A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability (@jank0 / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

New Coin Launch: BTT (Deposit and Withdrawal Schedule) . @BitTorrent $BTT . 📌Pair: $BTT/THB 📌Deposit and Withdrawal of BTT: 27 May 2026 at 11:00 AM (GMT+7) . Cryptocurrency and digital tokens involve high risks; investors may lose all investment money and should study information carefully and make investments according to their own risk profile. . #Bitkub# #BitkubExchange# #BTT# #BitTorrent#

The team has notified me that they have completed the BTTC Bridge Sunset Program. Going forward, the BitTorrent team will focus more on decentralized AI and the maintenance of the BitTorrent decentralized protocol. All funds are safe, and users can continue to deposit and withdraw their BTTC Bridge funds through our partner centralized exchanges. @BitTorrent

Attention: The TRON Eco AI Pizza Day is almost here! Time for a feast🍕 We are teaming up with @DeFi_JUST, @AINFTcom, @BitTorrent, @WinkLink_Oracle, and @BAI_AGI to serve up a massive festival menu: 💸 TRON Eco: A 2,000 USDT Reward "Big Pizza" 🔋 500k free points as an "AI Energy Boost" (for new friends!) Here is the alpha: The 2,000 USDT pool unlocks ONLY when total comments across all 5 projects hit 4,000. The project with the most comments gets the biggest slice of the pie. 👀 We need the SUN community to take that #1# spot and eat the biggest slice! 😎 Get ready to use the exclusive AI Pizza Code, claim your AI boost, and tag your squad. Starts May 20.

#PeckShieldAlert# The @KelpDAO exploiter has begun laundering stolen funds (~$176M). They have started bridging small batches of funds from #Ethereum# to $BTC via @THORChain, @UmbraCash, @chainflip, and @BitTorrent.

🔎 TRON Eco Weekly | 9.14–9.20 🤖 @OfficialSUNio hosted two roundtables on what comes after better AI models, while @BAI_AGI surpassed 2.7M total users. 📊 On the other side, JustLend DAO announced the upcoming disabling of Supply and Borrow for the $USD1 market. $WIN supply reached $1.00M with $3.37K in total borrows, while $NFT supply stood at $498.67K with a 2.41% borrow APY. 📈 In the broader ecosystem, $BTT was listed on @BinanceUS, followed by a × @BitTorrent BOOST event featuring $100K in $BTT rewards. 📌 A quick look at what moved across #TRONEco# last week 👇

𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡 𝗘𝗰𝗼 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽: 𝗔 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗙𝗶, 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 The TRON ecosystem had another busy week, August 17–23, with developments spanning DeFi, AI, stablecoins and core infrastructure. Here’s the quick recap: 𝗗𝗲𝗙𝗶 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁. JustLend DAO launched Buy Energy, offering users a cheaper alternative to burning TRX for Energy, with fees around 63% lower. The ETHB market also underwent a major risk-management update, with its collateral factor moving from 75% to 45% and reserve factor from 10% to 100% following community governance. Stablecoin infrastructure expanded. GasFree Mainnet added USDD support, giving developers another stablecoin option for gasless transactions. 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱. expanded access to models including DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp and Tencent Hy3, while also adding Xiaomi MiMo APIs. The platform crossed 1T in total token throughput, marking a major usage milestone. 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴. Global BitTorrent installations surpassed 584M, reinforcing the scale of the ecosystem's decentralized content and infrastructure footprint. And across the wider network, TRON's total transfer volume surpassed $29 trillion as activity continues to grow. One week, multiple sectors, one expanding ecosystem. DeFi. Stablecoins. AI. Infrastructure. That’s the TRON Eco weekly recap. #TRONEcoStar# @justinsuntron #TRON#

