We have established a Lunar Programs division. By leveraging our commercial space station and satellite development capabilities, we are creating a scalable path toward lunar infrastructure to advance NASA’s vision for a permanent Moon Base. vast.news/4d1qWL9

Next year, we're going to launch a spacecraft that will be given zero commands from Earth after it separates from the launch vehicle. The spacecraft will attempt to complete all of its mission objectives with no human operator in the loop. Today we’re introducing Autonomy-1, powered by our spacecraft intelligence model, Solo. 🧵

Today, Pioneer Labs is announcing our first step towards terraforming Mars. 🚀🌼 With equipment that fits in just a single rocket launch, we can convert Martian dirt, water, and air into enough building materials to construct a small city on Mars. To do it, we made the first microbe for Mars. We found the best microbe on Earth and used evolution to teach it how to source all of its nutrients directly from Martian materials. The first astronauts will be greeted with safe shelter already filled with water, oxygen, and rocket fuel for the return journey. This is the first step toward using biology to make Mars a friendly place for life. It lets us live off the land and helps us build the next great frontier. It's the first of five organisms we need to green Mars ⬇️

🚨Stellar is LEADING the entire crypto industry in tokenised fund growth in 2026! @StellarOrg has added $2.5 BILLION this year, putting it level with $BNB Chain and ahead of Solana, Avalanche, $XRP Ledger, Base and others. These are real investment funds being brought onchain with $XLM is sitting at the very front of it! credit: @RWAFoundation_ + @tokenterminal

Vast and @esa, on behalf of Greece, have signed an agreement for Vast’s private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in partnership with @NASA. @astrovenator is slated to serve as a mission specialist, becoming the first Greek astronaut. vast.news/46NBolT

There's a race to get the first commercial space station up in orbit. Boosted by an original $1 billion investment from @JedMcCaleb, @vast has been sprinting to get to space first. We went to Long Beach to check out Vast's Haven-1 space station that could fly next year and to see what a more modern space station looks like. Enjoy!!

We recently launched an essay competition for which scientists described structural problems they run into. With nearly 200 submissions, we decided to give out 8 awards, instead of 3. A quick summary here 👇 1 / 5

The ISS is old AF. But, thankfully, we have replacements on the way in the form of commercial space stations. We recently went to @vast to see the progress they are making on the Haven-1, which should fly next year. It will have room for four people and science labs and is a much more modern twist on space life. We saw their manufacturing operations, food R&D program, and I learned how to pass gas in orbit.

The greatest chapter in space exploration since the original Apollo lunar missions is underway — and California is writing it. With Golden State aerospace companies like @Vast bringing about cutting-edge commercial space technology, the future looks bright.

Big news, and I'm on 🧵 for the second time in as many weeks, Last week, @StellarOrg and @The_DTCC announced a partnership to bring tokenized securities settlement to Wall Street. Today, @MoneyGram launched MGUSD - their own dollar-backed stablecoin - built on Stellar. MGUSD is issued by @stripe 's Bridge, with smart contracts from @m0 and wallet infrastructure from @FireblocksHQ. It is live in the US today, rolling out globally to 60 million customers across 200 countries and 500,000 retail locations. (1/3)

Very honored to have France as part of the first mission to Haven-1

🚀Deux missions spatiales impliquant des astronautes français ont été annoncées aujourd'hui. @Thom_astro et @Arno_astro voleront en 2027 dans le cadre d'un accord entre la France et la société Vast. 👉Tous les détails dans notre article. cnes.fr/actualites/astronaut… #PAM6 #Haven1

Stellar continues to be one of best blockchains for real world use.

Today, @The_DTCC and SDF are announcing plans to enable the tokenization of DTC-custodied assets on Stellar. The connection supports the rapid conversion of traditional assets into tokenized form, and the full asset lifecycle, including corporate actions and reporting.

Today is a big day for @SocketSecurity. We just raised a $60M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by @ThriveCapital with participation from @a16z, @AbstractVC, and @CapitalOne Ventures. Total funding is now $125M. Four years ago, we started Socket because open source dependencies were flowing into production faster than anyone could vet them. AI has massively accelerated that. Code is being written, shipped, and deployed before any human reads it. Security has to operate at that same speed. One data point from Thrive's diligence that I keep coming back to: they first discovered Socket because @cursor_ai, @OpenAI, and @AnthropicAI all independently told them it was the most important security tool they'd adopted for AI-driven development. Three of the most sophisticated AI companies converging on the same vendor unprompted. Since our Series B, Socket has grown to more than 20,000 organizations, protecting over 1.5 million repositories and blocking more than 1,000 supply chain attacks every week. The team is now over 100 people. Three out of five FAANG companies are Socket customers. So are the companies building the most ambitious AI products: @AnthropicAI, @cursor_ai, @xai, @figma, @vercel, @Replit, @scale_AI, @GustoHQ, @Mercadolibre, and @cribl_io, alongside Fortune 100s in financial services and global media. What we've shipped since the last round: • Socket Firewall blocks malicious packages at install time, before they reach a developer's laptop or CI pipeline. Free for everyone. • Reachability analysis via our acquisition of Coana, eliminating 50-80% of irrelevant vulnerability alerts by focusing only on CVEs that are actually exploitable. • Socket Certified Patches for remediating exploitable CVEs in seconds without waiting on upstream maintainers. • Coverage extending to browser extensions, editor extensions, MCP servers, and AI tools via our acquisition of @secureannex. When the Axios compromise hit, our detection systems flagged the malicious dependency within six minutes. Within 24 hours, more than 2,000 organizations onboarded to Socket to block it. Where the funding goes: deeper investment in Firewall, massively expanding Certified Patches, moving protection closer to every point of install across the developer toolchain, and new product launches pushing Socket into a category we haven't entered before. We're hiring across engineering, sales, customer success, and threat intel. ❤️ Thank you to our customers, investors, and the open-source community for your support. Together, we’re making software safer for everyone.

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Asked Claude: 'There's a meme called the "fix everything easily switch". What policies do you think are the best candidates for being a real fix everything switch in the US? Give me your top ten, your confidence, your reasoning, and why a given policy has not been implemented.'

Overview Energy to provide space-based solar power for Meta data centers spacenews.com/overview-energ…

Massive milestone 🔥 Stellar has crossed $2 billion in RWAs on the network, driven by partners like @FTDA_US, @Spiko_finance, @OndoFinance, and more. This is onchain growth in action.