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Stocks. ETFs. Gold. All onchain. All on Monad.
Introducing the new Kuru.
Rebuilt from the ground up, with faster infrastructure, better execution, and a cleaner trading experience.
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
Release 0.3.0 tagged!
Major changes:
- A new native docs artifact (Quest docs) that protects information movement based on visibility
- Many new inference backends (@FireworksAI_HQ, @near_ai, @TrustedRouter)
- Multiple accounts per user for connected services.
- Haiku 5.5 and Argon 4 support for Vertex
- Sanitization framework for model-created files.
- New contributors! (Thank you @jperla and @altantutar)
- Bug fixes, see full changelog below
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
We now have a dedicated page for @QuestHarness!
And new release tagged! This is the first release with external contributors. More inference backends. IMAP support. And a new agent-native document creation feature called Quest docs. 👇
Release 0.3.0 tagged!
Major changes:
- A new native docs artifact (Quest docs) that protects information movement based on visibility
- Many new inference backends (@FireworksAI_HQ, @near_ai, @TrustedRouter)
- Multiple accounts per user for connected services.
- Haiku 5.5 and Argon 4 support for Vertex
- Sanitization framework for model-created files.
- New contributors! (Thank you @jperla and @altantutar)
- Bug fixes, see full changelog below
github.com/electric-capital/…
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
Quest now has local inference support with the 0.2.0 release we just tagged!
But don't take my word for it. Let this jazzy hype video do all the talking.
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
While building Quest, I realized people often conflate two important facets of agentic permissions.
One facet is the systemic one. "Can the agent send a Slack message?" "Can the agent write to this file?"
We often think about these permissions in the context of a specific workflow or task. We build systems that say for workflow X, the agent can call function Y. We map the tools that an underlying system provides us into a permission layer for the AI.
Which is great; it's part of the solution, but if you stop there you're missing half the story.
Because the second facet is: "Even if the agent can write to this file, should it write what it's about to write?"
Here's where it gets way more nuanced. The agent just used your CFO's access permissions to read everyone's salary. Can it use that information to write it to a file? If it does, who can see that file? Is there a violation of privacy, confidentiality, or company rules if it does?
As you can see, just thinking about things at the "can it write to a file" level doesn't address a huge set of potential issues.
And unlike these tool-level access controls, the rules of information flow within an organization are often fluid, poorly documented, and highly contextual.
This is why in Quest, we went with a strict human-in-the-loop design for all scenarios where an AI can share information retrieved from your context with other people/agents.
Someday, we hope to introduce mechanisms to allow AIs to help you make these decisions. If these gatekeeper AIs get good enough, then you might imagine some of this even gets automated.
But for this to work there's a whole set of skills and context that needs to be built for every organization according to their own rules.
And then there's the whole layer of evals and testing needed to measure resilience against prompt injection and alignment behavior. All before we can ever hope to turn this on for handling the most sensitive data.
Until then, the agent can still do a lot of work for you, but I think you should have the final say.
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
We @ElectricCapital are open sourcing Quest - a harness for privacy-aware companies
Run your own models, be thoughtful about which data is shared with model companies, & guardrails to make sure non-technical users don't accidentally leak sensitive data
We use it every day
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Today we are open sourcing Quest, an AI harness that we built at @ElectricCapital, used by all of our teams every day.
Deploying AI to a whole organization is not easy. We looked at many, many options.
Ultimately, there were two reasons that led us to build our own harness: 🧵
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
Today we are open sourcing Quest, an AI harness that we built at @ElectricCapital, used by all of our teams every day.
Deploying AI to a whole organization is not easy. We looked at many, many options.
Ultimately, there were two reasons that led us to build our own harness: 🧵
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Since launch 4 months ago, we've been testing and iterating and building on what makes Legend the greatest trading platform in the world.
We believe that we've now found it and are officially launching the product out of Alpha.
- We've done ~$800M in trading volume
- We're now onboarding ~1,000 signups a day
- Our initial feature set is built and ready to be scaled
- [redacted] coming soon
And most importantly of all, we've found a group of users/friends who want to see us win and believe in what we're building. A place for pro traders and new traders alike to become Legend.
Legend is officially out of alpha.
Since launch, we’ve done over $750M in trading volume and are now onboarding 1,000+ new users every day.
This is where traders come to compete, build a name, and become Legend.
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Introducing the Metropolis global hackathon
Six weeks to build the next generation of startups on Monad.
4 tracks. Over $250K in prizes for builders.
Submissions end October 13th.
monad.xyz/metropolis
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
Today I sit down with @avichal , co-founder and General Partner at @ElectricCapital . Avichal has built and sold companies, worked inside early Google and Facebook, served as a visiting partner at Y Combinator, and now backs founders across crypto and frontier tech.
