A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Friday, October 2, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 8:43 AM ET

Calm signal from the crypto and AI firehoses — hand-picked from 14 sources, every morning. No commentary, just what moved.

Crypto · lede

U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, with unemployment rate rising to 4.2%

Bitcoin held earlier gains following the report, up more than 2% over the past 24 hours and just below $87,000.

CoinDesk · 12 minutes ago

AI · lede

I made my own cybersecurity benchmark and ran Qwen3.8 27B, here's how a local model actually does at hacking

Hey local AI community, I've been working on this for a while and finally feel ok sharing it. It's a cyber benchmark where the model gets a shell in an isolated docker box and has to find the exact f

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 29 minutes ago

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(Pewdiepie's Harness)CryptoBNB Chain crosses $1B in tokenized stocks, ETFs as market hits $3.7BCryptoBitcoin sees big overnight rally as ETF demand returns before the next US jobs testCryptoCboe wants to turn VIX into a never-ending tradeCryptoUS Designates Russia's A7 Network as Transnational Criminal OrganizationCryptoLive updates: Bitcoin trading near $87,000 after big miss on U.S. jobsCryptoUS targets $17 billion Russia-linked crypto payment network using USDT as an escape routeCryptoBitcoin treasuries may struggle to match Strategy, says AmmousCryptoCrypto traders are in risk-on mode as bitcoin dominance nears return to 60%AIllama, server: add /v1/systemone API (models: laya, julia-1, lev, openjev, kev) by ngxson · Pull Request #29818 · ggml-org/llama.cppCryptoCONNECT recap: Arthur Hayes on money printing, Wall Street moves onchainCryptoECB outlines three models for putting central bank money onchainAIDoes anyone know if any new releases from Mistral are planned?CryptoCoinbase completes Deribit switch, ending International Exchange tradingCryptoBitcoin reaches for $87K as short liquidations top $120M CryptoAave founder says V3 unaffected after third-party adapter exploit drains $305KCryptoPorsche’s ‘long haul’ Web3 project ends in less than four yearsCryptoBitcoin open interest jumps $2.3 billion as traders pay more for bullish positionsCryptoSpanish Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Accused of Running KillSec Ransomware GroupCryptoBitcoin’s $113,000 case strengthens as US regulators push 9 crypto actionsAIbest <40B alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek for (1) Coding (2) Long document QA testCryptoTether's USDT is 'coming home' to Bitcoin after more than a decadeCryptoBitcoin ETFs kick off ‘Uptober’ with $103M inflowCryptoBitcoin tops $86,000 ahead of U.S. jobs reportCryptoSolana enters US banking with 90 North Dakota banks leading itCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayAIDetecting hallucinations in local models without eating VRAM: What we learned testing 1.5B to 120B modelsCryptoSouth Korea crypto exchange profits fall 78% in H1 amid trading slumpCryptoSpot bitcoin ETFs log $2.7 billion in September inflows as institutional demand holdsCryptoElectrum patches Lightning flaw, but old Bitcoin backups breakCryptoSouth Korea advances tokenized securities rules ahead of 2027 rollout CryptoSEC’s innovation exemption poses constraint on bringing stock tokens to US, Robinhood crypto chief saysCryptoZano exploiter minted more than a quadrillion fUSD before blockchain rollbackCryptoCore Lightning warns attackers are targeting unpatched nodesAIAutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise AgentsCryptoPropAMMs lower Solana trade costs, and public pool returns crashCryptoEthereum’s zkAPI brings privacy-preserving API payments to mainnetAIUpdate on the “Monstrosity”. 6 BC-250 board clusterAIAnyone wonder why americans lag so far behind in the open LLM market?CryptoBitget restores $300M fund after absorbing $388M security breachCryptoNEAR Intents says it’s identified the hacker, gives 48-hour ultimatumCryptoSEC moves to clear custody hurdle for advisers offering crypto AII "built" a local LLM radio like the Pharaohs built the pyramidsAIPerplexity Decider 27B: Open weights decision model fine tune of Qwen3.8 27BCryptoEthereum Foundation launches zkAPI to let users pay for AI models without revealing identityCryptoCrypto hackers have taken $2.7 billion in 2026 and the losses are alarmingly concentratedAIPi 1.0 released - MCP support now included by defaultCryptoFrank Holmes: They Will Print $100 Trillion – Why to Buy Bitcoin & GoldCryptoZcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be OverCryptoNico Lechuga: