A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 2:32 PM ET

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

Crypto · lede

DogeOS launches testnet to bring EVM smart contracts to Dogecoin

DogeOS launched a public testnet for its zero-knowledge rollup bringing EVM smart contracts to Dogecoin, with DOGE used for gas fees.

The Block · 9 minutes ago

AI · lede

Another Ling model comes out, same receipt, 2 weeks free to use, then open source. Chinese labs do contribute a lot to open source community

Ling-3.1-flash: ~560B total params, ~25B active/token, up to 1M-token context. Across work, coding & healthcare: 1,673 Elo on GDPVal-AA v2.1, 75.16 on FrontierSWE, and 65.35 on HealthBench Professio

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 43 minutes ago

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