple vote, a verifiable receipt, and @Algorand powering it. They see blockchain solving a real problem. Things start to click. This is how we bridge #Web2 and #Web3. Real users. Real utility. Real adoption. #Algofam

Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10…

Explore the Algorand ecosystem in a way you haven't before. A 3D space colony where every app is a building. See transactions, blocks, fees, and new accounts in a daily mission control briefing, and scroll back through any day on-chain. Built by @Urthoo.

Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.

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🛡️ @Algorand counted 1,562 validators on October 6. That was its highest validator count of the past 7 days. A lot of hands keeping this network honest. 📊 chainspect.app/chain/algoran…

USDC on Algorand takes the lead in x402 agentic payments $390.4K transferred over the past 30d, ahead of Base at $378.3K and Solana at $360.5K, with most of Algorand’s volume coming last week