This Week in Virtuals: 47.3% of All Agentic Transactions on Base Run Through Virtuals Protocol Surpassed $250M+ agent volume on @RobinhoodCrypto Chain and nearly half of Base's agentic activity is running on Virtuals Protocol. Here's what shipped: VIRTUALS 🟩 Partnered with @robinscanio to set the standard for agent transparency on Robinhood Chain: vesting, unlocks, team wallets, and roadmap, all in one view. 🟩 Shared its robotics thesis live on @MadSocietyTV's S1 with RoboStrategy on why agents are moving into the physical world. 🟩 @DonJohnsonSays previewed what's next for Virtuals on the Base Builder Call, from agent economy numbers to the push into embodied AI ECOSYSTEM 🟩 BitTorrent for AI inference: HALO by @wardenprotocol is live on Virtuals. Serve a model, get paid per prompt in USDC, settled onchain in ~2s. 🟩 @StrikeRobot_ai open-sourced its full @UnitreeRobotics Go2 navigation stack: SLAM + Nav2, Vision-Language-Action integration, running on Qualcomm Edge for on-device autonomy. 🟩 @bleeep_xyz launched Agent Beta: agent decisions committed onchain before outcomes, with @RobinhoodCrypto as primary anchoring chain and @arbitrum next. 🟩 @ProjectVEXai grew 10x in a week: VEX agents scan Robinhood Chain trenches 24/7, and Economy Engine v1 ties that activity to $VEX. 🟩 @KarmaWallet gave $KARMA utility: hold $10 and up to 90% of trading fees return via open-market buybacks. Volume up 290% in 30 days. 🟩 @grid_arena launched Season Zero: 25M $GRID over 43 days, 70% by volume, 30% to top performers. 🟩 @WizzHQ shipped its first week on Robinhood Chain: 2,000+ users, Wallet Finder scanning 10,000 Polymarket wallets, plus Claude for Startups and @nvidia Inception. 🟩 @insidersdotbot brought trading to the timeline: tag it under any news post and it analyzes and executes the trade in your feed. 🟩 @myrad_hq burned 7,000,000 $MYRAD, 0.7% of supply, at 18,000+ users, and made $MYRAD buyable by card through @QwertiAI. 🟩 @ethy_agent executed a 300,000 $ETHY buyback funded entirely by product revenue, with users up 30x since launch. 🟩 @ArAIstotle marked one year of $FACY: 658% oversubscribed at Genesis, every roadmap phase shipped, 22,761 agent-to-agent verifications in February alone. 🟩 @OpenGradient shipped Seedance 2.5: 30-second clips from one prompt with native audio. 2 billion tokens now processed, all sealed in hardware enclaves. 🟩 @vimenprotocol tripled its universe to 30 tokenized equities, paid its first onchain dividends, and added one-click index minting. 🟩 @vantis_ai published its first financial statement, fully verifiable onchain: $14.3K in fees, 9.3M $VANTIS bought back, plus a card that burns with use. 🟩 @wrkrdev turned capital formation into revenue: 15 pre-production seats generating 3,000 USDT MRR via x402, 10% of receipts to top $WRKR wallets. 🟩 @reppo hit 134 active Orquestra nodes, crossed 700M in locked $REPPO trading volume, secured enterprise contracts, and opened NFT claims. 🟩 @officialbunnyos went Telegram-native at @bunnyagentbot after processing 50M+ tokens in 25 days. Telegram users already run 3x web. 🟩 @AgentiqAI showcased full-stack apps built end-to-end on its autonomous engineering platform, every component tested before deployment on Robinhood Chain.

It’s clear by now how massive the AI agent meta and the entire agentic economy is becoming. Yet most people are still focused on the chatbot layer while ignoring the actual infrastructure autonomous agents will run on. I’ve been looking into Warden Protocol for a while before today’s move. Missed the HALO announcement and next chapter shipping unfortunately, but i’ve been buying the dip/consolidation here. $WARD is basically building the rails for autonomous AI agents onchain, while HALO acts like a BitTorrent for AI, a decentralized peer-to-peer compute marketplace with verifiable execution and correctness. I’m talking about actual agents able to execute transactions, manage capital, interact crosschain, use apps, route liquidity, automate strategies and coordinate actions across protocols without humans manually clicking buttons all day. What makes $WARD especially interesting to me and that people seem to miss apart from the credentials of the founders and the partnership with @AskVenice, is that Warden is architected specifically for an agentic economy from the ground up. Every agent gets a verifiable onchain identity and reputation layer, essentially an onchain passport allowing agents to discover each other, interact and build trust across ecosystems. Every action and output can generate a Proof of Prompt anchored onchain, meaning agent behavior becomes transparent, reproducible and verifiable instead of black-box AI outputs. Payments are also designed natively for agents themselves, enabling scalable micropayments, automated fees and autonomous value transfer using $WARD. And the entire system is crosschain by design, allowing agents to operate seamlessly across 100+ networks including Ethereum and Solana through IBC and bridging infrastructure. Feels very similar to early cloud infrastructure plays where everyone focused on the apps while ignoring the rails powering everything underneath. Especially because they’re actually building deep infrastructure instead of just slapping “AI” on branding and farming engagement. Still feels insanely early on the entire agentic infra narrative imo. Another interesting thing i noticed is that liquidity keeps consistently getting added to the LPs. When i first came across $WARD the liq was actually pretty thin, but over the past few hours it seems that it improved significantly and is still continuously getting thicker, which i assume is being added by the team. It shows they likely have long term plans for the token and It’s also explicitly mentioned in both the litepaper and the latest announcement from the Warden Protocol Foundation. I’m personally building a position here because it feels like a very asymmetric setup. A lot of infra projects with a fraction of the product quality, vision and founder credentials are already sitting at hundreds of millions in market cap, while $WARD is still sitting around 4m. especially taking in consideration that @wardenprotocol raised over $50m across fundraising rounds, which is over 10x+ the current market cap alone. more info on their 50m raise in this Binance article :