Sharding Weekly #151: Google launches Gemini 4 Argon
The crypto newsletter's AI section notes Google launched its most powerful model, Gemini 4 Argon, alongside BTC, ETH and SOL market news.
Welcome to the 151th edition of Sharding Weekly! 2026/10/12 - 10/18 Some Highlights: 🔸US CPI came in at 3.7% YoY and core CPI at 2.6% YoY. Both ran slightly above estimates 🔸US PPI rose to 6.3% coming in above expectations 🔸MicroStrategy to be removed from MSCI indexes 🔸Brokerage giant Charles Schwab opens Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to 40 million clients 🔸Balaji’s Network School acquires Farcaster 🔸@blur_io is shutting down its website frontend on November 12 --- 📰News $BTC •Strategy bought 250 BTC and brought holdings to 848,250 BTC •Strive buys 3,311 BTC for $275M •UK court blocks Chinese fraud victims from reclaiming $5B in seized Bitcoin •Deutsche Bank to launch Bitcoin custody for its 28 million clients $ETH •Tom Lee’s BitMine buys 12,532 ETH worth $31M •Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets sent another 4,393 ETH to Kraken $SOL •Solana Foundation showcases its Shanghai office and skyline ads AI •X unifies Grok, Cursor, and X Premium into a five-tier X Subscription •Google launches its most powerful AI model Gemini 4 Argon •The first White House AI task force meeting on Thursday •Anthropic proposes AI safety law letting the government block dangerous models •Some Anthropic investors push to cut the IPO valuation from $2T to $1.5T •DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash 1017 with better agentic coding and open MIT weights Others •Kraken to launch in the UAE after securing full regulatory approval •France considers a 31.4% tax on crypto-to-stablecoin conversions •Stripe and Plasma co-develop a new multi-currency card •Mastercard brings stablecoin payments to its global merchant network •Binance US seeks $100M at a $1B valuation with Trump’s World Liberty passing on the deal •Visa brings USDC payouts to Visa Direct across 180+ countries •@Lighter_xyz teases options season --- 📖Good Reads •@citrini - Breaking The Wall •@tiger_research_ - The Era of Industry: Q3 2026 Crypto Industry Investment Report •@tempst0 - Come for the Farm, Stay for the Casino @papertrade_xyz •@DWFLabs - Conference Notes: TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 •@edward_yu_var - Four Rules for Shorting Without Blowing Up •@0xProfessorJo - Crypto’s Next Chapter: External Problems •@Decentralisedco - Crypto Compute Capital Markets Map •@_varunnair - What Robot Deployments are Actually Automating •@BlockworksAdv - The State of Crypto Inference Providers •@a16zcrypto - Fast post-quantum signature aggregation with lattice SNARKs •@JayaGup10 - From Inference to Execution: AI’s Next Economy --- 💰Crypto Fundraising DeFi •@SpoutFi - 2m Strategic AI •@datafdn - 30m Strategic investment from @SuiFoundation •@orbiodotso - 1.2m Seed •@AIsaOneHQ - $TBD investment from @tether Exchange •@multiliquid_xyz - 8m Seed led by @polychain Payments •@EFYFinance - $TBD Seed investment from @tether Brokerage •@FissionXYZ - 10m Series A led by @PanteraCapital That’s all🥂 --- If you feel this thread is helpful, welcome to follow @ciaobelindazhou @cchungccc Thank you for all your support! Have a great day! Full content 👇 https://x.com/ShardingCapital/status/1749441701666599006
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