signs of high iq:
>doesn't worry
>enjoy walking
>believe everything is simple in life
>underthinking
>high energy music
>can switch from brain rot to intellectual topics fast
>dark humour
>like cats
>deep convos
>rarely ever in a bad mood
>value quality over quantity
>very optimistic
>”everything always works out for me”
Drift Protocol just released their thread on the $280 million hack
It's worse than anyone thought too
There was no code exploit. It wasn’t a flash loan. It wasn’t even a traditional key theft.
Solana has a feature called "durable nonces" that lets you sign a transaction today but execute it days or weeks later
Sound familiar EVM critics? 😏
Think of it like writing a signed check and leaving it in someone's drawer until they decide to cash it.
The attacker used this to build a time bomb inside Drift's own governance system.
So I was wrong and Solana’s architecture did in fact play a role in this exploit occurring. Similar to how a hacker exploits approvals on EVM chains.
Here's how it played out:
March 23: The attacker sets up four of these delayed-execution accounts. Two are tied to real Drift Security Council members and two belong to the attacker.
At some point, the attacker tricks two of Drift's five council members into signing transactions they didn't fully understand.
Blind signing is something I have called out a lot and it is a major issue with many of these chains
Drift calls it "transaction misrepresentation” 🤨
But in reality they were socially engineered into signing their own robbery
Those signatures sat dormant for nine days!
March 27: Drift rotates its security council. New members, fresh setup. Doesn't matter. The attacker compromises two of the five new signers too.
April 1: Drift runs a routine test transaction. Sixty seconds later, the attacker cashes those pre-signed checks. Two transactions, four Solana slots apart. Full admin control.
Every withdrawal limit removed. Every vault drained.
$280 million. Gone.
Two out of five signatures is all it took 🤦♂️
But also clearly some major planning and patience for this elaborate attack
Blind signing
Durable nonces which function similarly to approvals
Poor key management
Insecure infrastructure
Everything worked as it was designed to work and this was just an incredibly well orchestrated and thought out attack
🚨BREAKING: Drift Protocol just got drained for over $200 million
Solana's largest perps DEX. Gone in one transaction batch.
The attacker didn't find a smart contract bug. They didn't exploit a flash loan. They walked in with the keys.
On-chain data shows a single account initiating massive outbound transfers. SOL, JitoSOL, WETH, wrapped BTC, stablecoins in USD, EUR, and JPY.
Even FARTCOIN. They took the FARTCOIN.
A blockchain security researcher confirmed what everyone suspected: a private key compromise. The admin signer was either leaked or someone with access pulled the trigger themselves.
And here's what makes it worse.
The attacker funded the wallets a week before the exploit. Ran a test transaction. Then waited.
This wasn't a hack. This was a heist with a rehearsal.
Phantom Wallet already cut off access to the protocol. Drift posted about "unusual activity" and told users to stop depositing.
$200 million gone and the official response is "unusual activity."
Some estimates put the real number closer to $270 million. We won't know until the dust settles and the wallets stop moving.
The funds are already being swapped to USDC and bridged to Ethereum. Classic exit playbook.
This is potentially the largest Web3 exploit in three years.
But who needs security when you have speed, right Kyle? 🚀
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Base has been cleansed.
We as a community have been cleansed.
Let there be light!
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🛸Alien Base Weekly Update - January 16th, 2026
🧵💥Our first big launch of 2026 is almost here! We're in the end game for the new Vaults with a goal to have everything ready by midweek for internal testing, then launch by end of week. We're also making the Mothership repo open source this week. Here's your update into what the team has been working on:
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