Piyush Mali 🧞

Building DeFi infrastructure, AI-integrated systems, and cross-chain protocols that move real value.

[Piyush Mali 🧞 @0xpiyushvm]

Today felt special in a way I didn’t expect.

I received a big payout for a bug report on @immunefi and for a moment I just sat there… quiet and overwhelmed. Not because of the money, but because of what it meant to me.

I’ve been trying for months, jumping across security platforms and audit contests, earning small bounties that never felt real. It often felt like I was grinding without direction, wondering if any of it truly mattered.

But today, it finally did.

This payout felt like more than a reward. It felt like a reminder that the late nights, the doubts, the persistence, the moments I questioned myself, none of it was wasted. I’ve grown, and I’m on the right path.

Thanks to @immunefi for creating a space where effort and curiosity actually get recognized.

To anyone grinding silently, unsure if your breakthrough will ever come… it will. And when it does, it hits differently.

Onwards.

[R3TRO 👾 @retro_gly]

It’s a lonely journey.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: GTA 6 projected to hit $1 billion in pre-orders within first hour

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: ⚡️ Mark Zuckerberg has directed Meta staff to build a prediction markets app called Arena to rival Polymarket and Kalshi, the NYT reports.

[Immunefi @immunefi]

He was an accountant in India with zero technical background.

18 months later, Vivek has earned $1.07M+ in bug bounties.

No CS degree. No security background.

Just relentless self-teaching and an obsession with finding what everyone else missed.

New episode live now.

[Zack Voell @zackvoell]

Agentic coding is more addictive than gaming

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Claude Opus 4.8 reportedly found a critical Zcash bug that could have allowed attackers to create unlimited coins.

[Polymarket Developers @PolymarketDevs]

We've expanded our bug bounty. 7 newly deployed contracts are now in scope on @cantinasecurity, with up to $5,000,000 in rewards for a valid finding:

- PositionManager
- Exchange
- BinaryModule
- NegRiskModule
- CombinatorialModule
- Router
- AutoRedeemer

Whitehats, dig in: https://t.co/dUTMlWJKsi

[Limitless @trylimitless]

User-Generated Markets are LIVE on Limitless

We’re fundamentally reshaping how users interact with prediction markets:

1. Pick an asset
2. Choose an outcome
3. Launch a market

Every creator earns a fee share from its trading activity

Create yours → https://t.co/qYwZiXHCcD

[Chance @Chance_]

Prediction Markets Valuations:

1. @HyperliquidX / (HIP-4) - $65.8B
2. @Kalshi - $22B
3. @Polymarket - $20B
4. @Rain__Protocol - $16B
5. @OpinionLabsXyz - $132M
6. @TryLimitless - $103M

All of this liquidity accessible on @Chance_

[Param @Param_eth]

Canton chain lost 38% of its TVL in the last 24 hours.

I warned you before that this is a scam.

[Cajetan @MonteCarloSpam]

Polymarket user AdrianCronauer just got hacked and his account was drained for over 2 million dollars.

WTF!!!

see the damage for yourself:
https://t.co/H3MtxJMy9K

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Creative folks have low shame of failure.

Maybe that’s what makes them creative.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Engineering is magic

[Chainlink @chainlink]

NEW: India’s most trusted trade credit infra, Vayana ($62B+ financing facilitated), adopts Chainlink to power tokenized asset distribution.

With a network of 3000+ supply chains, Vayana is leveraging the full Chainlink platform to upgrade India's financial ecosystem.

[Cantina 🪐 @cantinasecurity]

$500,000 to @rileyholterhus through Cantina Bounties. 🪐

The researchers who consistently find the bugs that matter don't chase volume. They follow programs where scope is tight, triage is fast, and rewards match actual impact.

Well done, Riley!

[Striver | Building takeUforward @striver_79]

Instagram shipped Instants without any user education 👏🏻

Not sure how this got approved. It pops up in the app; you click a picture and it gets sent to all your friends with no preview. It even takes a while to figure out how to delete it.

If you ask 100 PMs, almost everyone would not approve it in the first place. Even if they did, they would include a user education journey. Terrible, coming from a big company like @Meta.

[bugcrowd @Bugcrowd]

Don't be this guy