Here are some insights regarding this latest news, which I would like to share and how it correlates to base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722 1) The latest Anthropic’s announcement (and the US export controls it references) is about centralized frontier AI models becoming "strategic national assets", which in turn basically turns into RESTRICTIONS even for foreign nationals in the US, with safeguards, tiered access, etc. 2) This is part of a broader geopolitical push to control advanced AI compute and prevent diffusion to adversaries. 3) Nockchain sees this as the exact problem decentralized alternatives need to solve: a) Centralized labs like Anthropic are gatekept by governments → escalating controls, export rules, and potential fragmentation of AI access. b) @nockchain response: Build permissionless AI compute networks on top of their zkPoW base. c) Miners contribute GPUs to verifiable AI tasks (e.g., inference), earn , and produce useful output that’s cryptographically proven. d) I'm sure most of you are aware that Nockchain is launching an AI Compute Network upgrade (target early July) with a matrix multiplication PoUW puzzle. Which is open-source, supports high-end GPUs like RTX 5090/4090. e) It starts with merge-mining compatibility to bootstrap liquidity/compute. f) Goal: Turn the massive proving network they’ve already built into a broad market for AI inference and other verifiable tasks. 4) In short: Because government restrictions on models like Claude underscore the need for open, decentralized compute markets ===> Centralized AI gets locked down! 5) So, when states and big labs control the tech, the reasonable solution is to build unstoppable decentralized infrastructure instead. And Nockchain positions itself as the base layer where multiple “Compute Networks” (including AI) can live and compete.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ TLDR: This exact news shows how integral and important projects like @nockchain are and where the not so distant future is headed ===> Billions coded. (✊,✊)

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No wonder $ZEC nuked 25%, pretty wild to not know whether the token was mass printed Privacy becoming a bug not a feature TL;DR i) Bug found: May 29, 2026 by Taylor Hornby (AI-assisted audit - Opus 4.8 showing us what it’s made of!) in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool ii) Issue: Under-constrained circuit (present since 2022) allowed unlimited undetectable counterfeit ZEC creation iii) Response: Fully disclosed & fixed ecosystem-wide by June 2, 2026 iv) Exploitation risk: Unprovable due to privacy, but considered unlikely v) Next steps (Shielded Labs): New shielded pool turnstile for verifiable supply Hopefully there’s a clearer image in the coming days

First round of 2026, repping @GolfNApp from the blues 🚀

So @nockchain is going to reuse AI inference that is already happening at scale, to secure their blockchain Inference providers earn block rewards and Nockchain's security goes way up. Win/Win On Bitcoin, the mining work secures the chain only Nockchain replaces hashing with zero knowledge proofs. Consensus does not care what you computed, only that you produced a valid proof below the difficulty target So the miner and the inference provider become the same entity! Lets walk through an example 🕐 You run a GPU 🕑 A customer pays you to run their AI inference request 🕒 You serve them the answer, and in doing that you produce a ZK proof of the computation 🕓 That same proof is your lottery ticket against the block reward 🕕 If it lands below the target, you just secured a block while getting paid by the customer 🕖 One job, two payouts, and the network gets secured by real economic work instead of wasted hashing Nockchain already made chain improvements recently with Phase 2 (2.5 minute blocks and a protocol fund) but this update moves taps them into a huge existing increase in security supply while hitting the privacy aspects well @Delphi_Ventures are proud $NOCK holders and we really like @loganallc, @chiefgrug and the team. They have persevered through some big hurdles and delivered.

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Joining @Nirvana_Fi today. I came into blockchain a few years ago with optimism and ideals. Time to act on them. Crypto's biggest wins right now look more like casinos than the censorship-resistant, permissionless finance most of us came here for. Mayflower is building the opposite: rising-floor reserve markets, earned governance, mechanisms that actually protect holders instead of extracting from them. Excited to ship.

RISE allows communities to build without the fear of wealth destruction 🫴

The nice thing about programs that are just math is that you can prove they're correct. Publishing that proof for the AVM is top of mind. I've had my share of experience working with high-stakes financial code over the years. I still sometimes wake up at 3am to go triple check a fuzz test I wrote 5 months ago because in my dreams I can't exactly remember the invariants it covers. The invariant was there, of course it was there, ok . . . and then it's back to sack. Paranoia is an occupational hazard in this line. But, I've learned there are ways to mitigate the symptoms with good habits. I'm making a guide with practical tips on how to write correct programs for Solana. Sharing my favorite programming tip below: