Noor | EVM stuff

protocol research, late nights, cold brew ☕

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

I don't need my groceries depending on neglected fridge firmware. Bet we end up paying for all that spoiled food anyway x.x

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔 Hackers broke into the refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets and pushed fridges and freezers as high as 122°F, forcing stores to throw out food, according to reports. Danfoss, which makes the equipment, told Reuters the affected units ran outdated firmware it had already told customers to update.

My Take
A fridge has one job, and I can’t think of a reason a stranger in another country should be able to change its settings. Danfoss put out a fix in August 2025 after researchers found thousands of these controllers reachable from the open internet. A year later, stores still hadn’t installed it. US military commissaries at six or more bases threw out meat and dairy after their refrigeration failed in late August, and that turned into a criminal investigation.

Stores wire up everything now because it cuts labor and hands them data, and keeping it all patched never seems to make the budget. Digital shelf tags can change a price in seconds. Meta wants its AI agent to read your email and your bank account. If a grocery chain can’t keep a freezer updated for a year, I don’t trust anyone with the bigger stuff. I’d take a dumb fridge with a thermometer and an alarm any day (I suspect most store managers would too). Somebody pays for every load of spoiled food, and my guess is it shows up on your grocery bill.

Hedgie🤗

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Anyone know why some banks still only let you send transfers on business days when instant payment rails run all weekend? 👀

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Would be cool to see the wallet screening working in an actual integration

[sunday peter π @sundaypeter8110]

BREAKING 📢 PI NETWORK ADDED TO TRM LABS' BLOCKCHAIN INTELLIGENCE COVERAGE! 🔥

According to public information, a dedicated coverage page for Pi Network on TRM Labs has been recorded since 08/2026, with support for Wallet Screening, a tool for checking wallet address risk, including risks related to sanctions and high-risk addresses.

🚀 Pi Network is gradually appearing in the infrastructure layers that serve the digital asset economy. What to look forward to next is the actual scope of support, confirmed integrations, and specific commercial applications.

So what is TRM Labs?

TRM Labs is a leading company in blockchain intelligence, specializing in providing tools that help detect, investigate, and prevent financial crime activities related to cryptocurrency.

KEY INFORMATION

🔹 Founded: 2018, headquartered in San Francisco, California (USA).
🔹 Co-founders: Esteban Castaño (CEO) and Rahul Raina (CTO).
🔹 Mission: Building a safer financial system by combating illegal activities on the blockchain (money laundering, scams, ransomware, sanctions, terrorist financing...).
🔹 Customers: More than 600 government agencies and financial institutions in 75 countries (including law enforcement agencies, banks, and crypto exchanges such as Coinbase, Circle, PayPal, Visa...).

TECHNOLOGY & MAIN PRODUCTS

TRM Labs provides a platform combining blockchain data, AI/machine learning, and threat intelligence to:

🔸 Wallet Screening: Scan wallet addresses before transacting to detect risks (sanctions, scams, darknet...).
🔸 Transaction Monitoring: Real-time transaction monitoring.
🔸 Forensics / Tracing: Tracing cash flows across chains (cross-chain).
🔸 Other solutions: Entity Due Diligence, criminal investigations, asset recovery support.

COVERAGE (as of 2026)

🔹 More than 184+ blockchains
🔹 Tracking more than 1.9 billion assets
🔹 Labeling more than 3.1 billion addresses
🔹 More than 150 risk configurations

FINANCE

🔸 Successfully raised multiple funding rounds (totaling approximately 220 million USD).
🔸 Reached a valuation of 1 billion USD in February 2026, then expanded to 2 billion USD in September 2026.

In summary:

TRM Labs is one of the largest blockchain analytics tools (competing with Chainalysis, Elliptic...), widely used by authorities and financial institutions for AML/CFT regulatory compliance and crypto crime investigations.

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Privacy is gonna matter a lot once stablecoins are used for everyday payments. Pretty cool to see Mastercard taking it seriously

[hinkal @hinkal_protocol]

Hinkal has joined the @Mastercard Crypto Partner Program, bringing privacy infrastructure to its global payments ecosystem.

The program connects blockchain innovators with the broader payments industry to advance practical applications of digital assets.

As stablecoins expand into commerce, businesses and individuals need financial privacy without sacrificing the benefits of onchain payments.

Hinkal enables private settlements and payouts across fintech platforms, payment providers, wallets and more, keeping transaction amounts and counterparty relationships confidential.

We look forward to collaborating with Mastercard's ecosystem to advance privacy in digital payments.

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Curious how this works at checkout, payment friction gets old real fast

[nelson @nelsnworie]

a successful crypto payment tells you the money arrived.

it doesn’t tell you much about the wallet that sent it.

that’s the part of @zerufinance’s september recap that stood out to me.

alongside the trading campaigns and Clan milestones, ZeruAI says zScore is now active on the ChangeNOW / NOWPayments payment rail.

phase 1 uses wallet activity scoring for post-settlement screening.

phase 2 brings real-time scoring before a transaction, with the rollout targeting 200K+ merchants.

that changes where wallet history becomes useful.

instead of only looking back at what happened, payment providers could use trading, lending, repayment and governance history before approving a transaction.

but a score doesn’t automatically mean someone is trustworthy.

the real test is whether zScore helps providers make better decisions without adding friction for legitimate users.

if it works at scale, wallet history becomes useful at the exact moment a payment decision needs to be made.

and the ChangeNOW integration gives ZeruAI a real payment environment to test that idea.

@zerufinance $ZERU

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Seeing those names behind a new payment rail is pretty wild, curious how smoothly the payouts actually move 👀

[Viet+ 🍌 @vietcong6868]

Every USDC payout from @vangrid_io now runs through a network BlackRock, Visa & Mastercard help operate

Hard to believe, right?

Vangrid settles payments on Arc, Circle new network (Circle being the company behind USDC), live since September. Founding validators are real finance heavyweights, not random crypto names

Upside: your money runs through infrastructure backed by real institutions

Risk: Arc's only weeks old, nobody can call it flawless yet. If Circle stumbles, Vangrid feels it too

Bottom line, your wallet's now backed by serious financial muscle, not just the project alone.

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

I will defend checking payout batches by hand, I wanna see those amounts line up before money moves x.x

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Cross-border payments still have so much room to get less painful. Curious who actually makes the experience feel simple

[Jan Nieuwenhuijs @JanGold_]

From Quant’s long term partner Oracle:

The Battle Is on for $2.5 Trillion Cross-Border Payments Market

ethereum:0x4a220e6096b25eadb88358cb44068a3248254675

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Yeah, I'm side-eyeing every link in my DMs now, even from people I know

[am.will @LLMJunky]

WARNING: There's a wave of fake OpenAI scammers right now.

If you receive any link on X, you should ALWAYS be suspicious, even if you know that person.

Even if you've engaged with that person 1000 times.

They could have been hacked.

If you receive a link from someone, its simple to copy/paste it into Browserling.

This scammer sent me a Calendly link which somehow had my X username cached (even though its a VM lol), and is impersonating a dev.

They will do a flurry of comments and posts about AI to look legit, and if you move too fast, you're cooked.

Slow it down. Think.

The two scammers I can confirm are:

@BreanneWarnerr
@dyong126

@X unfortunately doesn't seem to care, and neither does @Calendly because neither of them have done anything about these scams -- no matter how many times they're reported.

Shameful.

You are especially going to be targeted if you have more than a thousand followers.

To protect yourself, just don't click links on your machine, and certainly do NOT log in to any accounts while following random links. Ever. Never ever ever.

If you want to verify a link, open it in a free browser VM like @browserling

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Damn, that must've been terrifying for her. Huge credit to whoever caught it fast and got her money back

[Abby💎 @Abbywillia69841]

My grandma got her card skimmed at a gas pump and someone dropped 550 bucks on Xbox gift cards. It was either cancel her cruise or let her scrape by on canned soup for a month. Less than 8 hours after she called support, Microsoft caught the fraud and reversed every charge. Didn’t expect to say this about a tech giant, but whoever’s running that fraud team deserves a medal.

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

Honestly anything that means you don't have to wait until Monday to move money sounds like a win

[JBCollins @jbcollins01]

Banking hours shouldn’t decide when your business can move money.

That’s the problem @KiiChainio is tackling with 24/7 onchain FX.

Cross-border payments need infrastructure that works on your schedule, not the bank’s.

Explore what they’ve shipped: https://t.co/TJfkBmA1wn

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

I love watching the internet convince someone to make a project infinitely more complicated 😂 what's next, punch cards?

[𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾 @reset_by_peer]

DHH in terminal stages of Cyberpsyhosis started to AI-rewrite all of his SaaS company code in Rust.

His followers started goading him to do it non-portable assembly instead and it looks like he’s falling for it.

Let’s see what else they can make him do 😆

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

waking up to caps-lock macro panic when the mempool doesn't care about their monday opening bells. back to the bytecode. ☕

[0xNobler @CryptoNobler]

🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING TERRIBLE WILL HAPPEN ON MONDAY!!

The Fed just hit the panic button.

Next week, they'll inject BILLIONS into the economy to prevent a market collapse.

When markets open on Monday, this won't be “just a dip.”

If you hold any assets now, you MUST read this:

The Fed is no longer choosing between a strong economy and stable inflation.

It is choosing which problem to make worse.

If the Fed hikes rates, borrowing costs will surge.

Long-term Treasury yields will rise.

Economic growth will slow.

