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Seriously, @Revolut? After submitting my CIFAS appeal and waiting for a response, your team has now informed me that my case falls outside the scope of CIFAS review and redirected me to your formal complaints department. Why wasn’t this clarified earlier? I’m simply asking for transparency, accountability, and a clear resolution. Being passed between departments without meaningful answers is incredibly frustrating. @Revolut @RevolutSupport #Revolut #CIFAS

Today, Bitcoin Policy Institute and a broad coalition from across the digital-asset ecosystem are publishing an open letter calling on the world’s leading AI labs to provide qualified open-source defenders with trusted access to frontier AI models. The past several weeks have made the need for this abundantly clear. The people defending digital-asset infrastructure and open-source software need access to the latest AI capabilities to perform comprehensive security reviews and stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated adversaries. The coalition includes open-source development organizations, major custodians, treasury companies, payment services, security firms, capital allocators, and others whose businesses and customers depend on the integrity of open-source infrastructure and libraries. Open-source defenders often occupy the least privileged position in the AI security landscape. They have limited access to the strongest internal cyber models and are frequently blocked by guardrails when using publicly available frontier systems for legitimate security research. As a result, they often resort to less capable open-weight alternatives. We are urging frontier AI labs to establish a clear, trusted pathway for qualified open-source and digital asset defenders to access their strongest capabilities, with sufficient compute and secure environments to conduct meaningful security reviews. Frontier AI could become one of the most powerful defensive technologies ever developed, but only if defenders get fair access to those systems. It’s time to give defenders the tools they deserve. Read the open letter, add your organization, or sign as an individual on our website at btcpolicy.org/ailetter

Why I'm staying in web3 1/ My timeline is full of people saying they're done with web3. I get it. It's been a brutal year. I'm staying, and here's why 🧵

A whale bought ~$7.22M worth of tokens over the past 24 hours, including: 378,129 $LIT ($1.4M) 6.61M $ENA ($1.34M) 3M $ONDO ($1.34M) 1.154M $AERO ($948K) 241.8 $ETH ($591K) 2,944 $QNT ($589K) 61,252 $UNI ($443K) 1,387 $TAO ($368K) 43.3B $PEPE ($195K) arkm.com/explorer/address/0x…

Revolut has restricted my account, leaving $28,000 of my own money inaccessible. I need this money for living expenses, and the uncertainty is affecting my sleep. They say this is to “protect” my account, but I’m left unable to access my funds or manage my investments properly. @Revolut, when will my account finally be unrestricted? Can anyone with banking or compliance experience explain whether this situation is reasonable and lawful, and what I can do to get it resolved?

Cyprus must be a strange place: Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, Greeks and Turks, Israelis feeling Israel, English military base, drunk English tourists, porn and crypto servers, offshore banks, every intelligence agency spying on each other — all on one medium sized island.

BREAKING: Asia’s stock market wiped out nearly $1,000,000,000,000 across six major markets today. Everyone's calling it a "Black Thursday."

BREAKING: Nvidia declares physical AI could become “10x larger than digital AI” with Jensen Huang predicting every industrial company will become a robotics company.