0xNick

Now: Core contributor @SuperseedXYZ, @LYSProtocol | Prev: @Consensys @all_infra

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

tired of so-called open-source tools that try to sell me tokens

[Selene 🦄 @Serlyrl]

@iAnonPatriot

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

@teachthemx3 @kevinroose Your comment is why my therapist told me to get off social media.

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

DNS abuse as first observable step is based on experience, surprised it took this long for someone to build monitoring for it at scale.

free access is the right play, good move by @cantinaxyz

[Cantina 🪐 @cantinasecurity]

We’ve been building DNS Monitoring for a simple reason: DNS abuse is often the first observable step in a real compromise. Today we’re opening access for free, so you can baseline your domain and investigate before users are exposed.

Access below.

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

because all this vibe coding going on, I predict a big increase in infosec incomes :)

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

@Mark_uWulf @OGLemur @VFinnishProbs 🤮

[Superseed @superseed]

Superchat #11 Live: FED money printer back, crypto boom in 2026? Superseed Latest Updates. https://t.co/GhHtpfaVIS

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

@Macronaut_ @Rich_Cooper “I feel like…” - enough, no need to say anything else

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

@Rich_Cooper “I’m gonna say smooothieee”

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

TL;DR:
- the mechanism is based on ERC‑4337 (acc abstraction)
- [probably] multiple contracts deployed on mainnet and all L2s
- not EOA, but a contract will route and manage multichain ops

Interesting approach, even though there aren’t many details I'm predicting the following:
- no cross-chain execution (async)
- no consensus layer interop
- without actually removing the need for liquidity bridge providers from the picture, trust assumptions remain pretty bad
- adding a new layer of complexity developers will not manage or understand properly (ERC-4337) thus increasing the attack surface

[rip.eth @ripeth]

Ethereum introduces Ethereum Interop Layer

making Ethereum feel like one chain.

→ one click to swap across L2s
→ use funds from anywhere
→ no bridges, no network switching
→ same security & censorship resistance

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

"Privacy is for criminals" is the most successful psyop in modern history.

It flipped the moral frame entirely. Made you defensive for wanting basic human dignity. Made privacy advocates sound guilty just for existing.

Meanwhile the actual criminals write laws, run surveillance states and bomb civilians.

The cypherpunk response was "privacy is as American as apple pie" - but that became normcore. Accepting state narratives. Diluting the punk spirit into something regulators could tolerate.

Today, privacy isn't normal - it's EXCEPTIONAL.

Make power structures built on surveillance obsolete.

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

@asmar_crypto I agree. This vision of resiliency is what we should strive for.
And there are so many problems that remain unsolved, meaning there's. a lot of room for growth.

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

unfortunately true

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

the new status game: people who do not write code, do not know what a vector is, and have no idea how a distributed system works lecturing everyone on the future of AI and crypto.

a managerial class that lost its relevance as technology and productivity advanced now tries to reclaim status by posing as builders, borrowing the language and symbols of creation without doing any of the work. they speak of the future because they have no place in the present.

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

Too utilitarian, devoid of humanity and empathy, straw manning the argument by adding a third group that benefits even though that’s a neutral group.

We love believing in an algorithm that would create Utopia, in this case free-markets. But that never works, Utopia doesn’t exist, it literally means “no place” or “nowhere” (from Greek ou = “not” + topos = “place”).

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

Today, we released our full post-mortem on the recent exploit.

I encourage everyone to read it to understand what happened, how we responded, and our path forward.

This is not the end. We remain fully dedicated to our recovery efforts and are exploring every avenue to restore value to affected users.

User safety has always been our highest priority, and we're taking every lesson from this incident to build stronger safeguards. More details will follow as we progress.

Thank you for your patience and trust during this time! 🙏🏼

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

You’re right.
But when you say “want” you’re actually saying “require something they understand“.
They don’t care what type of dollar they want because there are more pressing matters to care about.
It’s up to the professionals that create the tech to come up with not only functional but also solutions that meet our goals and principles. If we always make it about who’s first with a product that works, we’ll end up with something not very good.

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

when @ethereum decide to kill its woke culture it will win.

wokeism has nothing to do with conservative versus progressive ideas. wokeism is the managerial class or middle management ideology. lacks content, it’s only form. it avoids direct open debate, it just cares about status redistribution.

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

That seems to be the case, indeed the European Commission has almost exclusive rights to initiate law.

So the only body in the EU that can propose new laws, its members are not elected — they are nominated by national governments and then approved through a multi-step EU-level process.
This same body is putting forward very unpopular regulations, with no way to actually protest them.
Yeah, it doesn’t look good for the EU. I don’t even know what to hope for.

[sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio]

This is the same week. I want to be absolutely clear: I take the commitments made in the Trustless Manifesto very seriously and personally (I called `pledge` myself and I walk the talk). Watching the EF throw its weight behind a US-compliant, freeze-friendly stablecoin orchestrated by banks makes me fucking sick. This is exactly what we are supposed to be fighting against (we even committed to it via the Trustless Manifesto); yet now we're promoting _centralised_ (i.e. trust-based) solutions. We're turning into the very muppets we set out to replace.

[0xNick @0xNikolas]

a very short and simplistic analysis:
- most people don't even know govt = bad
- when they have a choice, they will choose the trusted stable, for them that's USDC because in their mind big corpo = good
- most of the time they don't have a choice because of CEXs
- the people with vision and expertise should lead the way, forming a hierarchical structure, capital = decision
- the community doesn't reward vision or expertise, they reward short-term-gain and the cool factor, so no capital for the right people