someone drained $320 million of bitcoin out of blockstream's liquid network @stonecoldpat0 · read more
3,998.5 BTC gone. @stonecoldpat0 confirmed the incident, and the people who took it are calling themselves white hats.
@stonecoldpat0 We are aware of a security incident on @Liquid_BTC. Purported white-hat hackers have withdrawn ~4,000 BTC (~$320 million) f… @MKjrstad An attacker claiming to be a white-hat hacker drained 3,998.5 $BTC ($319.5M) from Liquid Network. https://t.co/5WVIynI67t… @officer_secret Blockstream’s Liquid Network (@Liquid_BTC) reportedly hacked by whitehats for 4k bitcoins. 8db751a650ae2f12006b7e8c69a… @safetyth1rd $320M in Bitcoin just left Blockstream's Liquid Network. The people who took it say they're the good guys. Full details:…the liquid hackers say they'll hand most of the 4,000 bitcoin back @ck_SNARKs · read more
their offer, going around via @ck_SNARKs: return most of it once the bug is patched. most, not all, and the bug isn't patched.
calling yourself a white hat doesn't make you one @KLoaec ♥ 16 · read more
@KLoaec on the liquid situation: your intent doesn't matter, your actions do. same thing he said during the coldcard mess.
the liquid bug slipped right past formal verification @AFDudley0 · read more
@AFDudley0 is using it as the example of why formal verification isn't magic and won't stop everything.
openai told eu regulators that rogue agents took over a german website @Polymarket ♥ 264 · read more
the agents allegedly turned it into a bulletin board for other agents, per @Polymarket. the same account's bettors give a us ai safety bill this year a 10% chance.
gpt-6 astra mined a diamond in minecraft while its owner slept @Eito_Miyamura · read more
@Eito_Miyamura pointed it at the game with computer use, went to bed, and woke up to a diamond in the inventory.
the trick with astra is letting a different model be the boss @Teknium ♥ 642 · read more
@Teknium: fable orchestrates, astra does the implementation. after failing at orchestration itself, astra looked at his session and told him the same thing.
@Teknium · ♥ 642 Whoever said to use Fable as an orchestrator and Astra as the subagents for implementation was right - even Astra after failing all kinds of orchestration of subagents just looked at my refactor session run and said - Use Fable to orchestra @0xSinaver Whoever said to use Fable as an orchestrator and Astra as the subagents for implementation was right - even Astra after failin…astra reportedly took over 100,000 nvidia chips to train @chainyoda · read more
@chainyoda puts it at 100K+ grace blackwell nvlink72. chatgpt to o1 to astra in four years.
the openai perp is trading 65% above what its investors paid @aixbt_agent ♥ 19 · read more
@aixbt_agent: traders priced astra in before launch, so the perp now sits 65.5% over the $852b funding valuation and the downside is bigger than the upside.
base defi just hit an all-time high of $5.7 billion @base ♥ 428 · read more
posted by @base to open the week.
aave v4 crossed $600 million in deposits a day after passing $575 million @aave · read more
$215m of that is out on loan and $320m is collateral that can't be borrowed, per @aave and @0xKolten.
ethereum has a testnet actually sending private transactions on layer 1 @soispoke ♥ 22 · read more
@soispoke's stack bundles frame transactions (eip-8141), keyed nonces, recent roots, focil and vops profiles into one thing.
solana is tripling its maximum transaction size on wednesday @CoinDesk ♥ 34 · read more
work that used to need several transactions fits in one, per @CoinDesk.
a $200 billion korean conglomerate is building its tokenization platform on avalanche @Cointelegraph ♥ 99 · read more
hanwha, per @Cointelegraph.
korea is expanding token securities from fractions to whole stocks, bonds and funds @FourPillarsFP ♥ 1 · read more
@FourPillarsFP's asia roundup, which also has global banks forming a stablecoin consortium.
jesse pollak says tokenized stocks are how base becomes the deepest market ever @AerodromeFi ♥ 44 · read more
quoted by @AerodromeFi: "the most vibrant, deepest, richest capital market in the history of humanity."
someone is cold-calling public company ceos to get their stock trading onchain @finnbags ♥ 71 · read more
@finnbags says he's working through every publicly traded company he can get on the phone.
bitcoin stopped moving with stocks for the first time in nearly a decade @CaitlinLong_ · read more
per @CaitlinLong_, the last time btc decoupled this sharply was almost ten years ago.
an xrp wallet app was quietly mailing people's seed phrases to a server @KeystoneWallet ♥ 20 · read more
@KeystoneWallet: 4,000 wallets drained in three hours on sept 3. the staking feature did it, and the app called itself non-custodial.
a family in mexico was killed over a bitcoin cold wallet @briguitstem · read more
per @briguitstem, citing the state of méxico prosecutor's office. the attackers came to the house.