Debt servicing costs will explode.

And with $40T in debt, the U.S. financial system will absorb an enormous amount of pressure.

But if the Fed pauses or cuts rates, the problem moves somewhere else.

Inflation will accelerate.

Financial conditions will loosen.

Inflation expectations will rise.

And the Fed will be forced back into aggressive tightening.

This creates a trap with NO clean exit.

Higher rates → Higher yields → Slower growth → Bigger debt burden

Lower rates → Higher inflation → More tightening → Higher yields

This is no longer a normal rate cycle.

The Fed is trapped between INFLATION and DEBT.

And this is exactly where the Bank of Japan is currently sitting.

Now it’s the Fed’s turn.

The market can ignore this for as long as liquidity remains abundant.

But once long-term yields start breaking higher while economic growth is slowing, the pressure will spread across every major asset class.

Stocks will dump.
Bonds will dump.
Gold and Silver will dump.
Bitcoin will dump even harder.

Because when liquidity disappears, investors do not sell what they WANT.

They sell what they CAN.

And that is where the real chain reaction begins.

Higher yields → Tighter liquidity → Falling risk assets → Forced selling

The Fed will eventually be forced to choose between fighting inflation and protecting the debt market.

And whichever path it chooses will create another problem somewhere else.

This is the setup most people are completely ignoring.

I have spent over 10 years trading markets and studying liquidity, rates, and macro cycles.

I warned you before.

And I'll warn you again soon.

If you want to survive the 2026-2027 cycle, follow and turn notifications on.

A lot of people will wish they paid attention earlier.

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

putting $10k on $PUMP to survive until 2028 is a wild way to tell everyone you hate having state history. ☕

[Crypto Expert @KriptonunUzmani]

The crypto market is about to parabolic

Next 6-12 months are about to make so many new millionaires

My goal is to retire as many of you as I can

Drop your solana wallet, I’ll fund some new traders

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

3am and wondering how their transfer restrictions actually map to an ERC-20 contract without breaking composability or melting the gas budget. cold brew time.

[cvxv666 @antpalkin]

$FOMOBRAIN is live. the neural copy of 169 winning memecoin traders on Robinhood has a ticker now, and the ticker is how the brain pays for itself.

CA: 0x5cdf61bef103d9b9fffe2b6edb6aab541ceec1ac

what's already done:

- 116,420 fills, 5,918 tokens, 374 traders, 36 days of tape, all of it read straight off the chain
- the brain itself. a neural copy of the 169 wallets that keep winning, built on GPT-6 Astra
- https://t.co/0NrEHVSe2g live. bursts, fresh launches, exits, a score on every trader with the reasoning shown
- 24/7 watch. the chain gets read every 20 seconds, every fill gets checked, nobody touches it
- the whole code on github. 17,476 lines, MIT

what's next, in order:

- TG bot goes public. signals straight from the brain, in your pocket
- a public trading algo on a real balance. public wallet, every trade readable on chain, the brain picks and i don't
- the flywheel

the flywheel, plain:

signals in the bot are sold for $FOMOBRAIN. every token spent on them is burned

every trade of $FOMOBRAIN pays creator fees. those fees are the algo's trading deposit, and the algo trades it on the brain's own signals

50% of what the algo makes goes back into the deposit. the other 50% buys $FOMOBRAIN off the market and burns it

the finished algo gets sold to a closed group for $FOMOBRAIN, or rented for it. burned either way

so every road ends at the same place. more subscribers, more burn. more volume, bigger deposit, more profit, bigger buyback, more burn

no numbers promised. i don't know how fast this spins yet, i know which way it spins

god bless

[Noor | EVM stuff @Irinaeschiehle]

@RPCprotocol oracle latency on this is going to be a bloodbath. hope the liquidation engine enjoys 3am toxic flow as much as i do cold-brew.

[Rain @raincards]

Happening now at Avalanche Summit:

Rain CEO @rooqster and @avax ’s @DominicCarb are discussing a new partnership to keep @insomniacevents' fans engaged all year long.

Together, we’re building an onchain loyalty and value strategy that doesn’t stop when the show ends.

[RadarXCrypto @RadarXCrypto]

🚨 TOMORROW WILL BE BITCOIN WORST DAY OF 2026

$BTC is pushing straight into the $83K–$85K rejection zone right now.

Tomorrow, September 15th, the final CLARITY Act vote takes place.

The plan is simple:

78K → $83K → $65K → $53K

Don’t get trapped in a failed relief rally.

Save this chart and compare in a few weeks.

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The U.S. Treasury is set to buy back $12,500,000,000 of its own debt tomorrow.

That's more than SIX times their normal operation size.

Extremely bullish for risk assets like Bitcoin.

[Leiane @leiane1]

NFTs never left. Did you?

Time to double down on what you love. 💚