$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack.
My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet.
This part's nerdy, but here's what happened:
Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases.
This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases.
I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today.
"No way this affects me." I thought.
I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online.
Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew.
From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied.
18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD.
Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right.
I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes.
None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability.
I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything.
A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen.
I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.
“HYPE isn’t even listed on Binance spot, so it’s probably a scam.”
Seeing this take on Binance Square made me feel my brain folds being smoothed out in real time.
Please, by all means, short HYPE.
Every last one of these smooth-brained takes will fuel the next leg up.
Hyperliquid Ecosystem Spotlight #1: Kinetiq
@Kinetiq_xyz is a liquid staking protocol built natively on Hyperliquid, allowing users to stake HYPE and receive kHYPE - a liquid staking token that earns rewards while remaining usable across DeFi.
Through StakeHub, Kinetiq automatically selects, monitors, and rebalances across top-performing validators, removing the need for users to manage staking manually.
Kinetiq latest news update:
✅Launch Platform officially live on June 11, 2026
✅First deployer using Launch: @Borsa_HL with brsHYPE pool
✅@Perpsdotfun x Kinetiq | @Markets_xyz: Democratizing ✅Derivative Market Ownership on HIP-3
✅Markets now updates ~10x faster than hl(~50ms refresh)
✅Total TVL reached ~$1.05B
✅kHYPE TVL at ~$908M
✅Major integration with Pendle: extra +10% to +40% yield on kHYPE/vkHYPE
✅Deep DeFi integrations: Curve, Hyperlend, Felix, and more (kHYPE as collateral)
✅Partnerships with Blockdaemon, Flowdesk, and IMC Trading for institutional staking
✅$1M bug bounty program with Cantina
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Hyperliquid charges $0.07 to trade a $100 event contract.
The incumbents charge $1.56 to $3.50 for the exact same position.
That's not a discount. That's a 20-50x gap.
HIP-4 just made on-chain event markets cheaper than anywhere else. By a lot.