a defi protocol lost $8.5m because someone bought enough votes to drain it @Cointelegraph ♥ 87 · read more
CertiK counts 2,843 ETH and $1.6m in DAI sitting at one address. per @pashov the root cause wasn't a contract bug at all — the attacker got voting power cheaply and the Term Labs team never vetoed the proposal.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 87 🚨 ALERT: CertiK says a governance attack on Term Labs caused an $8.5M loss, with 2,843 $ETH and $1.6M DAI at one address. @pashov · ♥ 13 🚨An exploit from this morning on @term_labs drained multiple vaults for a total of ~$8.6M worth of ETH & DAI Root cause is not a smart contract exploit, but the governance setup of the protocol - voting power acquired by attacker cheaply &every ledger with the ethereum app can be tricked into signing the wrong thing @0xdface · read more
@0xdface, sharing testmachine_ai's report, says a malicious dApp with WebHID access to the device is enough to substitute a signature. treat it as unconfirmed until ledger says something.
canada is done negotiating and will match trump's 50% tariffs dollar for dollar @MKjrstad · read more
canada's prime minister suspended trade talks with the us, per NBC News. the premiers of ontario and manitoba spent the day on camera saying trump can't be trusted at all.
@MKjrstad BREAKING: Canada’s prime minister suspends trade talks with the U.S. and says he will match Trump’s 50% tariffs “dollar for do… @MarioNawfal · ♥ 82 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Ontario Premier Doug Ford: You absolutely cannot trust Trump "Trump is the type of person that would steal your lunch money the first day. He'd steal the toque off your head the second day, and the third day he'd steal your running @MarioNawfal · ♥ 238 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canadian Premier trashes Trump: "You can't get a good deal with a bad person" Premier of Manitoba, Wab Kinew: "We don't like Trump's approach to trade or his way of treating Canada. President Trump is the reason we're all paying soone ai payments project has quietly done 29 million onchain transactions in seven months @bc1beat · read more
@bc1beat says BlockRunAI is now the biggest x402 project by transaction count. 27m of those ran on Base, 2m on Solana.
trump wants hyperliquid legal in the us and its token just hit a record @blknoiz06 ♥ 1.2k · read more
per @blknoiz06, $HYPE is the best-performing major crypto of the past two years and broke new all-time highs. its attached HyperEVM chain still hasn't produced a real onchain hit.
tokenized stocks just crossed $1 billion in trading volume on uniswap @TimHaldorsson ♥ 19 · read more
@TimHaldorsson says the robinhood-issued versions are the ones finding a home. he thinks the real unlock is using them as collateral in defi vaults.
it takes about 40 days to start staking ether and no time to stop @LeonWaidmann ♥ 21 · read more
@LeonWaidmann's numbers: entry queue ~40 days, exit queue basically zero, staking rate at a fresh high. @d_gusakov notes the entry queue has now been above zero for nearly a year straight.
@LeonWaidmann · ♥ 21 Ethereum staking demand remains MASSIVE! 📈 🔹 Entry queue: ~40 days 🔹 Exit queue: basically ZERO 🔹 ETH staking rate continues hitting new ATHs Far more ETH wants IN than OUT. The supply squeeze continues. @d_gusakov · ♥ 7 We are about to reach the point when, for a whole year, the @ethereum entry queue is larger than 0. Brutalsolana made about a million dollars in fees in a single day @therealchaseeb · read more
per @therealchaseeb: $1.02m in network revenue on aug 21, plus roughly as much again at the app layer. solana also leads every chain in 30-day spot dex volume.
chinese institutions are building ai copies of american voters to test political messages @chainyoda · read more
natalie winters' report, shared by @chainyoda. @Polymarket frames it as simulating us elections to model how swing-state voters react to campaigns.
@chainyoda EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Institutions Are Building AI Models Of American Voters—And Testing Political Messages On Them. Fud… @Polymarket · ♥ 1.1k JUST IN: China is reportedly using AI models of American voters to simulate U.S. elections & model how swing-state voters may respond to political campaigns.aliexpress was caught playing sounds you can't hear to track you @punk6529 · read more
a developer only noticed because he was wearing bluetooth headphones. per brave's writeup, shared by @punk6529 and @bcrypt, the app wasn't recording — it was emitting inaudible audio to fingerprint devices.
a chinese robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, faster than usain bolt @Polymarket ♥ 87 · read more
"tianzhuo" set the mark at the world humanoid robot games, per @Polymarket. @VaderResearch's read: the games are a hardware flex, and american robots stood still at their own trade show this year.
