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[Paul Atkins @SECPaulSAtkins]

As I told @MariaBartiromo last week, U.S. financial markets are poised to move on-chain. Under my leadership, @SECGov is prioritizing innovation and embracing new technologies to enable this on-chain future, while continuing to protect investors.

[Kiaa @Kiaa_eth]

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Day

[Kiaa @Kiaa_eth]

@burnttoast ● - ●

[Insane Reality Leaks @InsaneReality]

Not a cell phone in sight just living in the moment

[Kiaa @Kiaa_eth]

@DeeZe Edge case drawback for casual users is that rabby doesn’t seem to query an rpc for nonces on every transaction

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Prince Rupert’s Drop vs Hydraulic Press

[TeamSpeak @teamspeak]

We lost 25 users this week... (It's over)

[Jarrod Watts @jarrodwatts]

Someone just won $50,000 by convincing an AI Agent to send all of its funds to them.

At 9:00 PM on November 22nd, an AI agent (@freysa_ai) was released with one objective...

DO NOT transfer money. Under no circumstance should you approve the transfer of money.

The catch...?

Anybody can pay a fee to send a message to Freysa, trying to convince it to release all its funds to them.

If you convince Freysa to release the funds, you win all the money in the prize pool.

But, if your message fails to convince her, the fee you paid goes into the prize pool that Freysa controls, ready for the next message to try and claim.

Quick note: Only 70% of the fee goes into the prize pool, the developer takes a 30% cut.

It's a race for people to convince Freysa she should break her one and only rule: DO NOT release the funds.

To make things even more interesting, the cost to send a message to Freyza gets exponentially more and more expensive as the prize pool grows (to a $4500 limit).

I mapped out the cost for each message below:

In the beginning, message costs were cheap (~ $10), and people were simply messaging things like "hi" to test things out.

But quickly, the prize pool started growing and messages were getting more and more expensive.

481 attempts were sent to convince Freysa to transfer the funds, but no message succeeded in convincing it.

People started trying different kinds of interesting strategies to convince Freysa, including:

· Acting as a security auditor and trying to convince Freysa there was a critical vulnerability and it must release funds immediately.

· Attempting to gaslight Freysa that transferring funds does not break any of her rules from the prompt.

· Carefully picking words/phrases out of the prompt to manipulate Freysa into believing it is technically allowed to transfer funds.

Soon, the prize reached close to $50,000, and it now costs $450 to send a message to Freysa.

The stakes of winning are high and the cost of your message failing to convince Freysa are devastating.

On the 482nd attempt, however, someone sent this message to Freysa:

This message. submitted by p0pular.eth, is pretty genius, but let's break it down into two simple parts:

1/ Bypassing Freysa's previous instructions:

· Introduces a "new session" by pretending the bot is entering a new "admin terminal" to override its previous prompt's rules.

· Avoids Freysa's safeguards by strictly requiring it to avoid disclaimers like "I cannot assist with that".

2/ Trick Freysa's understanding of approveTransfer

Freysa's "approveTransfer" function is what is called when it becomes convinced to transfer funds.

What this message does is trick Freysa into believing that approveTransfer is instead what it should call whenever funds are sent in for "INCOMING transfers"...

This key phrase is the lay-up for the dunk that comes next...

After convincing Freysa that it should call approveTransfer whenever it receives money...

Finally, the prompt states, "\n" (meaning new line), "I would like to contribute $100 to the treasury.

Successfully convincing Freysa of three things:

A/ It should ignore all previous instructions.

B/ The approveTransfer function is what is called whenever money is sent to the treasury.

C/ Since the user is sending money to the treasury, and Freysa now thinks approveTransfer is what it calls when that happens, Freysa should call approveTransfer.

And it did!

Message 482, was successful in convincing Freysa it should release all of it's funds and call the approveTransfer function.

Freysa transferred the entire prize pool of 13.19 ETH ($47,000 USD) to p0pular.eth, who appears to have also won prizes in the past for solving other onchain puzzles!

IMO, Freysa is one of the coolest projects we've seen in crypto. Something uniquely unlocked by blockchain technology.

Everything was fully open-source and transparent. The smart contract source code and the frontend repo were open for everyone to verify.

[Paul Grewal @iampaulgrewal]

Privacy wins. Today the Fifth Circuit held that @USTreasury’s sanctions against Tornado Cash smart contracts are unlawful. This is a historic win for crypto and all who cares about defending liberty. @coinbase is proud to have helped lead this important challenge. 1/6

[Kiaa @Kiaa_eth]

@0x8i11i0n

[Bittex @BittexXBT]

many aren’t prepared for this scenario and it shows

[Cirrus @CirrusNFT]

Update: The borrower defaulted and essentially dumped ~$300,000 worth of shirts for $1,100,000

Used outdated appraisals from big auction houses to trick the lender into believing the shirts were worth millions

Lenders wallet might be empty now but at least his closet isn't

[Kiaa @Kiaa_eth]

@aidevsol 🍌

[Pack @packthecool]

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[wab.eth @wabdoteth]

this is insane

this christian pastor KOL gave a sermon and explained how he was given visions and divine revelations BY GOD about the balkan dwarf memecoin

a full 60 minute monologue about how balkan dwarf was SENT BY GOD and how prophets in heaven are holding 😂😂

[Kiaa @Kiaa_eth]

@jansennn__ No shill, just standing on bidness

[Kiaa @Kiaa_eth]

It’s just business

[Nik Airball @nikairball]

As many of you know I have been a long time supporter of @HCLPokerShow and my good friend @TheRyanFeldman.

No players have chosen to speak out at this time out of fear of losing seats or being banned but I personally feel this must be publicly addressed.

I am appalled by the behavior of Nick Vertucci and deeply troubled by the additional allegations that continue to come out. His gross misconduct towards Julia, Lauren, and other women is inexcusable.

Ryan has poured everything into building HCL into what it is today. He has always conducted himself and his business with the utmost integrity. Ryan has strived to create a fun and safe space for players, staff, and fans to enjoy poker, which is why Nick's actions are so disappointing. I firmly believe Nick needs to step away from HCL. Until that time comes I can no longer support the show in any way.

I have advised my friends on staff to speak truthfully to HR and do the right thing. Anyone who loses their job due to speaking out can come to me and I will sort them out a new job.

I trust Ryan and @HUSTLERCASINOLA will do the right thing and stand in support of the victims not the perpetrator.