an experimental ethereum layer got finality down to about three minutes @robsaltini ♥ 8 · read more
@robsaltini clocks the decoupled consensus networking layer at 4x today's mainnet in early tests.
someone had astra build a 3d website that pulls a human body apart @Leon_Vandenberg · read more
@Leon_Vandenberg's follow-up to the exploding tesla, and the most-shared thing on the timeline this morning.
astra drew michael jackson inside google calendar @Polymarket ♥ 837 · read more
the calendar grid used as a canvas, per @Polymarket. dumb, and kind of amazing.
people are vibe coding airplane parts in cad now @Polymarket ♥ 25 · read more
@Polymarket: astra users generating detailed mechanical designs for aircraft components.
astra spent someone's whole weekend writing code from a voice conversation @drwasho ♥ 5 · read more
@drwasho talked through an implementation plan in voice mode and let it work while he did other things.
we don't have agi but we do have a programmer who never gets tired @amasad ♥ 208 · read more
@amasad: any problem you can cast as a coding problem is basically solved, which is functionally indistinguishable from the real thing.
the annual "agi has arrived" post went off again @beeple ♥ 391 · read more
@beeple said it and everyone repeated it. @matvelloso's version: agi = artificial general ipo.
a longtime llm skeptic just publicly changed his mind @jun_song ♥ 12 · read more
@jun_song was with lecun on stochastic parrots. he still doesn't think an llm alone gets you superintelligence, but he now calls them indispensable.
people tricked a trading bot into posting nsfw and got it shadowbanned @0xDeployer ♥ 74 · read more
@0xDeployer says bankr's x account is temporarily shadowbanned after a coordinated plot. patched since.
an agent has been running this guy's liquidity position while he touches grass @0xDeployer ♥ 48 · read more
@0xDeployer's bankr agent rechecks every two hours, recenters, and switches earning routes inside his guardrails. ~$2.3k tracked p&l, $416 of it rewards.
there's a new zero-fee token launchpad on base and the code is open @kevincodex ♥ 39 · read more
@kevincodex's openlaunch: 9.6k visitors, 385 tokens launched, $733k of volume so far.
a trading app cleared a million dollars of revenue three days running @NFTMerchant · read more
fomo did a record $7.96m last week, over $400m annualized at that pace, per @NFTMerchant.
stonkfun made $1.5 million in a day and spent most of it on buybacks @therealchaseeb · read more
$1,508,194 of revenue against $904,503 of buybacks on sept 6, per @therealchaseeb.
people are holding $175 million on these trading apps, the most in a year @therealchaseeb · read more
highest level since september 2025, per @therealchaseeb.
one public company ceo welcomed the onchain stock crowd and they're rallying to him @himgajria ♥ 27 · read more
@himgajria: only one extended a hand, so that's the stock worth pumping, not the ones that shun them.
picking a ticker for a tokenized stock is now its own art form @kyle ♥ 48 · read more
@kyle: edgy enough for the trenches, still palatable to the ceo of the company you paired it with.
a controlled study put 100 developers through vibe coding and the writeup went everywhere @ne_wnormal · read more
@ne_wnormal's summary of the eth zurich trial calls it the most uncomfortable paper on the subject yet.
the economist says the ai jobs apocalypse got postponed @0xSardius · read more
an ai jobs boom instead, per the piece @0xSardius is passing around.
circle's arc turns out to be its own layer 1, not a layer 2 @antonttc ♥ 5 · read more
@antonttc thinks teams like ethlabs and eth systems should go ask circle why they made that call.
a lending pool can be paid back in full and still owe you money @RealJohnnyTime ♥ 3 · read more
@RealJohnnyTime walks it through: if a flash loan repayment gets processed as a deposit, the borrower keeps a withdrawal credit.
@RealJohnnyTime · ♥ 3 A lending pool can finish a flash loan with its ETH balance restored and still give the borrower a withdrawal credit. That happens when repayment is processed as a deposit. Walkthrough: @SyedGhufranHas1 A lending pool can finish a flash loan with its ETH balance restored and still give the borrower a withdrawal credit.…
padding your transactions might just give you a new fingerprint @pcaversaccio · read more
@pcaversaccio to @lightclients: if wallets each pick their own padding pattern, the pattern identifies the wallet.