@Polymarket · ♥ 87 JUST IN: Chinese robot “Tianzhuo” clocks a 9.39-second 100m at the World Humanoid Robot Games — faster than Usain Bolt’s human world record. @VaderResearch · ♥ 4 Humanoid Games are more about China’s capabilities in hardware than entertainment American robots are behind as can be proven by live demonstrations in Western exhibitions. E.g. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas and Agility’s Digit were static in this774 us service members have now been reported wounded or killed in iran @teledamage · read more
the washington post's running count, via unusual_whales and @teledamage. it's a sharp jump from the last public figure.
iran says trump betrayed the talks and it will change how it fights @MarioNawfal ♥ 111 · read more
senior official mohsen rezaee, quoted by RT News via @MarioNawfal: "we will certainly make changes to the method of warfare."
iran is threatening american business interests as washington preps more sanctions @WhaleFactor ♥ 10 · read more
@WhaleFactor quotes iran's national security chief: "we haven't touched your commercial companies yet. test us." oil traders find out monday morning.
a big market maker moved a pile of ether onto binance over the weekend @hackapreneur ♥ 42 · read more
@hackapreneur flagged wintermute's transfers and reads them as setup for a monday sell-off. that's a guess about intent, not a confirmed plan.
a distributed ai network is now serving 5.2 billion tokens a day @pratikg ♥ 1 · read more
@pratikg's aug 22 numbers for @darkbloomai: 5.23b tokens/day at $134k annual recurring revenue, with 100 more macs added to the pool.
ai is about to start finding bugs in everyone's code, and defi's is public @DeFi_Dad ♥ 10 · read more
@DeFi_Dad's case for defi over cefi: the same models that will surface new vulnerabilities can also be pointed at open code before an attacker gets there.
nvidia will lead american open-weight ai by year end, one dev bets @jun_song ♥ 57 · read more
@jun_song expects nvidia's open models to catch chinese open-weight models soon. @chainyoda's counterpoint is one line long: data is how chinese models win.
saudi arabia, pakistan and turkey may have invited iran to join them @poordart ♥ 229 · read more
@poordart says if it's real, and if iran is actually considering it, it's the only news that matters today. entirely unconfirmed so far.
ukraine is running out of air defense because america spent its interceptors over iran @MarioNawfal · read more
@MarioNawfal's framing: two wars, one magazine.
trying to stop iran getting a bomb may have convinced it to build one @MarioNawfal ♥ 19 · read more
former cia analyst larry johnson, via @MarioNawfal, on the contradiction sitting in the middle of the whole strategy.
trump made more money trading in one month than pelosi did in 37 years @Boyanbc · read more
the claim comes from zacksjerryrig via @Boyanbc and went very viral overnight. no underlying numbers were attached to it.
a congresswoman who voted against crypto rules holds bitcoin and ether herself @MarioNawfal ♥ 33 · read more
@MarioNawfal flags rep. rashida tlaib's latest disclosure: btc and eth inside a $1.2m retirement account, after she voted against the CLARITY Act last month.
coinbase has sat on the same 150,000 ether for years and eth people are furious @Azshken · read more
@Azshken contrasts it with tom lee's accumulation. @materkel and @Alexintosh add that coinbase sold eth from sequencer fees while growing its bitcoin pile.
@Azshken Holding 150,000 ETH for years means Coinbase failed to accumulate ETH for years In the meantime, Tom Lee accumulated 6 M… @Alexintosh · ♥ 9 Oh enough with the victim charade. Coinbase is doing some positive things for Ethereum but they do it because they profit, it's not out of filantropy. Coinbase consistently failed to accumulate ETH while constantly dumping it on the market. @materkel · ♥ 7 @torok_tomi > As an ETH holder, the one thing that disappointed me was seeing Coinbase sell ETH from sequencer fees while increasing its Bitcoin holdings. I honestly couldn’t understand why. tbh. this is such a big and completely unnecessarsomeone built a hardware wallet that checks your pulse before it will sign @z0r0zzz ♥ 3 · read more
@z0r0zzz's CELL is 3d-printable at home, does bitcoin and ethereum, and can lock a transaction behind "proof of blood" — it checks clotting with lasers.
@z0r0zzz · ♥ 3 CELL is a hardware wallet simple enough to build at home. It's human-first: it checks your pulse, and you can lock transactions to 'proof of blood'. It literally checks clotting with lasers. code/prints: https://t.co/bq65GtOuHx model: @avi_eisen A hardware wallet that makes signing cost you. Pulse for everyday. Blood when you mean it 🩸. OS. Bitcoin & Ethereum. 3D pri…that pulse-checking wallet funded itself with shares that sold out in four hours @z0r0zzz ♥ 3 · read more
@z0r0zzz raised it as a DAICO at 333 gwei per $CELL share. holders control the treasury and the vesting of eth into a timelocked multisig.
pendle is the one defi design nobody managed to just copy, says one trader @rachit · read more
shared by @rachit: in what he calls a fork-fest copypasta industry, pendle is the primitive you can't ignore.
alchemix's eth token trades below par and you collect the gap by waiting @scupytrooples · read more
@scupytrooples: alETH sits at 0.975, redemption isn't subject to availability, and vault losses don't hit you — only an insolvent lending protocol would, which he calls unlikely.