We get into:
• Why founders are more like artists than operators
• What actually compounds a person's trajectory
• His "software eating money" thesis behind Electric Capital
• Why honesty ends up being the real edge in venture
• so much more!
Timestamps
00:00:00 Trailer
00:00:44 Intro
00:01:00 Watches, luxury markets, and the AI parallel
00:12:48 Opportunity is a luxury
00:14:43 Founders as artists, not just operators
00:18:26 Authenticity and cutting through market noise
00:24:38 Betting on outliers as a life philosophy
00:37:58 Storytelling as a founder superpower
00:55:41 How Elad Gil helped launch Electric
01:07:55 Why crypto was the wedge for Electric
01:19:28 Why he prefers market corrections
01:31:00 The firms Electric was modelled after
01:36:21 Honesty as the core operating principle
01:42:15 Over-committing resources to founders
01:51:03 Dodging SBF and reading fake authenticity
02:01:40 Outro
Link in comments!
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
We are hosting a happy hour with our friends at @monad and @Cloudflare at SBC next week.
Details here if you're interested: luma.com/monad-electriccapit…
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
At SBC next week?
Come meet up with other founders and onchain tinkerers for conversations and relaxed drinks.
Hosted by the teams at @Cloudflare, @monad, and @ElectricCapital.
sign up here: luma.com/monad-electriccapit…
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
Love Linus' pragmatism here: "AI is a tool, just like other tools we use."
The data agrees: 1 in 12 Linux kernel commits merged last month disclosed AI assistance.
A year ago that number was zero.
Absolutely beautiful rant about AI in Linux Kernel from Linus yesterday:
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area
where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level
maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues
with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no
longer in question today.
There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will
actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of
those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used
it.
Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer
workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs"
standpoint.
But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La
La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem
to do.
The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers
instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.
We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore
people who try to argue against other people from using it.
And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the
problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at
themselves at the same time.
Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.
The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.
Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and
often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a
side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.
This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been,
and never will be.
In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better
technology, not because of religious reasons.
And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear
of new tools.
Linus
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Peek under the hood of Thru's latest release(s):
- Alphanet: now has gRPC support
- Fullnode now supports ARM64 / Apple Silicon
- Wallet passkey signing sessions with scoped approvals
- Catastrophic recovery; nodes will self-heal after severe faults
- Updated & agent-friendly docs (docs.thru.org/llms-full.txt)
Install the developer sdk:
npm i -g thru
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
Google Street View started as a project to scan the real world.
Cars with cameras photographed streets to collect data. It worked, but everything that made a place feel like a place was gone.
Until @andyszy prototyped what it could feel like as a product designed for people.
The prototype was completely fake. The map didn't work and the imagery wasn't real. But it let people feel what it was like to stand on the street.
An engineer saw it and said "let's ship it." Andy had to explain there was nothing to ship.
This "smoke and mirrors" prototype convinced the team to throw out years of work and rebuild Street View through the eye of a human instead of a machine.
I talked with Andy about the whole story, including the prototypes, the key design decisions, and how Street View became one of the most beloved products on the internet.
Full story (with more early prototypes) in the replies 👇
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Electric Capital ⚡️ retweeted
Congrats @ethlabs_org team on their launch! I am delighted to be an initial donor and supporter. Props to
@ethereumJoseph, @Sharplink, @BitMNR and @fundstrat for anchoring this new organization.
A few thoughts having spent time watching how @adietrichs, @barnabemonnot, @casparschwa, @joshrudolf, and @_julianma work together and iterate:
Observations on Eth Labs:
1. The team is very open to feedback, learns quickly, and is taking feedback much faster than any prior Ethereum-related organization I've seen.
2. The explicit focus on $ETH as a store-of-value is a deliberate decision. It is very much needed from an Ethereum ecosystem blessed organization. Finally.
3. There is finally a team that acknowledges DeFi is a killer use case and needs support. Love that they are pragmatic about it.
4. They were deliberate in getting many builders in the community to support them. They are genuinely open to input and want more builders from the ecosystem to be a part of this.
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Ren (@0xren_cf) dropping some knowledge on Bitcoin and quantum!
Quantum computing has become a major topic within Bitcoin discussions.
The team dives into Bitcoin's quantum readiness and why investor education remains critical in a new episode of Bitcoin Brainstorm. Watch. ark-invest.com/podcast/bitco…
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RE TGE is coming soon.
A new era for the internet native insurance capital market begins.
More details here:
blog.re.xyz/re-governance-to…
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