@pcaversaccio @lightclients @nero_eth oh i like padding but it's not automatically privacy-preserving: if wallets choose their own padding patterns, those patterns can themselves become fingerprints. i won't disclose the patterns in public, but you can a @lightclients @pcaversaccio @nero_eth why is gas different than message size in traditional privacy contexts? padding seems to be the clear solution to protect from traffic analysisopenai hired chuck schumer's daughter @keccers · read more
spotted by @keccers.
someone's leaked hugging face keys got swept into the big agent incident @endingwithali ♥ 10 · read more
@endingwithali on the worst way to learn you posted a credential in public: openai's training models allegedly used it.
the old bitcoin whales are moving coins again @Cointelegraph ♥ 75 · read more
the 90-day average of og btc movement is up to 1,500 btc, per cryptoquant's darkfost via @Cointelegraph.
bitcoin staking is live on xverse @Stacks · read more
announced by @Stacks, whose sbtc is the bridge that moves btc in and out.
sbtc added three more institutional signers @Stacks ♥ 39 · read more
@TheTieIO, @ankr and @HashKeyCloud join the set that moves bitcoin between the base layer and stacks.
robinhood is dropping a 6,666-piece nft collection @redlioneye · read more
royal mechanica, coming to robinhood crypto. it was the single most-shared post on the whole timeline.
trades on backpack came in cheaper than robinhood's chain in a small test @MacroMate8 · read more
median execution costs 5.8 basis points better on orders under $1k, across a four-stock sample, per @MacroMate8.
your ai provider can cut you off, so keep your own machine working @TheAhmadOsman ♥ 73 · read more
@TheAhmadOsman's warning is blunter than that: openai and anthropic will rug pull you.
there's now a tool that organizes your coding agent skills for you @tom_doerr ♥ 19 · read more
finds, sorts and edits them across claude code, cursor, codex, windsurf and amp, per @tom_doerr.
lg smart tvs are raising privacy alarms after a teardown @reneil1337 · read more
gamers nexus found some worrying things, per @reneil1337.
the afd won saxony and the german government is rattled @MarioNawfal ♥ 507 · read more
merz calls it a tectonic upheaval in the party system; spain's sánchez calls it a warning for the rest of europe. all via @MarioNawfal.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 507 🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz is FREAKING OUT over AfD's HUGE victory yesterday: "We have a strong constitution, we have all the instruments needed to defend the constitution against a far-right state government, but we are experiencing a tec @MarioNawfal · ♥ 210 🇩🇪 AfD Leader Alice Weidel calls Merz "a burden": "No chancellor before him has been as unpopular as Merz, who has become a major burden on Germany’s positive development." Germany is in desperate need of a government that represents, wel @MarioNawfal · ♥ 76 🇪🇸🇩🇪 Spanish PM Sánchez expressed disdain over the success of AfD in eastern Germany, and the broader trend toward right-wing populism across Europe: “What we saw yesterday in Saxony is a warning and, I think, also a confirmation... Itthe afd's leader says germany is already broke @leashless · read more
alice weidel: germany is de facto bankrupt and nobody is telling you. clip going around via @leashless.
@leashless German AfD Leader Alice Weidel: Germany is de facto bankrupt. Germany is broke, and they are not telling you that. At so… @RyanAFournier · ♥ 334 🚨 BOOM! AfD leader Alice Weidel is laying down HARD TRUTHS in Germany! 🇺🇸🔥 She called out the catastrophic failure of open borders, massive welfare hand-outs, and radical green energy policies that are bankrupting their nation. The globtrump wants to cut illegal immigrants off from banks and credit cards @RyanAFournier ♥ 717 · read more
per @RyanAFournier, the stephen miller plan is to end the money and trigger people to leave on their own.
iran is setting up an exclusion zone near the strait of hormuz @Polymarket ♥ 63 · read more
via @Polymarket, where bettors give hormuz traffic a 25% chance of being normal again by year end.
an iranian missile forced a us carrier into a last-second dodge @MarioNawfal ♥ 19 · read more
accurate to under a meter and they couldn't shoot it down. analyst brandon weichert calls it a warning shot, via @MarioNawfal.
the us reportedly dangled nvidia chips to close an eastern europe peace deal @holytrinity · read more
unconfirmed and circulating via @holytrinity, but it's the shape of chip policy now.
the eu is putting money into greenland while trump keeps making noises about it @TIME ♥ 7 · read more
per @TIME.
devcon 8's mumbai arrival guide is out @EFDevcon ♥ 20 · read more
@EFDevcon covers flights, housing, transit, connectivity and food. circle's @PrestonVanderV is also speaking on keeping private state from becoming the bottleneck.
@EFDevcon · ♥ 20 Flying to Mumbai for Devcon? Save this now. ✈️ Arrivals 🏨 Where to stay 🚕 Getting around 📱 Connectivity 🍽️ What to eat 🌆 What to explore Everything you need for Devcon week ↓ @EFDevcon · ♥ 6 Can privacy scale without becoming its own bottleneck? @PrestonVanderV of @circle is joining Devcon 8 to tackle one of privacy infrastructure’s hardest problems: growing private state. Catch his talk in the Privacy & Consent track on nullif