@scupytrooples @Alexintosh @intocryptoast not subject to availability. you deposit alUSD or alETH (or zap into it) and it converts to USDC or ETH. Buying the Alchemix asset at a discount and the getting the underlying over time is where the yield comes fr @scupytrooples @Alexintosh @intocryptoast at time of redemption, you get equal value of deposited alAssets valued in USDC or ETH, so if the vault takes losses you are unaffected. however if that happens and the lending protocol becomes insolvent (unlikely @Alexintosh @scupytrooples @intocryptoast nice, very pendle-coded. that's assuming the underlying strategies on alTokens don't get hacked or generally loose economic value (ie wstETH depeg or something). What happens in those cases?a new ethereum network promises compute that leaves no receipt behind @haochizzle · read more
llamaonthebrink's tldr, shared by @haochizzle: The Interfold is a receipt-free private compute network for apps built on ethereum.
a dev made contract ownership into an nft you can just hand someone @0xAkuti ♥ 1 · read more
@0xAkuti's EIP-173-compliant version: whoever holds the key nft owns the contract. two variants shipped, one built into the contract and one using an external nft.
@0xAkuti · ♥ 1 I find the idea of a NFT holding ownership interesting and implemented a fully Ownable (EIP-173) compliant version that is just managed by a key NFT. Whoever holds the key can own the contract. @0xAkuti · ♥ 1 I added two variations, one turns your contract into an ERC721 directly and one that uses an external ERC721 contract instead. https://t.co/A3n34fhCZd If you want to build something together on top of this, please reach out.
someone built a swarm of ai agents that tests software targets on its own @tom_doerr ♥ 3 · read more
one of four agent tools @tom_doerr surfaced overnight.
a terminal agent that plans, builds, checks and commits your project for you @tom_doerr ♥ 19 · read more
GSD Pi, via @tom_doerr: guided plan-implement-verify-track from the command line, with git automation wired in.
coding agents will now write your slide deck as react from one prompt @tom_doerr ♥ 26 · read more
another @tom_doerr find: it turns a natural-language prompt into an interactive deck by having coding agents write the components.
a prompt pack turns claude into a design architect with 138 design systems @tom_doerr ♥ 54 · read more
@tom_doerr again: structured instructions plus design tokens, aimed at consistent accessible output instead of whatever the model felt like that day.
a new open model packs 27 billion parameters but only runs 17.8 at once @HuggingModels ♥ 1 · read more
@HuggingModels describes a Qwen3.5-architecture mixture-of-experts shipped in GGUF, so it runs on consumer hardware through llama.cpp.
the us navy just showed off a long-range missile nobody knew existed @sentdefender ♥ 696 · read more
@sentdefender: the AIM-424 "Malice" photographed inside an F-35C's internal weapons bay, with an AMRAAM mounted on the bay door.
navy families evacuated from bahrain are being told not to expect to return @sentdefender ♥ 532 · read more
about 1,300 people, six months on, per stars & stripes via @sentdefender. the open-ended delay has exposed real gaps in military relocation.
the argument that bitcoin holders will drop it once quantum and issuance bite @materkel ♥ 28 · read more
@materkel's thread: issuance, quantum risk and asic centralization are three problems he thinks bitcoin can't fix without changes it won't make.
@materkel · ♥ 28 Btw, if maxis are actually warming up to Ethereum and $ETH, that also means that, if push comes to shove, they'll eventually throw Bitcoin under the bus once it becomes clear that the issuance crisis, quantum risk, and ASIC centralization a @materkel · ♥ 16 $ETH eventually forces $BTC into a quantum stalemate.starkware's founder thinks crypto's next five years are defi, payments and easy cash-out @EliBenSasson ♥ 1 · read more
@EliBenSasson expects new use cases clustered in defi and payments, far smoother ux, and much easier movement between crypto and fiat.
opensea is pulling copycat collections fast after collectors started reporting them @udiWertheimer ♥ 58 · read more
@udiWertheimer thanked the team for a quick response and told collectors to check what they're actually buying.
an american missionary held hostage by isis for ten years is home @POTUS · read more
announced by @POTUS: kevin rideout, back in the united states.