Bitcoin Will Revolutionize the $4T Private Equity IndustryCryptoDarius Dale: Will Global Liquidity Send Bitcoin Higher in 2027?CryptoSEC Proposes New Rules On Crypto Custody CryptoSazmining Launches the Wild Sats Club, a Loyalty Program That Discounts Mining Management Fees as Customer Hashrate GrowsCryptoSEC proposes framework allowing investment advisers, funds to self-custody cryptoCryptoSEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold CryptoCryptoReddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI ScrapersCryptoSEC proposes new crypto custody rules for investment advisers and fundsCryptoJack Dorsey’s Block Launches Campaign To Get People Spending Bitcoin CryptoRepublican Senator Steve Daines Releases Text of Proposed Crypto Tax PlanCryptoOpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden ReasoningAIAMA about K2 Horizon, Meet our team from IFMCryptoMeta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User's Messages Without ConsentCryptoHyperliquid Policy Center, Circle press EU on perps and stablecoin reserves in MiCA reviewAINow which lab is behind fledge alpha?CryptoThe 'Largest Pure-Play' XRP Treasury Is About to Go PublicCryptoAnother Trump memecoin dinner advertised for token's top investorsCryptoOpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to Outside GroupCryptoPeter Todd Joins MARA to Lead Private Mempool SlipstreamCryptoIt's the Start of Uptober. Will Bitcoin Live Up to It?AIClef: Open Weights decision model by CloudflareAIHeretic is on PewDiePie!Crypto21bitcoin Now Pays Interest on Idle Euros, Payable in BTC CryptoEthereum staking reward burn proposal EIP-8363 pulled from Hegota upgradeCryptoIllinois Delays Controversial Crypto Tax Amid Industry LawsuitCryptoNear Intents Hacked for $3.8M Days After Denying North Korea-Linked Bitget HackerCryptoEvernorth shareholders approve $1 billion XRP treasury deal, clearing path to Nasdaq debutAIIntroducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEsCrypto Crypto for Advisors: The CLARITY Act failed, but the rules came anywayCryptoNEAR Intents hit by $3.8 million exploit as crypto's rough year of hacks continuesCryptoNEAR Intents halts services after $3.8 million exploit, promises full compensationCryptoThe Quantum Issue: Quantum Isn’t Coming For Your BitcoinCryptoMinecraft, Candy Crush Among 11 Games in EU Virtual Currency CrackdownCryptoRobinhood Wallet integrates Arcus RFQ system for stock token swapsCryptoMorning Minute: Crypto Gives Up on Congress and Goes After SenatorsCryptoBitcoin ETFs’ 9-day, $3 billion inflow streak comes to an end as $149 million exits the fundsCryptoLive updates: Bitcoin posts tentative gains as rates drop ahead of Friday's jobs reportCryptoIllinois agrees to six-month delay of crypto tax as industry continues court battleCryptoCrypto lost $1.26 billion in hacks while bitcoin bulls enjoyed a monster quarterCryptoLloyds, Visa settle $750,000 using USDC in live cross-border pilotCryptoSynthetic tokenized stocks are bad for American investorsAIQuoting Matthew GreenAIHe Built This CityCryptoClarity Act’s failure gave crypto ‘faster’ regulatory wins, Bitwise CIO saysCryptoCFTC secures over $30 million judgment against defendants in Fundsz fraud caseAIOpen TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice CloningAIQuoting Anthropic Frontier Red TeamAIGPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the priceAIPhoto Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removalAIOpenAI DevDay 2026 live blogAINVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular PredictionAIGetting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP AgentsAILanguage Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to JevAIClaude Sonnet 5.5AIQuoting @joedarooAIImport AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loopAIHolo4: powering generalist computer-use agentsAIQuoting Muse AI AgentAI2026 in LLMs (so far)AIS3 Is the Future, S3 Is the PastAIBluesky reply bot checkerAIKākāpō PartyAIQuoting John GruberAINorthern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown PelicanAIAccelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSparkAIDebating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AIAIHow UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results ReproducibleAITransformers now runs llama.cpp quantsAIJun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX communityAIImport AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics AIThe current balance of power in open modelsAItokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measuredAIWhy I still haven’t bought into true RSIAIYour Agent Aced the Task. 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